Round The Bend Farm’s Continuous Brew Kombucha
Kombucha is a probiotic beverage made from fermented tea. We brew ours in a two-and-a-half-gallon oak barrel, and serve it daily at lunch. There are many variations for kombucha brewing and flavoring! For an easy tutorial, check out this simple kombucha tutorial.
Continuous Brew Kombucha
At Round the Bend Farm, we’ve developed our own special method for continuous brew kombucha. Each week, we drain most of the fermented kombucha out of the brew barrel and pour it into jars. Then we flavor the jarred kombucha with tea, simple syrup, or fruit juice, and store it in the fridge to drink for the rest of the week.
We add more fresh tea to the barrel and let it sit until we’re ready to repeat the process again a week later. The following are some of our simple methods for making and flavoring continuous brew kombucha. Again, there’s a lot of different methods and recipes out there. This is just the one that works for us!Continuous Brew Kombucha
The two-and-a-half-gallon continuous brew barrel makes two gallons of fresh kombucha every week. Do this recipe consistently once a week for best results.
Ingredients:
4 tbs black tea
1 ½ cups sugar
Water
Instructions:
Drain two gallons of fermented kombucha out of the barrel. Mix in any desired flavoring, cap, label, and refrigerate.
Heat one gallon of water to a boil. Pour over black tea and let steep for 10 minutes. Strain out the tea leaves and compost them. Add the sugar to the brewed tea and stir to dissolve. Mix with one gallon of cold water and test the temperature with your finger. It should be lukewarm. If it’s not, let it sit at room temperature to cool.
When it is cool enough (below 110 F), pour it into the kombucha barrel.
Farm to Table Flavors
Friendly Maple Kombucha
This gives a lovely hint of rich maple goodness, while providing a variety of beneficial antioxidants that help our bodies fight off free-radical damage. It tastes great AND is better than other refined sugars.
Ingredients:
1-gallon kombucha
½ cup maple syrup
Instructions:
Mix and enjoy!
Fresh Apple Kombucha
The flavor of this kombucha will be sweet or sour depending on the variety of apple. This is a great fall use of storage apples. And apples are a great source of fiber, phytochemicals, and Vitamin C!
Ingredients:
1-gallon kombucha
2 cups fresh pressed apple juice
Instructions:
Mix and enjoy!
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