{"id":16939,"date":"2020-03-05T23:14:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T04:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=16939"},"modified":"2020-03-05T23:14:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T04:14:54","slug":"the-favored-life-kombucha-bar-716-santee-avenue-september-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=16939","title":{"rendered":"The Favored Life Kombucha Bar, 716 Santee Avenue: September 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/03\/p1620235.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/03\/p1620235_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1620235_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1620235_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/03\/p1620236.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/03\/p1620236_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1620236_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1620236_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/03\/p1620237.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/03\/p1620237_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1620237_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1620237_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/03\/p1620238.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/03\/p1620238_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1620238_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1620238_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/03\/p1620239.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/03\/p1620239_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1620239_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1620239_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was not aware of the tea-derived drink called <i>Kombucha<\/i> until I saw the news of this place closing.  From the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coladaily.com\/business\/not-your-average-tea-the-favored-life-kombucha-bar-opens\/collection_2e20f136-5658-567b-99ae-677648895cab.html\">Coladaily article<\/a> on the opening of <i>The Favored Life<\/i> in March of 2019, it sounds like an interesting process:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For those who are unfamiliar with the fermented drink, Gramblin described the process the tea undergoes to become kombucha:  \u201cFirst you start with sweet tea, and you put it in a fermentation jar. I use a \u2018scoby,\u2019 which [stands for] a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast \u2013 you have to grow it,\u201d she said. \u201cYou stick them inside the gallon jar, and that eats the sugar out of the sweet tea, and outputs CO2. It takes all the sweetness out and replaces it with that fizzy taste.\u201d  She then removes the scoby, strains the liquid, and adds flavor with organic juices. The whole process takes approximately two weeks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I like tea, but I'm not sure about fizzy tea.  I guess I'm not against trying some.  At any rate, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/free-times\/food\/columbia-kombucha-bar-goes-out-of-business\/article_5cea2a78-2d93-11ea-9e39-632471cef53f.html\">Free Times reported<\/a>, Columbia was possibly not ready for <i>Kombucha<\/i>, and <i>The Favored Life<\/i> closed its doors as a retail establishment in September or October of 2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/716+Santee+Ave,+Columbia,+SC+29205\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was not aware of the tea-derived drink called Kombucha until I saw the news of this place closing. From the Coladaily article on the opening of The Favored Life in March of 2019, it sounds like an interesting process: For those who are unfamiliar with the fermented drink, Gramblin described the process the tea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[2987,123,2986,3,808],"class_list":["post-16939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-716-santee-avenue","tag-five-points","tag-kombucha","tag-restaurants","tag-santee-avenue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}