Make Your Own Kombucha: Yes You Can! Kombucha is a fermented beverage made from tea. According to the new book Mastering Fermentation, its roots are in China, where people began drinking it more than 2,000 years ago. Kombucha has exploded in popularity in recent years, and it's one of those foods/drinks to which people attach all sorts of (often wildly extravagant) health claims. While I can't personally attest to its ability to prevent or cure disease, it is indeed high in B vitamins and detoxifying acids; it's also a wonderful source of natural probiotics. I first started drinking kombucha because of its potential to promote good health, but I've continued to do so because I adore the taste and the subtle way in which it energizes me. I also find it to be a terrific thirst quencher. I've gotten my whole family hooked on the simultaneously sweet and sour fizzy drink, too.
Store-bought kombucha is pretty pricey: I was spending a small fortune on it at the health food store until I started making my own. (What's a SCOBY? 1. 15 Different Uses for Kombucha. Why just drink kombucha? Here are 15 other ways to put your fermented tea to use. Hippie alert: I have been brewing kombucha for quite some time. I have passed along many a SCOBY (that’s a Symbiotic Colony of Bacteria and Yeast to you kombucha newbies) to family members and friends. And although the site of a gelatinous form brewing in a large glass jar on the kitchen counter might freak some people out (it does) there’s nothing more satisfying than fermenting your own kombucha and skipping out on the $5 bottle at the local co-op. Kombucha is a beautiful – albeit slightly odd looking – thing. The fact that you pour sugary tea into a glass vat and it somehow transforms into a fizzy drink full of probiotics still amazes me.
But if you brew your own kombucha, you know fully well that once you get going, you can soon have too much of the stuff. 1. Just like vinegar can do some good for your hair, so can kombucha. 2. Kombucha is fizzy, why wouldn’t you want to make a cocktail out of it? 3.
Fermentation & Home Brewed Kombucha « WILD ROOTS WELLNESS. 3 Easy Ways To Add Kombucha To Your Diet. How to Make Kombucha Tea. Make Kombucha Tea. How to Make Kombucha Tea at Home. I've been addicted to kombucha from first sip. It wasn't really the probiotics or other health promises that did it for me — although I'll take those, too! It was the way it tasted: like tart green apple mixed with sour stone fruits, but with an underlying sweetness that keeps it all together. And fizzy! I couldn't believe that something this could actually be made from tea, of all things.
Or that I could make it at home with a few very basic ingredients. Kombucha starts out as a sugary tea, which is then fermented with the help of a scoby. The scoby bacteria and yeast eat most of the sugar in the tea, transforming the tea into a refreshingly fizzy, slightly sour fermented (but mostly non-alcoholic) beverage that is relatively low in calories and sugar. Let's talk about that scoby. There are a lot of theories about why the bacteria and yeast form this jelly-like layer of cellulose at the top of the kombucha. Which brings us to the next question: what's actually in kombucha?
What You Need. How to make Kombucha Drink at Home - A Naturally Fermented Health Drink - Good Bacteria for the Colon | Jennifer Thompson. Kombucha is considered to be a health drink because it contains natural bacterias that can help replenish the bacterial balance in the colon. The kombucha itself is the yeast/bacteria combination which is formed into what is called a ‘SCOBY’ or Symbiotic Colony of Yeast and Bacteria. The SCOBY looks like a slimy pancake; some people refer to it as the ‘mother.’ GT Kombucha The ‘mother’ kombucha culture is what is used to make your own kombucha batches at home, in the same way that people brew their own beer. The kombucha drink will also become ‘fizzy’ when fermented, but the alcohol content is extremely minimal.
You can start your own kombucha culture by buying a container of GT Kombucha Drink from any WholeFoods store. All of the details on how to make your own Kombucha at home are detailed in the above video, filmed at my friend’s organic farm in Maui, Hawaii. Directions for Kombucha: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. How to Make a Big Batch of Kombucha. Kombucha is a fermented tea beverage popular in Russia, China, and elsewhere. The culture forms a leathery skin called the "mother" that floats on top.This week's Instructables TV episode shows how to wrangle the jellyfish-like "Mother" and make Kombucha 5 gallons at a time.
This method produces a fizzy carbonated kombucha that tastes very much like hard apple cider. For background on this bizarre beverage, read Arwen's Making Kombucha Instructable and the Wikipedia Kombucha article. Some confusion arises from the existence of a Japanese kelp tea also called "kombucha". Back to the blob:For me it all started when my friend Anne Harley went to Russia, made herself fluent in the language, joined a band of gypsy musicians, and went on tour with them.Did you know Russian Gypsies have a caste system that dates back to their origins in India? That was news to me. So was the fact that Kombucha exists. Since then I've made hundreds of gallons of Kombucha for my friends and myself.