How To Bottle Carbonate Kombucha

Think of it like bottle conditioning a bottle of champagne.

How to bottle carbonate kombucha. To carbonate kombucha you ll essentially just transfer your uncarbonated kombucha into airtight bottles add something sweet as food seal shut then wait for the bacteria and yeasts to work their magic. A bit of priming sugar is added to a bottle where the yeasts in the liquid will eat the sugar to convert it into carbon. Place scoby and starter tea in a gallon mason jar. Drawing off finished kombucha from the continuous brew primary ferment vessel ready to bottle and flavor.

This is settled bacteria and yeast from the. Refrigerate to stop fermentation and carbonation and then consume your kombucha within a month. Mix the raw kombucha finely diced apple and cinnamon in a glass bowl using a wooden spoon to stir gently pour mixture into the fermentation bottles leaving a 2 inch headspace in each seal the bottles and transfer them to a dark area within room temperature. Ferment until the kombucha is tart and all the sugar is gone ferment at lower temperatures closer to 70 degrees f strain the yeast at bottling time bottle with loose lids or leave slightly untightened not enough to let in fruit flies do not add any flavoring or try cinnamon chips.

Strainer funnel. Really good carbonation most home brewers have to go. This guide is for people who have finished the 1st step of the kombucha fermentation process and are ready to flavor bottle and carbonate their brew. Through a second fermentation f2 process in a sealed.

With clean hands place the kombucha mother in a bowl along with enough kombucha to start a new batch. Another method is to put them in plastic bottles and see how much they expand the bottle. Vessel a bottle in order to build carbonation. Using a funnel fill your bottles most of the way full with kombucha.

Just place a non metal funnel into a clean bottle and pour your kombucha into the funnel. Your kombucha will have little floaties in it. Boil 2 cups water and then remove from heat. Leave 1 2 1 of headspace at the top of your bottle then close your bottle.

Until you get a feel for how quickly your kombucha carbonates it s helpful to burp the bottles. See the photo above and below. We generally fill ours up to the point in the bottle where the sides start to curve into the neck. There is nothing to add kombucha will carbonate in an airtight bottle because of the fermentation process.

The second step of kombucha bottling for the second fermentation is what will really set your kombucha apart and give it the custom characteristics that make it your own. If this bothers you strain your kombucha through a non metal sieve. Seep tea in hot water for 10 minutes.