riptoldnutonKT
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Hello everyone..
I'm new to this forum and wanted to share my Kombucha journey. I'll try to keep it short. I first started home brewing beer with my husband almost 6 years ago and learned the art of fermentation. I stumbled upon Kombucha after hearing of all the benefits of drinking this "wonder drink". I was hooked on KT from the moment we met. I'm a big fan of Natural news and read an article on making home made Kombucha. My journey began 3 years ago with a bottle of GT's raw original. I started with a 1/4 gallon mason jar and then multiplied to more jars as soon as I could. With several 1/4 gallon batches going and scoby's galore, I started brewing larger batches in 1/2 gal mason jars. While brewing every week, I was doing second ferments, experimenting with different fruits and juices and they turned out great. Nice and fizzy the way I like. I was just wingin it and making a great product. I've been a health nut and personal trainer/nutritional consultant for more years than I can count on both hands and added Kombucha to my list of supplements for myself and others.
Anyway, I said I would keep it short in telling my journey. I like getting right to the point sometimes. I was making so many batches with these small vessels each week and bottling my KT. It became overwhelming, so I had this idea of getting a bigger vessel/fermenter..Duh. I jumped right in to brewing a 5 gallon batch with some 1/2 gallon mason jars for experimental flavors or backup starter. The one 5 gallon vessel soon went to four 5 gallon fermenters within a month and into kegs. Can you tell this hobby became a passion?
Then comes the finale with my journey so far.. My husband who started as a homebrewer of beer 6 years ago became head brewer at a well known brewery in our area 3 years ago. So guess what? I was given the opportunity to put my KT on tap at the brewery. My first 5 gallon keg went away in 4 hours. We just put a second keg on and it's a hit. These first two batches are a blueberry pomegranate and my next one ready to keg is a pineapple coconut. I'm so excited.. who knew that my husband and I, who found a hobby not that long ago, would or could turn that hobby into a passion of brewing a wonderful, live, healthy beverage, and are sharing our passion with others to enjoy.
I hope you enjoyed reading this trip of mine.. I will be happy to share my processes, experiments, methods, etc.. for anyone interested. Since I'm a newbie here, I'll be on the forum more often to share, and to learn more from all of you. The learning never ends..I've gone from wingin it to still wingin it with experience and learning.
Thanx
CD
I'm new to this forum and wanted to share my Kombucha journey. I'll try to keep it short. I first started home brewing beer with my husband almost 6 years ago and learned the art of fermentation. I stumbled upon Kombucha after hearing of all the benefits of drinking this "wonder drink". I was hooked on KT from the moment we met. I'm a big fan of Natural news and read an article on making home made Kombucha. My journey began 3 years ago with a bottle of GT's raw original. I started with a 1/4 gallon mason jar and then multiplied to more jars as soon as I could. With several 1/4 gallon batches going and scoby's galore, I started brewing larger batches in 1/2 gal mason jars. While brewing every week, I was doing second ferments, experimenting with different fruits and juices and they turned out great. Nice and fizzy the way I like. I was just wingin it and making a great product. I've been a health nut and personal trainer/nutritional consultant for more years than I can count on both hands and added Kombucha to my list of supplements for myself and others.
Anyway, I said I would keep it short in telling my journey. I like getting right to the point sometimes. I was making so many batches with these small vessels each week and bottling my KT. It became overwhelming, so I had this idea of getting a bigger vessel/fermenter..Duh. I jumped right in to brewing a 5 gallon batch with some 1/2 gallon mason jars for experimental flavors or backup starter. The one 5 gallon vessel soon went to four 5 gallon fermenters within a month and into kegs. Can you tell this hobby became a passion?
Then comes the finale with my journey so far.. My husband who started as a homebrewer of beer 6 years ago became head brewer at a well known brewery in our area 3 years ago. So guess what? I was given the opportunity to put my KT on tap at the brewery. My first 5 gallon keg went away in 4 hours. We just put a second keg on and it's a hit. These first two batches are a blueberry pomegranate and my next one ready to keg is a pineapple coconut. I'm so excited.. who knew that my husband and I, who found a hobby not that long ago, would or could turn that hobby into a passion of brewing a wonderful, live, healthy beverage, and are sharing our passion with others to enjoy.
I hope you enjoyed reading this trip of mine.. I will be happy to share my processes, experiments, methods, etc.. for anyone interested. Since I'm a newbie here, I'll be on the forum more often to share, and to learn more from all of you. The learning never ends..I've gone from wingin it to still wingin it with experience and learning.
Thanx
CD