Gut check: Kombucha brewer tackles growing pains as product gains traction

A budding beverage industry star is on the cusp of some major obstacles to even more growth, from an outdated tax law to classic supply and demand issues.

  • By Brian Hartz
  • | 6:00 a.m. December 13, 2019
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Mark Wemple. Co-founders Tonya Donati and Joshua Rumschlag have made Mother Kombucha a category leader in Florida in just a few years.
Mark Wemple. Co-founders Tonya Donati and Joshua Rumschlag have made Mother Kombucha a category leader in Florida in just a few years.
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Tonya Donati and Joshua Rumschlag, co-founders of Mother Kombucha in St. Petersburg, say they make kombucha for people who think they don’t like kombucha.

 

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