This is a prepared batch of Kombucha what
you see here are, I like to leave, like I
said I like to leave a couple of the cultures
in and this is the baby this one here on top.
I'll show you that more in detail in just
a minute. Now if you can brew tea you can
make Kombucha it's just that simple. I do
a short cut method where in I instead of boiling
the whole gallon of liquid and waiting for
ever to cool down, I just do one quart, so
this here is 4 cups of water. We're going
to start that boiling and before that comes
to a boil I'm going to add 1 cup of sugar,
a raw organic turbinado sugar and I'm going
to stir while I do that so that the sugar
crystals don't stick to the bottom, so they
don't caramelized cause if they caramelized
that can be harmful and also have a bad flavor,
so I'm just going to stir this all looks dissolved
into the water. And once we're done with that
we're going to move over and take a look at
the scoby up close. Alrighty here we go, so
now we're going to take our jar we're going
to come over here, come closer, again glass
is really important that the brewing vessel
and all the materials touch the Kombucha is
made out of glass. Metal is absolutely a no
no it will leach toxicans from plastic, so
it's really important that you use unlite
glass. Now if you don't have I use a gallon
pickle jar from Cosco cause I love pickles,
so you can use a pickle jar, you can use a
large bowl just anything that'll hold a gallon
of liquid. So here let's take out our baby
and see that there kind of attached, I'm going
to ripe it off and there's our baby. This
is a celluer structure that the bacteria needs
build so that they can live in this. And you
can see these back here these are the little
yeast, they make this little brown glops,
put that in there, we're going to take out
our other 2 that are stuck together and you'll
see that there a little older, there a little
browner and text in color, but there still
good. Now your going to need a culture and
your also going to need starter which once
you start brewing you can get your starter
by pouring off from the top about a cup of
liquid to cover it up. And this will be your
starter for the next batch, I'm going to cover
that with the towels so that the fruit flies
don't get to it, and now we're going to move
to the bottling process.
