SCOBY

Okay, so the very first one is Kabucha.

And Kabucha is made with tea and sugar and a SCOBY and a starter culture.

And it is the greatest drink.

I love it.

Tea lovers, people who want a long-term inexpensive ferment, and enjoy one, a sophisticated drink, basically, that's bubbly.

Kombucha is one of my favorite fermented foods, and it's everywhere.

And it's one that changed my life, and it's made from sweetened tea and a kombucha culture, which is called a SCOBY and also the starter tea.

So the bacteria and yeast in the culture consume the sugars, so you don't get the sugars, in the sweet tea and transform it into a tart and slightly fizzy fermented beverage.

Okay, go ahead.

Google a scoby.

Scoby? S-C-O-B-Y.

I always accidentally call it scabby.

It's not a scabby.

Oh, God, no. Moo family, don't do that.

Don't, don't.

Scoby is

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So I used a mason jar to tap.

So there's like two ferments in each kombucha thing, right? So you have the first kombucha where you're making your SCOBY and your other black tea, but then you want to add flavors.

You do a secondary, basically ferment again, not as long a timeframe, right? So that one's like five or seven days just to get the flavor until you get it right.

Until you get this flavor right.

in the garage because I was cle- I was, like, moving stuff around.

Garage is not a good sp- place to, i- in Texas, in Central Texas, a garage is not a great place to ha- have a SCOBY hotel.

And so I do have some SCOBYs that arrived from Amazon.

I, I make a one gallon batch as if I were going to package it or, or drink it or whatever.

Mm.

fine.

They have something called SCOBY, Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and

Yeast.

SCOBY is that fucking slimy goo that, yeah.

That sometimes slips out of a kombucha right down your throat.

Right

Okay.

So that is on the very top of this sweet tea is what they call a SCOBY.

Okay.

So SCOBY is that a dense thing of bacteria that grows once you add, do the sweet tea with sugar, and we used Earl Grey's black tea to make a sweet tea combination.

And you just let that ferment.

Now, if you saw on the top of my bottle, so my podcasters, there's a big white disc-shaped thing on the top of my sweet tea.

And then you get the little lid and then the little burping lid on the very top.

You got yourself a process that you can go through to make your own fermentations, right? So I just wanted to show you.

Man, the kombucha tech must be pretty crazy at this stage, right?

What would have changed? Upgraded SCOBY.

Kombucha tech.

The tech itself is actually quite old school.

It was in your old house, so this information is no longer useful to you.

But it was in your office, if it helps.

Do you guys know what SCOBY, what the word SCOBY comes from?

Self-contained underwater breathing apparatus.

So, so I'm pretty excited about that.

Um, got my, what they call SCOBY done.

So the SCOBY is ready to, to make some good tea.

So I'm just trying to find a good one to, you know, to make a good one for the fam to see how they like it.

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