Batch 11 08-25-2009

Ingredients: 2.5 Gallons well water

1 pod Pu-ehr 1st steep

2 bags Tetley black tea

2 bags green tea

6 bags Oolong tea

4 cups sugar

I Boil 1 Gallon well water. After steeping the tea blend 15 minutes, I dissolve the raw cane sugar as the water cools, 5 minutes later I cool the tea with frozen water bottles.

This formula delivers consistently a tasty plain kombucha and it lends itself well to flavoring with various fruit juices.

Batch 10 8-23-09

Batch 10 8-23-09

Ingredients:

21/2 Gallons well water

6 bags Tetley black tea

2 bags green tea

8 bags Oolong tea

4 cups sugar

Were short on bottles used a Coors screw cap bottle and it exploded after 3 days. Even in my beer drinking days I wasn't a fan of Coors. Now I now the bottles are not that great either.

Batch 9 8-19-09

Batch 9 8-19-09

Ingredients:

2 Gallons well water

6 bags Tetley black tea

2 bags green tea

8 bags Oolong tea

4 cups sugar

we make enough kombucha now to leave 1/5th of the old kombucha in the brew vessel to try to grow some of the more beneficial components only available in processe longer tha 10 days.

I can also share kombucha with friends now. we are producing an average of 4 gallons every 8-10 days. During the hotter days 85 and hotter webrewed faster but the Kombucha did not have as complex flavors as during cooler 75 ° days.

Batch 8 8-05-09

Batch 8 8-05-09

Ingredients:

2 1/2 Gallons well water

4 bags lipton black pearl tea

2 bags green tea

8 bags Oolong tea

4 cups sugar

We reduced the green tea and the black tea increased the Oolong tea and mde peace with the fizz.

We also noted that swing top bottles are easier to operate than the GT's screw caps.

this is making very tasty Kombucha.

Batch 7 7-31-09

Batch 7 7-31-09

Ingredients:

2 1/2 Gallons well water

6 bags black tea

4 bags green tea

4 bags Oolong tea

4 cups sugar

We added juice to this batch Broke a bottle sprayed the ceiling decided to cut the green tea to 2 bags and add 2 bags oolong to the tea inour next batch.