We were delighted to play a part in Design Pop, Cork’s newest festival. It was a unique blend of design, food and awareness of the city’s character and environment. We’re pretty sure it’s going toContinue reading
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New flavour launch – Mango and Pineapple!
Everything has its time. In the brewery, we don’t rush the fermentation process. We just leave nature take its course and when the kombucha is ready for bottling, well, then we bottle! I think thatContinue reading
Irish VAT rates on natural healthcare
A picture tells a thousand words – or in this case, actions speak louder than empty words. A few months back the government levied 23% VAT on Kombucha. Now its the turn of food supplementsContinue reading
Cleaning chemicals are as bad as cigarettes
It’s like people are waking up every day to the damage caused by the use of chemicals in their food, water, personal care products, clothes and environment. Sometimes it’s bewildering how these chemicals even makeContinue reading
Holistic Food
What follows is a rough reconstruction of a presentation I gave at the West Waterford festival of Food. Food. It’s something that permeates every aspect of our lives. From the moment we rise untilContinue reading
#Winning – Great Taste Awards
Thrilled that Holo Kombucha has won a gold star at the Great Taste Awards. 12,366 products were entered and 500 judges went sipping, poking, prodding, smelling and tasting (Let us save you some math – eachContinue reading
Queen of the Sea Festival, 2017
Hometown festivals. They’re the best! Easy to get to, easy to roll home and lots of friends and family around. So it was with the Queen of the Sea Festival in Youghal. This is anContinue reading
Happy Summer Solstice!
It’s sweltering. On one of the hottest days of the year with temperatures reaching towards 26 degrees, a cold Holo is gone beyond nice – it’s heavenly! On the Summer Solstice, I got to thinkingContinue reading
The Stress Effect
Long before computers and office environments, when we lived with the monkeys and ran with the hares, stress was a necessary response to situations where we might find ourselves as dinner for some stronger, hungryContinue reading
Soul Food
The glossy mags have declared 2017 to be the year of Lagom. The Sweedish word means “just enough“. Like Goldilocks and the Three Bears, we should approach 2017 seeking to have just enough of everything.Continue reading