Can I make the perfect kombucha?

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@applegal3058 2 ай бұрын

Yay, kombucha! I'm currently drinking my homemade grape kombucha while i watch this. I use the following ingredients in my batches: 1 litre boiling water 1 cup sugar 8 orange pekoe tea bags - steep 15 minutes or so... Squeeze and remove the tea bags. Add about 2 litres cold water and stir. Add 2 cups starter and the SCOBY. Top with cold water to reach the 1 gallon mark if necessary Cover with a tea towel. Ferment 7 - 10 days. Reserve 2 cups starter and SCOBY for next batch. Strain kombucha in fine mesh strainer. Add to each 1 pint (2 cup bottle) either: 2 tablespoons of fruit or ginger syrup OR 1/4 cup fruit juice Seal and Ferment 4 days, until bubbly. Chill and serve. Grape juice made it go really bubbly, really fast. Ginger syrup plus a quarter tsp of dried ginger tastes delicious! Pomegranate is ok, but i found it hard to carbonate. Pineapple oranges is delicious! Cherry juice tasted like beer once done...

@Will-watchingvideos 2 ай бұрын

Feed me fermentation father.

@willowgalusha4161 2 ай бұрын

i have been making kombucha on and off for years now, and one tip i have is that using black tea doesn't affect the final flavor much and the scoby thrives on the tannins in black tea, in fact it needs them. when i've used just green tea as a base for too long, the scoby gets much weaker and less vigorous. Doing a round with black tea brought it back from that. I suggest using a mix of black & green tea in the base, it will help with having a balance of the flavor and color you want while providing the scoby with adequate nutrition : )

@welder6032 2 ай бұрын

It so strange to paper filter kombucha before carbonation because you also filtering kombucha yeasts and there almost nothing left to eat sugar you added. Also filtering green tea through paper also filter this small white particles of tea that good source of caffeine and polyphenols itself.

@jonanderson5137 14 күн бұрын

I made some chai kombucha last year, that's a pretty safe flavor profile for me. Also made some kefir. I'll admit that I mixed some for drinking and chai kefir was okay.

@tmac10524 29 күн бұрын

I started brewing kombucha for the first time roughly when this video was out. Also checked out your 2nd kombucha video. Now patiently waiting for an update!

@juliavictoria229 2 ай бұрын

I am very excited for this - been trying with creating Kombucha for a while now but not too sure how to perfect it. Excited to learn through your learnings :)

@stockton1856 2 ай бұрын

Whenever I make my own kombucha I use the worst quality black tea and steep it for an incredibly long time (25 or so minutes). The flavor of the tea has never came through in an unpleasant way, and if it’s already going to be sweetened with fruit and other flavorings when I go to bottle the added layer of tea can be quite nice. This is my personal experience though, I’ve been making kombucha for about 3 years, and my scoby is really well developed. Being on the other side of the world probably affects the flavors the yeasts impart as well

@applegal3058 2 ай бұрын

I've always used Tetly orange pekoe tea...steep it like 15 minutes or more....never had an issue with bitterness or off flavours.

@lucaverlato8254 2 ай бұрын

I steep tea for 24h, using 7g of tea and 70g of sugar per liter. Amazing kombucha.

@tlampton1 2 ай бұрын

Getting to this point as a Certified Fermentation Influencer™ without a thermometer or funnel is impressive. 😂

@duttfisch 2 ай бұрын

I'd assume he has either/both at home, but since he said in the beginning of the video he's in Seoul for this, the place he's at is probably an AirBnB or something :D

@johanndaart7326 2 ай бұрын

Adding sugar while the green tea still is brewing can impair its taste. I would first brew the tea to the end, then filter, then add sugar - the water will be still really warm. Also be careful when you open a bottle that has a second fermentation with added sugar/juice - it can explode to your ceiling and you will need to pay your landlord for renovation XD You never know! :D

@NeoCosmicCrusher 2 ай бұрын

Back in 2017 I really got into making kombucha, I made a matcha kombucha but it was very cloudy and it clumped up on the glass and on scoby. I abandoned the project and eventually stopped making kombucha all together. If I were to start over, I would either do a cold brew matcha and filter or just go the traditional route and then filter the matcha.

@1flipmo1 2 ай бұрын

Try it with yuzu! My favorite :)

@TrechEc 2 ай бұрын

I have tried making kombucha 10+ times and still yet to get the flavor right. so i'll be interested in your recipes going forward

@lester44444 2 ай бұрын

Ikea advertises a lot of their bottles as good for bottling kombucha - so many of the designs are older, being advertised as kombucha-ready years down the line to catch onto the fad, and were NOT originally created to be pressure safe, and often do have brittle points in their construction!!! Don't use them for your fermentations!!! Or at least use with HEAPS of caution! The ones that don't explode during your f2 may also just be leaky, cos the seal isn't great either! So regardless, just don't use ikea bottles for that purpose. You have a chance that the bottle is good, but it's just not worth the risk or possibly wasted effort.

@tmac10524 Ай бұрын

Love the fact you use litre and ml as units 😂

@sholehnurudin 2 ай бұрын

I have a jar of scoby starter left unattended about 3 months, feed them with tea couple times, it grows 3 big layer of pellicle, 3cm thick each. Seeing that pomegranate kombucha makes me want to start brewing again,