Recipe:Kombucha flavouring

This page collects ideas for flavouring your Kombucha. Feel free to experiment and add your own!

Mate

• Mate (non-roasted)
• 0.3% w/v (i.e. 30g per 10l of brew)
• Hot infusion with boiling water for 20 minutes
• Add 0.5% to 1.5% w/v sugar, according to taste

Earl Grey

• Earl Grey (black tea with bergamot essential oil)
• 0.25% w/v (i.e. 25g per 10l of brew)
• Hot infusion with boiling water for just 5 minutes, to avoid bitterness
• Add 0.5% to 1.5% w/v sugar, according to taste

Fruit Juice

• Red grape, apple or other suitable fruit juice
• 3:1 mixture of Kombucha and juice
• Just mix, bottle and store in fridge

Caution: Kombucha with fruit juice produces a lot of gas! Skip secondary fermentation and open carefully after storing for longer than two weeks!