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 whattheheck
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 Kombucha!!!
#8849563 - 08/29/08 08:54 PM (3 months, 4 days ago) |
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Anyone else enjoy this stuff? I'm enjoying a High Country Wild Root at the moment.
Very addicting!! I shouldn't have started back up 
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 Madtowntripper
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I've never had it.
I know a few years ago it was a super underground thing, and know they have like 30 different brands bottled in the stores?
And the kids down the street from me have a kombucha tea stand?
That went mainstream quick!
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Cannabischarlie
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what does it do to you?
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two_rivers
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i bought a bottle of it after reading about all of it's health benefits. i took a couple sips and thought it might have gone bad because it tasted like rotten vinegar.
but i guess that's just the way it tastes, no?
i'm not sure if i could acquire a taste for that stuff...
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Tchan909
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Sounds gross as hell. I don't want it to colonize my liver.
I'll stick with regular old coffee and tea kthx.
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leftysurprise
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 Re: Kombucha!!! [Re: Tchan909]
#8850030 - 08/29/08 10:17 PM (3 months, 4 days ago) |
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its no different than eating yogurt, or sourcream, or saurkraut, or any other fermented and live food. and if made right, it tastes damn good. when i used to brew my own it was delicious. now that im all moved and settled i need to find someone who has a spare baby i can have.
it is incredibly healthy for you.
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leftysurprise
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Quote:
two_rivers said:
i bought a bottle of it after reading about all of it's health benefits. i took a couple sips and thought it might have gone bad because it tasted like rotten vinegar.
but i guess that's just the way it tastes, no?
i'm not sure if i could acquire a taste for that stuff...
if it had a strong vinegar taste then it was bad. normally it has a slight acidic vinegar taste, but it shouldnt taste strong like that.
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“I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” ~Stephen Roberts
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whattheheck
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Find a spare baby?  What were your recipes lefty if I may ask?
I know it's pretty good for you, but I'm just straight addicted to how it tastes and what it is.
And MTT, kids have a kombucha stand? Like a lemonade stand??
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leftysurprise
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yeah, baby culture.
i just made a gallon of green or black tea(you can use any tea you want) and added a cup of sugar, put the culture in, cover with a cloth and let sit for 5-7 days. then its ready to bottle.
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“I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” ~Stephen Roberts
"George Bush says he speaks to god every day, and christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to god through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer makes it any more absurd." ~Unknown
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MisterMuscaria
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I had some earlier today. Paul Stamets was not a fan and wrote an amusing article on it: http://www.fungi.com/info/articles/blob.html
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I don't think it was super underground, just not popular over here because its kinda unpleasant to drink.
Its been around forever apparently. 
The recorded history of this drink dates back to the Qin Dynasty in China (around 250 BC). The Chinese called it the "Immortal Health Elixir," because they believed Kombucha balanced the Middle Qi (Spleen and Stomach) and aided in digestion, allowing the body to focus on healing. Knowledge of kombucha eventually reached Russia and then Eastern Europe around the Early Modern Age, when tea first became affordable by the populace.
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Re: Kombucha!!! [Re: Effed]
#8850666 - 08/30/08 12:49 AM (3 months, 4 days ago) |
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alot of healthy things dont catch on here for a while.
if it isnt full of sugar or trans fat, apparently noone wants it.
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“I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” ~Stephen Roberts
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Ubi
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MisterMuscaria said:
I had some earlier today. Paul Stamets was not a fan and wrote an amusing article on it: http://www.fungi.com/info/articles/blob.html
Interesting read, I don't think I have much interest to try it anymore.
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Entropymancer
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I've been reading about this stuff lately... any idea where I might go about finding a starter to brew it? Maybe a small non-chain hippy-type grocery?
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whattheheck
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Thanks for the read. It makes me a little more leary of doing it myself and a little happier to pay the $3 a bottle. It's actually good for me in that I can't afford Kombucha and beer, so I don't drink when I "on" with the Kombucha. 
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KrishnaDreamer
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most of the stuff you find on selves are actually pasteurized i believe.
check out this site for cultures..
http://www.kombu.de/suche2.htm#ausland
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leftysurprise
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Quote:
Entropymancer said:
I've been reading about this stuff lately... any idea where I might go about finding a starter to brew it? Maybe a small non-chain hippy-type grocery?
ebay has em cheap.
http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=m38.l1313&_nkw=kombucha&_sacat=See-All-Categories
you could just ask in the culinary forum, some people in there occasionally have them to give away for just the cost of shipping.
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“If I had a quarter for every time I said I had a nickel, I would have five times as much theoretical money. ” ~Stephen Colbert
“I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” ~Stephen Roberts
"George Bush says he speaks to god every day, and christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to god through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer makes it any more absurd." ~Unknown
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leftysurprise
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Quote:
whattheheck said:
Thanks for the read. It makes me a little more leary of doing it myself and a little happier to pay the $3 a bottle. It's actually good for me in that I can't afford Kombucha and beer, so I don't drink when I "on" with the Kombucha.
no need to be leary, it is easy as hell. and it is not easily contaminated once the culture colonizes the surface the first time, and even then i have never had it contaminate. it is so simple, you have to be a sucker to pay $3 a bottle, once you buy the culture, it will cost you less than $3 to make a whole gallon.
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"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. " ~Abraham Lincoln
“If I had a quarter for every time I said I had a nickel, I would have five times as much theoretical money. ” ~Stephen Colbert
“I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” ~Stephen Roberts
"George Bush says he speaks to god every day, and christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to god through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer makes it any more absurd." ~Unknown
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Madtowntripper
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whattheheck said:
And MTT, kids have a kombucha stand? Like a lemonade stand??
Yeah, the dirty little hippie kids down the street have a ramshackle stand with a sheet stretched across the top that says "Kombucha", and tehy're selling little paper cups full...
I would not try it if THEY paid ME.
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leftysurprise
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oh come on madtown, im sure every cup is filled with kombucha, love, e. coli, salmonella and black mold spores.
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“If I had a quarter for every time I said I had a nickel, I would have five times as much theoretical money. ” ~Stephen Colbert
“I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” ~Stephen Roberts
"George Bush says he speaks to god every day, and christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to god through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer makes it any more absurd." ~Unknown
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