Small Business Spotlight
To celebrate Women Small Business Owner Month (October), our spotlight is on Lupa's Kitchen, the brewery of Lupa's Kombucha, where its owner and Doraville resident Claire Irie shared the following with us:
Lupa's Kitchen was originally founded by my mom, Lupa Irie, who is considered one of the original kombucha brewers in the States. When she started back in the early 1990's, we were living in Jamaica in the West Indies where she was introduced to "Booch"; as you know, kombucha has become very popular especially over the last 7-8 years, during the time that Lupa was developing her culinary skills commercially. She taught Kombucha brewing and expanded, making cereals and other natural wholesome treats. It quickly became overwhelming and moved from her having a small clientele for her products, into the shelves of the local health food stores, eventually expanding into Whole Foods. By this time, I had been working with her and we joined together to bring high quality Kombucha to a commercial operation.