If you are a fan of cold pressed juices, kombucha is for you, buddy.
Sterilize everything, and handle everything with CLEAN hands.
1. Bring 1/2 gallon of water to boil.
2. Steep 15 black tea bags for 20 minutes. Toss teabags in the compost for your garden.
3. Add 1.5 cups cane sugar to each 1 gallon glass bottle. Add half concentrated hot tea to each gallon jar. Dissolve sugar by stirring.
4. Add cold water to bring the temp to about 78 degrees F, and add SCOBY culture to each gallon jar.
5. Cover gallon jars with cheese cloth and rubber band. Set in darkness for 7-10 days. The color will change from dark brown to a golden mead color. The SCOBY will grown in size after metabolizing sugar.
6. Set up smaller 16 oz bottles, and fill with assorted fruit juices. (Some delicious infusions I prefer include pineapple, Naked brand Mango juice, apple/pear/ginger, berry, white grape)
7. Transfer scoby cultures from gallon jars to smaller jar. Submerge cultures with some of the tea.
8. Fill pitcher with fermented tea (for ease of pouring), and using a strainer and a funnel, pour tea into bottles over fruit juice. Seal each bottle (I use grolsch bottles), and set in darkness for 2-3 days @ 78 degrees F. Carbonation has been achieved.
9. Carefully burp each of the bottles twice before refrigerating. Do this by CAREFULLY AND SLOWLY opening the top of each bottle. You will see the effervescence mix together the suspension of fruit and tea as the bubbles rise in the bottle. Seal again before foam explodes all over the god damned place. Let settle and repeat. Refrigerate.
10.Once cold, pop open the bottle and serve over ice. Repeat steps 1-5 to have another supply for the following week.
Now you have a beverage that is more delicious than soda, but gives the similar carbonation. Drink about 8 oz a day for a few days. People detoxing initially may feel like shit after drinking this for a few days, but that's a part of detoxification. You'll probably shit a bunch, but that is better out of you than in.
Don't knock it until you try it. The Ancient Russians knew what they were doing. The palatability of it surprised the fucking hell out of me. Furthermore, just drinking fruit juice is no better than eating cane sugar. It's different if you are eating fruit because you are getting fiber and the enzymes in your saliva are working to break down the sugars more efficiently during mastication than what initial metabolizes by just chugging fruit juice, even if you are pressing it yourself.
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