MEET ISA

It started with a gut feeling

Long before ISA was a kombucha brand, kombucha was simply part of Isa's life.

She grew up in Boulder, Colorado, in a family that did things a little differently. Homeschooling. Lots of time outdoors. Travel. Spicy food. And, somewhat unusually at the time, a fridge that was always stocked with kombucha.

Following the conventional path was never really part of the plan. 

FROM BOULDER TO LJUBLJANA

Then life moved her halfway across the world

When Isa's family moved to Slovenia, everything changed.

For the first time, she went to school. In Slovenian. At a Waldorf school.

There was a new language to learn, European cursive to master and an entirely different way of doing things. Isa adapted, but she missed the freedom to experiment, create and follow her curiosity. 

So she found somewhere else to put it.

WHERE ISA REALLY BEGAN

A few SCOBYs, and a lot of experimenting

Isa ordered her first SCOBYs online and started brewing kombucha in her dad's office.

Batch after batch. Flavour after flavour.

Some combinations worked.

Some were... best left in the office.

But somewhere between all the experimenting, kombucha stopped being something she simply drank and became something she couldn't stop thinking about.

How good could kombucha actually taste? 

That question became ISA.

DOING THINGS DIFFERENTLY

Turns out, the long way tastes better

What started in a few jars eventually grew into a small brewery in Ljubljana and a team equally obsessed with making seriously good kombucha. 

But the philosophy hasn't changed much.

  • ISA is still made in small batches.
  • Still fermented in glass.
  • Still made with real, freshly cold-pressed ingredients.
  • Still naturally sparkling, without added CO₂. 

Because when the ingredients are good and the process is right, there isn't much reason to mess with either.

THE ISA WAY

Trust your gut

ISA was never really born from a business plan.

It came from curiosity. From experimenting. From being willing to do something differently simply because it felt right.

And perhaps that's why Trust Your Gut means more to us than what's inside the bottle.

It's a reminder to stay curious. Choose your own path. Order the unusual thing. Change your mind. Try something new.

And every now and then, ignore what you're supposed to do.

Good things tend to happen when you do.