A Waynesboro business plans to celebrate an unusual milestone Saturday – toasting the one million mark.
For a decade now, Blue Ridge Bucha has offered its product in glass bottles. That’s an especially good thing now that the Chinese have stopped recycling American plastic, and while glass can be recycled, it takes energy to turn an old bottle into a new one. That’s why co-founder Ethan Zuclerman offered customers a discount to re-use their bottles.
“We set out to create a model that we felt good about – that would give people the opportunity to play their part honestly in saving the planet,” he explains.
A small step – true, but one that customers embaced.
“The drinkers of Blue Ridge Bucha have now saved one million bottles!” Zuckerman proclaims.
So the tasting room on 250 east of Waynesboro plans a celebration from noon to five Saturday, serving a variety of slightly alcoholic, fermented tea: orange blossom, the original ginger, the Blue Grass Bucha, which is blueberries and Cascade hops, the black raspberry, elderberry sunrise, jasmine grape, and the Cold Brewcha.
Zuckerman claims there’s a cult following for that’s coffee flavored kombucha. And if none of those appeal, he adds, the local brewery – Basic City Beer – will join the festivities.
