House Made Kombucha!
Posted by Jay on Tuesday, 22 July 2008
The LBC is in effect — the Linkery Brewing Company, that is. Our first batch is something that is a real favorite of ours, kombucha. This is a nonalcoholic fermented black tea, that has a lot of the character of a sour beer, including a little carbonation. Steph and Michael made it from black tea from Calabria, so it’s definitely a North Park local.
Kombucha is neither sweet nor particularly caloric, because the sugar gets fermented out of it, and the resultant alcohol *also* gets converted into other (sour, acidic) compounds by the active culture. But because the drink has good acid, lots of complexity and a little bit of carbonation, it makes a great pairing with food in the same way that a sour beer would.
July 23rd, 2008 at 10:03 am
Awesome. I’m coming in for lunch.
July 23rd, 2008 at 10:07 am
Jed, I’d love to see you, but unless you eat lunch at 5:30pm, I fear you’ll be disappointed. We’re 5:30 - 11:30 only at this point.
August 3rd, 2008 at 7:26 pm
nice.
any chance of getting a baby?!