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Home-brewed Kombucha Experiment

Shelley

Our first ever home-brewed batch of Kombucha has been bottled!!! – The money we’re saving is going in the bank – we’re betting it’ll be darn tasty and good for us, too!

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PS – Do you like Kombucha?  Do you brew your own, or buy it from the store?  My favorite brand is Humm, but our first taste of this home-brew is pretty darn tasty.  We’re not sure how the flavored will turn out though – that’s an experiment.  

 

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44 thoughts on “Home-brewed Kombucha Experiment”

    1. Thanks, Dan. Supposedly, it has traces of alcohol in it… 😉 I found a Hoppy Grapefruit flavor that tasted like a beer. We’ll see, and I’m sure we’re going to enjoy this batch after the 31st.

  6. I like it and make it at home. I have 2 scoby hotels just waiting for me to start a new batch. It is extremely good for you. One thing you didn’t mention that it is great for is keeping one regular. 2-3 oz a day is all it takes!

    1. Ah, that’s great. We have just the one scoby hotel, waiting for tea and sugar to be purchased. Thank you for sharing the extra benefit of it!! Cheers to you!

      1. Shelley, the hotels are to keep all of the extra scobies that grow each time you do a batch of kombucha. The pickle jars or whatever you have to make the kombucha are something else… You may already know this, but using coffee filters on the tops of the kombucha jars with rubber bands works perfectly. Then I put the jars in an out of the way place and a paper grocery bag over them to keep it dark.

        1. Yes, we just have a glass container for our scoby (the one that came with kit that we’re supposed to be able to reuse). So you don’t seal the bottles with a cap like we did after bottling it?

          1. Did you do a first ferment in the jar? You have to ferment it in the big jar for a number of weeks (I usually go a month) which the living critters “eat” most of the sugar you’ve put in there. While you do this, the jar has a permeable cap (the coffee filter) to let it breathe. The “second ferment” is where you put it in bottles with your flavoring such as fruit juice, pieces of ginger, whole fruit, etc. and then you cap it. As the critters in it eat the fruit they release gases, which turns into your bubbles and gives it fizz.

          2. Yes, we did the big jar first. I don’t think we did a full month though. But we did go onto the second ferment. The bottles are sealed up. Hope that’s okay!?

          3. On second ferment, yes, but please make sure to “burp” them or they can build up enough to shatter your bottles and it makes quite a mess.

  8. I love the strawberry lemonade Humm in the summer! I do not brew my own and I tend to stick with Kevita for my probiotic drink as there’s no caffeine. I already drink too much coffee.

    I’m excited for you, Shelley, that you are having success with your kombucha!

    1. Thank you, Mary. I haven’t tried that, but the Hopped Grapefruit was delicious and I like the Cucumber Coconut, too. It doesn’t have too much caffeine does it? Oh, dear……

  9. I’ve never hadKombucha BUT I’ve got the perfect bottles to make it in. LOL!
    I’m going to try a commercial variation first. WalMart sells bottles of the stuff.
    If I like it, I’ll make it and get to use my collection of bottles.
    Good thing!

    1. It’s kind of a trendy ancient kind of thing. If you like sweet tea, with a slightly sour taste, you’d like it. I’m anxious to taste our raspberry fused one.

  14. I had not heard of it before reading your blog Shelley – you may have mentioned it before? Good luck with your brew. I’ve not tried avocado toast either … I am slow to catch on to new trends I guess?

    1. We have a coffee shop in our little town that serves the avocado toast, it looks delicious. Thanks for the idea…I’ll try it for you to tell you how it tastes.

      1. Thank you Shelley – I keep hearing about it and I’ve never prepared anything with avocado myself … just had it as guacamole at Mexican restaurants. You can tell I’m not fancy with what meals I prepare for myself.

  15. I’ve never tasted Kombucha, but have seen it for sale. Cool that you’ve figured out a way to make it at home. Cool that it’s so healthful, too. The things I learn along the way.

  16. I am another person who never heard of this. Amzing how somehting that can benefit us like this, and we never heard of it. Meanwhile, things that are bad for our health get plenty of advertising

    1. LOL – the stuff that’s bad for us and easy to manufacture get the most advertising. Except alcohol and beer – they take just as long as Kombucha, but get more advertising. Hope you get a chance to try some to see if you like it!

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