But now I have another jar for the kombucha. And a good thing, too, because my mama scoby won't stop and the girls...the girls fight over the last bit in the bottle.
So here is a pictoral about brewing this yummy, slightly sour, tea.
Brew some strong, black tea with a lot of sugar. I use two gallon tea jars. I put 4 tea bags in each jar and a nice sized pile of sugar. (Don't you love these precise measurements?) I then fill up the electric tea kettle with water and pour half of the boiling water into each jar and let it steep until it gets to room temperature.
Next I fish out the tea bags, make sure all the sugar is dissolved and fill the jar up with water.
Next I slip a mama back into the jar with a bit of brewed kombucha tea.
Then I cap the jar and leave it be.
I've put the jars into the cabinet, covered them with a towel and left them on the counter uncovered. I haven't noticed any difference in the brewing except that I tend to forget about it when it is in the cabinet. So I leave it on the counter.
This is my original mama. I grew her from 2 bottles (half empty) of GKT.
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