Chapter one · Kombucha
Tea, sugar, time, and a mother.
Kombucha is sweet tea that a living culture has slowly turned into something bright, tart and alive. Ours is raised on oolong, in Singapore, in small batches.
A short history
Two thousand years of a very patient drink.
~220 BC
First records of fermented tea in north-east China, prized for its lift and long keeping.
1900s
The drink travels the Silk Road west through Russia and central Europe; the mother is passed hand to hand.
Today
Raised in a licensed Singapore brewery on oolong and black tea, one 21-day batch at a time.
How we raise it
Twenty-one days, no shortcuts.
1
Alive, unpasteurised
Billions of live cultures in every bottle. We never heat-treat, so it must stay chilled — and it tastes like it.
2
Less sugar, more time
The mother eats most of the sugar over a 21-day ferment. Under 4g per 100ml, no sweeteners added after.
3
Brewed in Singapore
Small batches, bottled the week they ship, delivered cold. Never more than a few days from tank to fridge.
The range
Pick your flavour
No. 01 · Kombucha
Original — $6.80
Oolong-based, clean and bright
No. 02 · Kombucha
Lychee Rose — $6.80
Floral, soft, a little sweet
No. 03 · Kombucha
Blue Pea & Lemongrass — $6.80
Bright citrus-grass, violet pour
No. 04 · Kombucha
Passionfruit Mint — $6.80
Tart passionfruit, garden mint
No. 05 · Kombucha
Sour Plum — $6.80
Tangy · crowd favourite
No. 06 · Kombucha
Yuzu Osmanthus — $6.80
Citrus · new
No. 07 · Kombucha
Mango Jasmine — $6.80
Sweet-floral
No. 08 · Kombucha
Barley Rose — $6.80
Roasty · rosy
Why people drink it
What a living drink does for you.
We are brewers, not doctors. Here is what is in the bottle, and what the research so far suggests it does — no more, no less.
- Live cultures — a diverse mix of bacteria and yeasts, the same family found in yoghurt and kefir.
- Organic acids — acetic and gluconic acids from the ferment, behind the tartness and the long shelf life.
- Tea polyphenols — the antioxidants of oolong and black tea carry through the ferment.
- A soda swap — a fraction of the sugar of a soft drink, with real fizz and real flavour.
Kombucha is a food, not a medicine. It contains trace alcohol (under 0.5% ABV) and caffeine from the tea. If you are pregnant, immunocompromised or unsure, ask your doctor first.
In every bottle
Five things. You can pronounce all of them.
Filtered water, oolong and black tea, organic cane sugar, our mother culture, and whatever real fruit, flower or root gives each flavour its name. Nothing else.
Filtered water · Oolong & black tea · Organic cane sugar · Mother culture · Real fruit & flower
Let the mother look after you.
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