{"id":825,"date":"2020-06-05T18:43:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T00:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=825"},"modified":"2020-06-14T20:38:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T02:38:43","slug":"kombucha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=825","title":{"rendered":"Kombucha!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the shelter-in-place period, Ella and I broke into making soda pop with our first batch of ginger-ale. We soon realized if we added more yeast and let it ferment longer, we’d get more fizz. We started reading a book on soda pop, but I remembered folks in my ‘hood spoke of making kombucha. Reading more about it, kombucha is made from a SCOBY, a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast – how cool! As long as you feed the SCOBY sugared up tea, it will do the job of helping to make a fizzy drink.<\/p>\n

The excellent Lindenfelsers’ gave me a perfectly simple recipe: brew 6 cups tea, dissolve 1 cup sugar, and when it cools add your SCOBY to brew for 2-3 weeks. I’m using their basic recipe before I get silly on second fermentations with fruit, but I also wanted to read more about it. For those of you considering breaking into the hobby, here are a few websites I found interesting, with the first one going into some of the science that I gladly appreciate:<\/p>\n

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  1. https:\/\/scienceandfooducla.wordpress.com\/2015\/11\/10\/kombucha-brewing-the-process\/<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. https:\/\/ifoodreal.com\/flavoring-kombucha-how-to-make-kombucha-fizzy\/<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. http:\/\/www.picklejarstudios.com\/strawberry-rhubarb-kombucha\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I have been brewing kombucha in a large mixing bowl covered with a dish towel and a rubber band around the top. After the first fermenting period is complete, I pour the bowl through a fine-mesh strainer and into another bowl with blended fruit or straight into bottles, always reserving one cup of kombucha from each batch and the SCOBY for your next batch.<\/p>\n

    For the bottles, I biked to a liquor store and bought a 4-pack of the delicious Gr\u00f6lsch, but you might want to explore other options here:<\/p>\n

    https:\/\/myfermentedfoods.com\/kombucha-bottles\/<\/a><\/p>\n

    Also, I’ve only been using black tea for the fermentation period, but after I research whether or not caffeine is needed, I may start branching out with tea flavors as Ellen repeatedly told me. Oh, and I also grew a baby SCOBY on the side for Lurch:<\/p>\n

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    Wes’ baby SCOBY<\/p><\/div>\n

    Will report back more later, but our first batch of strawberry rhubarb kombucha was definitely tasty and explosively fizzy \ud83d\ude42 I’m tracking batches with this spreadsheet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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