Kombucha Recipes

My simple kombucha recipe using the traditional brewing method can be found here, and my more detailed brewing recipe is here.

Here are links to several other kombucha recipes for more perspective and for additional information:

The Traditional Brewing Method

• Kombucha Brewing Guide by Happy Herbalist
• Quick Recipe KT by Happy Herbalist
• How to make your own Kombucha Tea by Günther W. Frank
• Kombucha Recipe: How to Make Kombucha Tea by Manna International
• How to Make a Big Batch of Kombucha at instructables.com
• Kombucha Recipe at getkombucha.com
• Brewing and F&Q at Organic-Kombucha.com

The Continuous Brewing Method

• I cover continuous brewing in Part I and Part II
  
• Continuous Brewing Method by Happy Herbalist
• Continuous Brewing: Tastier, Easier and Superior Kombucha by the Weston A. Price Foundation
  

Kombucha in the News

Kombucha has been receiving quite a lot of press lately:

• 4/1/2010, The Huffington Post: Kombucha and Kefirs: Hype or Healthy?
  
• 3/24/2010, the New York Times: Kombucha Tea Attracts a Following and Doubters
• 3/4/2010, Serious Eats: Kombucha: The Acquired Taste for Funky-Tasting Fermented Tea

In addition, this article by the Weston A. Price Foundation published in Oct. 2009 is quite comprehensive: Continuous Brewing: Tastier, Easier, and Superior Kombucha.

Recap: Kombucha Demonstration and Potluck

Thanks to everyone who came to the Kombucha Demonstration and Potluck last week, and to all the supporting groups who helped to make the event possible!

I wrote a recap about the event for the Urban Homesteaders' League:

"Last week there was a Kombucha Demonstration and Potluck put on by Slow Food BU, the Boston Localvores, and Kombucha Fuel, a blog of which I am the author. Thanks to the Urban Homesteaders’ League for supporting this event!


Kombucha, sometimes referred to as 'the elixir of immortality,' is a fermented tea traced back to Chinese origins to around 220 B.C. Various health benefits have been attributed to kombucha, which is said to have probiotic benefits and detoxifying effects. It’s been claimed that kombucha reduces blood pressure, boosts the immune system, and even cures cancer..."

Read the rest of the post here.

*Special thanks to Darry Madden of the Boston Localvores for taking some great photos of this event.*