Our Story | Verve Kombucha
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Our Story

Humble Beginnings.

In 2015, we 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. The kombucha was … not good; But we kept working at it.

In 2017, we submitted a proposal to build our brewery in a city-owned building in downtown Waterloo that had been vacant for a few years. Our proposal was accepted and we started working to build out our brewery and restaurant in the summer of 2018.

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 accepted, we opened the doors of Verve Kombucha.

a hand-drawn sketch of the exterior of Verve Kombucha

Room to Grow.

We divided the building roughly in half to accommodate an event space alongside our brewery. In the brewery, we use much bigger equipment than the mason jars we started with; and we're working to distribute throughout the state.

a hand-drawn sketch of the exterior of Verve Kombucha