Kombucha

Name: Kombucha
Total time: 216 h
Yield: 3.5
Ingredients: Tea: 8 — tea bags; Boiling water: 1.5–2 l; Sugar: 1 cup; Cold water — or ice; Room-temperature water — up to 3 l in total; Kombucha: 500 ml — from the previous batch; Sugar: 3 tsp — 1 tsp per litre

Homemade kombucha: about 6 days of primary fermentation, then 3–4 days in bottles. The remaining half litre is the starter for the next batch.

Waiting9 d

3.5 l

01Primary fermentation

✓8Tea, tea bags

✓1.5–2 lBoiling water

✓1 cupSugar

✓Cold water, or ice

✓Room-temperature water, up to 3 l in total

✓500 mlKombucha, from the previous batch

02Bottling

✓3 tspSugar, 1 tsp per litre