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What exactly is "UHT milk"?

— Wade

Ultra-high temperature pasteurized. It’s heated to a high enough minimum temperature to denature the proteins in the milk.

One more quick question... Sabrina gave me a conversion to brew a gallon of Jun. But no honey measurements. Using 8 teabags and 1g h20 and 2c starter and the pellicle... how much honey?

— Gina

If you don’t want it really sweet, you can do 3/4 cup of honey. If you want it normal, 1 cup. I’m glad you’re enjoying it!

I saw this vegan coconut cultures that you have. How about vegan but using non-dairy milk like almond, soya, rice, oats? Those are some of the popular non-dairy milk here in our country.

— Annlyn

I am pretty sure I told Annlyn that she needs to use coconut cream for this, but it turns out that as long as you maintain a coconut mother culture, you can use this with other vegan milks without stabilizers! Exciting new information!!!