Kombucha is a sweet tea that is fermented by a SCOBY. We all know what sweet tea is, but what is fermentation and what exactly is a SCOBY. Set up kombucha making factory is easy. Tiantai company supply complete kombucha brewing equipment.
Kombucha Ingredients
1) SCOBY:
A SCOBY is the actor that changes sweet tea to kombucha. The word SCOBY is actually an acronym that means Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast.
What does that really mean?
The yeast and bacteria depend on each other to stay alive (Symbiosis). The yeast takes the sugar from the sweet tea and converts it, through fermentation, into alcohol. Then the bacteria transforms the alcohol into organic acids. Then the by-products of the bacteria fermentation feed the yeast.
The bacteria convert the alcohol into beneficial acids, making Kombucha a non-alcohol probiotic beverage.
2) Loose-leaf tea (about 2 Tbsp / gallon): Kombucha can be made from a variety of different tea blends and flavored with fruits, herbs, or spices. Use almost any tea to make kombucha, black tea is the most commonly used tea.
3) Raw cane sugar (1 cup / gallon):
Raw sugar cane is ideal, but most sugars will work.
4) Kombucha Making Equipment:
Brew kettle for tea steeping, mixing.
Fermenting Vessel:
Flat open top fermenter for SCOBY storage and prepare 'starter liquid'.
Secondary fermenter can be conical bottom for yeast draining, it is pressure vessel for carbonation. Kombucha can be consumed "still" (without carbonation), or carbonation can be infused to make it a bubbly effervescent beverage.
Add cooled sweet tea to Kombucha Fermenter.
Add SCOBY to kombucha fermenting vessel, attach butter muslin to vessel opening with rubber band
Allow to tea to ferment for 7-14 days. Sample from spigot to test taste
Once kombucha reaches your preferred taste profile it can be drank right away!
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