Filling & Production

It takes 7 gallons of water to make 1 gallon of kombucha in a commercial brewery setting. For less efficient breweries, it can take 10. We also use huge amounts of energy to do it, because of the rapid heating and chilling required in the production cycle. Then we store it cold.

Transportation to Distribution Centers

That booch on the shelf almost always went through a distribution center before it got to the store. We shipped it there in a refrigerated truck that requires more diesel than a standard tractor-trailer to keep cold on the road

Transportation to Store

Usually your bottle will sit in cold storage for a week or two at the distribution center before making it to the store. But getting it there requires the same supply chain logistics the bottle has been through twice already. Can you even keep fresh booch in your fridge that long? We can’t!

Recycle / Landfill

It takes almost as much energy to recycle a glass bottle as it does to make one from sand, because it’s got to be melted back down to be made into something new. And that’s the best case scenario. Worst case, it winds up in a landfill.

Bottle Manufacturing

Sand and energy are precious resources, and you need both to make a bottle. Sand is mined and shipped to the bottle factory using fossil fuels. Then (usually) fossil fuels are used to heat the sand, melt it to create molten glass, and form it into a bottle.