Hannah Crum shares kombucha flavor recipes and how to use herbs medicinally in the brew. She pairs chocolate with black pepper and turmeric, explains how small amounts of many herbs create complex flavors, and warns that herbology knowledge matters to avoid overconsumption or wrong herbs.
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My favorite was a chocolate black pepper turmeric and that the bio pairings in black pepper actually activate the anti inflammatory compounds of turmeric and you throw a little bit of like a, like a raw cacao extract into the mix. It was an amazing.
When I use a powdered cacao is great. And you know, like we've got a cacao maca in the book, Cacao pounds, all that. So you're, you're hitting the nail on the head in terms of kombucha. You can put all of these great healthy, adaptogenic, all kinds of herbs and stuff in there and yield amazing flavors. There's some really, if you look at the dosha ones, I found some recipes that help support certain doshas and I put all these herbs together and you would think like, oh my gosh, I'm putting all these small amounts of 10 different herbs in here. The flavors are so complex, they're so multidimensional and I like throwing a bunch of different things in there. Most of these recipes just have a couple ingredients, keep it simple, but they're really inspirations. They're intended to just give you an idea and then you're supposed to expand on that concept based on what intrigues you or what are you trying to work with. You know, I think that again, tip of the iceberg. There's a huge medicinal benefit to some of the kombuchas we can make if we understand herbology. Now herbs, of course, have their own language and their own knowledge systems required. So you, you definitely want to be making sure you're not over consuming or consuming the wrong type of herbs. But yeah, but if you have that knowledge, it can definitely be paired to a huge benefit.
Now you also, in the book you talk about ways that you can use kombucha that go beyond just drinking it. I'd never actually thought of this, but can you give a couple of those uses, a couple of your favorite uses for kombucha that involve more than just drinking it?
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