Hi friends!

Thank you all so much for the very sweet and encouraging comments regarding both my attendance at Bauman College and for FitFeat turning one!  I loved reading the messages and they brought serious smiles to my face!

As I sit here typing the draft for this post on Sunday evening, the Broncos/Steelers pre-season game is on our TV in the background.  Can it really be time for football again? Football season to me means pots of hearty veggie chili and curling up with my blanket to watch a game while the leaves are falling outside, or maybe a few snowflakes.  But I’m not ready for that time of year!  I just can’t wrap my brain around the fact that fall is right around the corner.

Fortunately summer is still holding on – it is currently 82 degrees and gorgeous out, at 7:00 in the evening.  That’s the kind of football weather I can deal with!  We’ve really been blessed with a beautiful summer in Colorado this year.  Nice and HOT and plenty of sunshine!

Speaking of sunshine, doesn’t this bottle invoke thoughts of summer?

MSP found a new brand of kombucha tea for me to try, called Vibranz.  (And when we went back to get more, it was already out of stock!  People are crazy for BOOCH!)

Since I only had one bottle, I knew I had to take the opportunity to try my hand once more at making some from scratch.  I have high hopes that this bottle has enough culture in it to get something started.

Before I used it all for my homebrew, I did take a few sips of the Vibranz tea.  And I have to say, I LOVED IT!  I am so happy to know that there is a brand that I can turn to that tastes very similar to the BUBBLY I’ve grown to love.

It was hard not to want to finish the whole bottle, I’ve been so starved for kombucha.  But just in case I have a hard time finding it on the shelves around here, I got busy on the BACKUP PLAN!

Rumor has it that when one is starting their BOOCH BATCH from a previous brew and without a starter culture, it will take about a month before it’s ready.  I have a note on my calendar to check it out mid-September (as it is currently stored down in the dark recesses of our basement!)

I peeked in on it today and it’s GROWING!!  It looks like there is a culture layer on the top!  YES!  But I must confess, it might be one thing to pour a pretty glass of kombucha from a bottle you bought at the store and quite another to pour something that looks like this:

I might have to plug my nose and close my eyes for the first few sips!

What do you think?  Would you drink it?

Have a GREAT week blog buds!  See you next time!

– Shari B. =)

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