More on kombucha

July 22, 2003

> My kombucha has gotten fizzier every time for the last month or so

> I've been

> making it. Now it is not quite as fizzy by looks as soda, but it does

> look

> like soda with similar-sized bubbles in it. It looks pretty close to

> soda when

> I first make it.

When I decanted this last batch it looked a dead ringer for beer--it

even had a head! I just invested in some glass bottles with wire-held

corks (EZ Caps in homebrewer lingo apparently) and will be storing my

kombucha in those; I'm also going to be trying ginger beer and small

beer in those bottles. I've been storing it in food-grade plastic--one

of those pitchers you usually make frozen juice in. But I remembered I

had a rubber gasketed glass container and poured as much of it in there

as I could fit in--about a quart, I think. It's holding its bubble

better.

I have noticed a great change in my skin lately and I'm not sure if

it's from the kombucha or the general way I've been eating. I had a

rosacea-like condition on my cheeks, and while they're still red the

pebbly rash on them is completely gone. (Red cheeks run in the family

and I've always had them, but the rash was something in the last two

years.) And a plantar wart on my foot I've had for a few years abruptly

vanished in the course of the last week without my doing anything to it.

And speaking of beer, I'm an alcoholic--how worried do I need to be

about possible alcoholic fermentation in these drinks? I mean, I know

there's going to be SOME--there's alcohol in orange juice--but my mom

teased me about " getting into the vanilla " the other day and I want to

make sure I'm not going down that road. I certainly haven't ever felt a

" buzz " drinking kombucha...

Lynn S.

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Lynn Siprelle * Writer, Mother, Programmer, Fiber Artisan

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