Easy Kombucha Tea Recipe
Do you want to learn how to make a SCOBY? Allow me to show you the simple steps you need. If you have dreamed of making your own kombucha but don’t know where to begin, this awesomely fun project is the place to kick off from.
I confess I was really baffled when I first set out to make my own Kombucha Brew at home to save money. There seemed to be so many lengthy and confusing instructions.
That's why I have created this post to show you just how simple it is to grow a SCOBY and begin your own kombucha brewing journey.
How To Easily Make Kombucha Tea From Scratch
SCOBY, what a funny name. You will want to memorize it because “symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast” is too long, don’t you think? You’re probably more interested in learning how to make a SCOBY and why you need it to make homemade kombucha.
Well, just like yogurt and sourdough bread need a mother culture to grow the beneficial bacteria that create wonderful flavors and healthful nutrients, kombucha needs a mother culture.
A SCOBY is the kombucha mother that makes plain kombucha from scratch. You can enjoy this first fermentation as is. Or, you can use it to do a second fermentation and make fizzy, refreshing Fruit-Flavored Probiotic Drinks.
How To Make Homemade Kombucha Tea
I use Gt's Classic Original Raw Kombucha as the starter liquid for this recipe. However, you can use other brands or homemade plain raw kombucha as long as you verify a couple of things.
When you choose your starter kombucha, make sure that it has live probiotics and doesn't have any fruit, flavorings, color, or additives. These requirements are a must.
Setting up a jar to start a SCOBY from scratch takes less than 30 minutes. After that, it grows at varied rates in different environments.
Brewing Your Own Kombucha Is Easier—and Cheaper—than You May Think
SCOBYs for kombucha thrive in temperatures between 75 and 85 degrees. With that warmth, it takes about 2 weeks to grow a ¼ inch thick kombucha SCOBY.
Trust me, when you learn how to make a SCOBY you will be able to impress all your friends and relatives with its slippery texture and intriguing appearance. Don't worry, it’s a lot more pleasant to touch than it looks!
Whether you call this rubbery disc beautiful or beastly, a SCOBY is your ticket to the best tasting and most affordable kombucha you have ever had. Plus, it can be used to make many future batches of gut-healthy brews.
Homemade Flavored Kombucha
In a sense, it lives indefinitely because new top layers continue to grow. It's fun to know the older layers can be peeled off the bottom and given to friends to start their own homemade kombucha.
It’s fascinating to watch a newly forming SCOBY grow. First, it appears out of nowhere as a jelly-like film floating at the top of your jar.
Then, it gets even weirder as it continues growing into an opaque, rubbery disk that takes on the shape of the container it is grown in.
How To Make Kombucha Tea
SCOBYs sometimes sink to the bottom of the jar, especially when you transfer them to brew kombucha in a new container. Don't worry it won't harm them or hurt the brewing process.
A brand new baby will form at the top of the jar and grow to fit the new container. This seals off the top of the liquid and helps keep beneficial microbes in and bad bacteria out.
Once your SCOBY is ready you can use it to brew kombucha at home. My post on Brewing Kombucha For Pennies gives you everything you need to know to brew a gallon of cost-saving kombucha rich in antioxidants and live probiotics.
Make Your Own Kombucha In 3 Easy Steps!
If you don't use your SCOBY right away to make kombucha or end up with extras, you might wonder how to store them.
SCOBYs will continue to grow as long as they have enough tea and sugar to feed on. Thus, basically all you need to do is replenish the liquid they are growing in.
You can start a SCOBY hotel to maintain them until you are ready to brew kombucha or share the extras with friends.
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Start by combining equal parts sweetened tea from the recipe below and plain kombucha. You can also mix sweetened tea with the liquid your SCOBY grew in. Make enough to fully submerge your SCOBYs in a jar.
Then, all you need to do is cover the jar and place it in a cupboard away from direct light just like you did when growing a new kombucha mother.
Yes. GTS Living Foods answers questions on their website and describes how their kombucha is made from organic, raw ingredients in a heat-free process that preserves living cultures.
How To Make Homemade Kombucha Tea (step By Step Recipe)
Yes, all the teas from Camellia sinensis, including green, white, and black varieties are excellent for brewing kombucha. Some people prefer a mix of equal parts green and black. For the best results, teas should not be decaffeinated. Caffeine, as well as the other compounds in these traditional teas provide the necessary compounds for growing a SCOBY. Make sure the tea is pure and not flavored, preferably organic.
Yes, it's fine to cut a SCOBY with scissors or a knife. You may want to do this to fit it into the jar you are using to brew kombucha. It may float or sink, but new layers will grow at the top of your vessel.
Yes, as long as your SCOBY doesn't have spots of mold or a fuzzy coating, then brown, gritty bits from tea and shaggy edges are fine. You can find a very helpful visual guide to unhealthy SCOBYs at Kombuchakamp.com as well as kombucha brewing supplies including ready-to-go SCOBYs.
How To Make Kombucha At Home And Flavor It
Ready to grow a SCOBY with the recipe below? From there, you can use it to Brew Kombucha For Pennies. Effervescent, refreshing, and addictive are words that describe thissecond-ferment flavored and carbonatedkombucha you will definitely want to make.
Learn how to make a scoby with simple steps. Use it to brew your own healthful and delicious kombucha at home. Homemade kombucha costs a fraction of store-bought brands and tastes even better.
Calories: 46 kcal | Carbohydrates: 12 g | Protein: 2 g | Sodium: 12 mg | Potassium: 1 mg | Fiber: 1 g | Sugar: 12 g | Calcium: 207 mg | Iron: 1 mgKombucha- it's that effervescent, tangy fermented drink that seems to be ever-growing in popularity. But keeping up with the latest fermented foods trends and probiotic benefits can come at a hefty price.
Homemade Kombucha Recipe
Why shell out $3 to $4 a bottle when you can learn how to make kombucha from a humble kombucha scoby? We'll show you how to make up to a gallon of kombucha (that's 8 bottles) for a fraction of the cost of commercial brands with an easy homemade kombucha recipe.
New to brewing your own Kombucha? No problem! Our starter kit gets you going in the right direction of making delicious kombucha right at home.
Included in the kit is our Live Black Tea Kombucha Starter Culture, which allows you to immediately start brewing your own Kombucha. Also included are our hand-picked ingredients and equipment to help you successfully start brewing.
How To Make A Kombucha Scoby {only 4 Ingredients!}
Making Kombucha at home is not only a great way to save money, but it also allows you to control the ingredients and make a healthier, great-tasting tea.
Simply add our live starter culture (the SCOBY) to sweet black tea and ferment away to make a healthy, soda-like kombucha with all the tart zing you desire.
Making Kombucha at home is not only a great way to save money, but it also allows you to control the ingredients and make a healthier, delicious tea.
How To Make Kombucha At Home
The live cultures are shipped in a dehydrated state, so it can stay on your shelf until you are ready to get started!
After rehydrating the SCOBY, simply add the kombucha starter to sweet tea and ferment away to make a healthy, soda-like kombucha with all the tart zing you want.
Making Kombucha at home is not only a great way to save money, but it also allows you to control the ingredients and make a healthier tea!
Homemade Kombucha Tea Recipe
Homemade kombucha is a real treat, but making kombucha is actually an interesting entry into culturing live, probiotic foods at home. Kombucha is a fermented tea made by allowing a safe, healthy culture of bacteria and yeast to consume the sugar in tea. The resulting drink is tangy and nuanced, but can only be made with a healthy culture that comes from a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast, also known as a SCOBY.
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If you're familiar with kombucha, you're probably also familiar with that leathery, pancake-like blob called a SCOBY. The acronym stands for symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast. Due to its appearance, it is sometimes referred to as a mushroom, although it is not technically a mushroom. Rather, it is the mother culture required to make kombucha tea.
Basic Kombucha Recipe
Not all kombucha mother scobys contain the exact same strains of bacteria and yeasts, but they all generally do the same work.
Before we delve into how to make kombucha with SCOBY, it's important to understand the role of temperature in
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