How to Setup a Kombucha Continuous Brewing System

Credits to: Peachy Obligado

Do you always run out of kombucha tea? If you do, it's time to setup a Kombucha Continuous Brewing System.

Here are what you need:

• a large glass jar with a metal/food grade plastic spigot
• a clean piece of clothing or coffee filter
• a rubber band
• a kombucha SCOBY
• starter tea from previous batch of Kombucha
• water (depends on how many gallons you will make)
• tea bags (for every gallon of kombucha you make, use at least 6-8 tea bags)
• sugar (1 cup per every gallon)

What to do:

1. Prepare your sweet tea by boiling your water. Once the water starts showing bubbles, turn off the fire and steep your tea for 8 or more minutes depending on how strong you want your tea. 
2. Remove the tea bags and add your sugar. Stir until the sugar has been completely dissolved.
3. Let the sweet tea cool down. Once it has cooled down, pour it over to your glass jar with spigot.
4. Pour your starter tea and SCOBY to the jar. 
5. Cover it with a piece of clothing or a coffee filter and secure with a rubber band.
6. Wait for 3-10 days or until your kombucha tastes tart and a little sweet. Once your kombucha is ready, you can harvest your produce by bottling and flavoring.
7. Refill your CB system with sweet tea. 

Wait there's more!

As you can see, making a continuous brewing system is not very different from making kombucha by batch. But the beauty of making a CB system is that you can have kombucha anytime you want and on tap, because you can make more than a gallon. 

Note: Whenever you get kombucha tea from your CB system, replace it with the same amount of sweet tea.