How To Make Kombucha At Home

Why drop tons of money on kombucha at the store, when you can make it at home for practically nothing? Part tea, part fermentation, part soda. Flavor it how you want it, and become a fermentation master.

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[isiah]

I tried the vinegar method and mold began to form on the top so instead I bought a bottle of unflavored kombucha and used that as my starter and after about a month in, a scoby began to form and it's been working quite well. So in short, you can grow your own scoby from just a bottle of store bought unflavored kombucha and some sweet tea. :)

As a biochemist, who has grown bacteria and yeast in the lab, I am puzzled why magnetic stirrers have not been introduced into hobbyist kitchens.

[anastassiyazobenko]

i like how we used to have it in my soviet childhood and it was called "mushroom tea" and it surely wasn't fancy. look how tables have turned

[gabybop]

Awesome video. One quibble is that you totally can add frozen fruit. Doing that has so many advantages: it’s cheaper, freezing the fruit kills a lot of harmful pathogens, freezing the fruits also breaks up the cell walls of the fruit, leaving the sugars inside them readily available to the kombucha microorganisms.

[ryanevius]

If you bottle some in a plastic bottle, you'll know exactly when the second fermentation / carbonation process is done, and you won't risk exploding bottles. As soon as the plastic bottle is rock hard, it's done. Throw the glass bottles in the fridge and enjoy.

[arsi]

Will try this just to grow my own scoby and name him Scobydoo

[aaronschlegel]

Dude you are awesome, and creep me out. I think you literally might be a psychic.

The other day I randomly wanted to learn to make sour dough starter watched you're video on it, and made it.

A few days later, I wanted to learn how to make croissants. Randomly was searching, can across your video. Yeah you make baking videos not that big of a coincidence.

Then the next day I was looking for a video on how to sharpen knives. Was clicking around on YouTube and watched your video.

I had kombucha today for the first time, and was thinking screw paying 4 bucks for this. I'll find a video on YouTube how to make it, and again you have a video for can read my mind.

Your videos are great, first ever time I've subscribed to a channel. Keep it up man.

[carollangman]

Ive been making kombucha for a year now and im sure my gut is healthier for it...its quite expensive to buy but ridiculously easy to make...last summer i put herbs like lemon balm from the garden...lush xx

[jeanneomalley]

I did this using cherry syrup and cherries and it was soooo freaking good

[PatrickJoannisse]

"moment of silence" followed by loud music. Classic Josh.

[zitronentee]

2:15
.... just casually mentions the thing with the bitterness of the black tea
best info ever, i always wondered why some teas have that taste and i am one of those teabag squeezers

[MrRaccoonraccoon]

I like that these videos are concise enough to make sure we don’t fuck up and include exact measurements but straight forward and short enough not to bore us and let us explore more details on each subject on our own

[egan]

Save 2 cups of yiur last kombucha...
Starting job need 2 years experience...
I seea pattern

[ugursenturk]

stole a scobi
got shot in the leg and looking at 2 years jail time =(

[GltchDeclined]

I’ve been a fan of doing a 1:1:1 of black, green, and white tea, with variations to the ratios whenever I feel like switching it up. It saved me TONS of money making kombucha when I was in Mexico for a year.

[kathkwilts]

You actually DO want the bitterness. The Scoby consumes the tannins. So, squeeze those tea bags!

[papasmurf]

Just the idea of a sac of bacteria producing another giant sac of bacteria in my tea doesn’t sound so pleasant...

[odjajoonbee]

Expert in baking, cooking, and fermenting. What a purrfect combo you are!!!!

[breanabauman]

Enjoying ice-cold lavender strawberry bubbles ATM. Next: strawberry mint, THEN black courrant black tea with... herb TBD from garden. Thank you for getting me started on this amazingly simple healthy beverage that's my new summer go-to cold drink.

BTW Josh, you've got to add this and the fermented hot sauce recipes to your Fermentation playlist! I've been recommending it to all my friends and a central location is super helpful. xoxo

[pho.phonic]

Mai Tai is such a jam and hearing it in the background made me so happy.