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[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's the trick, don't remove the alcohol

[–] SuperIce@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But then you have to restrict your userbase to over 21s and can't sell it in many supermarkets. Without alcohol it can be sold as a soft drink.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's not a lot of alcohol, it's like 1% by volume or something last I checked. You can make it higher, but I think it caps out around 3%.

[–] SuperIce@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's accurate, but anything above 0.5% is considered alcoholic in the US. There have been some small pushes to get the limit increased to 1.25%, which would make the usual levels of alcohol in normal kombucha legal, but I don't think that'll actually ever happen.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago

0.5% in the States? Yuck. Paranoid. Anyway not too expensive. Filtering out the yeast. Bubbling oxygen through the mix. Increased nucleation might do it too.

Regardless: huge markup.