Category: Hobby

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2019 Resolutions and Goals

  1.  Read or listen to 12 or more books
  2.  Work out more than 160 times
  3.  Bike more than 300 miles
  4.  Play 30 rounds of Golf
  5.  Continue to practice my typing skills
  6.  Practice yoga twice a month (only hot yoga will count towards work out count)
  7.  Attempt to meal prep with also some baking mixed in
  8.  Start to learn how to code in the Python language
  9. 30 Days consecutively sober

Most of my resolutions are fitness based- So 2019 will be my year of fitness!  All of the above should be easily doable as long as I stay committed and don’t go off track for a month or two as I have done so in the past.  To help keep myself on track I will include my progress to the weekly summary blogs.  So there will be a ton of more blog content to post to this page generally on a weekly basis to review the week in totality.

I have never really put to much stock in New Year New me, but I am giving it the old college try and feeling very positive about the possible outcomes of my goals.

Cheers and Happy New Year!!

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First Attempt At Kombucha

2/1/18 6:12 AM CST

Snap Chat Video Below

Watch out for the 10 second still pictures

Step 1) Boil approximately 1 gallon of water in 2.5-gallon pot

Step 2) Once water is at a rolling boil slowly pour in 2 cups of granulated sugar.  Be sure to keep stirring as the sugar will sink and burn on the bottom of the pot.  Once your sure all sugar has dissolved turn off the heat.

Step 3) Steep the equivalent of 16 tea bags of black tea (some other teas work just as fine.) I recommended tying them all together to make it easier to manipulate once the tea bags get soggy.  The bags should not steep any longer than 5 minutes.  I also squeezed the bags (with my bare hand, HOT!) to get the last of the flavor out of the tea bags and into the pot.

Step 4) Using the coldest water you have, fill the pot to a full 2 gallons. The goal is to reduce the temperature enough to not kill the live culture-SCOBY.

The temperature should be at least under 80 degrees Fahrenheit before you pour the tea into the brewing vessel with the existing SCOBY already in the jar.

Step 5 Be patient in 7-10 days you should be able to enjoy a couple glasses of your very own Kombucha

 

Shout out to my main man Matt Kombuchade for the starter SCOBY and quick how-to directions.