HOW TO MAKE A SCOBY FROM SCRATCH | how to grow a KOMBUCHA SCOBY | grow your own scoby at home

This video is all about the KOMBUCHA SCOBY. Ever wondered how you could start brewing your own kombucha tea at home? Well, first things first-you NEED a SCOBY. What's a SCOBY you ask? SCOBY stands for Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and YEAST (S.C.O.B.Y). This culture is what you add to a batch of green or black tea to turn plain tea into a delicious fermented beverage full of probiotics and gut-healthy, nourishing enzymes. Kombucha is great to aid in digestion, and helps skin, hair, and nails grow, its an adaptogen (which is just a fancy word for something that helps your body ADAPT to stress) along with so many other health benefits. Have I intrigued you yet? I hope so. I have been brewing my own kombucha at home for over 12 years and I still LOVE it. So let's get started making a SCOBY and next I'll show you how to use it to brew your own kombucha tea (next video:)

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(I've had mine for 12 years and I STILL USE IT!)

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[tatianaelisaa]

(Option 1)

1: Boil 4 cups of water
2: Add 3 tea bags (black tea, green tea etc.)
3: Add 1/3 cup of organic cane sugar or sugar on the raw
4: Allow time to fully cool to room temp
5: Add to sterilized jar
6: Add 2 cups of store bought kombucha
7: Cover and wait 7-10 days

(Option 2)

1: Pour store bought kombucha in small jar
2: Cover and wait 7-10 days
(1 bottle can be split into 3-4 small jars)

Edit: Thank you so much for the likes!! :)

[penelope-oevr]

Yay! I grew 3 scobys in my jar from a store bought one. Thank you so much for your instructions! I am making mine with hibiscus tea to try and help make it taste better because I have am aversion to the taste. But kombucha saved me from a feeding tube! I am forever grateful for it! I can eat solid food again! The hibiscus tea worked just fine for me in case anyone is curious.

[dancedancedoyouthing]

So I was able to make my scoby from scratch through your tutorial. I also made my kombucha from that scoby. Now I have a little scoby hotel thanks to you.

[sauravbasu]

Everyone requires some kombucha scoby to make some kombucha from scratch, like, you're freshly out of college and every job requires some job-experience in their advertisement

[rlynnmiller]

I was going to buy a Scooby online for about $10 but after seeing this, I will be making my own for the price of a bottle of store bought kombucha! Thanks so much!!!

[mywalletisonyourmomsnighst]

Hey I just wanted to thank you very much!!! I followed your directions and made a scoby of my own and almost done making my first batch of tea after the starter tea that came from it.

[kaitlinnfruechte]

you are absolutely adorable and this video is so well made. "scoby hotel" cracked me up

[Ftybr]

Excellent instructional video! To the point and without the ridiculous background music! Thank you!

[rozieone]

I want to thank you. I have completed my 1st batch of Kombucha. It is wonderful. I have several small scobys to keep in the mother jar. I am off to find several gallon jars to begin ! I have flavored a few of the bottles with my favorite tart cherry juice and they are on to the second fermentation. Thanks again

[michaels]

Very good idea, i never thought that commercially bottled Kombucha would have enough yeast and acetobacterium to form a pellicle. Thanks for the video!

[angelacrawford]

Thank you so much for this video. This is exactly what I was looking for. I can't wait to get my batch of Kombucha going again.

[Fizzicist]

That was so incredibly helpful, informative, encouraging, and concise. Thank you!

[mandarin]

So nobody is going to tel us how the first ever scoby that started it all was made

[b.c.]

I'm Thai, living in Thailand. Here we make our own kombucha scoby from pineapples or another sour fruits.

ingredient
3 parts of pineapple or another sour fruit
1 part of sugar
10 parts of drinking water


method
Prepare a container that is not too large. Then sterilized by boiling. or scalded with boiling water Put the fruit in a container, add sugar, add drinking water, then gently stir until the sugar dissolves. Cover with a cloth or paper towel and rubber band.
Keep in low light and not exposed to direct sunlight at room temperature for 2-3 months. Scoby will grow up.
Good scoby should be at least 1.5 inches thick, then strain the fruit. Then keep scoby And the liquid in the jar for starter.

Some people succeed at the first time, some don't. I'm not sure about the temperature where I live and where you live may make some difference. Normally in Thailand is over 30 degrees Celsius almost every day.

I'm sorry that my English is not good, if it may be difficult for you to understand.

Here is the example links that Thai people grow their own scoby, No English subtitle no translate

[candygarrett]

Thank you so much!! After 3 videos and an article on making a scoby your video was the easy and simple to tell and show!! You're awesome

[rexeldridge]

I DID IT!!! THANK YOU MUCH, for this video, It has worked I tried it your way both ways and it worked Amazing!!! Only substatue I made is I put a cup of maple sugar in not cane sugar.

[grammytina]

Hi, I'm new to making kombucha. My first SCOBY I bought online and the mailman left it in a different place than he usually does, in the sun, and I didn't see it until the next day. So as soon as I opened it, I put it right in the refrigerator. Then the next day I started my first batch of kombucha and I put the SCOBY in along with the liquid that it came with. I checked it at 7 days and it had no fizz and just tasted like sweet tea. So I waited for another 7 days and it was the same. So I added 1.5 bottles of good store-bought kombucha and by the 3rd day I could tell that it was starting to get a little fizzy. But I worried that it still wasn't getting going so I added a new SCOBY but just before I put it in the jar I noticed that it smelled pretty strong of vinegar. Then I tasted it today and the liquid has a strong vinegar taste. Have I ruined it? Do I need to start over?

[dhanashreeemarge]

My combucha came out perfectly, thanks for the video!

[raphaseabra]

How the first kombucha was made? I mean, how to create scoby without another kombucha? I cant find regular kombucha where I live.

[redcurrantart]

If you live in a place where you can get the 21+ blend from GT it works much better for a started Scoby. A few years ago the FDA made the reformulate due to fears kombucha was a gateway drug to hard drinking and the average store brands of kombucha are formulated to stop fermenting before shipment which not only introduces a different t form of yeast into the brew, but makes for weak scoby’s. The 21+ is real kombucha and much better for giving you a strong healthy scoby because it’s the real formula and doesn’t have the additional yeast added to it.