How To Brew Kombucha (The Ultimate Guide!)

sugar

🥗Healthier: honey

💰Cheaper: brown sugar

Honey adds flavor and is less processed.

scoby

Scoby is essential for fermentation.

tea

🥗Healthier: herbal tea

💰Cheaper: black tea

Herbal tea provides variety without caffeine.

flavorings (optional)

🥗Healthier: fresh fruit

💰Cheaper: dried fruit

Fresh fruit enhances flavor with fewer additives.

Make a scoby by combining tea, sugar, and water.

Let the mixture cool.

Combine the cooled sweet tea in a jar with store-bought kombucha.

Bottle the leftover sweet tea to keep as strong starter tea for future batches.

Add 2 cups of starter kombucha to a new jar with sweet tea.

Add the slimy pellicle (scoby) to the jar.

Cover the jar to prevent bugs and debris from getting in.

Let the kombucha ferment until it's tart and delicious.

For the second fermentation, transfer the kombucha into fermentation bottles.

Choose your flavor and add any sweetener you want, like sugar, honey, or fruit.

Seal the bottles and let them ferment until carbonated.

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