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OMG YAUPON KOMBUCHA RECIPE: Yaupon Kombucha from Chef and Fermentation Expert Jackie Vitale

OMG YAUPON KOMBUCHA RECIPE: Yaupon Kombucha from Chef and Fermentation Expert Jackie Vitale

Chef and fermentation expert, Jackie Vitale, takes you on a step-by-step Yaupon Kombucha-making journey. It's surprisingly easy, healthy, and delicious. Jackie Vitale is author of the newsletter Sunshine & Microbes, and chef-in-residence at the Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva, FL.

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Yaupon Brothers Transparency Video Tour

Yaupon Brothers Transparency Video Tour

This fall, Bryon traveled across North Florida with Dalton Smith to create a short video showing the various sources and potential sources for a sustainable and completely transparent Yaupon supply chain. Check out the video!

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How To Make Iced Yaupon!

How To Make Iced Yaupon!

Yaupon is just as delicious iced as it is hot! We've been serving iced Yaupon at our events and markets, and we've been getting lots of requests from sweltering Yaupon fans who are parched and want to know how to do iced Yaupon. 

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Old Florida Brew Boasts Caffeinated Comeback

Old Florida Brew Boasts Caffeinated Comeback

Orlando Sentinel - October 16, 2016 Joy Wallace Dickinson Florida Flashback   I recently saw a humorous birthday card depicting a woman of a certain age, wrapped in a fuzzy bathrobe, who appears poised to pour an entire pot of coffee directly into her mouth. As a shameless caffeine addict, I could relate. And I loved learning about the revival of a caffeine-rich drink with roots deep in Florida's history: yaupon holly tea. "It's the only caffeinated plant native to North America," says Bryon White, who with his brother, Kyle, reintroduced centuries-old yaupon tea into Florida commerce in 2012 for...

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