It’s super simple to get into kombucha brewing, which is awesome because the store bought sort can be super expensive.
When you brew kombucha, you’re basically hopping up a colony of healthy bacteria with sugar and caffeine. All you need to whip up a batch of your own kombucha tea are sugar, black or green tea bags, and a SCOBY. Kombucha tea is full of health benefits. This fermented food has lots of “good” bacterial, sort of like you’d find in yogurt, which is excellent for digestion. It also contains lots of B vitamins and vitamin C!
Kombucha Brewing: Basic Recipe
Ingredients
1 gallon container with a lid SCOBY – see below 4 bags of green or black tea – You can experiment with different teas, as long as the tea you use is caffeinated. 1 cup of sugar 1 gallon of water cheese cloth or a cloth napkin rubber band
Directions That’s it! You’re ready to enjoy tasty, homemade kombucha tea. Sometimes when you’re brewing kombucha your SCOBY will multiply. If it does, you can hook up a friend who wants to do a little kombucha brewing of her own!
Finding a SCOBY
The real trick to kombucha brewing is getting your hands on a SCOBY. Here are a couple of options:
- Phone a friend. Got a friend who makes kombucha? Ask if she has an extra SCOBY or even if she can cut you off part of hers.
- Buy one. You can pick up a starter kit online and use the SCOBY you grow over and over. Have any of you guys made your own kombucha tea? What kind of tea did you use, and how did it turn out? A version of this recipe originally ran at Eat Drink Better, republished here with permission.
