Kombucha

Ingredients

• Water- 1 Gallon
• Black Tea- 4 Tablespoons or 12 teabags
• Sugar- 1 Cup
• Kombucha Starter- 2 Cups

Instructions

1. Boil water.
2. Steep tea.
3. Add sugar and stir to dissolve.
4. Wait until sweet tea cools to room temperature (below 90F). Alternatively, brew a smaller batch of hot sweet tea and add cold water to bring it closer to room temperature.
5. Put in a loosely covered brewing vessel, with a cloth or coffee filter over the top and ferment for 2 weeks.
6. To bottle, If adding fruit juice, fill 10-20% of the bottle with juice and cover with kombucha. If adding sugar, start out with 1 teaspoon/4 grams per bottle (450mL/16oz), and adjust based on experimentation.
7. Let the bottles sit at room temperature for anywhere between 1 and 7 days.
8. Refrigerate the finished bottles to stop the fermentation process and allow more CO2 to dissolve into the liquid.

Many thanks to the Reddit Kombucha recipe from which this is derived.

Colin's Version

1. Tea- 6 Tablespoons tea for 3 gallon pot. 2 Tablespoons. each or black tea, oolong and green--A third of each kind.
2. Boil water
3. Put the tea in to steep for at least 4-6 hours. Usually I do it just before bed. Towards end of the steep or even after it add 1 cup of sugar per gallon (so 3 cups of sugar for my pot)
4. Make sure it’s stirred enough to dissolve sugar and transfer to fermenter
5. For bottling, pineapple juice or 1Tbsp sugar are good