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Well everyone today was one of the longest days in the Kombucha kitchen in a while.  We whipped out a huge order for Co-op Partners to make sure all our friends in the upper Mid-west got thier first shipment of Peach Blush our newest flavor and the new seasonal brew which is a tantalizing tasty treat.  It is Hibiscus, St.

Well, I think if you are anywhere in the US it's pretty freakin hot!  Personally, I have been going for the cold water treatment and AC wherever I can find it.  I am finding it more and more difficult to stay patient and relaxed when it's blazing like this.  We need a giant thunderstorm to break all of this and wash away the stickiness.

Alright folks, you've heard me preaching about it before and I'm just gonna get louder about it.  GO LOCAL as much as possible!!  With recent events in politics with corporations being dubbed as people and such, we at NessAlla are huge advocate of keeping our money out of corporate pockets.  It is a slow process, one that takes getting used to.  Every day of my life I take the time to think about where all of my products are coming from and how I might get them locally, find a substitute, or at least purchase them through someone I know.  We are very lucky here in M

Hey there everyone!  Today in Winsconsin it is 8 degrees.  Yes folks, 8 degrees.  At least it's sunny.  In fact I took this beautiful picture of some lovely Kombucha.  Notice the truck in back with about a foot and a half of snow.  Yesterday we worked while the rest of the city was in a state of emergency shoveling out every thing in site.

Well hello boys and girls!!!  Let me tell you a little story about Kombucha.  A long long time ago there was some woman with a jar of stuff that she got from her grandmother.  No one knows where the jar of stuff came from, but someone always knew how to care for the floating colony of creatures.  I know what your thinking..."isn't it a mushroom??"  Imagine the kind sweet old woman looking at you with loving eyes and then...

   Sooooooooooo........guess what we got in the mail the other day boys and girlies?  A letter from the Department of Firearms and Tobacco.  Guess what they wanted?  Samples!  I love that this letter came from the treasury department too.  They would love our compliance.  So, of course we complied.  In about a month we should find out the results.  They wanted two samples of each flavor so that they could test for alcohol content.  The first sample is to be tested refrigerated after two days and the second will be tested after 3 weeks

Alright people.  As many of you may have heard, GT's Kombucha has recently been unfairly pulled from many shelves.  This is due to alleged claims of the alcohol levels exceeding 0.5%.  The amount that is being insinuated is still not enough to create any alcoholic effect.  Kombucha does not get alcoholic enough to create intoxication.  NessAlla Kombucha was also recently pulled from the shelf for 2 days because we are the only other Kombucha on the shelf and were put into the same category as GT's.  The biggest difference between us and GT's is that we DON'T AD

So yes, again it has been quite a while since I have blogged my kombucha infused thoughts.  The events of my day have spurred me to write.  I just recently watched the film Food Inc.  If you have not seen it yet, please take the time to do so.  I'm sure many of you who are interested in Kombucha already know quite a bit about the food industry in America.  I thought I did too.  I really didn't grasp how vast and dominating it really is in our country.  I am deeply saddend and outraged by what is, has and will contunue to happen right under our noses should

A very wise friend of mine said, "if you wan to sell your product, you have to do tastings, tastings, and more tastings."  That's what we are doing.  This week NessAlla Kombucha was out at the Green Day fair in Madison.  Our lovely Addie was on the scene and ran out.  She must have served over 500 cups to taste and they all went down with a smile.