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Nora Reyes
Founder · Head brewer

Nora Reyes

Sour is a feeling, not a flavor.

Nora started SCOBY in a hall closet in inner SE Portland in 2018, with a stuck batch and a hand-me-down kettle. Six years later she's still hands-on with every primary fermentation, every flavor wheel revision, and every Friday bottling shift. She's the reason the brewery says 'small batch' on the label and means it.

01A few facts

The longer story.

Hometown
San Diego, CA
At SCOBY since
2018 · founder
Favorite flavor
No. 04 · Cherry pom.
Drink order
Drip coffee, black
Currently obsessed with
Japanese koji fermentation
Weird superpower
Can taste batch age within a day
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Likes

  • Closed taprooms on quiet mornings
  • Library cards
  • Oregon black raspberries
  • Hand-written labels
  • Dry, almost-too-tart kombucha

Dislikes

  • Pasteurized 'kombucha'
  • Styrofoam
  • The word 'wellness'
  • The word 'tincture'
  • Surprise press kits
02The rest of the team