The Kombucha Billionaire Looking To Save The Industry From Itself | Forbes

Homebrew Kombucha
GT Dave is the founder of GT’s Living Foods, a business with an estimated $275 million in sales. He spent $40 million on the company’s new, 260,000-square-foot factory in Vernon, California, which will be able to produce more than 1 million gallons of kombucha a year. “This is the next level for us,” says Dave, known as “GT” since before he began brewing kombucha at his mother’s kitchen table. Unlike many of his rivals, he says, he makes his authentically, and it’ll stay like that: “From day one, I tried to emulate a homemade process.” Dave lets nature do much of the work, as he has since the beginning: fermenting a blend of black and green teas in small batches of 5-gallon jars for a month.

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