Three-Day Kombucha

Is it possible?

When my pals at Go Indie asked me to do a review on Kombuchick's three-day brew, it was a gracious offer.

I love making coconut milk kefir, rice milk kefir, and lemon water kefir. However, as an adjunct English professor, time is not of my essence. I travel hours from school to school. My boyfriend lives an hour away from me. I rarely sleep in the same place every night.

Also - home base is with my parents. There's NO WAY my father's letting me keep a two-gallon jar of jellyfish tea in the kitchen.

Look at that monster.

Daily probiotic brewin' just ain't happenin' in my parents' house.

But the three-day brew? Now that's something that works for me. That's something small. That's something I can let sit.

So in January, I set up station. When you order the three-day brew, here's what you get.

Jar, sugar, and tea

Ziploc scoby




VERY helpful directions

I followed them like an evangelical follows the Bible. I sanitized EVERYTHING with boiling water. I made sure the sugar dissolved completely into the hot brewed tea. I cooled the tea in the fridge, before adding the scoby.

I poured the cooled tea into the jar...

... and everything fit PERFECTLY!!!

Then, I placed the scoby in the tea and set it in the warmest place in the house: my bedroom.

Our Blessed Mother of Booch

Sooooo...

Did it work?

Yes and no.

See, I started this booch in January. Probies don't grow well in the cold. They need warmth. So even though I tried to grow this booch in a warm room, it was not warm enough.

Still. It took a WEEK. That's all. That's awesome.

DELICIOUS!!!

Now that it's warming up in Pennsylvania, the booch is warming up too. It's taking five days, four days. By May, I'm sure it will be a three-dayer.

Much like kefir grains, scobys grow. Check out the farm I got goin' in this batch!


As you can see, in only a few months, I can make more kombucha, because I have more scobys. If you do this at home, please know that you don't have to pile on the scobys like I do. You can give them to friends. It only takes one scoby to make a good booch.

There are a lot in my jar because I'm an experimenter!

Kombucha is amazing for tummy probs, my fellow IBSsers out there. It's also invigorating. (I used to it get me off caffeine this past year.) I love drinking it when I'm on my long drives to and from school or the boyfriend's. It keeps me going and curbs my appetite.

So - If you are like me - stuck in your parents' house thanks to the recession, or maybe you'd just rather not have an enormous jar of jellyfish tea sitting on your kitchen counter - check out the kombuchick!