Kombucha Tea questions?? 
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Hi. I started to brew a few batches of Kombucha Tea using honey and green tea. Can any other water liquid be added to Komucha Tea? Could you add mineral/fulvic acid to the tea to added to its nutritional make up and has anyone tried doing this? I decided to use raw honey as I believe this would be better then using table sugar.
Any thoughts? Thanks.- Kombucha Tea and honey questions?? grzbear
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Hulda Clark Cleanses
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I have been making kombucha for well over a year with Raw Sugar and green teas. I have never tried what you are asking here so cannot advise.
Try it and discover. Perhaps report successes and failures here for others.
How does the kombucha turn out with the Raw Honey? How much do you use in a gallon? I tried it with Rapadura Sugar and was not very happy with the results so I use a raw, organic turbinado.
I would like to try the honey.- Re: Kombucha Tea and honey questions... northstar
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MoreThis is a reply to # 950,370Hi. Well the first batch with Honey well was a sweet taste sort of like honey. I dind't like the taste so while visting my dropoff site for Realmilk I talked to the DVM and the farmer and some people tried adding grapejuice concentrate which I did after the brewing cycle and let it sit in the refrig overnight. This tasted very good and the kids like the taste. It wiped out a cold pretty fast.
Well since that batch was being used up, I decided to use agave nectar instead of honey which I used a 1 cup per gallon. This time I used the nectar about 3/4cup and 1/4 cup grapejuice concentrate. Also I added a little D-Ribose to the mixture.
I will keep you updated on this batch.- Re: Kombucha Tea and honey questions... grzbear
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This is a reply to # 957,922Thanks... I look forward to the updates... if you feel successful with this I may give it another go.
- Re: Kombucha Tea and honey questions... awebaby
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MoreThis is a reply to # 959,039Hi friends
I want to start making Kombucha cause I love it. Does anyone have a good place to get the starter for it?
Thanks!- Re: Kombucha Tea and honey questions... northstar
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This is a reply to # 1,029,668Kombuchaamerica.com and kombucha2000.com ...If that isn't right look at
http://www.westonaprice.org
for a link. - Re: Kombucha Tea and honey questions... grzbear
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This is a reply to # 1,029,668If you can find Raw Organic Kombucha locally (it MUST be raw), even a commercial product, you can make your own kombucha mushroom.
My mushroom took about 2 weeks to form properly. From this first kombucha mushroom, I have literally harvested hundreds.
Make the kombucha, per instructions, then use the bottle of "raw" organic kombucha to "seed" it. The culture will form over time dependent upon the temperature etc. where you place it.
After day 7, check it every few days or so. I could not drink my first batch that I used to form the mushroom as it was too strong for me...
Read this and get started...
//www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=428983
You do not need to buy a kombucha mushroom...
Once or twice I ended up with mold on top of the culture; found out it happened when the kids got curious. I just tossed the batch and cleaned everything thoroughly to start again. Fortunately, I have all the mushrooms I need, and losing one or two is not a big deal.Advertisement
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- Re: Kombucha Tea and honey questions... northstar
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- Re: Kombucha Tea and honey questions... awebaby
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- Re: Kombucha Tea and honey questions... grzbear
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- Re: Kombucha Tea and honey questions... northstar
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This is a reply to # 950,289Hi
I've made a lot of Kombucha but am not certain whether honey would be correct. I remember reading about it somewhere on the Original Kombucha forum where there is a lot of advice offered from very knowledgeable people. Its a Yahoo Group so you'll need to join. Here is the web address:
http://www.original_kombucha@yahoogroups.com.
Good luck and best wishes
Brenda
- Re: Honey From Kombuchaamerica.com northstar
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This is a reply to # 950,609They say about 1 cup of honey per gallon of tea. I was thinking I could try blueberry juice or pomogrante juice concentrate as a Sugar sub. It sounds like reading from Kombchaamerica site that tea is just a flavoring part of the drink and the yeast lives off the sugar.
I tried two batches one doing the tea via hot brew then adding the honey and I also tried a cold brew adding the honey. The hot brew took off faster but the cold brew is starting to brew. They are both at room temp and I figure the second batch of the cold would be healthy since the honey was not distroyed by the heat of the water. The website said people have made both.
This kombucha is an intersting living thing.
I was wondering the kombucha being sold in the Wholefood stores says raw but wouldn't they have to pasteurize it? - grzbear tasha92337
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Currently I use...
Bulk tea...
1 tablespoon Nilgiri... a very good black tea
3 tablespoons Japanese Sencha or Bancha... My favorite green teas; I have also used Chung Mee
1 cup of raw turbinado Sugar to a gallon
And my culture...
I like any of the above teas used alone, however when on a whim, I mixed them, I discovered something special... at least for me.
I think I got the idea for using Sencha, Bancha, and Chung Mee from this site a long time ago... I do not remember using anything else since I started other than playing with lipton or luzianne on a whim for a batch or two.
One of these days, I may try Guayaki Yerba Matte.
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