The air carries the clean, faint acidity of live fermentation. You are in a studio-like space on the top floor of an unassuming building. This is where your kombucha journey begins.
Most people have never tasted kombucha the way it was meant to be tasted. Our flagship kombucha tasting program exists to change that.
Meet Read The Glass, India's only omakase kombucha tasting experience designed to cover science, sensory, craft and cultural dimensions of kombucha fermentation in a way that is genuinely accessible, curious and never intimidating.
Hosted at India's first independent kombucha taproom in Bangalore. It is a guided tasting experience designed to put you in genuine conversation with the craft and the people behind it.
There are no scripts here. Just fermentation, community, and the belief that the two belong together.
What Is an Omakase Kombucha Tasting
In Japanese, omakase literally translates to "I leave it to you", a phrase spoken to a chef, a sommelier, a trusted host. It is the highest form of confidence you can place in someone's craft. The willingness to set aside your own preferences and let expertise lead. In Japanese dining, omakase means leaving the selection and the order entirely to the host, because the host understands that what you taste first shapes how you taste everything that follows. At Read The Glass, the same logic governs every pour.
The Tasting Flight: Exclusive Brews, Inclusive Thoughts
This tasting flight is anchored by some of our most distinctive brews, all alcohol-free, some signature and some experimental. What you are tasting across the flight is conviction, seven years of sourcing decisions, fermentation methodologies and brewing techniques made by people who take this practice seriously. Read The Glass makes those decisions visible, and worth caring about.
And running through all of it is culture, the long history of fermented beverages across civilisations, the emerging kombucha movement in India, and an honest conversation about what this living beverage genuinely does for the gut and the body.
Where Mindful Drinking Meets Serious Craft
There is a growing community of drinkers in the country and worldwide who are rethinking their relationship with alcohol. Not necessarily giving it up entirely, but asking better questions: *What am I actually looking for when I drink? Is it the buzz? The complexity? The conversation? The craft?*
Read The Glass was built, in part, as the answer to all of those questions without alcohol anywhere in the picture.
A well-made craft kombucha can rivals the best sparkling wines. A flavour range like fruity, botanical, earthy, tannic, acidic as varied and expressive as any serious wine list. A production process that rewards the same depth of attention as artisanal brewing or winemaking. And a sensory experience that puts most beverages, alcoholic or not, to shame.
What Read The Glass does is treat all of that with the seriousness it deserves. This is the omakase of non-alcoholic drinking. The same rigour, the same vocabulary, the same expectation of an engaged and curious guest applied to a living, fermented, craft beverage that has been built by people who have spent the better part of a decade learning how to make it exceptional.
For the sober curious, for non-drinkers who have always been handed a soda water and told to be grateful, for anyone who has ever wanted a serious drinking experience without the alcohol this is the room you've been waiting for.
Know more about our kombucha tasting program here.