kombucha

🥘 Ingredients

• black tea 4 L
• sugar ½ cups
• ginger 130 g
• lemons 4
• limes 4

First Ferment

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   Add the scoby starter to a big fucking jar or container and add enough black tea to fill to the top with like 1-2 cm of head space add like maybe sugar let it sit for like a week ish (f1, first ferment) cover with a cheesecloth or plate with a paper towel underneath or something.

Citrus Ginger Fruit Mash

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   Throw ginger into a food processor and zest an equal number of lemons and limes to give you about 500g of citrus. Peel the citrus and throw it into the food processor as well. Pulse until it looks like chutney, then throw in the zest and mix.

Second Ferment

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   Fill your 2nd ferment (f2) jars (1L each) 1/4 of the way with your juice or fruit flavoring mash and then like 1/4 cup sugar in each jar, stir, and let sit for a week covered but not super air tight, watch for bubbles. Mix and strain out solids and bottle , then leave the filtered bottles out (closed) on the counter overnight then refrigerate.