Wanna know one of our funnest facts that usually earns a double take and a, "No way! Are you for real?"?
It's that every batch we brew is a descendant of the very first kombucha made on Sarah and Emmet's kitchen counter back in 2012. Pretty crazy stuff, right?
And while we do a lot of things the way we always have, from our 30-day brew to our all-natural ingredients, there are a few more steps that take a "we should make THIS flavor" conversation at the Liquid Remedy HQ lunch table to a certified bangin' fave sitting pretty on supermarket shelves.
So, why not invite our biggest Liquid Remedy Lovers behind the scenes to get the DL on how we craft our kombucha?
Let's do this!
FLAVOR IDEATION
It all starts with flavor. If you know anything about Liquid Remedy, you'll know that flavor comes first, for real.
Sure, we love making better for you bevvies, but if they don't taste like a little fizzy slice of heaven, what's the point?
So, we spend a fair chunk of time deciding which flaves we wanna explore. Which flaves we reckon we could do justice. Which flavors we can source high-quality, natural ingredients for. Which flaves we reckon our Liquid Remedy Lovers (that's you!) will find super smashable.
When we've gone round and round the flavor merry-go-round, we bring our ideas to the people who can turn 'em into a real-life, great-tasting bevvie.
FLAVOR DEVELOPMENT
Our Flavor Wizards are just that - magic beings from god knows where who can craft just about any flave we dream up.
From a sweet n summery Mixed Berry to a Lemonade icypole in liquid form, we dream big and our Flavor Wizards delivery time and time again, crafting brewtiful bevvies everyone will love.
TASTE TESTING
After our Flavor Wizards have crafted the first iteration, we bring the team together to take 'em for a spin.
In case you're not picking up what we're putting down yet, we really give a hoot about flavor. Good enough isn't good enough. It has to be the best we can make it.
So we taste test each and every flave. We craft new formulations. We test. We reformulate. And we rinse and repeat this process until we have a flave we're proud as punch about!
We sometimes even put the flave in front of our Liquid Remedy Lovers. It's all good and well for us to love it, but we want to make sure you guys love it, too!
Fun fact: We test anywhere between 2-10+ different formulations before finding our perfect fit!
PACKAGING DESIGN
New flave, new packaging design! We get our brilliant creative brains on the job to design new labels for the can or bottle, new four-pack cartons, and new cases.
Once this is all ticked off, we send our final designs to the crew who print our cans, glass labels and cartons.
PRODUCTION
While we're getting our cans and bottle labels printed, we get cracking in our Liquid Remedy Fermentary on making the actual liquid.
If you know anything about Liquid Remedy Kombucha, you know we brew our booch the old-fashioned way, in small batches with a 30-day brew in our temperature-controlled brew room. We care a lot about our brew babies!
When the brew is complete, and the formulation is all formulated, we send it down the line! This is where it gets dispersed into our bottles and cans, packaged up into cartons and popped onto pallets to send to your local supermarket.
There you have it, Liquid Remedy Lovers! You guys know as well as we do that we can't give you all the boochy details (IP and stuff, ya know?), but this is still a pretty decent deep dive into how we craft our super smashable Liquid Remedy Kombucha flaves.