Flavours
We usually have about 6 flavours on at once. Our 3 core flavours and 3 seasonal flavours, though there can be moments where we only have 2 or even 4 or 5 different seasonals at once, depending on crossover moments during the year…. Most of the seasonal flavours are ‘herbal’ meaning that they showcase one ingredient without use of tea and thus basically caffeine free… etc
The Core Range:
Sparkling Oolong
TASTING NOTES:
Apple - White Grape - Melon - Grapefruit
With more complex flavours than green tea and more delicate on the palate than black tea, Oolong tea makes for the perfect complex-yet-clean kombucha profile, in my opinion!
Using only premium forest-friendly tea, organic cane sugars and our magical fermentation process, we’ve masterfully created a sparkling wine alternative that will quench your FOMO as well as your thirst!
Since 2013 Monteaco have been supporting small farmers in rural mountain locations in Northern Thailand symbiotically and sustainably with nature, to grow amazing tea in unison with the forest. This means they don’t rely on using fertilisers and pesticides, and they also sustain natural biodiversity within the forests where the tea is being grown.
Find our more about Monteaco on their website here.
INGREDIENTS: Live kombucha cultures (SCOBY), carbon filtered water, organic raw and unrefined cane sugars (transformed during fermentation), “beyond-organic” Thai forest-friendly oolong tea
Kent Hops ‘KPA’
Using 5 different varieties of Kentish grown hops, provided to us by Hythe Hops - and utilising our knowledge of craft beer brewing techniques, we’ve created a harmonious kombucha hybrid of oolong tea and craft beer hops!
Hythe Hops is a voluntary, not-for-profit group where members grow hops in a variety of places including their gardens, allotments, community gardens and public spaces; these then get donated to local craft brewers, who work their magic to create the tastiest of brews! Working across the areas of Hythe, Sandgate, Folkestone, Hawkinge, Ashford and Romney Marsh.
Grain and gluten free, this kombucha also skips out on the hangover!
CONTAINS: Live kombucha cultures (SCOBY), carbon filtered water, organic raw and unrefined cane sugars (transformed during fermentation), beyond-organic Thai forest-friendly oolong tea, Hops: Goldings, Challenger, Earnest, Bramley Cross, Prima Donna (Hythe Hops)
Ginger and Tumeric
Take the Sparkling Oolong and infuse a generous dose of organic ginger root, turmeric root, and black peppercorn juice. Like ginger beer, but her more elegant BFF. Not too sweet, nice tart finish, with a healthy kick of spice.
CONTAINS: Live kombucha cultures (SCOBY), carbon filtered water, organic raw and unrefined cane sugars (transformed during fermentation), beyond-organic Thai forest-friendly oolong tea, organic cold-pressed ginger root, organic cold-pressed turmeric root, organic black peppercorns
Current Seasonal Range:
Fig Leaf
With more complex flavours than green tea and more delicate on the palate than black tea, Oolong tea (Camellia Sinensis) makes for the perfect kombucha base. Using only premium forest-friendly tea, organic cane sugars and our magical fermentation process, we’ve finally created a sparkling wine alternative that will quench your FOMO as well as your tastebuds!
CONTAINS: Live kombucha cultures (SCOBY), carbon filtered water, organic raw and unrefined cane sugars (transformed during fermentation), beyond-organic Thai forest-friendly oolong tea
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Tomato Leaf
With more complex flavours than green tea and more delicate on the palate than black tea, Oolong tea (Camellia Sinensis) makes for the perfect kombucha base. Using only premium forest-friendly tea, organic cane sugars and our magical fermentation process, we’ve finally created a sparkling wine alternative that will quench your FOMO as well as your tastebuds!
CONTAINS: Live kombucha cultures (SCOBY), carbon filtered water, organic raw and unrefined cane sugars (transformed during fermentation), beyond-organic Thai forest-friendly oolong tea
Lacto-Fermented Fig
- aka ‘Magic Salty Unicorn Rainbow Juice’
A product of our annual tradition of spending a day helping our friends Charlotte and Donald Molesworth prune their glorious fig tree, in their wonderfully magical garden over at Balmoral Cottage in Benenden. Done at the end of the season when the trees’ productivity has finished for the year, the remaining green figs will no longer ripen and all the leaves are about to begin falling…so here’s where we step in! We save all the leaves and remaining green figs to repurpose in our kombucha! The leaves are used to make our classic seasonal fig leaf flavour, and the green figs are then fermented in Celtic sea salt to create a wonderfully creamy, smokey and briny booch reminiscent of a pina colada!
CONTAINS: Live kombucha cultures (SCOBY), carbon filtered water, organic raw and unrefined cane sugars (transformed during fermentation), green figs.
Past Seasonal Flavours:
Elderberry (available September - January)
Refreshingly crisp and tart, the elderberries we use in our kombucha are foraged in season around August and used in brews straight away.
CONTAINS: Live kombucha cultures (SCOBY), carbon filtered water, organic raw and unrefined cane sugars (transformed during fermentation), elderberries.
Quince (Available November - January)
An antiquated fruit - the quince is thought to be over 5000 years old, originating from the Mediterranean. It has since fallen out of fashion after the Middle Ages, and in our option is due a renaissance!
A zingy pink apple feast for the palate, with tropical aromatics and a sherbert finish, our quince flavour is a delight to behold. Using quince from the non-commerical Moat Farm in Shadoxhurst, the fruit is found growing naturally alongside 300 acres of ancient woodland and wildflower meadows, completely spray free and no intervention.
CONTAINS: Live kombucha cultures (SCOBY), carbon filtered water, organic raw and unrefined cane sugars (transformed during fermentation), quince.
Elderflower (June - October)
This quintessentially British summertime flavour is made from only the creamiest of yellow blossoms, foraged from several abundant special spots within a three mile radius of the brewery. Processed straight away, this flavour perfectly captures the sweet nectar flavours that are so well loved of elderflower. One of our herbal brews, it has honey notes to taste as well as, floral aromatics, evocative of summertimes spent outdoors. Also brewed with no additional tea.
CONTAINS: Live kombucha cultures (SCOBY), carbon filtered water, organic raw and unrefined cane sugars (transformed during fermentation), foraged elderflower.
Huacatay
Grown my very good friend Rebel Farmer Ed, based 2 miles away from us in Brook.
Also known as Peruvian black mint, the Huacatay plant is herbaceous and heady.
CONTAINS: Live kombucha cultures (SCOBY), carbon filtered water, organic raw and unrefined cane sugars (transformed during fermentation), beyond-organic Thai forest-friendly oolong tea.
