Tag: Tea-Biotics Kombucha

Crossroads collaboration brings booch on tap, kegs, mocktails to MO’s (new) biggest kombucha taproom

By Tommy Felts / February 9, 2024

Brewer’s Alley in the East Crossroads is getting a new kind of taproom, Kortney Lee and Lisa Bledsoe shared. In a freshly bottled collaboration, Tea-Biotics Kombucha opened Missouri’s largest kombucha taproom Friday in the former home of Community Groceries Crossroads Market. “Beer is brewed; Kombucha is brewed, as well,” said Lee, who owns Community Groceries…

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Dave Derr, Wiener Wagon, Overland Park Farmers Market

Socially reduced crowds a ‘really tough blow’ to vendors as markets balance safety, survival

By Tommy Felts / August 1, 2020

Crowds reduced by COVID-19 precautions and confusion over what’s actually open have yielded dramatically reduced revenue for vendors who rely on Kansas City’s farmers markets, craft fairs and other public events. “To go eight years doing something and then suddenly you’re straight-up 50-60 percent of [the revenue], that’s a really tough blow,” said Dave Derr,…

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Sean Calderon and Zach Schneller, Oak Media; and Lisa Bledsoe, Tea-Biotics Kombucha

Young agency bottles digital savvy for startup where co-founder brewed booch

By Tommy Felts / June 4, 2020

From booch bottler to boss, Zack Schneller isn’t forgetting his Tea-Biotics roots as he embarks on his own startup journey — which has him helping his former employer with an eCommerce emergence and social media scale up.  “We did a free trial for them, which happened to fall on National Kombucha Day,” Schneller, co-founder of Oak…

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Tea-Biotics Kombucha, 39th Street

Booch! (There it is): Tea-Biotics pours onto 39th Street with its first Missouri kombucha taproom

By Tommy Felts / February 13, 2020

The “booch” biz is booming and Tea-Biotics Kombucha is bottling growth with its first taproom in Missouri.  “We’re really pleased to be growing and also seeing new people, locals, coming in all the time,” said Lauren Klein, who oversees day-to-day operations at the kombucha startup’s latest taproom — the first to be brewed outside of…

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Michael Wilson, United American Hemp

Cannabis founder’s advice: Weed out the bad seeds; run green startups like real businesses

By Tommy Felts / October 29, 2019

Cannabis might seem like it presents a Wild West frontier for entrepreneurs looking to strike green, said Michael Wilson, but would-be founders must cultivate a plan grounded in common sense — and the law. “In the industrial hemp or marijuana space, if you want to build a successful business, run it like a real damn…

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