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Humans, kombuchas, countrymen … lend me your ears!

It turns out that kombuchas get distracted sometimes and forget to blog … in my own defense though I tried to keeping an agenda but it just got soaked in in my jar.  What a mess.

So, good news!  I finally discovered that I am, in fact, a girl komucha and have sent at least 30 or 40 children out into the world to different friends.  It is never easy watch dozens of your children leave the jar, but if I know humans the way I think I know them, then I am sure all my little buchas will be ok.

Brewing and tapping in my house has become a regular thing, with dozens of successful recipes being created, along with a few pretty terrible creations that went straight down the drain.  More kombucha for the sewer folk I guess.  There’s people down there too right?

My family wanted me to tell you all about the way we do things in our house because it seems to work really well, and to be honest, I have to give them credit because they make me look good when they serve up what I have been making.

Here’s how we do things in my house – Klooé Style!

1. Make a new batch of kombucha in a 4 litre jar, using 1 and a half cups of cane sugar syrup
2. Let your kombucha brew for 5 days, not more, not less
3. Strain your batch, and in a 250ml bottle, put in 2 ounces of fresh juice and fill to the top with kombucha tea
4. Place bottles in a dark space and after two days give the tops a twist to release pressure
5. For the next 2 to 3 days release pressure until things get really fizzy
6. Put bottled kombucha in the fridge and enjoy when you like

It took my family a little while to work the kinks out, but it is down to a science now.  The key to remember is that acidic fruits take a bit longer to get fizzy, while sugary juices take a bit less longer.  You don’t want to see what happens if you forget to open the lids every day – trust me.

Right now, we have a ginger lemonade brewing that has quite frankly knocked the socks off of everyone.  In the next few days, I will be unveiling a recipe using the lemonade that will change the world as you know it.  But until then, here’s a little something to keep you occupied that I think you might like.

Yeah, I know, for a kombucha I’m pretty confident huh?

Day 12 and 13 – Klooé Is Bubbly and Awesome!

Thanks to an amazing tip, my family is soooooo happy with my second tapping.  They took my bathwater and put it into drinking bottles that had some maple syrup in the bottom … after two more days sitting under the sink, those bottles are SUPER FIZZY!

This is where my family keeps all my bottled bathwater ... can you see me poking around in the back there?

A couple more days, and they can go in the frigde to be enjoyed … hopefully they will be a lot better than my first tap which was pretty sour … but what do I care?  Every 7 to 20 days I get a brand new scented bath to sit in, and some one on one time with my family.

I promise you all, that some day very soon, I will be just as bubbly as this … maybe even more!

 

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Day 12 – Klooé the Scientist – Kombucha and Almond Milk

So my human family decided to try out a few different recipes they heard about on the internet, and boy have they been surprised with how some of these things turn out.

First of all, the soy milk and kombucha mixture turned out to be very very good.  My family is already talking about a complete experiment with different flavors and fruits and stuff.  My bathwater REALLY has them excited.  Then they got the idea to try the same thing with almond milk, and well, you be the judge of how that seems to be turning out.

Who would have thought that by adding a few tablespoons of my kombucha water to almond milk that this would happen within 2 hours! 12 more hours and we will shake it up to see how it looks.

So far right now, it looks like this experiment might not be the most yummy, but you never know, it could end up being as popular as this:

People still drink that right?  I found it online and the bottle looked cool.

And I know I promised a before and after picture today, but, I was so busy mixing up experiments I forgot.  I’m only 12 days old and don’t have opposable thumbs.  Give me a brak huh.

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Day 11 – Klooé Has A Twitter-Tastic Day

So, I am not too sure what I did, but suddenly my Twiiter followers jumped up by about 40 people today! I was growing Twitter friends almost as fast as I was growing in my jar.

Tomorrow I am going to have a really great before and after photo for you all to show you how far I have come in the last 11 days. Even I do not recognize myself!

So in appreciation for all my new human friends, I would like to give you all a little video that I found that will make you smile I hope.

Can anyone tell me where I can get a pet dolphin? I can share my jar with one I am sure!

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Day 10 – Klooégurt!

Ok, so now my family has gone way over the edge and are doing something that I never thought possible.  It turns out that not only do humans enjoy drinking my bath water, they also enjoy taking that bath water and mixing it in with something called soy milk, to make yogurt?

If you take a look, I snuck a picture of what they did today when they went out shopping for a recycling bin … seriously, what is up with you humans anyways?

"Soy Yogurt" - Soy Milk, a few tablespoons of kombucha, and 14 hours at room temperature ... and there you have it ... a fizzing soy yogurt drink.

Check in tomorrow … I will have an update about Aisha and Ero for you … they have been kinda stubborn, but they are getting there.

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Day 9 – Klooé Wants More Fizz!

So, last night my family bottled a lot of my “beverage” – that’s what they are calling it now – and they were a little disappointed that it wasn’t as fizzy as the stuff that they find in the store.  They told me that of course, it wasn’t my fault, because what is a 9 day old kombucha supposed to know about that, but they asked me if I would ask all of you that question.

How can my family make sure that I am getting them reeeeeeally fizzy stuff to drink, with less of the vinegar taste?

For taking the time to read this and leaving a comment I offer you all this gift of funny things people put on the Internet.

I still say you humans are all weird.

Day 8 – Klooé Kombucha Gets Tapped!

After 8 days of hanging out, and relaxing and taking a niiiiiice long vacation in my new home, my family finally decided it was time to let out the bath water, and put it into bottles.

Now, I know I am only 8 days old, but is it just me or is there something really strange about people wanting to put my bath water in bottles, and drink it?  It must taste reeeeeally good for them to do that.

Take a look at how much they got from me!  And if you can guess where the bottles came from, then you have a very good eye for detail!  My family turned the bottles to the backs cuz they don’t want to pick favorites … all Kombucha bath water is good they say.

My family has enjoyed so much Kombucha before me that they had quite the collection saved up to bottle my bath water in. That's not even half of the bottles they saved!

Once they poured enough into the bottles, they saved a nice amount to keep my warm and to put into my next bath.  It smells a lot like lemons and something called ginger.  Whatever THAT is.

Silly humans.

Day 7 – Klooé And Friends!

Last night, after a long evening of playing a card game that Ingmar calls “Hoopa!” I had no problems getting to sleep, but when I woke up in the morning, boy did I ever have a surprise!

My family gave me a one week birthday present and adopted two more Kombuchas for me to play with. They are named Aisha and Ero and boy have we had a fun time getting to know each other today. They both have smaller jars than me because my family says they are making new flavors in there and want to make sure they taste good before moving them into a big jar.

After an afternoon nap, my family thought it would be cute for us all to play Lawrence of Arabia together and we took a picture for you all to see.

I think we look pretty cool in our little hats and my new awesome shades ... what do you think?

There is going to be a lot more fun now that I have some friends to play with … because, I know it isn’t nice to say bad things about people, but Ingmar can be pretty weird sometimes.

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Day 6 – Kombucha Kids! Scary!

I snuck back on to the internet today to see what other Kombucha stuff I could look at, and I founf something that made this 6 day old Kombucha veeeeeeeeeeeery nervous.  It seems that before people get big, they start out little like me, and some of those little people get up to doing some very very very scary things … if you are a kombucha that is.

I don’t know about you, but in my house there are no children at all in my family, just my two parents and me, which for now I think I am very happy to keep that way.  Except for Ingmar, he can stay of course!

Day 5 – Klooé Gets Grossed Out

My family left the computer on today, so I decided to go and try out the Internet thing again.  I typed in the word Kombucha, and I got to this place called Wikipedia to learn more about Kombuchas, and that is when I learned about something I never knew in my whole 5 days of living.

Mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooold!

I sure hope this never happens to me! Gross!

My family never told me, because I guess they do not want me to worry, but some very unlucky Kombuchas sometimes get mold on them, and have to go away … I am not sure where they go, but I don’t think it is a good place.

I hope there are some of you out there who can give my family some tips about how to make sure this doesn’t happen to me.  Yuck, mold, gross.