Drinks are just like the food they accompany, and they are definitely not exempt from tips and tricks and problems to be solved! Whether you’re a kombucha fan and want to know how to grow your own SCOBY without the kombucha or you’re not quite a tea connoisseur and have lots of tea bags you don’t like/know what to do with, those answers and many others are right here!
The green tea latte is an inexpensive and healthy drink that has become very popular over the past few years, primarily because of the “healthy” connotations attached to it. Many coffeehouses, local cafes, and other establishments have begun offering their own variant of the green tea latte, and several of these do not even use…
SCOBY is an acronym for Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast. The SCOBYs in kombucha are in a gelatinous form that tends to float on the liquid. SCOBYs produce a unique fermentation process because they contain lactic acid bacteria, acetic acid bacteria, and yeast. When this combination of bacteria and yeast combines, cellulose is formed….
As a tea drinker, you probably know that there are two main ways to brew tea. The first is using traditional tea bags, which can contain “tea dust.” Tea dust is actually broken-down tea leaves that get trapped at the bottom of the tea bag. The second way to brew tea is by using loose-leaf…
If you have loose tea, there are so many different ways that you could steep it. Using a coffee filter is an easy way to substitute a tea bag but if you don’t drink coffee, you probably don’t have any coffee filters on hand. Here are a few easy ways that you can strain tea…
From China, Japan, and India to France, England, America and beyond, few beverages can boast a longer history of enriching brews than tea. Whether you love loose leaf Oolong, imbibe a bit of English Breakfast in the morning, enjoy Darjeeling or Earl Grey or any number of scintillating brews, tea is one of the great…
Out of all the different kinds of health drinks that people are interested in, there is nothing that outshines kombucha. Kombucha is praised for being unique, healthy, different, and somewhat of an anomaly. After all, it is fermented tea, and that is not something that you see every day. When you are first getting into…
Kombucha is a fermented tea drink. Drinkers of kombucha enjoy the benefits of antioxidants, probiotics, and B vitamins. Lactic acid probiotics form during the fermentation process and are the most common form of probiotics in fermented dairy products such as yogurt and kefir. Probiotics improve digestion and balance the population of bacteria in your gut….
Whether it be because of an unwanted flavor or an expired label, unused tea bags may be taking up a ton of space in your kitchen or pantry since you might not have any idea what to do with them. Luckily, there are plenty of ways to reuse tea bags. Because of tea’s health properties,…
Matcha green tea is a finely ground powder made from specially grown and ground green tea leaves that originate in Japan. Matcha green tea is specifically made from the younger tea leaves from the green tea plant that is grown on green tea bushes that are kept under partial shade. The shade works to increase…
Whether or not you strain your kombucha is up to you! The pulpy bits floating amidst your kombucha are completely safe and do not taste particularly different from the drink they reside in. Still, many people dislike their gooey texture and even more find strained kombucha to be aesthetically pleasing with the floating globs. Once…