Gifting Homemade Kombucha

[@eleanoraddy4683]

Ooh this is good timing, about to have a go at bottling today! Shame I can't get your book here in the UK though....nudge nudge😉

[@enigma591]

I like the Pitaya frozen passionfruit from Whole Foods. They are in small, consistently-sized cubes making it easier to measure from batch-to-batch.

[@agnesestes3567]

Passion fruit is my favorite flavor. I use yellow & purple ones that I grow in my backyard

[@lindevanandel8907]

Quick tip... print your labels on normal printing paper, cut them to size and stick to botles and jars with a paintbrush and a little bit of plain milk. Later, you can remove them in a few seconds under the tap.

[@potterma63]

I love that you just "wing it" on sugar and acidity. I'm an engineer, so I always measure sugar with a Brix refractometer and pH with low range pH strips. Great channel! Oh, the Stomp stickers: how easy are they to remove?

[@rileydickman9354]

Thank you so much for this idea, I’m going to make a batch for my best friends birthday. Also, you’ve taught me everything I could need to know about kombucha, and I’m so grateful for your channel!

[@saintnizinsky4785]

How to really really strain fruit puree so it will not looks nasty for the gift?

[@fabioconsonni3232]

Good idea for a gift. Thank you

[@maneaterbugman]

Thanks buch mom! Another great video

[@everythingallin4905]

If you sold your own tea blends or brew boosters I would buy them to support the channel.

[@sydneybarnes4925]

Yay new video!!

[@sacredholisticenergy]

Thank you!! 😅❤

[@kckat96]

Question: How much Kombucha should a person drink in one day? I've heard a juice glass full to only 2 table spoons. I see you make up bottles so I wondered if you drink 1 bottle at a setting or just pour out some to drink.

[@messyhomestead7320]

There's not really an answer to this any more than "how much should one person eat" any given thing in a day. Completely depends on nutritional history, ability to absorb nutrients, etc. For caffeine-sensitive people, often only occasionally is okay; for people moving from standard processed diet to a cleaner one, the gut is often wiped out since conventional -icides kill tiny critters so the gut flora are gone...at that point, some people experience a lot of gastric distress when beginning probiotics since there is a lot of populating of the gut to do. That will often show up as diarrhea. If the body is processing the kombucha well and there is no caffeine sensitivity, 1-4c./day seems to be a good amount in general that I've seen for folks. Anywhere over 2c./day would be for really growing that gut health - more of a purposeful dose, if you will. Less than 2c. would be a maintenance amount unless someone is just starting it - the 2T. you mentioned is cautiously recommended for some who are starting it. That said, I gave a guy 2 full store kombuchas over the summer one day when he had been homeless and walking for days and hadn't had much to eat, and he had zero trouble with it. That's just one person, obviously, but it's just to say that not everyone on a haphazard diet will have trouble absorbing it. He didn't know what it was but he loved every bit of it. For folks who are caffeine-sensitive, trying water kefir is a great option. Every fermented item has a different makeup but at this point in our food supply chain, we are mostly just trying to get and maintain a safe and diverse flora/fauna population in the gut, which can be done easily with homemaking water kefir without the stimulant effect (although ironically, in my own body, water kefir activates my brain really great but without that stimulant buzz). Hope that helps!

[@normalizedaudio2481]

I wonder if they give the bottles back? Should we include a note? I wish there was some kind of Kombucha Etiquette I hope they return my bottles. I'm so selfish! OK, I just buy some new bottles.

[@eleanoraddy4683]

There is a commercial kombucha delivery service in Norwich where I live and it runs like a beer or milk service: you give the bottles back at your next delivery. If commercial brewers can ask for them back so can you!👍🍎

[@messyhomestead7320]

If you're giving a gift, you either give the whole gift or you'd need to communicate at the time of gifting that the gift is the contents rather than the bottle. That way, if it will be a difficulty for the person to return the bottle, they know not to accept the contents. Otherwise you are adding labor to the giftee which is the opposite of what the gift is, so you want to be upfront about the expectation so they can decide whether to participate or not.

[@erikadorogi1820]

I wonder if I could freeze Kombucha in ice cubes and use them later instead of ice? Has anyone tried it?

[@messyhomestead7320]

You can do this but bear in mind the carbonation will not be there and that the probiotic factor will have died. The probiotics you are creating in a kombucha making process exist at live bacteria-friendly temps - they grow and flourish at 70-85 and would lose a lot of strength or vitality even at the upper and lower limits of the growth temps (40-140). Once they are frozen they are dead.

[@cachi-7878]

I’d like to taste your kombucha… Any way you could send a bottle or two? I’ll pay for the shipping, obviously.