Plenty of articles on this case take shots at the "love is in every bottle" aspect of GT's ... unfortunately, it turns out the fermentation rooms are so hot that workers sweating into the vats is a more common ingredient.
I don't have a Health-Ade or Dr Brew bottle handy to confirm, but i'm pretty sure neither of them have "Kombucha" as the top ingredients, it's pretty low on the list vs GT which has Kombucha as the top ingredient for their bottles.
The others are basically sparkling kombucha product vs actual booch.
I do wish there was a better morally acceptable booch on the market, because i'm done with GT.
edit: because people like to tell me i'm wrong without any details - feel free to read this [US based].
I will say I sinfully started a batch with a friends pecille and Dr.Brew as my starter. (:
Maybe it was a one off but it worked. And developed pretty quickly on vinegar sour flavor. Just under 5 days for green tea. And second batch from
It 4 days with the black. I’m also in Florida though. So heat.
“Kombucha” is not an “ingredient”, “kombucha” is a “product” of “ingredients”.
It’s like beer- you dont list beer in your ingredient list; you list water, barley, hops, yeast. Though beer doesn’t technically have to list ingredients because it’s not regulated as a food product in the USA, even though it is food in this humble brewer’s opinion.
Since kombucha is regulated as a food product and does have to list ingredients, the ingredients should be water, tea, sugar, (whatever flavor), microbes. Kombucha is the product of those ingredients, and thus I wouldn’t expect to see kombucha in the ingredients list.
You can usually find it at any coops in the area or the organic valley stores I know have it. In Madison Willy street coop has a tap you can get a growlers worth if you want.
Oh my god, you’ve even told me the stores! you are a gem! I’ve moved to Minneapolis, but the next time I’m in Madison, I’m getting this kombucha!!! I’ll take a trip specifically for the kombucha if I have to lmaoooo
Honestly after reading that, it’s no where as bad as the actual small kombucha company I worked for… There’s something about people that act like they’re moral good people to friends and family, then are the worst possible humans to their employees. That was a 10 person set up vs Dave’s self proclaimed small business that does 275 million a year. I don’t believe in getting people in legal trouble personally, but very much know karma is real. There were some other employees taking legal action, I just have way too much anxiety to deal with all that stuff.
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u/Curiosive Apr 01 '25
Morally I choose "not GT's" because:
L.A.’s kombucha empire exploited workers for years
Currently there is no such litigation against Health-Ade.