Brewing your own Kombucha tea
I started making my own Kombucha tea over three years ago when I read about all the health benefits and I have to admit, only now I thought maybe I should write a bit more about it! Kombucha is simply green, white or other varieties of tea that are fermented, and after a few weeks turns into an effervescent healthy beverage. It is fermented simply with a bacterial and yeast culture that sooner or later, in the right environment creates a SCOBY. Scoby stands for Symbiotic Colony of Bacterial Yeasts. The Scoby is not actually the main part of the kombucha tea, it is just a by product of the bacteria and yeasts at work. First, a bit of the history behind Kombucha tea. Kombucha originated in Northeast China or Manchuria and later spread to Russia and from there to the rest of the world. It was thought that this showed up in China as early as 206 BCE. It became the norm over time to always share your extra kombucha tea and SCOBY mamas as this allows othe...