Zak’s Kombucha

Zak’s Kombucha Sparkling fermented tea & beyond 🥂
Celebrating seasonal ingredients 🌱
Pure, unpasteurised - just as it should be ✨
No shortcuts, no compromises 🙅‍♂️

02/06/2026

It took me 3 years to successfully make this nettle kombucha! 🫠

If at first you don’t succeed, try try and try again! And I’m really glad I did as this has become a Spring seasonal favourite since finally cracking the golden ratio last year. 🥇

Nettles are an incredible, nutrient powerhouse of a plant! So much so that they can be quite hard to ferment with, as I discovered. But when successfully fermented, our happy microbes further amplify their nutritional value - winnerrr 💥

For those that are yet to try it, the flavour is sweet and earthy with herbaceous notes and hints of cucumber and gentle lime. Spring in a bottle! 🌿

Nettles contain natural antihistamine and last year a few customers told me that it was really helping their hay fever symptoms, which was very cool to hear! As ever, this is not health advice - please do your own research and try for yourself to see what works for you 🌼

Go and grab some if you haven’t already, I hope you like it! ❤️

Zak x

P.s. we lost all the footage from the big forage but went to reshoot on a very cold day with on-off showers, just before the heat wave. Hence me looking quite squirmy and dishevelled 😂

18/05/2026

HOPE YOU LIKE CROWN CAPS?! Because that’s what we’ve got for a while! 👑🍾

Thanks to another nice surprise from our bottle supplier, we now have crown caps for a while on our 250ml bottles! It was either this or have no bottles to put kombucha in at all, so hopefully you’ll agree we made the right choice!? 🫠

Hopefully one of these days we’ll actually manage to get a break… but for now, we’ll just keep on trundling on against the wind! 💨

In the meantime, I think they actually look pretty cool! If you’ve picked one up already then you may have noticed they’re a touch heftier too. If you’re missing the screw caps already then rest assured we’ll be through these in the next month or so… in fact, the more you buy, the faster we return to the screw caps! How about that for motivation 😏

Thanks for understanding. 🫣

Love u ❤️

Zak and the team xx

11/05/2026

🌸✨ PART 2: Tasting the magical magnolias

After a full day of harvesting magnolia for this year’s seasonal kombucha (out now! 🥂🍾), curator extraordinaire William Dyson took us deeper into the collection at Great Comp Garden for something we’d never done before … a full magnolia tasting session 🌸

With over 80 different species growing in the gardens, we spent the afternoon tasting tepals straight from the trees 🌳 Honestly, the range of flavours blew us away. Some were peppery and ginger-like, others delicate and floral. Every variety had its own character, its own story, and its own potential for future booch making 🫙✨

Huge thank you again to William and all the staff at for letting us into their little world for the day. It’s moments like this that make seasonal brewing so special: getting to work directly with nature, tasting ingredients at their source, and discovering flavours you simply couldn’t dream up in a lab 🍃💫

Grab yourself a bottle while it lasts, and check out PART 1 of this little series on our reels tab 📱🌿🌸

05/05/2026

🌸✨Magnolia season has arrived … and it’s one of our favourite times of year.

We’re at near Sevenoaks and William (its curator extraordinaire) has kindly given us access to his 80+ species of magnolia’s for this year’s Magnolia Kombucha harvest 🍃

Magnolias are one of the first signs of spring, and every year they bring a real sense of hope for the warmer months ahead. Did you know they date back millions of years and were once pollinated by beetles before bees even existed? 🪲✨

After a full day of picking, we collected nearly 11kg of fresh magnolia flowers 🌸The result? A truly one-of-a-kind kombucha. It’s a bit like a grown-up cream soda, with notes of vanilla, cardamom, smoke, and spice🥂

Landing with your local stockist very soon … or, if you can’t wait, available direct from our website. Link in bio 🔗

21/04/2026

The UK may have forgotten this fruit, but I didn’t. It changed my life🍐✨

Quince, part of the apple & pear family, quietly slipped out of fashion, yet its intensely aromatic, almost tropical, softly perfumed flavour is unforgettable 🌿🌼 I’ve been hooked ever since my grandad handed me a jar of homemade quince jam from his garden when I was a teenager 🍯

Every year, we’re lucky to receive an abundance from friends with trees full of fruit but not enough ways to use it 🙌 Over 100kg of quince, generously donated by Sally at in Faversham and the brilliant 🌳

We teamed up with in Aldington, using their jet washer and fruit scratter. It saved us litterally hours of work and reminding me how special it is to share skills and resources within this community 🤝✨ The generosity in the drinks world never ceases to amaze me 💛

We make enough quince to last through winter into early spring and, true to form, I’m only just talking about it as the season wraps up 😅 If you want a taste, now’s the time ⏳ Grab a bottle before it disappears, or drop a note in your order to make sure it’s included 📦

We splashed out on a couple of central London billboards as a new brand awareness campaign! What do you think?! 👀Persona...
01/04/2026

We splashed out on a couple of central London billboards as a new brand awareness campaign! What do you think?! 👀

Personally I’m a bit hacked off that they spelt my name wrong in both! 🤦🏼‍♂️

30/03/2026

The KPA SUCKS! 👎 So I killed it. 🔫

INTRODUCING the NEW and definitely-entirely-different Citrus Hops! 🤩

It may have the exact same ingredients, look more-or-less the same, and if you tried the KPA very recently then some might say it even tastes remarkably similar… But I can assure you that it is definitely an ENTIRELY new product! ✨

Go and try some now (with haste!) to discover this exciting new revolution that is taking the world of hops and kombucha by storm! 🌪️

Watch until the end 🎬

PLEASE DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME
*never waste perfectly good booch ❌
*do not litter 🚯

Babe, wake up - it’s the last chance to return our Zak’s Kombucha empties for cash this weekend! ♻️FIND US THIS WEEKEND:...
27/03/2026

Babe, wake up - it’s the last chance to return our Zak’s Kombucha empties for cash this weekend! ♻️

FIND US THIS WEEKEND:lane Food and Flea Market, Saturday and Sunday 9-4pm 🏺
on Sunday 10-1pm 🧑‍🌾

Don’t sleep on it! See ya there 🍾

P.s. there is actually one very last chance to return empties, at .farmers.mkt next Saturday 🤫

23/03/2026

🚨IMPORTANT UPDATE ON BOTTLE RETURNS🚨

After 5.5 years of running our bottle return scheme, we’ve made the difficult decision to pause it … at least for now.

Together, we’ve saved thousands of bottles from landfill, something we’re incredibly proud of. But rising costs, added taxes, and the reality of scaling a small business means it’s no longer something we can sustain right now.

Here’s what’s changing:
•⁠ ⁠250ml bottle returns have now stopped
•⁠ ⁠750ml returns will continue for a short time but our stockists have stopped discounting for them
•⁠ ⁠Bottle return discounts on one-off orders have ended
•⁠ ⁠Subscriptions still get 10% off + bulk savings

This wasn’t an easy call to make, but sustainability is still at the core of everything we do, and we’re committed to finding new ways to reduce our impact as we grow.

Thank you for being part of this with us ❤️

We will continue to honour a 50p bottle discount at our next market stalls:

🌞Water Lane Spring Fair this weekend 28th/29th March
🌽Cliftonville Farmers Market this Sunday 29th March
🚜Wye Farmers Market, Saturday 4th April

Pssst … buying directly from our farmers market stand and events is still the best value, as our overheads are the smallest there!

Much love,

Zak and the team x

05/03/2026

In case you haven’t noticed yet… The sun is outttt! Find your nearest good coffee shop or cafe… don’t walk, RUN! 🏃🌞💦

Tag a friend that you’re overdue a catchup with, and tag the venue where you want to meet! 📆

Address

Building 4/Roberts Dane Premises & Stores, Coldharbour Lane
Ashford
TN255HE

Opening Hours

Monday 9:30am - 5pm
Tuesday 9:30am - 5pm
Wednesday 9:30am - 5pm
Thursday 9:30am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 12pm
Saturday 9am - 1pm

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+447568148787

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