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The eagle has landed! Delicious Probiotic Drinks
has been released into the wild! The baby has been born! Great balls of fire, my first cookbook has been published! What better way to celebrate the release than to give it to you for free?? TIMES THREE! I’ll give you all the giveaway deets, but first, a spiel about the book.
Delicious Probiotic Drinks includes 75 recipes for naturally-fermented probiotic beverages, including kombucha, ginger beer, kefir (and yogurt!), lactofermented lemonade, and more! This book is great for those who have never brewed a probiotic drink in their life, as well as seasoned brewers. Making these drinks at home is much more cost effective (and fun!) than buying them from the store. Plus, being a home-brewer of any kind enhances your badassedness (well-known fact). You can order my book through Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble.
What’s so fan-freaking-tastic about probiotic drinks that one would write a cookbook on them? So glad you asked! They…
- Promote the microflora in your digestive tract, which ensure proper digestion and nutrient absorption as well as bowel regularity.
- Boost your immune system and energy level.
- Prevent and heal sickness and disease.
- Relieve certain digestive disorders, such as Crohn’s Disease, Celic Disease, Candida, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, ulcers, etc.
- Promote joint function.
- Are vitamin & mineral rich! Each drink contains its own set of benefits other than gut health. They are filled with a variety of Vitamins, minerals, and enzymes, proving to be super-charged vitalizing elixirs!
Annnd…the benefit to brewing probiotic drinks at home is…
- Home-brewed probiotic drinks contain more strands and types of probiotics than store-bought.
- It’s cheaper! Purchasing probiotic-rich food and drinks can be expensive, but making them at home is cheap!
- It’s fun and badass! Fermentation truly is an art. You can get creative, learn as you go, and watch your probiotic culture evolve over time. It’s wuuuuuunderbar!
- You can flavor them as you please! Based on your personal taste and/or nutritional needs, you can experiment with ingredients to create tasty treats.
I SWEAR, BREWING PROBIOTICS IS EASY! IF THIS GIRL CAN DO IT, YOU CAN TOOOOOOO! just saying…
GIVEAWAY!!!
Want to try your hand at brewing probioticals at home? I’m giving away THREE COPIES of my book, Delicious Probiotic Drinks: 75 Recipes for Kombucha, Kefir, Ginger Beer, and Other Naturally Fermented Drinks! PLUS one winner will receive a $50 Whole Foods Gift Card, and a starter kit which includes Kombucha Starter, Kefir Starter
, and a case of 12 Cobalt Blue 16 oz. Flip Cap Bottles
. All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this post! The giveaway ends 2/28 and the winners will be notified through email (so be sure you give me the best email at which you can be reached!).
My amazing friend, Kiersten from Oh My Veggies is hosting a very similar giveaway on her blog, too! Geddoverder and enter!
There will also be a slew of my dear food blogger friends posting reviews and giveaways of the book, so keep your eyes peeled!
Thank you so much for your support! Whether you’re new to my blog or have been with me since the onset of my book’s gestation period, I can’t thank you enough for being here and sharing this special day with me!
I’m getting all tingly for you seeing this in your hands! A book, with YOUR name on it! So much awesome. Can’t wait to get my mitts on a copy 🙂
Ah! I’m so excited for you! We’ve been brewing our own kombucha for about two months now and we’re huge fans of those probiotic beverages. I would love to explore your cookbook to discover more!
Congratulations on your book Julia! What an amazing achievement. Hope you have a great time celebrating!
Congrats- this is so big and awesome for you! I would love to make ginger beer for my own cocktails 🙂
I can’t believe that it is finally here! Do you know if I can buy it from Sweden? Or heck, I’ll make sure to get it any way I can. I would love to get started brewing at home, I’ve been wanting to try for a while know but doesn’t seem to get the foot out of my… You get the picture
THANK YOU SO MUCH for this incredible blog =)
Hey lady, thanks so much for your support and interest! Amazon ships overseas (I just shipped books to Australia, Kuwait, and England, and the shipping rates were pretty affordable!) The book is also available on Kindle if you have one!! Let me know if you have any questions at all about brewing drinks – I’d be happy to help out in any way possible!! Thanks again, my dear! xoxo
Congrats on your book! What a great accomplishment! I happened on your site for the first time today, love it, and hope to have your book gracing my shelf in the future. Now to go and read more of your site!
I have always wanted to try this at home! Looking forward to reading your book!
congratulations on your new book, can’t wait to check it out.
Congratulations! Can’t wait to read your book. I love kefir, but it’s expensive so I only buy it once in awhile. Would love to learn to make it (and a lot of other things) from your book!
congratulations!!!! This is awesome. The only drink I’ve attempted to ferment is ginger beer, i’m not very skilled in this department
Thank ya, thank ya! Ginger beer is the hardest one to brew!! Especially if you tried brewing it using your own ginger bug? It took me like a month to get mine going, and then another 2 weeks to brew a full batch. That one requires a lot of patience. The others are easier, I swear! 🙂
haha really?? I jumped the gun then!
Congrats. I have a question for you. we are only a 2 person household. I would like to try my hand at milk kefir but we can only drink so much. How long can the grains rest when you don’t need to make anymore?
Hey Starre! Yup, you can tooootally take kefir head on! You can make anywhere from a personal-sized portion to a few quarts, it’s up to you! Also, the benefit about fermented drinks is they last a really long time as long as they’re stored properly. For instance, if you seal yogurt or kefir in a jar, you can keep it for a month or even longer. Cool stuff!
Wow, congrats on your book! 🙂
Congratulations on the book! So exciting to have dreams come true. 🙂 Probiotics is something everyone can know more about. Well done!
Congratulations on your book being published! That is fantastic and you should be very proud!
The whole thing is still surreal to me! I need a month to marinate and reflect on the whole process. 🙂 Thank you so much, Ellen!
So now I want to run over to B and N and see if I can find your book on the shelf and Instagram it. Unfortunately, we are getting another 5-7″ of snow AGAIN, so I’ll wait for a prettier day. It’s like you are a celebrity. If I win, do you sign it for me? 😉
This weekend, I’m going to hop down to Reno and see if its at our B&N, too! I’ll keep you updated! Good luck with the new snow! We only got a smidge out of our last storm, but the weatherdude says it’s supposed to keep on keepin on, so hopefully we have a real winter wonderland on our hands soon. Julie, I can’t thank you enough for all your support…when you, me, and Stephie do our girl fest, I’ll sign allllllll the copies! (Although I suppose I should add SIGNED copies in the giveaway, shouldn’t I? I think I just may!)
Yes!! Signed copies are the best! That way, when you are all famous and stuff (like soon), we can all be like “Yeah. I have a first edition that’s signed” and it will be worth lots of money. So far, this big ass storm that they whooped about is fizzling out. It needs to get on the stick because I decided not to fix my dinner ahead of time like I do on the days I work, so now I don’t have any dinner ready. Got to get up early tomorrow and see what’s up with this crap. I’m having baked potato soup, so it will go together quickly, but still. Blah.
This winter is really blowing for all parties involved. Our ski industry is all but shut down here… 🙁 If we could take it all off your hands, we would! Did someone say baked potato soup?? I’m on my way over! 😉
OH my gosh!! You have these little sad beagles looking at me from ASPCA in your ad. I CAN’T TAKE IT!! 🙁 Poor little things. Must not look.
They really get you every time, don’t they??
Squeeee!! Congrats! I’m so excited for you 🙂 Can’t wait to pick up your book — especially now that I know all the crazy health benefits from probiotic drinks. The more you know.
Thanks so much, my sweet! I’m glad you’re interested in the ol’ home brew and I can’t thank you enough for your support!!!! 🙂