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Kombucha: The Acquired Taste for Funky-Tasting Fermented Tea

It's hard to compare the taste of kombucha (comb-boo-cha), the fermented tea drink, to anything else. Vinegary, fizzy, cider-y, or just plain nasty if you haven't given it a chance yet. Then again, some people (particularly those who drank vinegar as a kid) like it from sip one. The leaders of the market are GT's Kombucha, but brands like Honest Tea are appearing on shelves, and some "kombuchaseurs" are brewing their own at home.

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42 Comments | Posted by Erin Zimmer, March 4, 2010 at 1:30 PM
Tagged: drinks, fermentation, GT's Kombucha, healthy, Honest Tea, kombucha, tea

Kombucha: A New Artisan of an Age Old Craft

A typical way to describe kombucha is to say it’s fermented mushroom tea. So when faced with a choice of a well made cappuccino or fermented mushroom tea, that voice inside your head may scream, "double cap extra foam." But Uzbekistan-born Lev Kilun will let you sample his house made kombucha on-tap while you wait for your organic espresso drink at Café Lyon in the Rockridge district of Oakland, California. Before your double cap is done brewing, you might wish you ordered the kombucha instead....

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4 Comments | Posted by Leslie Pave, March 31, 2008 at 3:15 PM
Tagged: beverages, Cafe Lyon, California, kombucha, Oakland