FAQ

Select zones in the Bay Area (SF, East Bay and Marin Country) qualify for $8 delivery directly by House Kombucha. Anything out of our Bay Area will vary. The best way to know your cost is to place a draft order to find out the full shipping cost.

All orders are shipped out every Wednesday via UPS, meaning they will be delivered Friday/Saturday depending on location of delivery. During holiday weeks it may vary depending on UPS schedules during the holidays.

Sorry about this! If this happens, we will email you to let you know of the damages and send a new package. However, if you did receive a damaged package, please email us at info@wisebucha.info and we will send over a new order or refund an amount to cover price damages.

Simply put, no. Wisebucha's current flavor line is curated with teas and tea leaves that contain no trace of caffeine. However, it is packed with vitamins, probiotics, and health benefits!

While some traditional healers suggest that a 4 ounce serving of kombucha daily is sufficient to have a positive probiotic effect, there is no recommended serving size.

Yes!

Refrigerate as soon as you can for the best quality. It's alive but it's not going to spoil like milk. The main concerns about leaving it out at room temperature are continued fermentation and flavor alteration. The pH of the kombucha keeps it naturally preserved from spoilage.

Kombucha is also known as mushroom tea because of the gooey awesome layer that grows on-top of a batch of kombucha. This layer can develop super thick and globular layers. Some people are making kombucha leather and other cool things from this material. It is basically a cellulose mat that is both the by-product and the substrate in which yeast and bacteria to grow, kind of like a coral reef for bacteria. This mushroom is not really a mushroom at all. It is commonly called a SCOBY, which stands for Symbiotic Colony of Bacteria and Yeast. Home brewers tend to get a little over fascinated by SCOBY. I eventually learned that the SCOBY is not necessary for brewing because the yeast and bacteria are abundant in the kombucha beverage itself. We use an aged vat of kombucha as our Starter and do not intentionally save or grow SCOBY. We strain it out and compost it. No, we don't sell it and we probably can't save it for you. Since we don't have a ton of space and capacity to get into a SCOBY venture this stuff goes straight into the compost.

Yes! However, take these things into consideration before seeing if Wisebucha is a right fit for you: Candida fighting diet Kombucha cultures consist of beneficial yeasts, which ought to rebalance the system and help fight pathogenic yeast like Candida. Alkalizing diet Kombucha is considered alkalizing because it is like a raw vinegar. The acid profile of kombucha is mainly from aceterbacter, the same bacteria that is used to make mother of vinegar. In fact, kombucha vinegar is what happens if you don't bottle your kombucha and just let it continue to ferment. While processed vinegars are acid forming, raw vinegar has an alkalizing effect. So does raw lemon juice which we use in some of our brews. Ultimately the Wise Jun Kombucha flavor profile strives to be mild and not too acidic, so it should be easy on your system. However, everyone's body is different and it is important to pay attention to what you put in your body and how it makes you feel. Sugar Content We do not use any cane/processed sugar in any of our Wise Jun Kombuchas. We solely brew with local wildflower honey. Any sweetness from the honey is mainly pre-digested by the SCOBY into a low-glycemic form. This is where the sweet profile of our teas come from. However, we advise for you to speak to your dietician to see if Wisebucha is the right fit for your dietary needs.

17 calories per 8 oz. serving, so 34 calories per bottle!

Wise Jun Kombucha is considered a non-alcohol beverage because the alcohol levels are kept below the .5% legal limit. There is less than half a percent of alcohol in Wise Jun Kombucha. Whether you are in recovery, breastfeeding, pregnant or have a religious aversion to alcohol, understand that there may be a trace amount of alcohol in it. Wise Jun Kombucha is considered non-alcoholic, unless you leave it out of refrigeration for an extended amount of time, which could increase the alcohol content slightly.

We use a long ferment continuous style brew starter that is well aged for over two months and use this starter to do a shorter fermentation tailored to the needs of each flavor.