Base recipe and procedures

Primary:

ingredients

• 1 gallon filtered water
• 20g tea
• 150g (3/4c) sugar
• 1 cup starter and the mother

directions

• boil 1/2 the water
• steep the tea for 15 minutes
• add to remaining water and sugar
• dissolve the sugar and cool to room temperature
• add the mother and starter, let ferment for 1 week

Secondary:

ingredients

• 50g (1/4c) sugar
• ~ 1 cup water
• fruit, ginger, cardamom etc.
• 1 gallon fermented kombucha

directions

• boil enough water to dissolve the sugar and extract flavors from the additions
• let cool to room temperature
• add to komubcha in bottling bucket
• fill bottles
• store at room temperature 3-4 days, then refrigerate