Kombucha The Happy Healthy Drink
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As I write this I am just popping the bottle on a brand new bottle of Home Brew Booch! This effervescent drink is not only incredibly delicious and easy to home brew, but it's also a terrific beverage with a variety of health benefits!
A Drink For Your Health!
This fizzy and fermented beverage has been around for a long time and for very good reason! Through the process of fermentation the Scoby (or Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria) eats away at the sugar and caffeine and ferments the liquid which turns it into a very important Gut Friend! Remember traditional Kombucha has no added fermentation and instead this is all natural from healthy fermentation!!
Fermented foods are superior when it comes to gut health as they encourage our digestion in so many very important ways. Through promoting healthy bacteria in our gut, Fermentation allows us to digest better, absorb nutrients better and to fill our gut with healthy probiotics. All of these processes also encourage our immune system and support it’s ability to produce immunoglobulins which in turn keep us healthy and strong!
Keeping Your Wallet Happy
I originally began brewing Kombucha when my partner and I started to realize how much money we were spending on our healthy (but expensive) habit. I did some research and realized that brewing my own Home Brew would cost less than 10$ a month and would give me pretty much endless amounts of this liquid gold. And even better, I could also decide what flavours I wanted to have and how sweet I wanted it to be. I prefer a less sweet and a bit more acidic version and so I now get to cater the taste to exactly how we like it!
A Very Excellent Alternative
I haven’t really ever been much of a drinker, whether it’s the interruption of sleep, the cost or honestly the empty calories, it’s never appealed much to me beyond that lovely glass of wine or pint. But I realize that nowadays drinking is primarily a social habit, we go out with friends for drinks, we finish a hike with a cold beer and we meet up at the beach for something cold and wet on a hot summers night.
The thing I found with this is, I don’t always need the alcohol but instead just something fizzy and delicious which isn’t packed with sugar and doesn’t leave you with a night of interrupted sleep. This is where Kombucha has won over my heart. I love bringing a bottle to parties, on a camping trip or as a happy hour bevvy! At our place we love to mix our Booch with a bit of beer to give it a cocktail like flavour- and this means you can reduce the alcohol and still enjoy a bubbly beverage!
I strongly encourage trying your own Kombucha Home Brew to begin discovering the beautiful benefits of this traditional drink and to feel the real benefits it provides!