Hi friends,
I made some kombucha. No, you don't have to drink it. In fact, it's not ready to drink yet but brewing it made feel like a mad scientist and I love it.
Kombucha experiment: A pet shoggoth makes fizzy vinegar
Why would I want to drink rotten tea? Is what I thought, and possibly also said, the first time heard of kombucha. Even though I happily ate and made many other fermented foods and drinks, kombucha seemed weird and gross. Honestly, I think it had a lot to do with the culture. I mean, actually, both the symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeasts and the culture of the people who made and drank kombucha. It seemed like a lot of hippies, or maybe hipters, with a disquietingly easy-going attitude to food safety loved to brew this stuff and also wanted to get you to drink some as a kind of dare. These felt like the same kind of people who would fail to pasteurize jam or drink shots of Fernet.
Thanks for reading and see you on the internet!
AK