#homebrewing

#homebrewing

Similar to vinegar, kombucha is made with a scoby (a symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast), or mother, which looks like a blobby creature from the deep. Homemade kombucha is an enjoyable project and really cheap to make (it's essentially just the cost of some sugar and a teabag), but it's also a skill that takes a little refining. Over-ferment it, and you end up with vinegar or, worse, it could explode during the secondary fermentation,

"On weekends, there was often a boiling batch of beer in their house, and carboys lining their hallway bubbling away," Grossman recalls.