To brew your own homemade kombucha, you need five ingredients: “Time” is one of the ingredients on this list because it will take you at least a week, and sometimes a month or more, to make your first batch of kombucha after you get your starter SCOBY. Keep this in mind when you’re deciding where to…

There are many reasons why you might need to grow a kombucha SCOBY (Symbiotic Colony Of Bacteria and Yeast) from scratch. You’re new to brewing and don’t know where to buy a SCOBY. You can probably find a source for kombucha brewing supplies, including SCOBYs, by asking at a gardening and DIY store, or a shop that…

Kombucha tea is the English name for a healthy beverage that was first brewed in China over two thousand years ago. It is a fermented tea that is created through the action of a specialized group of microorganisms commonly referred to as a SCOBY: a Symbiotic Colony Of Bacteria and Yeast. These microorganisms evolved to…

When you’re ready to take your brewing to the next level, you should think about investing in some of these pieces of specialized kombucha brewing equipment. You’ll get more precise results, and you’ll save time and energy in both brewing and bottling. You don’t need to be a professional to enjoy the benefits of professional-grade…

Drinking kombucha tea can do so much for you: you’ll get the health benefits of the probiotics in the brew, you’ll help regulate your digestive system and get your body into balance, and you’ll get a boost from the vitamins and minerals that make up the nutrient mix of freshly-brewed kombucha. Taking that fresh kombucha…

Kombucha tea has been used for thousands of years to improve health (read how to make it yourself). Kombucha helps regulate your body’s digestive system, it promotes better immune system functioning, and it provides essential amino acids that help keep the very cells of your body in better repair. There are many very real benefits of drinking…

If you’ve been thinking about making kombucha but are worried that you don’t have the time to do it, the space in your kitchen, or the money to buy the equipment, stop worrying! Making kombucha at home is an easy process, and it doesn’t require a lot of material to start up your brewing system….

For a never-ending supply of fresh kombucha tea, you can create a kombucha brewing system where you have two or more SCOBYs working at once in batches that you’ve started at different times. Since it takes between 7 and 30 days to fully ferment the sweetened tea into probiotic kombucha tea, you could even start…

To make Kombucha, you first need to make tea. While this process is simple and we focus more on the actual Kombucha making process than the initial tea-making process, it’s important to choose the best container possible for your tea-brewing process. The container you use to make your tea needs to be safe for long-term…

There’s no doubt that you can create delicious, healthy kombucha tea with things you probably already have in your kitchen, and many people are perfectly happy to make a small batch of kombucha using only the bare minimum of supplies. But if you’re interested in setting up a continuous brew system, experimenting with second-ferment flavors, or making more…