I Love me some good Kombucha!! I’ve experimented with numerous fruit flavors, and this is my absolute Favorite!! My mom, my aunt, my cousin, my big sis…you get the point. They all LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, this kind!
I use Bromley Tea Bags They are a good black tea, and an added bonus is they are decaffeinated!! So if you’re one of those people that has to worry about caffeine past a certain hour, WORRY NO MORE!! Also let’s talk about this Pure Leaf Peach Tea It has the BEST peach flavor! Like when it’s steeping, our whole kitchen smells like peach!! ( Seriously the BEST Peach tea we’ve found, so I linked it for you!)
When I say you need a Glass measuring cup in my recipe, this is what I’m talking about right here!
DO NOT forget the Wooden spoon You don’t want to kill your scoby!!
If it sinks to the bottom of your Jar, that’s totally OK!! It should float to the top after a little while.
I use frozen strawberries which is A OK! It won’t hurt your scoby at all.
As you can see this jar seals. So you need to burp it (open the lid) every day or every other day to let the built up air out.
I just buy Synergy Kombucha drink it, and save the bottles to put my homemade Kombucha in!! Win, win there! If you just want to buy them off of amazon, then you can click on this link and it will take you to some pretty cool glass bottles they have.
Strawberry, Peach Kombucha!
Ingredients
Ingredients for Kombucha
- 1 Scoby
- 2 cups Water (For Tea)
- 2 Black Tea Bags
- 1 Peach Tea Bag
- 1/2 cup White Sugar
- 4-5 Strawberries
- 5-6 cups Water (To fill Jar)
Tools you'll need for 1st fermentation
- 1/2 gal. Glass Jar
- 1 Coffee filter
- 1 Rubber Band
- 1 Wooden Spoon
- 1 Glass measuring cup
Tools for 2nd fermentatioin
- 1/2` gal. Glass Jar that seals good
Instructions
- Boil 2 Cups of water and pour into your glass measuring cup. Add all 3 tea bags, and let steep for 10 minutes.
- Put the 1/2 cup of sugar in your glass half gallon jar, and add the tea. (Remove tea bags first) Stir to dissolve the sugar. (Check Notes on why you shouldn't use metal)
- Slowly add cool water while mixing continuously. Leave enough room for the Scoby.
- Add the Scoby and top off with cool water.
- Put the coffee filter on with the rubber band to hold it and let it sit for 10-14 days to ferment.
- After its done the first fermentation, save out a cup of the kombucha and the scoby, and pour (straining) the rest into your other glass jar. Add the strawberries, seal, and let sit for 5-10 days. (Read Notes)
- Strain into glass bottles and refrigerate!
- Take the set aside scoby and kombucha and make another batch! I keep 2 batches going continuously so I have 1 in 1st fermentation, and 1 in 2nd fermentation. This way I don't have any waiting time in between batches.
Notes