/blogs/blog.atom ºÚÁÏ´óÊÂ¼Ç Kombucha - The ºÚÁÏ´óÊÂ¼Ç Blog | Gut Health, Recipes & Kombucha Tips 2025-06-19T00:00:00+01:00 ºÚÁÏ´óÊÂ¼Ç Kombucha /blogs/blog/celebrate-well-this-winter 2022-12-02T00:00:00+00:00 2026-03-03T14:20:38+00:00 Celebrate 'Well' this Winter Genevieve Boast River Cottage Ferment the Seasons Course The ideal gift for any kombucha lover is River Cottage’s course, Ferment the Seasons. This is the perfect way to get to grips with making your own gut-friendly ferments. On this one-day course with fermentation expert Rachel de Thample, you’ll learn to make a range of fermented products, all with seasonal organic ingredients. And of course it wouldn’t be a day of fermentation without learning how to make your own kombucha! Head to their websiteÌýÌýto find out more. REN Skincare Ranges We love REN. The team there have been pioneers in Clean Skincare since 2000 and select nature’s most powerful and kind bioactive ingredients, harnessing their benefits in our formulas to create effective, high performance and clinically proven skincare. REN are passionate about protecting our planet’s resources and committed to reducing the waste that they produce at every stage of the production, distribution, and promotion of our skincare. Check our their Christmas gift rangesÌý Ìý
Eat Good. Do Good. Stay Odd
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Stroud Brewery - for those who like an ethical, organic tipple!
Stroud Brewery is a long time friend of ºÚÁÏ´óÊÂ¼Ç and has been a passion project for Founder Greg Pilley; an adventurer, environmentalist and beer lover. His purpose was simply to make great tasting beers for the local community whilst being the change he wanted to see in the business world.ÌýLike us, Stroud are a dedicated organic brewery certified by the soil association and all their beers are made with organic malt and hops.
Why not try one of theirÌýÌýthis Christmas and enjoy an organic tipple that is good for the planet?
Indulge 'well' in a Winter Party!
Of course no ºÚÁÏ´óÊÂ¼Ç party would be complete without some of our delicious, organic kombucha! This year to encourage us all to enjoy the festive season whilst still taking care of our health, we have put together a Winter Gift Pack of our four most popular flavours for this time of the year. The Winter Pack includes our special Christmas flavour, Spiced Ginger bread, our delicious mocktail Virgin Mojito and our classic flavours Ginger and Wild Berry. All perfect for healthy drinking over the festivities. For everyone that buys a , we will enter you into our *Secret Santa weekly prize draw to win some exciting Christmas prizes!
*T’S AND C’S – THERE WILL BE A DIFFERENT PRIZE PER WEEK AND ANYONE WHO HAS ORDERED A WINTER PARTY PACK IN THE PRECEDING 7 DAYS WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE ENTERED TO WIN. PRIZES ARE RESTRICTED TO ONE PER CUSTOMER FOR THE ENTURE DURATION OF THE DECEMBER DRAW (I.E. NO ONE CUSTOMER WILL RECEIVE MORE THAN 1 X PRIZE).
]]> /blogs/blog/why-we-arent-doing-black-friday 2021-11-24T00:00:00+00:00 2026-03-03T14:20:22+00:00 Why we aren’t doing Black Friday Genevieve Boast Black Friday has become an annual habit for many people in the UK and US over the last few decades. It is traditionally linked to the American celebration of Thanksgiving and the official start of holiday sales. The term has become associated with retailers encouraging massive consumer spending at the end of November – something that many hope will put them ‘in the black’ in terms of profit. But as a B Corp, this kind of message doesn’t really fit with our ethos. We proudly produce premium craft kombucha, brewed in the authentic way to ensure that it contains healthy, living bacteria and antioxidants that nurture human health. This, plus the fact that we source high quality, organic ingredients from ethical suppliers, means that we place a high value on both our products and the people and processes that go into making them special. To push our intelligent customers and fans to buy our Kombucha at rock bottom prices once a year just to capitalise on sales, seems a little disingenuous to us. However, at the end of the day, we are also still a consumer brand and wouldn’t be sustainable commercially or ethically if we didn’t encourage people to try, buy and support us by repeat purchasing our delicious booch. So how do we square this circle back to our own purchasing behaviours? These are some of the values that we share as the ºÚÁÏ´óÊÂ¼Ç Family that also align to how we produce and communicate as a business.

Real is better

In a global economy where ‘knock off’ replicas have become the norm, we believe that researching ‘real’, authentic products that are craft made by small or local suppliers adds value to a purchase. When we buy goods like this, not only are we voting with our purchasing choices and where we choose to invest our money, but we are often supporting smaller producers and suppliers who work hard to create unique and special items that we cherish more than mass produced goods. At ºÚÁÏ´óʼÇ, this is one of the reasons that we brew our organic drinks the traditional way, to ensure we sell ‘real’ kombucha that comes with real and tangible, health benefits. We believe that real products are better than cheaper imitations!

Less is more

In times when resources are short, we believe that buying the things that truly matter, less often, generates a higher return of joy and health. When we take the time to consider what we really want and need, (or what our bodies really need), we purchase the things that enhance our lifestyle and create a healthy ecosystem inside and out. At ºÚÁÏ´óÊÂ¼Ç we have found that once we start to really listen to our body, mind and soul, the things we choose to buy reduce in volume and increase our sense of gratitude and wellbeing.

Ethics are essential

These are times of massive social and environmental transformation. And living through them is challenging for us all. Over the last few years there has been a massive upsurge in businesses across the world, choosing to lead by example and become part of wider movements such as B Corp, that uses business and commerce as a force for creating ‘good’. Taking the time to understand the living ethics of a brand – the values and processes that they implement vs. those they just talk about – allows us to consciously choose which businesses we are supporting through buying their products and services. It also helps us to better understand what truly matters to each of us as a conscious consumer and how our ethics drive our behaviour. So, whatever you choose to purchase this month or holiday season, we ask you to take a few moments to consider what items and experiences contribute to your personal wellbeing and the wellbeing our society and our planet. Choose to purchase only those that align to your values and ethics, and you will feel better on the inside, whilst creating positive change on the outside!]]> /blogs/blog/this-christmas-why-not-gift-experiences-instead-of-things 2020-12-10T00:00:00+00:00 2026-03-03T14:20:12+00:00 This Christmas why not gift experiences instead of things? Genevieve Boast how we choose to do business, connect with our people (our staff, our community and our customers) and work with our suppliers creates the experience of working at ºÚÁÏ´óʼÇ. This builds the foundation of who we are and why we exist as a business. How we treat each other and everyone else is the central mission and the way of working at our company. Our mission is to disrupt the soft drinks market with healthy, organic, award winning, living Kombucha – providing people with a new experience of health and wellbeing through the choices they make, the products they consume and the companies they support. We are a B Corp because we believe that business can be a ‘force for good’ in our local and global ecosystem and the people who buy from us can have a positive experience in the process. Beyond just pretty words, this means that we take the time to really involve and listen to our employees, our local community and our customers. We can then listen to their feedback and adapt our ways of working. The ºÚÁÏ´óÊÂ¼Ç experience goes far beyond our Kombucha but definitely starts here. When we choose to drink it or indeed consume other healthy, organic, ethical products, we are choosing a journey towards holistic health and wellbeing that ultimately creates a new experience of life, if we stick with it. This Christmas, why not consider gifting yourself and others experiences that help them to grow and become healthier – mentally, emotionally and physically? 2020 has been a year where we have all had to focus on the health of our individual, social and environmental ecosystems, so let’s embrace companies and products that put health and collective wellbeing at their core. Why not start with the B Corp community of businesses? Or perhaps take more time than usual to consider which companies you wish to support through your purchases? This choice in and of itself is a new experience. Let’s make our experiences count this year.]]> /blogs/blog/our-journey-to-b-corp-why-living-breathing-ethics-are-now-more-important-than-ever 2020-06-16T00:00:00+01:00 2026-03-03T14:20:02+00:00 Our Journey to B Corp: Why living, breathing ethics are now more important than ever Genevieve Boast Our Ethical DNA ºÚÁÏ´óÊÂ¼Ç was founded in 2012 in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, a beautiful valley that runs along the banks of the River Calder – the artery that flows through our local ecosystem. An ecosystem that is, unfortunately, increasingly prone to flash floods. These floods are in part due to the burning of heather on the hills in order to facilitate hunting, as well as the growing levels of pollution that tends to settle in the lower parts of the valley as the number of cars grows day by day. In 2015, we experienced the impacts of these changes first hand when our brewery was flooded, a terrible disaster that almost put us out of business. In February 2020, the river flooded once again and we had to restore our warehouse back from waist deep floodwaters to fully operational BRC Food Safety Standards in 10 days. Then in March, COVID-19 hit and we found ourselves in lockdown, able to continue operating but having to pay even more care and attention to the safety and wellbeing of our staff, our community and our customers. Fortunately, over a year ago in May 2019, we had already decided to begin the journey to certifying and becoming a B Corp. As an ethical company founded in sustainable values, doing the right thing for all our stakeholders (social and environmental) is fundamental to our long-term vision and the values that govern how we do business. The events of 2020 so far, have only served to strengthen our beliefs in this journey and embrace the social and environmental practices that help us truly live our ethics on a day-to-day basis.

Why B Corp?

The (B Corp for short) measures how a company is performing on a social and environmental level. The process involves the ‘B Impact Assessment’ that offers an evaluation of how a company impacts its governance, workers, community, environment and customers. The assessment is extremely robust and ensures that as a business you’re really walking your talk when it comes to important issues such as climate change, diversity, inclusion and customer education. The journey over the last year towards our first ever B Corp certification has helped us to really listen to where we can make the most impact as a business, and we have already seen exciting transformations as a result. Sustainability, inclusion and ethics have become the foundation on which we base our core business decisions. Our people, our community in Calderdale and our customers are all adding their voices to our on-going conversations into our social and environmental strategy and impact and we intend to do more of this as we move into the rest of 2020 with the climate of uncertainty it has already brought across the world. With this uncertainty and recent events in mind, we’ll be gathering information and listening so we can be sure that any community-based efforts we take on in the future actually reflect the needs of our local community. This is how we believe ºÚÁÏ´óÊÂ¼Ç (in line with our B-Corp identity) can be a positive Changemaker. Since the beginning of our B Corp adventure, just 12 months ago,Ìýwe’ve made some significant progress:
  • We’ve begun a journey to growing our business the right way. By this, we mean measuring our carbon footprint, reducing our environmental impact and enhancing local pieces of land to regenerate biodiversity.
  • We’re focused on local recruitment to help build jobs for our community in a chronically under-employed and underprivileged part of the UK.
  • We’ve been listening to the needs of our community and are starting to develop inclusive mental, emotional and physical health education programmes.
  • We’ve begun co-operating with our long-term partners to visualise and over time develop a systematic approach to ethical, clean, organic manufacturing which will, hopefully, one day be shared and replicated in other parts of the world.
  • Most of all, we have put the needs of our biggest stakeholder right at the centre of everything we do – it’s the SCOBY in our Kombucha that shows us how to create healthy, living, evolving cultures.
At ºÚÁÏ´óʼÇ, we have a vision of a future ecosystem where humanity and nature are in dynamic balance and prosper together. We want a future where ‘health’ is fully understood to be a dynamic process, connecting mind, body and spirit. We’re working towards a future where ‘ethics’ becomes a non-negotiable part of doing business and gives a return on imagination, integration and investment! And we’re learning how to really listen and learn from our community and our environment so we can continue to explore how to do business in the right way for all our stakeholders. Finally, if we think about Kombucha, it can only flourish when all the ingredients and the environment that it develops in are just right. Through the lens of permaculture, we can draw parallels with our local communities and society. Only when we have a balanced local ecosystem can we expect our communities to flourish. In our view, this balance comes from clean air and water, healthy food and drink at affordable prices, clean rivers, fields and forests and a social communal framework that’s free from prejudice, hatred, assumption and fear. Getting there will take patience, effort, and most importantly an ability to listen, learn and change – together. By making these changes in our local communities we believe that this in turn will create changes on a larger scale that the world so desperately needs.]]>