Matthew G.
Yelp
Despite Boochcraft being just a fraction of the totality of the Skydeck, it's without a doubt my favorite attraction. The Brewer's Deck is an outdoor seating arrangement that encourages conversation. It gets loud up there, which is great because Kombucha is itself, a loud drink. The outdoor air gels very well w/ the sweet heat of a cold Kombucha. It's incredible that everyone who starts drinking a Kombucha, will finish their Kombucha at exactly the same time. It just puts everyone on a keen wavelength, the wavelength of spice. You might make eye contact with someone drinking a boochcraft 8oz and realize you're in perfect synchronicity. Sure you can avert your eyes, but it's too late, Kombucha has revealed something fundamental. You'll wonder if anyone else is feeling the Kombucha unity. I don't know, it's not my place to know; this is the Kombucha space, and I am just a Kombucha particle floating in it. My path was preordained from the second I touched the Lavender Hibiscus, to my grizzly end at the hands of a particularly violent peacock in LA.
It's a total bargain too. In competition with a 10 dollar beer at the neighbors house you're looking at a measly fiver for an 8oz pour. Dollar for alcohol, I think we're getting close to a 12 pack of Natty Ice, and you don't even need to join a fraternity to take advantage of those ratios.
To drink a Kombucha is to feel an alertness of the body that comes with eating spicy food. Anyone who has ever loaded up stir fry with peppers knows the keen awareness of the body that comes from tear inducing heat. Lots of drink commercials will advertise alcohol as a social lubricant, but the best social lubricant is physical duress.
For folks who don't absolutely love smoldering heat, Boochcraft provides lots of non-suffercore drink options. I was told the Strawberry Lemonade was quite good, I'll never know because I keep drinking the Ginger Lime like it's Capri Sun during youth baseball.
Of course none of this is worth anything if the folks working the counter weren't also delightful. I won't name any names because I'm bad and don't know them, but it is very hard to take time to remember a person as a bartender that serves hundreds of folks daily. Everyone who we've met at Boochcraft has been as revelatory as the drink they serve.