High country Kombucha.

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Eagle/Gypsum

Hckombu.com

Ed Rothbauer and Steve Dickman began brewing Kombucha, a fermented tea made from the Manchurian mushroom, when they were roommates in 2003. A year later they turned the probiotic beverage into a business, launching High Country Kombucha in Eagle County.

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Within three years the company landed a national distributor, and today High Country Kombucha is sold in all 50 states, the Caribbean and the Virgin Islands.

"It's, kind of an acquired taste, but people who have tried it at (east one time - and tried enough to get a feeling from it - just love the way they feel," says Rothbauer, who credits his own...