Yesterday I had the fortune to discover a Kickstarter Campaign of the Shaktea Kombucha company who also brews their own organic root beer using real roots and spices. They’re trying to raise money for a bottling machine so they can bottle the root beer instead of it being served only on draft. If ever there were a worthy cause, this is one. I promptly made the pledge of $44 to secure a six-pack of the brew for reviewing, but with an $18 dollar pledge ($10 for shipping) you can get a single bottle. I encourage all of you to help improve the gourmet root beer world by supporting this company. For more information see the attached press release.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Meghan Dowd
IOWA FAMILY LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN TO PRODUCE HEALTHY SODA ALTERNATIVES
Organic soda and kombucha makers launch a crowd-funding campaign to bring the first organic brewed root beer to the market.
FAIRFIELD, IA (July 8, 2013) – Shaktea Kombucha™, a producer of hand-crafted, raw organic kombucha and Jack’s Real Root Beer™, a brewed organic root beer announced the launch of their Kickstarter campaign to increase production of healthier sodas and soda alternatives.
Kickstarter is an online crowd-funding platform where people can support projects by making pledges for as little as $1 in exchange for fun rewards. Shaktea Kombucha has until August 4th to reach their $30,000 funding goal for an automatic bottling line. “Hitting this goal will allow us to bring Jack’s Real Root Beer to the market in bottles. We will be the only organic root beer, brewed from whole herbs, roots and spices on the market,” says Dowd. “Kickstarter is a way for us to share our story and a way for people to actively support bringing products like ours to the market.”
Shaktea Kombucha, founded as a family-run microbrewery by Jack Dowd, Meghan Dowd and Deb Dowd, launched in June 2011 and is now certified USDA organic and available at over 30 retail market locations across Iowa.
For more information, visit:
Shaktea Kombucha Online: www.shakteakombucha.com
Shaktea Kombucha’s Kickstarter Campaign: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1230047189/shaktea-kombucha-and-jacks-real-root-beer
*UPDATE* Sadly the Kickstarter campaign failed but they are looking into other options and still hope to be bottling in larger quantities by late fall.
