High Country Kombucha.

• Author: Peterson, Eric
• Position: High Country Kombucha LLC - Edward Rothbauer - Brief article

Edward Rothbauer broke his back falling from a roof in 1990, and was paralyzed. He soon discovered Kombucha tea, brewed from the Manchurian Mushroom in the Himalayas for thousands of years. "I started getting movement back in my legs," said Rothbauer, who continued drinking the tea to recovery. The Manchurian Mushroom, Rothbauer explained, is not a mushroom but "symbiotic yeast that's very friendly to your body. A lot of people like it because of the energy boost. It's also excellent for your digestive system." In 2004, he teamed with co-owner Steve Dickman to launch a bottling company. It took...