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How Long You Should Steep Tea When Making Kombucha
Making kombucha isn’t a super complicated process, but there are a few details that you want to make sure you get right in order for your...
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How to Home Brew Kombucha Without Starter Tea
Home brewing kombucha is a super fun and tasty hobby, but when you’re first starting out all the ingredients and techniques you need to...
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How to Tell if Your Kombucha SCOBY is Dead
A healthy and active SCOBY is one of the most important parts of making a good home brew of kombucha. But what if you’re SCOBY hasn’t...
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Why So Many People Drink Kombucha (And Why You Should Too)
If you’re someone who’s never tried kombucha before, you may not understand why so many people love the drink, or why they feel the urge...
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Could Kombucha Kill You? The 1995 Kombucha Death and What it Means for us Today
With kombucha becoming more and more popular every day, many people not familiar with the drink worry about it’s health risks, and some...
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Does Kombucha Make you Fart?
Farting is one of those things that everyone does, but no one (besides guys in their man cave) likes to talk about. Because of this,...
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Is Synergy Kombucha Good for You?
One of, if not the most, popular brands of kombucha you’ll find at the store is GT’s Synergy Kombucha. Most people know that in general,...
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How to Make Ginger Kombucha at Home
As a kombucha home brewer, I’m always looking for new flavors and recipes of kombucha to try. So when I heard from a friend about how...
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Why Drinking Kombucha Makes you Feel So Good
One common reaction I hear from my friends after they try kombucha for the first time is that they feel really good. We all know that...
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How To Properly Cover Your Kombucha Brewing Vessel
One important part of home brewing kombucha that many new kombucha brewers get confused about is how to properly cover their jar of...
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How to Make Organic Kombucha
One of the biggest reasons that people drink kombucha is for its health benefits, which is why many people want the kombucha they’re...
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Kirkland (Costco) Kombucha Review - What Makes it Great & What I didn't Like
Costco’s subsidiary brand, Kirkland, makes and sells everything from animal crackers to batteries to vodka, and they do all of it pretty...
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Stores & Websites Where you can Buy Kombucha in Bulk
I love drinking kombucha, I just wish it wasn’t so expensive so that I could drink it more often! Which led me to wonder, where can I buy...
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A Simple Healthy and Tasty Keto kombucha Recipe
Whether you have been home brewing kombucha for a while and just started the keto diet, or you have been keto dieting for a while and...
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How to Package & Ship Kombucha Safely!
Whether you’d like to share a kombucha brew you've made with a friend in another state or want to get a certain brand of kombucha to a...
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Can you Drink Kombucha at Night?
Kombucha is a tasty drink that many people such as myself, like not only for enjoyment, but also to reap its health benefits. One concern...
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Why Kombucha Burns Your Throat
Whether you’re new to kombucha or have been enjoying the drink for a long time, every once in a while you’ll get a sip that burns the...
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Can Minors Buy and Drink Kombucha?
The small amount of alcohol in the fermented tea drink known as kombucha has made it a semi controversial beverage in recent years. With...
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Why Your Kombucha Tastes Like Vinegar
A few days ago I was brewing kombucha like normal and for some reason the batch turned out a little different than most. It tasted harsh...
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Why You Shouldn't Shake a Bottle of Kombucha
Almost every bottle of kombucha you find at the store has a “Do Not Shake” warning on it. Which made me wonder, what happens if you do...
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