OUR STORY

In 2006, Matt Thomas started Townshend’s Tea Company with the idea of serving great teas in a casual teahouse setting. Then we began making kombucha in the basement of our first teahouse using the same great teas we served to our guests. It got so popular we decided to bottle it, giving it the name Brew Dr. Kombucha.

OUR COMMITMENT
Through our responsible brewing process and business practices, we’re committed to better choices for people, communities, and our planet.
 

• GOOD FOR PEOPLE
• GOOD FOR COMMUNITIES
• GOOD FOR OUR PLANET

HOW WE SOURCE
Brew Dr. was founded as a neighborhood tea shop. We relied on fellow small businesses, local partners, and community support to grow our effort. As we’ve scaled, we’ve continued to place importance on using local relationships to source our tea and herbs, as well as our bottles and other packaging.

OUR FOOTPRINT
From the glass we source to our utilities, emissions are all around us. We actively work to reduce our waste and our point-source emissions, or emissions coming from our facilities and delivery vehicles. Beyond that, we are prioritizing measuring and offsetting all of our scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions.

OUR COMMUNITY
We work to be a positive force within our community. We support environmentally-driven nonprofits through 1% for the Planet donations, we offer “Local Love,” a paid volunteer day program for our employees, and we donate 1% of our Uplift revenue to organizations focused on racial justice.

THE PURPOSE AND VALUES OF THE BUSINESS

Our mission at Brew Dr. is to explore tea, thoughtfully. We work to craft quality, tasty tea beverages with thoughtful care for our people, ingredients, and the planet.

Transparency and accountability are the bedrock of our organization. We will strive to continuously improve as we foster an open and honest relationship with our customers.

Brew Dr. specializes in crafting deliciously refreshing, organic tea-based beverages using sustainable and responsible business practices. Founded in 2008 by Matt Thomas, we employ the same no shortcuts, whole ingredients approach that we have used since we started out in the basement of our NE Portland Teahouse. Our closed-loop brewing process, local community support, and sustainability initiatives are the result of our commitment to using business as a force for good, balancing profit with purpose, and considering people and planet in the decisions we make.

OUR VALUES
 

• TASTE WINS
  We craft our products to be loved, and we will not compromise on our quality.

• INCLUSIVITY
  We honor everyone we are connected to through kindness and transparency.

• CREATIVITY
  We embrace imagination and encourage innovative ideas in our work.

• SUSTAINABILITY
  We seek environmentally friendly solutions in all we do, and hope to inspire the same in others.

• NO ARTIFICIAL NONSENSE
  We make real, honest products using ingredients that are easy to understand.

• NEVER SETTLE
  We constantly seek to improve and expand what we offer the world.

EMPLOYEES

We seek to nurture the health, well-being, talent, education, and skills and livelihoods of our employees. In turn, we hope that our team will be respectful of our customers, colleagues, business partners, and the community outside the company.

We strive to honor the diversity of our team and to promote their ideas, work, and aspirations. We seek to create an organization in which the skills and talents of each employee are best used to help us achieve our overarching goals. All employees have access to a regularly updated employee handbook that provides details about benefits, travel, volunteering, and other work-related information. Discrimination of any kind is not consistent with our mission and values, and it will not be tolerated.

JOIN THE BREW DR. FAMILY!

At Brew Dr., we’re on a mission to explore tea thoughtfully, by crafting quality, tasty tea beverages with thoughtful care for people, ingredients, and the planet.