Short Answer: Brew Dr. Kombucha is a fizzy iced tea with gut-friendly benefits!

Long Answer: Brew Dr. Kombucha is a tasty, fizzy probiotic tea that’s slightly sweet, slightly tart, and easy-drinking. It’s made with organic ingredients, is gut friendly, and contains no artificial sweeteners — only the good stuff. It’s a great alternative to soda. 

Tea leaves are fermented with organic cane sugar and a SCOBY (Symbiotic Colony of Bacteria & Yeast). The result is a slightly acidic, lightly carbonated tea beverage with live & active cultures.

Yes! Our kombucha contains live and active cultures that naturally occur during fermentation – a mix of beneficial bacteria, yeasts, and organic acids. 

Kombucha is a fermented tea that has been consumed for over two millennia, growing out of Asia and Eastern Europe.

We’re tea people. We started making kombucha in a tea house using only the highest-quality organic loose leaf tea. It would be easier to make a large batch of ‘plain’ kombucha with a cheap tea, but we believe in the art behind the flavor. This means we use high-quality organic teas, herbs, botanicals, fruits, and juices in our recipes. If you love the taste of our kombucha compared to a lot of other kombuchas out there, this is the reason!

Drinking Brew Dr. Kombucha is a tasty way to incorporate fermented food into your diet. The fermentation process IS what’s so special. Kombucha fermentation creates a mix of naturally occurring live and active cultures, such as: 
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- Beneficial bacteria and yeasts (acetic acetobacter, lactobacillus, saccharomyces) that can help populate the gut with healthy flora to aid in digestion 
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- Organic acids: acetic acid, lactic acid, propionic acid, glucuronic acid and gluconic acid. These organic acids are known to improve bioavailability of vitamins, prevent accumulation of heavy metals and insoluble oxalates, inhibit pathogenic bacteria, support joint health and modulate immunity.

There is roughly 15–20 mg of caffeine in most 14 fl oz bottles of Brew Dr. Kombucha — on par with a cup of decaf coffee. Our Iced Tea Lemonade kombucha and Lemon + Tea Sipjoy flavors contain 35mg caffeine per bottle/can.

Yes! This preserves all of the naturally occurring live and active cultures.

We’re so glad you asked! In order for fermentation to occur, there must be three elements: 
- Tea (made from tea leaves and water) 
- Specific yeast and bacteria (called SCOBY) 
- Sugar (we use raw, organic, cane sugar) 

The sugar feeds the yeast and bacteria, aiding in its growth. Without sugar, you have no yeast and bacteria. Without yeast and bacteria, you have no kombucha. So in short, yes, there is sugar added to kombucha, but it's what makes it, well, kombucha!

You will never find artificial sweeteners in our kombucha. These can be harmful to the health of the SCOBY and disrupt gut health. 

When you see "Added Sugar" on a nutritional label simply means that the sugar is not naturally occurring, as it would be for (for example) fruit. On our case, we add raw organic cane sugar prior to fermentation. For some of our fruitier flavors, we also add some organic fruit juice or fruit puree post-fermentation.

The only time we add sugar post-fermentation is when a batch of kombucha doesn't meet our standard specifications for sugar content. In those rare cases, we might add a little bit of sugar to ensure our product is consistent from batch to batch.

Yes, yes and yes! All of our flavors are USDA Certified Organic, non-GMO, gluten free, vegan, and kosher. 

Good question! All fermentation produces alcohol. However, we utilize a method of non-heat distillation to gently remove alcohol from our ‘booch without harming the live and active cultures inside. This makes our product safe for all ages to enjoy. The excess alcohol is gently removed and repurposed for ethanol.

Organic essences are concentrated extracts – super-concentrated juices in simple terms – made from fruits, flowers, and other plants. They retain the aroma and other properties of their base organic ingredients and are used to enhance aroma and flavor.

Here are the flavors that contain organic essences:
• Berry Ginger (Blackberry Trails) - strawberry essence
• Cherry Limeade - dark sweet cherry essence, grape essence
• Crisp Apple - apple essence
• Island Mango - strawberry essence

Sometimes there is confusion between essences and natural flavors, so let's clear it up, natural flavors can be made up of any combination of naturally-derived or synthesized ingredients and may not even contain any components of the named flavor (e.g. strawberry natural flavor may not actually contain any strawberry compounds), whereas essences ONLY contain the named ingredient, so you know what you're getting.
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That's why we have always used organic fruit essences and stayed away from natural flavors in our "no nonsense" commitment to making raw, real kombucha.

Yes, please! Brew Dr. Kombucha must be kept in the fridge. If unrefrigerated, raw kombucha will continue to ferment in the bottle or can. This can create more carbonation, and in extreme cases, the bottle or can may burst. 

We love that you’re interested! At this time we do not ship our kombucha directly, but you can order it through Instacart, and other grocery delivery sites. Check our Store Locator to track down brick-and-mortar stores near you. Cheers!

Yes, that’s Otis. Otis Sisgood. Having a sloth as our mascot feels right. It reminds us to slow down and appreciate our craft. Good tea and good kombucha take time and patience to make. We put Otis to use on our products to make people smile with creative wit and a relaxed approach to life. He likes to hide out under our bottle caps and on the side of our cans.