Make your OWN kombucha:
1. Order a SCOBY (Symbiotic Colony of Bacteria and Yeast) from Ebay (~$7). It looks like a hockey puck. Yeah, it’s alive (arrives in a sealed plastic sleeve with yummy juice to feed the SCOBY in mail transit). U only have to buy it ONE time, it will grow each time u make kombucha.
2. Brew up a bunch of concentrated BLACK tea (which appears normally tea colored).
3. Make it super sweet with common sugar
4. Let the tea cool, put it in a clean glass container with a very wide mouth
5. Put the SCOBY in the tea
6. Cover that container with a clean dish-cloth or cheesecloth
7. Put it in a dark, room-temp place for 2 or 3 weeks. Try not to bother it.
8. Taste a little with a clean spoon or ladel. Is that the taste you want..? If you let it ferment longer, it will be fizzier and less sweet.
Lots of instructions on YouTube for the secondary ferment (when u can add fruit puree, or whatever...I like blueberry and ginger).
It tastes a lot like soda but it’s super GOOD for you.
Eat plenty of plain yogurt and kefir, not the sweetened stuff.
Sounds gross. What’s it supposed to do for you?
I get a kombucha called “LIVE” and it comes in Cola, Dr. Pepper, Root Beer, and Ginger flavors. My grocery store carries it but Whole Foods also sells it. Very tasty and only 35 calories per bottle.
So because I’m lazy and don’t want to Duck it, what does that do for you?
Homemade Kombucha - Thank you for posting, will give it a try.