DIY Kombucha
Hey everyone. Today is a another DIY Post. If you check out one of my earlier DIY posts, you will see that I did a DIY SCOBY. Click on the link to learn more DIY SCOBY
You will need the SCOBY for this post. This post will deal with making your own Kombucha. Lets get to it...
First you are going to need a few items:
1 gallon filtered water
8 black tea bags
4 green tea bags
1 cup organic sugar
1 SCOBY
½ – 1 cup kombucha (use either the liquid that comes with your SCOBY or store-bought raw/unpasteurized kombucha)
1 gallon large wide-mouth glass jar (Use GLASS NOT PLASTIC)
tea towel
large rubber band
Directions:
Heat the water and add the tea bags. Steep for about 5-10 minutes and remove the bags. Remove from heat.
Add the sugar and stir to dissolve. Allow tea to cool.
When the sweetened tea is cool, pour into your clean glass jar.
Add about ½ cup of kombucha – either the liquid that comes with your SCOBY or use store-bought raw, unpasteurized kombucha. With clean hands, place the SCOBY in the jar (It is important that you allow the tea to cool before adding the SCOBY. The SCOBY is alive and can be killed if added to boiling hot tea)
Place a tea towel or double layer of paper towel on top and secure tightly with a rubber band. You want it to be able to breathe, but you also need to keep bugs out.
Place jar in a relatively warm, dark place where it will not be disturbed.
Allow your mixture to sit for about a week. To test it, you can take a small amount out with a straw and taste your Kombucha. If it is very sweet, leave it a bit longer. It should be slightly sweet, tangy and slightly effervescent. If it tastes off at all, start over. It could take two weeks depending on fermenting conditions, but shouldn’t be much more.
This concludes the Primary Fermentation. In a later post I will teach you DIYers how to give your Kombucha a Secondary Fermentation to give it some fizz and flavoring. The possibilities are endless. Good luck and let me know if you have any questions. Here is a link you can use as a reference that also includes some health benefits of Kombucha as well https://www.diynatural.com/how-to-make-kombucha-recipe-benefits/
Enjoy and thanks for stopping by.
so if you were to use your scoby from the first post you made, would you then leave the liquid in the jar and let it ferment again to get a 2nd scoby in a month or so?
The 1st post is to create your SCOBY from scratch. Once you have your SCOBY, you are now ready to ferment your kombucha. Take the SCOBY you harvested and add it to a new bigger batch of sweetened tea (2nd post directions). I used mine to make 1 gallon. Every time you make a new kombuchas, the SCOBY will divide and you will have 2 SCOBYs. You can give one away, use both, or save them in some of the kombuchas liquid until the next time you make more kombucha.
Thanks for the tutorial on how to make Kombucha.Excellent post
Thanks for the support!
YOU are most welcome
As intimidating it sounds I am indeed sure it does taste that good as well ;)
It's pretty easy to do, you just need some patience. The SCOBY takes about 1 month if you culture your own, and the Primary fermentation takes about 1 week.
That's a perfect DIY you just shared perfect to do it right now
I have my SCOBY almost ready to go right now. Another few days and I will start my primary fermentation.
fabulous one..... love to read it