How to brew kombucha for beginner guide - Herbal Remedies

How to brew kombucha for beginner guide - Herbal Remedies

How to brew

  1. Add 1L of boiling water, 2 tea bags of black/green tea and 100g of sugar (water to sugar ratio of 10:1 and 1 tea bag for 500ml, adjust according to the size of your brewing bottle).
  2. Stir till all the sugar are dissolved and let it simmer and cool down to room temperature.
  3. Pour the cooled down mixture into a glass bottle (don’t use plastic bottles).
  4. Add in the scoby together with its solution from packet into the mixture.
  5. Leave it at a dark and cool place for about 10 days for fermentation to occur before harvesting.
    1. Brewing can last up to 30 days but the longer the brewing, the higher the acidity, thus more sour tasting.
    2. Brew depending on your taste likings.

How to harvest and maintain

  1. Pour out the brewed solution into a storage glass bottle and store it in the refrigerator.
  2. Keep the scoby and around 250ml of fermented in the brewing glass bottle.
  3. Add in new mixture of water, sugar and black/green tea (amount as stated previously in the How to brew section) into the brewing glass bottle.
  4. Repeat.

Quality assured

  1. Homegrown kombucha scoby that used 100% organic ingredients.
  2. Packaged in resealable paper bag for long-term storage.
  3. Triple layer of zip-lock bags were used for the packaging to ensure no spillage during shipping.

Discussion

Feel free to leave a comment below, share with us your opinion and experience, or ask a question if you have any doubt regarding how to brew your own kombucha at home. Thanks for reading.

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