How to Make Kombucha: A Healthy Summer Drink!

Rotten tea, YUM!

Sounds like this is just tea that is kept in active fermentation all the time. That raft of jelly is something else. šŸ¤¢

I'd try it but sweet tea that has turned is not appealing nor does it taste good. Sounds like an acquired taste by the way the first vid makes it sound.

NCLivingBrit said:
It's fungus pee. That's what you're going to be drinking.
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Not a fan of wine or any other alcohol? Not too much different really.
 
hp468 said:
Rotten tea, YUM!

Sounds like this is just tea that is kept in active fermentation all the time. That raft of jelly is something else. šŸ¤¢

I'd try it but sweet tea that has turned is not appealing nor does it taste good. Sounds like an acquired taste by the way the first vid makes it sound.



Not a fan of wine or any other alcohol? Not too much different really.
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You've clearly never seen them siphon the kombucha out of the vessel with The Mother in it lol

My wine and beer doesn't have a quivering biocolony the size of a hat on a fungus base floating in it.
 
NCLivingBrit said:
You've clearly never seen them siphon the kombucha out of the vessel with The Mother in it lol

My wine and beer doesn't have a quivering biocolony the size of a hat on a fungus base floating in it.
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The bio colony in your wine died off and sunk to the bottom before the wine was siphoned off for secondary fermentation and clearing. šŸ˜‰

Like I said, that jelly mass is... something...

I fear if I were to try this, i'd soon have to tangle my hair up into dread locks and start planning my trek west for burning man.
 
hp468 said:
The bio colony in your wine died off and sunk to the bottom before the wine was siphoned off for secondary fermentation and clearing. šŸ˜‰

Like I said, that jelly mass is... something...

I fear if I were to try this, i'd soon have to tangle my hair up into dread locks and start planning my trek west for burning man.
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It's not as awful as you think it is, but I like my colony wastes properly filtered.
 
It does not taste like bad sweet tea. Then again, it's hard to explain the taste. I drink a couple of them a week. Mixed in with a couple apple cider vinegar based drinks I make. I buy my kombucha though. Be careful making it. Done wrong it can make you sick. My limited research pointed towards it not really being what I consider easy.
 
That swamp mat's impressive. My wife keeps a 1 gal container of citrus kefir going in the fridge. It has 'pearls' that stay on the bottom. The kids & DIL's love it. Something like this

Homemade Citrus Kefir Soda

I looooove this refreshing citrus kefir soda. This reminds me of "Squirt", which I used to love, only this one is a probiotic *healthy* beverage!
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Dan0311 said:
She lost me at SCOBY.
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This thing reminds me of that episode of classic Star Trek where they went down to the planet and these things landed on their backs injected themselves into the crews nervous system and the answer was to kill them by hitting the planet with intense light, but in their tests they blinded Spock.

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Welllll, ya'll talked me out of this idea. šŸ¤£
 
Anything listing probiotics means it has live organisms in it. Pre biotic is food for those organisms already in the gut.

Commercial kombucha has a similar appearance to Braggs ACV with the mother in it. Thereā€™sa small amount that settles to the bottom.
 
Iā€™ve been brewing it for a couple years now, super easy stuff to make. Let me know if you want a SCOBY
 
We've made it for years too. I hope you like it it's very good for you. Also, I highly recommend fresh Ginger in with it. We use black tea to make ours. We do a lot to keep a healthy dose of probiotics in the kids so between Kefir with our goats milk and Kombucha we feel like we have it covered. I agree with Cheifjason it's a hard drink to describe it grows on you. Other summer time drinks to try that are a little off the beaten path of the normal sweat tea and kool-aid are Ginger Beer made with a "ginger bug" which has been around a while and "Skeeter Pee" which is a country lemon wine that is perfect for hot days when your done mowing the grass.šŸ‘ Id recommend getting a couple large swing top lids if you end up liking the Kombucha or the Ginger beer. I use em for making carbonated hard cider and other country wines when they are in season (blackberry, blueberry etc). I did a post this winter when my cider batch finished up if you want to check it out.
 
Gonna bring this back up.

We just finished our 4th or 5th or batch of Kombucha. After the second we started doing 2 half gallon jars. It yields about 12, 20 oz jars which my wife and I split. I've been flavoring mine with Mangos and lime juice. I really like it. And like it better than a lot of what we had bought before.

One question. Anyone else get the mini scoobies in the final jars? I've noticed some will get a little and some will not. Not an issue for me but just curious.

We finished a batch and started another one tonight. Usually let it brew 12-14 days. Let it rest in bottle 2 days. Then in the fridge to be ready to drink.

I'm still alternating an ACV based drink in with the kombucha. 2 TBS ACV, 1 TBS lime juice, 1/8 tsp stevia in about 20 oz of water.

Oh, and to tweak my earlier comment. It's easier than I thought as long as you get it started right. We are using Oolong and black tea for the base. The Oolong is really mild flavored. But the black tea is good for the scoobie.
 
Dredging up an old thread:
I used to make kombucha (ginger & orange was my go to flavor) and I took a long time off after moving. I'm getting a new batch started and my starter scoby has already started growing well after just a couple of days. I'll wait another cycle then I'll start bottling it.
If y'all haven't tried, you can make some pretty good mixed drinks, it functions similar to any ginger beer, etc. I used to mix it with gin or vodka a lot with some mint and simple syrup.
 
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