i love fermenting and kombucha especially!
go to yr local wine making store to get the proper fermenting bottles with flip tops, it should help with explosions. Burping your bottles in the second ferment should also help, but I don’t do this cause I find you loose a lot of carbonation. Stick it in the fridge for 2 days or so before opening to calm down the carbonation and you should be good.
Excellent flavour combinations include melon mint, strawberry mint, pinapple and hops! Play around with the tea you ferment with: elderflower tea makes a beautiful lychee-esque flavour. I want to try coffee kombucha next >:)
Mar 13, 2025
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also full disclosure this is mead not kombucha in this pic, you might not get this clarity on your kombuchas hehe
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it's so fun and tasty. don't be afraid about the bottles breaking--as long as you get the flip top kind that are meant for brewing you'll be fine. I've had a few instances when i opened the bottle and kombucha exploded everywhere which is shocking and a mess to clean up but also hilarious. the way to avoid this is to refrigerate the bottles before opening (carbonation is less intense at lower temps ig)
my fav go-to flavor is lemon and ginger... nothing really beats that for me.. but its fun to switch it up by adding pomegranate or blueberry or whatever. the last batch i put in a bunch of kumquats i took from my neighbors tree and tbh it was not very good. wayy too tart. you'll figure it out
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pretty easy to do, much cheaper and you can choose your own flavours
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@mothersuperior post on latex and the yearndemic reminded me of this essay that I read a few years ago about the commodification and fetishization of the body and how it’s been paralleled with a lack of chemistry and sexuality that we used to see on screen. The title is your tldr: everyone is hot and no one is horny. The sterilization of sexuality and sex is everywhere, past even film. It’s a response to the acceleration of capitalism, war and colonial extraction of the earth. It has crept into the ways we view ourselves, our experience and our bodies.
One thing I took away from this essay is that to align yourself with traditional beauty standards will make you too tired to fuck. Similarly, the whole « working on yourself » grind that I heard on first dates all the time is this strange, individualistic perspective that makes you too exhausted and distracted for the holistic chemistry we desire. We flatten our lives to marketable lines that make us appear attractive - I’m working on myself, I’ve been going to therapy, I have a nice job and apartment. And while people are obviously horny, they don’t know for what - forming our bodies to be better, our minds fixed and correct, we can’t pinpoint what the purpose is cause we’re too fucking exhausted to investigate further than that. Love, desire, and chemistry feel more and more elusive.
For us to morph ourselves into the image of sexiness according to western beauty standards, there is sacrifice (nutrients, your current corporeal form, the ability to be perceived as more than an object, working long hours for your grind) that doesn’t align with sensuality (unless you’re into that). There is no room for the spectrum of sensations you body is capable of feeling. There is no room for desire when we’ve given it all up the capitalist war machine. :p
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