Commercial kombucha vs homebrew 0 – 1

I just bought one of the commercially available kombucha’s, out of curiosity as I wanted to compare tastes.. I was totally surprised by the utter lack of it: something sugar-waterish with some light berry compound.. Is this the best that they can do? Common!...

Fire Cider – Try

Thought I’d share this one with you.. I didn’t get my hands on elderberries this season, so I decided to giveĀ  fire cider a try. It has all lovely spicy (and firy) ingredients in there, so it has to be good to support the body’s system in the fight...

Workshop Weil-Am-Rhein on September 25/26

A new beginner workshop coming up in Weil-am-Rhein on September 25/26th! Be sure to register! Both English and German speaking participants are welcome! Participants will get ginger, water kefir, milk kefir and kombucha cultures. Sourdough can also be taken along for...

The Cranberries (and your gut flora)

A report published in “Applied and Environmental Microbiology” discussess the ability to metabolize complex sugar molecules from cranberries by Bifidobacterium longum. Bifidobacterium longum supspecies longum, which is one of the good guys in our gut flora...