fermented drinks
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The Difference Between a Lager and an Ale (Because You’re Probably Getting It Wrong)
I’ll never forget one of the first tables I served as an antsy new waitress, when a woman asked her husband, “What does ‘IPA’ even stand for?” The man replied, “It means it was made in America.” While his response was certainly patriotic, it was also objectively false.
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Manifest Your Best Life (and Ultimate Revenge) With Champagne
I don’t think I really know what the term “Champagne Year” means. I faintly recall someone telling me sometime, but the definition felt unremarkable and unfitting for such a forceful duo of words — CHAMPAGNE YEAR — so my brain must have immediately rejected it. When I think “Champagne Year,” I think of a train…
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How to Brew Your First Batch of Kombucha
If you’re reading this, you probably already know what kombucha is, but you might not know what kombucha is, if you know what I mean. Maybe you were feeling experimental when you first grabbed a bottle of GT’s Trilogy, and perhaps you were intrigued by the curiously tart and fizzy experience it afforded you, but…