Learn and discover how to brew and flavour delicious vitamin rich Kombucha in the comfort of your home. As featured in the Earth Kiss Super Naturals Range. Harmonise inner and outer wellness and nurture your skin, body and soul below.
Find out how to make this delicious Kombucha recipe crafted by our friends Benjamin & Anne Marie from La Pachamama Organic.
KOMBUCHA – HOME BREWING & FLAVOURING
For this recipe you can buy a bottle of unflavoured Kombucha in the shop. But it is so much more satisfying to set up your own small Kombucha brewery! With little effort and no special equipment, you can brew your own Kombucha at home.
Kombucha is basically fermented tea with sugar, resulting in a refreshing, fizzy drink that is rich in natural probiotics, antioxidants, vitamins and micronutrients.
The secret to brewing your own Kombucha is in the SCOBY, an acronym for "symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast". It looks like something you might find in a forgotten jar in a natural history museum, but don’t be put off.
A Scoby is a miraculous matrix of good bacteria and healthy yeasts, that metabolise the tea and the sugar and transform it into the effervescent health tonic that is Kombucha.
How to get a Scoby in your life? You need a friend who already brews Kombucha to give you a baby Scoby. Or you scour the internet and find someone who offers a Scoby locally.
The thing is that Scobies grow over time, so you can expand your brewery, but at a certain point it is just easier to start giving them away to friends.
Kombucha is a delicious to drink just by itself, but you can do a second fermentation to flavour it, using flavour-makers such as vanilla, ginger, lemon, fruits, and herbs, etc.
Read on for instructions on how to make your own Booch, and two ways of flavouring!
Kombucha brewing
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Second fermentation
As said before, this is where you can let your imagination run free. Experiment with flavours, fruits, herbs and superfoods you like. The following two are delicious!
Lemon ginger
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Raspberry beetroot
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Want to know more about La Pachamama? Based within the Spanish hillside of Andalucía, both Benjamin and Anne Marie are passionate about growing and creating 100% organic plant-based whole food recipes which work in harmony with Mother Nature. Shortly after Anne-Marie’s first trip to Peru and Bolivia in 2008, Pachamama Catering was born. The name originates in honour of ‘Pachamama’ the goddess referred to by the indigenous people of the Andes – She is an “Earth Mother” type goddess that gives us life, feeds us and presents natural abundance upon us.
For more delicious vegan recipes from La Pachamama, discover their cook book here https://www.pachamamaorganic.eu/buy-the-cookbook/