Verve Kombucha
Andy & Alex started brewing kombucha and dreaming about a project that would see Verve bottles and draft lines in grocery stores, restaurants, and breweries across Iowa.
Waterloo, IA
Verve Kombucha
Type: Producer
Produces: Kombucha
Location: Waterloo, IA
Miles from Coop: 53
In 2015, Andy & Alex started brewing kombucha and dreaming about a project that would see Verve bottles and draft lines in grocery stores, restaurants, and breweries across Iowa.
"We brewed in mason jars," they said while remembering their beginnings. "The kombucha was... not good. But we kept working at it."
In 2017, Andy and Alex submitted a proposal to start their brewery in a city-owned building in downtown Waterloo that had been vacant for a few years, and by 2018, their dreams were in motion.
"We moved up to five-gallon glass containers, started knocking out walls, and filling out paperwork. About a year and a half after our proposal was accented, we opened the doors of Verve Kombucha."
Verve Kombucha Products
Checkout these great products from Verve Kombucha
Other Local Producers
Be sure to check out these others great local producers!
Zaza’s Pastas
Julie Parisi handcrafts her flavorful pastas in small batches, cutting her ravioli by hand, in Cedar Rapids.
Cedar Rapids, IA
Timeless Prairie Orchard
Dave and Susie Differding know their apples and love sharing the fruits of their education with you in the form of each shiny, delicious fruit.
Winthrop, IA
Maestro Empanadas
When Christian Bejarano and Marta Hamity moved to Iowa from Argentina, they had trouble finding their favorite food: the empanada. They got cooking and quickly earned a cult following.
Coralville, IA
Hansen's Dairy
Switch to their butter and you’ll never go back: Hansen’s butter, cream, and long-lasting non-homogenized milks are known for their flavor.
Hudson, IA
Thumbprint Soaps
Katie's handmade soaps are made from scratch in small batches using high quality ingredients like aloe vera, cocoa butter, and mango butter.
Cedar Rapids, IA
Wilson's Orchard
They have a robust pick-your-own apple business at the farm, where they also make apple cider, apple turnovers, and apple cider donuts, and they grow pumpkins. What more could you ask for?
Iowa City, IA
Garden Oasis Farm
You realize what you’re taking care of right now is going to provide a year’s worth of produce.
Coggon, IA