{"id":212,"date":"2019-02-12T16:28:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T16:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chitownbio.org\/?p=212"},"modified":"2019-02-12T16:28:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T16:28:53","slug":"kombucha-palooza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/index.php\/2019\/02\/12\/kombucha-palooza\/","title":{"rendered":"Kombucha-palooza!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;ve talked about<a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/ChiTownBio\/events\/248529174\/\"> fermented foods<\/a>, but we&#8217;d love to dive deep into the biology of kombucha, everyone&#8217;s favorite fermented fad. What is the drink? How can you start growing it at home? What is a SCOBY? What makes up the SCOBY? Can we examine the organisms there on a petri dish? What can we make or build with the SCOBY itself? What can we build in terms of art or fashion? Let&#8217;s really dive into the biology!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chitownbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ChiTownBio_SCOBY-868x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-214\" width=\"434\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ChiTownBio_SCOBY-868x1024.png 868w, https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ChiTownBio_SCOBY-254x300.png 254w, https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ChiTownBio_SCOBY-768x906.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><figcaption>A ChiTownBio SCOBY (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast)!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;ll provide some starters and some equipment for our first few guests who are interested in trying to brew their own kombucha at home. We&#8217;ll have some samples, but we encourage people to instead take advantage of the drink specials provided by our hosts, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empiricalbrewery.com\/taproom\">Empirical Brewery Taproom<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Come, enjoy some great conversation, explore the biology of a strange and wonderful food, and have a great time with us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-meetup-com wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-meetup\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.meetup.com\/ChiTownBio\/events\/258900173\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve talked about fermented foods, but we&#8217;d love to dive deep into the biology of kombucha, everyone&#8217;s favorite fermented fad. What is the drink? How can you start growing it at home? What is a SCOBY? What makes up the SCOBY? Can we examine the organisms there on a petri dish? What can we make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}