Homemade Kombucha Tea

Kombucha tea a wonderful alternative to soda.  I like the sour fizziness.  I got to say that the thought of drinking something made from a Kombucha mother or as my friend Tater says, a scoby, kind of creeped me out but once I tried it I was hooked.  You can find a recipe for Kombucha from the book "Wild Fermentation" by Sandor Ellix Katz.  


A Kombucha mother is a gelatinous colony of bacteria and yeast.  It ferments the sweet tea and then reproduces itself which allows the brewer to make double the batch the next time around.  Excellent live culture food source.  The following is a video I used to learn how to make it and where to buy a Kombucha mother (if you don't have a friend who has one to give you).

 

Kombucha tea a wonderful alternative to soda.  I like the sour fizziness.  I got to say that the thought of drinking something made from a Kombucha mother or as my friend Tater says, a scoby, kind of creeped me out but once I tried it I was hooked.  You can find a recipe for Kombucha from the book "Wild Fermentation" by Sandor Ellix Katz.  


A Kombucha mother is a gelatinous colony of bacteria and yeast.  It ferments the sweet tea and then reproduces itself which allows the brewer to make double the batch the next time around.  Excellent live culture food source.  The following is a video I used to learn how to make it and where to buy a Kombucha mother (if you don't have a friend who has one to give you).