beginning of the lasts (kombucha)

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We have a week and a day left here, so it's the beginning of the "lasts," as in the last time I will bottle my homemade kombucha here (it takes about a week or so to brew so it doesn't make sense for me to brew any more).

It's so delicious and bubbly I just had to share some pics with you.

Keep reading, I'm gonna give you a recipe so you can make it too if you want to.

You need a few things to start with:

• A jar; the top should be as wide as the bottom. I use this one.
• A culture, either in the form of a scoby or a bottle of unpasteurized, unflavored kombucha (my favorite to use to make a scoby is GT Dave's).
• A largeish pot
• A piece of cloth that is tightly woven enough to keep away fruit flies and bigger than the lip of the jar
• 5 teabags organic plain black tea or you can use loose (about 5 tbs), I have also been adding one of these, I think it is what makes all those great bubbles.
• A rubber band that will fit around the lip of the jar

• Fill container with filtered water but leave 2 inches below the “shoulders” of the jar and then pour into pot (this is solely to make sure the amount of water corresponds to the amount that will fit into the jar).
  

• Boil water

• Turn off heat and add organic black tea (5 teabags) or loose, plain is best (probably 4 or 5 tbsp)

• Add a cup of organic sugar, stir until dissolved

• Cool to room temperature, covered

• Remove tea bags and pour tea into jar, then add “mushroom” or bottle of GT Dave's and 1 cup (or whatever you have) of kombucha (if you have used loose tea, strain it; you don’t want tea leaves in your brew)

• Cover with cloth (but not cheesecloth, it’s too loosely woven) and place a rubber band or twist tie around the lip of the jar; don’t use glass lid

• Let brew in a dark place with even temperature for 7 to 10 days. If you are using bottled kombucha to make your own culture, the first scoby that you get will be thin and may take more like 14 days to form.
  

• Start all over again.

I would love to hear about it if you make kombucha from my recipe, questions are also welcomed.