Brewing Kombucha at home is a fun and easy process. Like most hobbies, the more you brew, the greater your skillset. However, to the newbie, the Kombucha brewing process can be fraught with uncertainty, mostly due to lack of information. Oftentimes the mere sight of the culture alone is enough to inspire shudders of revulsion…
黑水龍年 Hei Shui Long Nian Black Water Dragon Year The Chinese New year has arrived! The year of the Black Water Dragon couldn’t have had a more auspicious start here in sunny SoCal. Rain in the desert is always a blessing and it poured down buckets. Having majored in Chinese and lived abroad in Taiwan,…
If you missed yesterday’s post on why growing your own SCOBY from a bottle of Kombucha is not a recommended practice anymore, please click here. I love what Kombucha does for my daily life, as a living food, a message to spread and a path to empowerment. One of the critical tenets we hold here at Kombucha…
The Kombucha SCOBY culture is a hardy organism and, when cared for correctly, can provide a lifetime of Kombucha through the generations of babies it will produce. Kombucha’s natural abundance is a blessing that has driven Kombucha’s popularity over the centuries and especially the last few decades here in the West. In order to survive…
I got a really bad case of poison oak a few years ago while hiking. Later, while working with Kombucha cultures, I noticed a recurrence of some of the rash I experienced from the poison oak. Not as bad, but still a bit itchy. This is an example of Kombucha Side Effects. These symptoms would…
