{"id":135,"date":"2019-04-06T11:28:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T02:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/203.170.86.202\/wildeden.com.au\/news\/redeeming-kombucha-vinegar\/"},"modified":"2020-02-05T07:54:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T22:54:53","slug":"redeeming-kombucha-vinegar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/organic-gardening-for-self-sufficency\/consuming-cooking\/2019\/redeeming-kombucha-vinegar\/","title":{"rendered":"Redeeming Kombucha vinegar and more!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having lots of gut issues over the years, I had often thought about doing Kombucha.<\/p>\n

Finally, I gathered the needed equipment and got the needed Scoby & teas\u2026but adding something else to an already full life wasnt off to a great start!<\/p>\n

Doing the first brew was easy, though my wifes birthday was approaching and we were working over time to try to get the house to a point where it was ready for the 100+ people who were meant to be coming.<\/p>\n

By the time of the her birthday, the Kombucha had been sitting for 6-8 weeks and had saturated the whole laundry with the smell of vinegar.<\/p>\n

yes Kombucha vinegar can be redeemed and YES! Jesus can redeem!
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What a waste! At that party. friend bought us some Kombucha they had made \u2013 delicious! It is worth trying again!<\/p>\n

It was quite some time before we would try again \u2013 and thankfully before that, we wanted to do some Jalape\u00f1os . The vinegar choice makes a fair difference, and I wondered if the Kombucha vinegar could actually be used for anything other than cleaning\u2026<\/p>\n

No harm in trying\u2026 Well the Jalape\u00f1os tasted amazing! Can read about that here<\/a>. One friend who reported how much he hates them tried 3 different batches and loved them all \u2013 specificaly due to the flavour of the Kombucha.<\/p>\n

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We then used some of the Kombucha vinegar as the starter in a new batch. The \u2018waste\u2019 vinegar had been truly redeemed! And with life slightly less hectic we actually had time to bottle\u2026<\/p>\n

As the time approached I was tasting the brew each day \u2013 and continually reminded of how much Jesus had changed me. You see there was a time in my life I was so desperate for alcohol I would drink half fermented (and at times off) beer straight out of the fermenter. Yeast & all. It was disgusting. Worse than Kombucha vinegar.<\/p>\n

But my desire to be drunk overcame the taste and possible health ramifications. This Kombucha liquid tasted similar and keeps reminding me of that horrible time. Ironically, I used to use Grolsch bottles then too!\"\"I gave the kids a bottle each to try their own recipes \u2013 this time we used ginger, lemon juice and chilli in varying quantities\u2026<\/p>\n

We left for a few more days out of the fridge and then cooled to be enjoyed at various times.<\/p>\n

Amazing for a first batch!<\/p>\n

We have now seperated the scoby into<\/p>\n

3 parts and started the next 3 brews to adjust the base brew recipe and will try again.<\/p>\n


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As with most things we try, I started a spreadsheet to adjust the quantities and take notes. Small changes can make a big difference to the flavour and quality.<\/p>\n

When an alcoholic, I used to have beer on tap in my front room. I brewed in large (up to 400L) batches mainly for alcohol content (12% and up) through did steadily make progress in the flavour. Some of the lessons learned will now be used for a liquid that helps the body not hinders it\u2026<\/p>\n

For now:<\/p>\n

yes Kombucha vinegar can be redeemed and YES! Jesus can redeem!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having lots of gut issues over the years, I had often thought about doing Kombucha. Finally, I gathered the needed equipment and got the needed Scoby & teas\u2026but adding something else to an already full life wasnt off to a great start! Doing the first brew was easy, though my wifes birthday was approaching and we were working over time to try to get the house to a point where it was ready for the 100+ people who were meant to be coming. By the time of the her birthday, the Kombucha had been sitting for 6-8 weeks and had …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[116],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-consuming-cooking","tag-chilli"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/screenshot_1049.jpg?fit=479%2C273&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pasDCW-2b","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}