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I want to start a tea based beverage company, offering tea, kombucha, and similar products, basically a copycat of picrel. My marketing will take place at farmers markets, and I hope to build a following from there and get plugged up to some stores and distributors.

I intend to brew the teas and such myself, and was inteding to also do the packaging etc, but am reading that this often all entirely outsourced, even the tea brewing part. Any advice regarding this aspect of it?

>> No.52903106

>>52903074

Look into what "co-packing" is. You basically rent a facility licensed to make consumables like tea to make this for you instead of having to investment God knows how much into running your own. Thank you for making a thread on something tangible instead of internet meme money or gay nigger stocks like GME. I wish you the best

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>>52903106
Yeah co packing is what I'm talking about, but outsourcing the brewing seems depressing. I also have a pretty sweet brewing set up like pic rel, except it's only one kettle not two. It brews 31 gal batches (1bbl), and I've been trying to find a way to use it for awhile now. Maybe it's unrealistic to brew my own, IDK. But doing the bottling and such definitely seems unrealistic and cost prohibitive.

>> No.52903314

>>52903236
If you want to sell commercially, they usually have contracts in which you must produce some minimum amount and sell it. Moreover, I don't know about where you are, but here you must produce this stuff on property that is designated for commercial purposes. Otherwise this homemade stuff is illegal, unfortunately.

>> No.52903759

>>52903314
Yeah I'd either rent or build a commercial kitchen, they're pretty cheap if you use a commissary. One near me is only $20/hr.

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Cool thread, I am also in the supplements/health niche and the picture is giving me some ideas as to graphic design improvements.
Love kombucha and if you ever make it, I will very happily try a bottle!

>> No.52904527

>>52904491
What do you sell? I got started running a mushroom farm and keep meaning to make supplements too. I noticed at all the farmers markets I go to, no one is selling 'booch and I thought doing that plus some meme health teas with the mushrooms would be synergistic, and it seems way easier to scale and manage than a mushroom farm.

>> No.52904604

>>52903106
>co-packing
thanks I need this for my record player set I sell
They need to make me a nice box to send it in.

>> No.52904695

A huge thing you'll have to consider is cold-storage for the kombucha. That will massively drive up your logistics costs (storage, transport, etc).

>> No.52904851

>>52904695
Only if unpastuerized, right? I'm aware pasuterization kills the probiotics, however. But at any rate, I intend to build a walk in cooler already for the farm. Maybe subcontracting the brewing, bottling and co-packing / storage etc is the way go but I liked the idea of at least brewing the stuff myself, so when people ask if I made it I can say yes.

>> No.52904984

>>52904851
Right. Trouble is, no one will want to buy pasteurized kombucha--that defeats the entire point of drinking kombucha. You'll have an inferior product than the mass-produced and widely available competitors.