Some of you folks amaze me. Is there anything y’all can’t do? :)
I was reading about kombucha a few months back after buying a bottle at a health food store. The making of it intrigues me but I don’t trust myself enough (albeit, it looks easier than brewing beer which I do).
Try it - it’s so easy. Just need a clean crock or 1 gallon glass pickle jar. Make a gallon of tea, any kind, add 1 cup sugar and the kombucha pancake or SCOBY as it’s called. The bacteria eat the sugar and the tea ferments in about a week. Then you just add fresh tea to the crock, each time you make a batch it adds a layer to the pancake. Have tried 3 kinds of tea so far. Favorite is green tea, then after it turns into kombucha and goes in the fridge I add some dried blueberries and the tea gets a nice blueberry flavor. I tried some from the store first and it was awful! Luckily a friend had brought some over for us to try, homemade, so I knew it tasted good. It’s not really alcoholic, just fermented.