So this week, I finally found flavors of GT’s Kombucha that I can actually enjoy. My favorites right now are the Mango and the Strawberry. Kevin’s been wanting to grow his own kombucha for a while. it would save us so much money, considering a bottle of store bought kombucha is about $4 for 16oz. He read somewhere that you can actually grow your own kombucha mother (the culture used to make kombucha, looks like a giant gelatinous mushroom form) using tiny bits of kombucha mother that are floating in some store-bought bottled kombuchas. So we used the bits of mother I saved from my Strawberry flavored kombucha and a whole bottle of 100% kombucha and this is how much it’s grown in the past few days. And the rest of the liquid is brewed tea. I believe Kevin used some oolong.
We were extremely surprised at how fast it’s grown considering it literally started as bits and strands. So far it’s formed a nice layer over the top of the liquid. There’s some bubbly chunky island-like forms in there but it’s probably from the original bits we put it. We’re really hoping that this works and that the kombucha doesn’t die. We’ll just have to wait and see.