Who Else Wants a Taste?

Monday, February 11th, 2008 @ 12:26PM

It tastes so bad it must be good for you.

I’ve started drinking this stuff and I think it must be good for me.  It’s kombucha and it’s some kind of fungus, I think.  A few years ago someone I worked with (I think it was you KY if you are still in touch with our website and reading this blog) gave me a “start” of this weird mushroom, fungus thing.  She said to take it home and let it grow in the dark and then brew it up into a daily tea.  She claimed I’d lose weight and become healthier and have more sex than I knew what to do with and make a million dollars and get better looking and.....more, if only I’d drink the tea. 

Well, I took the thing home, put it in the basement and forgot about it.  It grew and grew.  It climbed out of the pan and started to spread up the walls before we found, and killed it.  That was the last time I had any experience with kombucha until this past week-end.

Some friends from Seattle are in town and fetched out a bottle of this pre-made kombuch stuff you see in the picture above.  They drink it all the time and love it.  I’m not sure whether they love the taste or the benefits but the love it.  I tried it and it tastes pretty vile to me but not so bad that I can’t drink it.  I think of it as a medicine.  Little Bill, my boy, claims he likes the flavor.  He wants more.  Well, I’m going to drink it for a while but I know many of you have already had experience with kombucha and can further my learning curve. 

Let me just say, I probably don’t want to grow my own at home, so other than that, what advice do you all have for me?

Let’s make contact about kombucha.

Thanks for listening
Bill