As someone in the US who makes kombucha and Jun every 2 weeks (make nearly 5 gallons every 2 weeks) I want to thank you for making such a clear and concise video. I will be trying this as I have really wanting to cut down the caffeine as well. Thank you and keep this amazing channel going strong. Made bread from sourdough masterclass and now this. Thanks again from the US.
I thought I was crazy. I started making Kombucha with the SCOBY which formed when I was making apple peal and core vinegar. I was told it couldn't be done. It didn't take years, it took weeks. Glad I'm not the only one!
Thank you, I feel so happy I found this site , as I’m new to making this and I don’t drink black tea, so I used herbs thinking it maybe no good , but so happy with my results, And now I see you have done this so happy ❤️❤️❤️🙏
Thank you April for the new twist on Kombucha. I have some scoby’s in my hotel that hasn’t been used in a while, but they still look fine. Herbucha sounds very good, so I’ll have to gear up and get some going. We have taken a break from Kombucha for a while after discovering kefir soda and found it to be so much easier and faster to make, but I do still love and miss the taste of kombucha. Paulette from the US.
I love this. I don't follow all those people who have all those bloody rules and just make what like. I do use combo of Chai tea, Green tea with Hibiscus, Constant Comment spiced and Earl Grey black tea-about 8-12 bag to a gallon of water, and I add a starter tea, a Mother scoby and about 1 cup Turbinado sugar, stir and let it set for about 2 weeks. I'm not a fan of dark black loose tea, but like herbal and Chai the best. I also keep my scobies in sealed, plastic containers in the fridge in starter tea and they last a long time until I use them.. I do a second ferment with various combinations of fruit, but will soon start adding a few herbs. Thanks for sharing this. Good to know I'm not the only contrarian who doesn't follow rules. .
I love this idea!! Herbal tea taste so much better than black. If you want the herbucha to be fizzy seal the container. The lack of oxygen makes the bacteria produce carbon dioxide.
OMG... I made herbucha🧡🧡I’m in heaven🍯 The sweet notes of Hibiscus 🌺 Rose tea, chamomile, Ginseng, and Raspberry sing thru the tangness tarty flavour of bitterness herbucha cider is just out of this world🥰... My New Drink 🥤 for life😋
My grandmother made Kombucha since the early eighties, you never found any Coke or Pepsi in her kitchen. Must be pretty healthy, she’s 88 now and in perfect physical condition....she’s senile like a stoned bat though.
Oh my goodness, I had no idea you could use herbs for kombucha!!! I’m a newbie at this, just made my first batch so far I’m have happy with it. But If I can do herbs I’m all in. I’m so impressed with your channel that I immediately subscribed !!! I took a herbalist class and super excited so much so that I have created sort of a little mini Pharmercy lol…with all types of medicinal herbs
Old comment but I wanted to say it depends how much you’ve eaten before, how much you consume and how much active you’re being Coffee will make me sick, tea a bit less but chocolate is a strong one. It’s hard to have caffeine for some as increased dosages bypass the positives and go straight to bad side effects.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful recipes !! Looks yummy 😋 and healthy !! Simply awesome !! Greetings from California … I wish you and folks good health, success and happiness !! Much Love ✌️😎💕
Hi try Rooibos tea! It not only caffeine free but loaded with antioxidants!!! That is all I use!!!! It us super cheap and available in every shop right next to the black teas etc
Thank you for sharing! I just started making kombucha last week and, being a herbalist as well, I wondered if this could be done with herbal tea. Would I use a scoby from a black tea batch?
Hi. Fantastic video! I have a few questions. What would happen if I used brown sugar? Would it take very long for the scoby to be less acidic? I want to use it without caffein but I won't know how to do it, so I guess I would buy one from black tea. Or, could I buy one and ship it to Spain? Where would you recommend me to buy it? Thank you so much!
IlovecookingIreland: Tyvk ma’am for this tutorial. A lot of hours over quite a long time, have gone into trying to find just this sort of thing, and for the same reasons as you had for creating it. All the tips are important; In all the videos that are out there, you may be the first to actually speak about that. The plan is to try your recipe this week, and then assuming it literally works well, experimenting with a few juniper berries to see if it is possible to add some of that flavour without the alcohol content. Do you have any experience and knowledge with going that route for the juniper flavour? You mentioned at the beginning that you could take a year and make your own herbal Scoby, so of course I’m wondering if a person trying to technique would change the bottle regularly in the same way that you did in the example at the end of the first week when you were about to do the second fermentation. Perhaps you have Already provided a video about that here somewhere.I sure would appreciate any ideas and advice that you can offer about those ideas. Thank you very much for sharing the benefit of your experience and knowledge. :-)
Thank you very much for this video and content. Question: if I want to preserve the herbal ferments on the shelf, can I add alcohol to the finished product, and if so, what percentage? Wanting basically to make fermented tinctures, which are shelf stable.
Thanks for this video. I have a question, Adding alcohol to kombucha won't kill the bacteria? How much is safe to add? Your take on kombucha is so interesting and different then other videos I've found.
Arbel Barak: It depends upon how much alcohol you add, but kombucha does have a low concentration of alcohol, which is usually under the level that the USDA calls “nonalcoholic”. As long as you don’t mix more liquor in, than beer or wine has, beneficial microbes won’t be harmed.
Every single resource I have checked has said that you can't grow a SCOBY from absolute scratch. Meaning no previously innoculated tea. I always thought that made zero sense. Thank you for the confirmation!
This was very good. I expected another dumb redundant video as that is the most of kombucha videos on youtube but this had new information about scoby age and so forth.
Is it necessary to leave the herbs in the jar for the full 5-7 days? Would it be okay to steep the tea for 10 min (similar to black tea kombucha) or maybe a longer steep and pour it in?
Amazing probiotics for your gut flora, lowers ph, replaced soda for me. Gives me my sweet fizzy drink I craved without all the crap in soda. I play with diff fruit juices and let it second ferment in the bottle for 3 to 5 days
There’s no proof for medical benefits. Fruit juices and tea are healthy, nutritious foods, though, and many people claim fermented foods’ microbiota promote healthier gut flora. Use your own best judgement, knowing there’s no proof, especially of extravagant claims.
Is it possible to make herbucha for a longer time? And create new daughters? I mean they say it needs tea from time to time and it can't thrive entirely on herbs. Is that true?
As some one in Bangladesh where is not available kombucha . How can I make it . Ple help me to prepared kombucha. Apple cider vinegar can help me to growing scuby ?
Amé tu video, estoy pensando seriamente ir a visitarte desde México, yo hago también kefir de agua en primera y segunda fermentación. Perfecta explicación quisiera saber si tienes canal propio para seguirte inmediatamente, ya lo hago desde mi cuenta de Instagram la mama de las novias. Gracias, soy tu fan.
I really do not recommend using anything else other than the camellia sinensis plant or in other words only black,green,oolong and white tea. These teas will give the proper nutrients for your scoby. She said that any other type of sugar would over feed your scoby and make your container explode. It does not make sense for first fermentation. However,second fermentation is the time to bottle your kombucha and add flavourings.Your bottle should not explode if it is good quality bottles for carbonation .If you want tea Low in caffeine just use white tea and add your herbs during second fermentation. Adding warm water to tea and adding your scoby will kill it. Plus adding other “teas” like hibiscus will throw off the symbiosis of your scoby.Plus I noticed that you did not add real starter tea to yours. The starter tea is basically a kombucha that has gone thru first fermentation. The starter tea is actually even more important than the scoby itself
She's really just yolo-ing. She does not even know how to carbonate. She's even mentioned that the bacteria is lactobacillus, which is not a common bacteria found in kombucha. Haha
White tea has even more caffeine than black tea. Green normally also has more. Black has less than both. But green and white tea have some tanning agent that soften the kick from the caffeine. Maybe thats why some people think green and white tea have less.
N'importe quoi sa méthode ! On se demande comment son scooby ne meurt pas, surtout quand on voit comment elle le martyrisé en le déchirant, aucun respect pour ce organisme magnifique qui nous donne tant de bienfaits ! ! Cette femme ne si connaît pas en kombucha mais se permet de faire une vidéo, abhérent
Dihydrogen Monoxide had been found in nearly all cancers. Lots of people die all across the world each year from it Summer time numbers are much higher when people go swimming. It seems deep water contain larger amounts.
LITERALLY the ONLY video I found not using black tea as I can not have caffeine. What a blessing you are, thank you ever so much!!!
I am in the same boat.
Same here😂
As someone in the US who makes kombucha and Jun every 2 weeks (make nearly 5 gallons every 2 weeks) I want to thank you for making such a clear and concise video. I will be trying this as I have really wanting to cut down the caffeine as well. Thank you and keep this amazing channel going strong. Made bread from sourdough masterclass and now this. Thanks again from the US.
I thought I was crazy. I started making Kombucha with the SCOBY which formed when I was making apple peal and core vinegar. I was told it couldn't be done. It didn't take years, it took weeks. Glad I'm not the only one!
I could listen to April all day. Such a soothing voice :)
She has a very unique take on kombucha brewing, it’s very cool
Thank you, I feel so happy I found this site , as I’m new to making this and I don’t drink black tea, so I used herbs thinking it maybe no good , but so happy with my results, And now I see you have done this so happy ❤️❤️❤️🙏
Thank you April for the new twist on Kombucha. I have some scoby’s in my hotel that hasn’t been used in a while, but they still look fine. Herbucha sounds very good, so I’ll have to gear up and get some going. We have taken a break from Kombucha for a while after discovering kefir soda and found it to be so much easier and faster to make, but I do still love and miss the taste of kombucha.
Paulette from the US.
Glad to find an alternative to black or green tea.
I enjoy April’s knowledge so much! Keep her on your series please!
I used to be drink herbs in indonesia we called jamu. And now trying to made and mixs jamu with kambucha.thank you for inspired. 🙂😊
Great class April, can't express how much I value you sharing your experiences, a true artisan!
I love this. I don't follow all those people who have all those bloody rules and just make what like. I do use combo of Chai tea, Green tea with Hibiscus, Constant Comment spiced and Earl Grey black tea-about 8-12 bag to a gallon of water, and I add a starter tea, a Mother scoby and about 1 cup Turbinado sugar, stir and let it set for about 2 weeks. I'm not a fan of dark black loose tea, but like herbal and Chai the best. I also keep my scobies in sealed, plastic containers in the fridge in starter tea and they last a long time until I use them.. I do a second ferment with various combinations of fruit, but will soon start adding a few herbs. Thanks for sharing this. Good to know I'm not the only contrarian who doesn't follow rules. .
I love this idea!! Herbal tea taste so much better than black. If you want the herbucha to be fizzy seal the container. The lack of oxygen makes the bacteria produce carbon dioxide.
Very clear video. Lovely to watch and listen.
Will definitely be making herbucha. Thank you ILove Cooking 😍
OMG... I made herbucha🧡🧡I’m in heaven🍯 The sweet notes of Hibiscus 🌺 Rose tea, chamomile, Ginseng, and Raspberry sing thru the tangness tarty flavour of bitterness herbucha cider is just out of this world🥰... My New Drink 🥤 for life😋
I made the same thing with my wild herbs. It's a beautiful thing from USA ... blessings.
I was told that Herbucha can be made with raspberry leaves intead of tea. I will be trying it out soon.
My grandmother made Kombucha since the early eighties, you never found any Coke or Pepsi in her kitchen.
Must be pretty healthy, she’s 88 now and in perfect physical condition....she’s senile like a stoned bat though.
Thank you for your sharing. I love it so much. Will try to make combucha as your method.
Oh my goodness, I had no idea you could use herbs for kombucha!!!
I’m a newbie at this, just made my first batch so far I’m have happy with it.
But If I can do herbs I’m all in.
I’m so impressed with your channel that I immediately subscribed !!!
I took a herbalist class and super excited so much so that I have created sort of a little mini Pharmercy lol…with all types of medicinal herbs
So great to know that you can make herbucha! I’m on a mission to make decaf buch for my young boys!!!
😮 Thank you for that awesome video…I will try this.😊❤
Excellent explanation! Cant wait to try it.
The mix of herbucha and gin is a devine combination, love it!
Divine ;)
Tea has such good things in it, most people who say their “sensitive” to caffeine eat and drink all kinds of things with caffeine
Old comment but I wanted to say it depends how much you’ve eaten before, how much you consume and how much active you’re being
Coffee will make me sick, tea a bit less but chocolate is a strong one. It’s hard to have caffeine for some as increased dosages bypass the positives and go straight to bad side effects.
Love to here more from you about herbs and ferments
I love your place so much, looks nice cozy and peacful and your voice so gentle. Thank you for sharing your method of making herbucha.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful recipes !! Looks yummy 😋 and healthy !! Simply awesome !!
Greetings from California … I wish you and folks good health, success and happiness !! Much Love ✌️😎💕
Hi try Rooibos tea! It not only caffeine free but loaded with antioxidants!!! That is all I use!!!! It us super cheap and available in every shop right next to the black teas etc
Thank you for sharing your herbucha drinks
I would Most definitely pop by n get her scoby... ^_^ Great Nextlevel kombucha prep. Thanks for the lovely share!
Great video! Thank you!
Thank you for sharing! I just started making kombucha last week and, being a herbalist as well, I wondered if this could be done with herbal tea. Would I use a scoby from a black tea batch?
Very good
Too good, your voice is sooooo soothing!!
Hi. Fantastic video! I have a few questions.
What would happen if I used brown sugar?
Would it take very long for the scoby to be less acidic? I want to use it without caffein but I won't know how to do it, so I guess I would buy one from black tea. Or, could I buy one and ship it to Spain? Where would you recommend me to buy it?
Thank you so much!
This sounds like this be a good alternative to monster drinks??
nice, but still better to use unrefined sugar💯🍀🍀🍀
IlovecookingIreland: Tyvk ma’am for this tutorial. A lot of hours over quite a long time, have gone into trying to find just this sort of thing, and for the same reasons as you had for creating it.
All the tips are important; In all the videos that are out there, you may be the first to actually speak about that.
The plan is to try your recipe this week, and then assuming it literally works well, experimenting with a few juniper berries to see if it is possible to add some of that flavour without the alcohol content.
Do you have any experience and knowledge with going that route for the juniper flavour? You mentioned at the beginning that you could take a year and make your own herbal Scoby, so of course I’m wondering if a person trying to technique would change the bottle regularly in the same way that you did in the example at the end of the first week when you were about to do the second fermentation. Perhaps you have Already provided a video about that here somewhere.I sure would appreciate any ideas and advice that you can offer about those ideas. Thank you very much for sharing the benefit of your experience and knowledge. :-)
Thank you very much for this video and content. Question: if I want to preserve the herbal ferments on the shelf, can I add alcohol to the finished product, and if so, what percentage? Wanting basically to make fermented tinctures, which are shelf stable.
Thanks for this video.
I have a question,
Adding alcohol to kombucha won't kill the bacteria? How much is safe to add?
Your take on kombucha is so interesting and different then other videos I've found.
Arbel Barak: It depends upon how much alcohol you add, but kombucha does have a low concentration of alcohol, which is usually under the level that the USDA calls “nonalcoholic”. As long as you don’t mix more liquor in, than beer or wine has, beneficial microbes won’t be harmed.
Every single resource I have checked has said that you can't grow a SCOBY from absolute scratch. Meaning no previously innoculated tea. I always thought that made zero sense. Thank you for the confirmation!
So have you made one from scratch?
AMAZING
Thanks for sharing!!Is it cheap white sugar you are using from the supermarket.
You sound very dutch like!!
bacteria naturally present on herbs and enzymes tannins etc help fermentation, you have created different Kombucha in this way
Just what I was looking for, I cannot consume caffeine.
Thank you for the video.
This was very good. I expected another dumb redundant video as that is the most of kombucha videos on youtube but this had new information about scoby age and so forth.
Well explained 👌
Best videos, thank you! How much Kombucha can we drink a day?
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Is it necessary to leave the herbs in the jar for the full 5-7 days? Would it be okay to steep the tea for 10 min (similar to black tea kombucha) or maybe a longer steep and pour it in?
i will certainly try thi as i dont like black tea, they are too acidic for me!
Did you just placed the scoby on a hot/lukewarm water?
How are the scobys stored? I have a black tea hotel. How do I get to a cafiene free hotel?
What is the medical benefit of kombucha ?
Amazing probiotics for your gut flora, lowers ph, replaced soda for me. Gives me my sweet fizzy drink I craved without all the crap in soda. I play with diff fruit juices and let it second ferment in the bottle for 3 to 5 days
There’s no proof for medical benefits. Fruit juices and tea are healthy, nutritious foods, though, and many people claim fermented foods’ microbiota promote healthier gut flora. Use your own best judgement, knowing there’s no proof, especially of extravagant claims.
@@sandrastreifel6452 i love making kombucha but i don't buy either the extravagant claims these people are making.
Is Kombucha safe to drink during pregnancy?
Can I use a few spoons of ACV with mother instead of scoby to start the fermentation process?
I started making kombucha with vinegar starter & a vinegar scoby, but it must be raw & good quality.. :)
I do the opposite! I put a scoby on top of my AVC to hold the apples or Fruit down... works great!!!
Do you reuse your cloths? Or are they always new? If reuse, how do you clean?
🌻🌻🌻❤️🌻🌻🌻
Hi, thank you for sharing. Can I use turmeric tea?
Can you take a SCOBY from kombucha and use it to make herbucha?? I cant find this answered anywhere!! HELP!! :)
Is it possible to make herbucha for a longer time? And create new daughters? I mean they say it needs tea from time to time and it can't thrive entirely on herbs. Is that true?
As some one in Bangladesh where is not available kombucha . How can I make it . Ple help me to prepared kombucha. Apple cider vinegar can help me to growing scuby ?
would honey stress the scoby?
Yummo
Can you make herbucha with honey?
What is ginger bug?
Can you use peppermint tea?
Amé tu video, estoy pensando seriamente ir a visitarte desde México, yo hago también kefir de agua en primera y segunda fermentación. Perfecta explicación quisiera saber si tienes canal propio para seguirte inmediatamente, ya lo hago desde mi cuenta de Instagram la mama de las novias. Gracias, soy tu fan.
Comment faire pour avoir la traduction en Français
Merci
Why not just infuse the herbs (like tea, basically), strain them and let the liquid ferment with your scoby and sugar!
o calor afeta os princípios ativos, não como a fermentação, que eleva a qualidade, principalmente das ervas, então usando fresco, tem muito mais valor
Can i use honey rather than sugar?
Il gyn It has the properties, the real one, from juniper berries
How do I get a scoby?
April are you related to Patric Ryan? He is my sourdough mentor and I see you have the same I love cooking site??
😋eldeberry gnummy
What is the taste best for 2f sweet or venigary? Thanks
Balance in between.
Would vinegar mother work for making herbucha?
Camera man ur fired
I really do not recommend using anything else other than the camellia sinensis plant or in other words only black,green,oolong and white tea. These teas will give the proper nutrients for your scoby. She said that any other type of sugar would over feed your scoby and make your container explode. It does not make sense for first fermentation. However,second fermentation is the time to bottle your kombucha and add flavourings.Your bottle should not explode if it is good quality bottles for carbonation .If you want tea Low in caffeine just use white tea and add your herbs during second fermentation. Adding warm water to tea and adding your scoby will kill it. Plus adding other “teas” like hibiscus will throw off the symbiosis of your scoby.Plus I noticed that you did not add real starter tea to yours. The starter tea is basically a kombucha that has gone thru first fermentation. The starter tea is actually even more important than the scoby itself
She's really just yolo-ing. She does not even know how to carbonate. She's even mentioned that the bacteria is lactobacillus, which is not a common bacteria found in kombucha. Haha
White tea has even more caffeine than black tea. Green normally also has more. Black has less than both. But green and white tea have some tanning agent that soften the kick from the caffeine. Maybe thats why some people think green and white tea have less.
Don’t use paper towels
It doesn’t take a year to make a Scoby …
Maybe you do it with my uncle, his name was herb
N'importe quoi sa méthode ! On se demande comment son scooby ne meurt pas, surtout quand on voit comment elle le martyrisé en le déchirant, aucun respect pour ce organisme magnifique qui nous donne tant de bienfaits ! ! Cette femme ne si connaît pas en kombucha mais se permet de faire une vidéo, abhérent
How's Patrick? haha
You sound more like a Newfoundlander/Newfie rather than Irish😅
Using a Muslim cloth can lead to bug infestations. The fruit flies are small enough to travel through the cloth!
"Chemical free water".... lmao... You DO realise all your drinks are FULL of a chemical called dihydrogen monoxide, right ?
hahaha
Lmao
Try molecule free water next time.
I use H2O works every time.
Dihydrogen Monoxide had been found in nearly all cancers.
Lots of people die all across the world each year from it Summer time numbers are much higher when people go swimming. It seems deep water contain larger amounts.
Не могу на всё это смотреть мне очень противно.
“Drinks like pee and smells even worse!!”- some predator
Thanks for the Awesome Info.
I want to try evolve a scoby to live on sugar and Neem.
Do you think Neem Leaf powder would kill the Bacteria ?