The Kombucha Slushie Is a Summer Drink for Everyone

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Kombucha isn’t something new (as in, there’s proof the fermented tea drink has been passing human lips since around 220 BCE) however it seems you possibly can educate an outdated drink new tips. The newest innovation popping up at kombucha bars and taprooms throughout the nation is the kombucha slushie. Very like the frosé wave of 2017, booch tenders are placing their product into slushie machines, including components which will embody juice, wine, or spirits, and shelling out an icy, sometimes-boozy (although not essentially) deal with good for decent summer time days.

Need to get a style of those frosty, semi-healthy sippers however haven’t fairly gotten round to putting in the business frozen margarita machine in your personal kitchen? We requested three booch execs to place us on to the ins and outs of creating your personal refreshing kombucha slushies at dwelling this summer time, together with adapting their taproom recipes in your normal-sized blenders.

Ryan Smith, Normal Supervisor & Cocktail Curator at Flying Embers Taproom, Los Angeles, California

On the downtown Los Angeles taproom of Flying Embers, Saturdays are for the slushies. The one-day-a-week particular brings in followers wanting to strive rotating cocktails based mostly off of the model’s array of onerous kombucha flavors.

“Our recipes are gentle and recent, with out sacrificing on taste. It’s the right heat climate drink, particularly as issues begin to warmth up,” says GM and Cocktail Curator (a wonderful job title) Ryan Smith. “Clients love that they will nonetheless take pleasure in this refreshing weekend deal with with out feeling weighed down by extra sugar or carbs. Our newest taste, Orange Ardour Lychee, is made with recent squeezed lemon juice, monkfruit syrup, recent lychee purée, and topped with our Orange Ardour Mimosa Laborious Kombucha.”

For dwelling slushie excellence, Smith suggests you carry out some further {hardware}: “We use a slushie machine at our taproom, however in the event you don’t personal one an ice cream machine or a excessive temperature freezer can work simply as effectively after the combination is full.”

In the event you can’t make it to L.A., observe that Flying Embers additionally has taproom places in Santa Barbara and Boston.

Recipe: Orange Ardour Lychee Kombucha Slushie

Servings: 1

Components
1 oz Recent-squeezed lemon juice
1 oz Monkfruit syrup
2 oz Recent lychee purée
6 to eight ounces of Flying Embers Orange Ardour Mimosa Laborious Kombucha

Mix the lemon juice, monkfruit syrup, and lychee purée in a slushie slushie machine, ice cream freezer, or high-temperature freezer. Churn or freeze till set however not onerous. To serve, pour the slushie base into a big glass and high with kombucha. Stir to mix and drink instantly.

Emily Baadsvik, CEO & Co-Founding father of Wild Tea Kombucha, Calgary, Alberta

“Wild Tea Kombucha is not like some other kombucha out there in Canada,” boasts co-founder and CEO Emily Baadsvik. “Our unique line is flavored with fresh-pressed juices with enjoyable cocktail impressed names and minimal carbonation.” And the cocktail connection goes past simply the title on the can. Her staff has developed a set of cocktail recipes utilizing their booch, together with their tackle the basic frosé.

“We thought of what we prefer to drink in the summertime: chilly drinks that aren’t filled with preservatives and sugar,” she says. “[Slushies] are nostalgic, universally appreciated on sizzling summer time days, and are the right drink to decelerate our faced-paced lives. It’s a must to take pleasure in a frosé. They make you are taking time to understand the beverage, savor the flavors, and take a psychological outing.”

Recipe: Wild Tea Kombucha Frosé

Servings: 2

Components
1 cup frozen strawberries
½ to ¾ cup Glowing Rosé Kombucha
1 bottle rosé glowing wine (non-compulsory)
Pure sweetener of your selection, to style (non-compulsory)

Pour the kombucha and frozen berries right into a high-speed blender. Mix on excessive till easy and frothy. Start with 1/2 cup and add extra as needed for desired consistency.

Divide the fruit-kombucha combination into two glasses.

Pour 4 to six ounces of glowing wine into every glass or, for a mocktail, float further Glowing Rosé Kombucha on high.

Lindsay Whiteaker, Co-Founding father of Harvest Roots Ferments, Birmingham, Alabama

On the Harvest Roots Ferments taproom in Birmingham, co-founder Lindsay Whiteaker and and her colleagues have dialed within the slushie science. “To make sure correct consistency of the bottom and stop the slushie from freezing stable, we take a brix studying to make sure we now have correct sugar. Conventional slushie knowledge suggests a brix studying of round 15, however we now have discovered that we are able to go as little as 9 brix. We use a refractometer to assist us take this studying.” Discovering the very best taste combos, she says, is the place it turns into extra of an artwork.

Whiteaker says these non-alcoholic slushies win over even those that haven’t in any other case hopped on the kombucha practice. “We discover that people all ages take pleasure in them however particularly kids and individuals who could also be on the fence about kombucha. We see them as a bridge to the remainder of our menu.”

Recipe: Decide-Your-Taste Non-Alcoholic Kombucha Slushie

Servings: 1

1 ⅓ oz kombucha
2 ⅔ oz fruit juice
1 cup ice cubes
Agave syrup to style (non-compulsory)

A tough information for making a kombucha slushie in a blender could be utilizing 3 elements liquid (1 half kombucha to 2 elements fruit juice) to six elements ice. In the event you discover your slushie is just too tart, we like so as to add natural agave syrup. You possibly can simply pour it proper into your slushie combination and mix.

A few of our favourite taste combos embody: Hibiscus kombucha with recent watermelon juice; Ginger kombucha with mango and lime juice; Lavender kombucha with blueberry juice.