HAPPY KOMBUCHA BLOG

When fermenting it is important to ensure that your jars are nice and clean in order to avoid contamination, it is not vital that they are sterilised they simply need to be clean but as we get a lot of enquiries on how to sterilise we decided to do a blog on it.  Please be very careful when doing this as the jars will be HOT! The first process of sterilisation, regardless of which method you choose, is to check the jars or bottles thoroughly for damage such as cracks, breaks, and chips. If you find any of your jars or...

Not All Butter is Created Equal: Store Bought vs. Homemade With all of the health benefits of butter, why not run to the supermarket and gather up a box of wholesome sticks of the stuff right now? Not so fast. Unlike the real, raw, organic, deep yellow, grass-fed butter enjoyed traditionally, most commercial butter is mass-produced from pasteurized and homogenized milk. While still beneficial, such products are made from cow’s milk that has been harshly heated and pressure processed, depleting many of the wonderful enzymes and fracturing fragile nutrients. What’s more, these unstable products are often filled with rancid fats and...

  Here at happy kombucha we tend for our Cultures by hand, grown by our culture care team who have been working with cultures and cultured food for many years. There is no scoby or Kefir machine just willing hands and lots of Love. We sing to them, we talk to them and we treat them as one of the Happykombucha family so you know that when you buy our cultures you are buying a small sachet of love not just pro-biotics. BUY MILK KEFIR GRAINS We use only Organic ingredients with all our cultures and we offer a full...

  Every time you brew  kombucha you will get another SCOBY. In the begining this is great news but before long you will have more scobies than you actually need to brew with So what to do with them?  I sometimes just put them in my garden. The plants love the B vitamins in the kombucha SCOBYs and they seem to nurture the soil and keep the bugs away (although do be careful with PH sensitive plants as the scobies can be quite acidic). There are a gazillion SCOBYs in the ground from the winter.  You can add them to...

  warm weather (we can dream anyway!) can mean extra sweating and extra smelling for some of us! In winter i like to use my homemade deodorant made up of coconut oil, kaolin clay, and essential oils, which works swimmingly. however, in the warmer weather i have coconut oil too greasy than usual when used as deodorant and the deodorant less effective. I have tried adding Shea Butter and other things but nothing made it better sooooo..... here’s a very easy DIY spray deodorant that’s anti-inflammatory (if you shave your underarms), anti-bacterial, and anti-stink.   Here's What you need: Himalayan...