Easy 3 Ingredient Homemade Kombucha

 Kombucha is so good for your gut health but, it can be expensive. This homemade kombucha is so easy and I always have it on hand as I drink it every day. It is only 3 ingredients (I don't count the water!) and really fast to make.

Scoby is the a living culture of yeast and bacteria that helps turn sweet tea into kombucha. A new or 'baby' SCOBY is produced each time you make kombucha (like sourdough). Your kombucha batch should lighten in color and develop a yeast smell.

Ingredients

8 C boiled water

6 teabags (black tea, green tea or ???)

2 C sugar

1 bottle of raw kombucha 

1. Pour boiled water over top of teabags and sugar. Stir to dissolve. Let steep and cool. Pour into a large glass container with the bottle of kombucha. Cover with a teatowel (to keep out dust or bugs). You can put a rubber band around the tea towel to hold in place if desired. Put your jar of kombucha somewhere dark at room temperature to ferment. In about 7 to 10 days, you should see bubbles - this means your kombucha is brewing/fermenting and is ready to serve.

2. Drain off no more than half of your kombucha to clean glass jars (I use screw top wine bottles) and refrigerate for use. I love it plain over ice, with lemon or sometimes I add a drop of almond extract (yummy!) 

3. To the remaining kombucha (in your original glass jar) repeat Step #1 but I only use 2 ingredients - water and teabags  - each week and then also add sugar and raw kombucha every other month or so when you feel your SCOBY needs to be fed.