For many, Kombucha is an acquired taste. But once you get into it, you’ll crave. Unfortunately, drinking kombucha on a regular basis an expensive habit to maintain—unless you start to make it at home instead of buying it.

That’s where these kombucha books come. They cover the science and basics of brewing kombucha for beginners, with recipes and variations even experts will love. Getting started brewing kombucha at home is relatively inexpensive and it will save you a lot of money in the long run. Check out the books below for ideas on how to get started.

1. The Big Book of Kombucha: Brewing, Flavoring, and Enjoying the Health Benefits of Fermented Tea

Brew your own kombucha at home! With more than 400 recipes, including 268 unique flavor combinations, you can get exactly the taste you want — for a fraction of the store-bought price. This complete guide, from the proprietors of Kombucha Kamp, shows you how to do it from start to finish, with illustrated step-by-step instructions and troubleshooting tips.

The book also includes information on the many health benefits of kombucha, fascinating details of the drink’s history, and recipes for delicious foods and drinks you can make with kombucha (including some irresistible cocktails!).

2. Kombucha Revolution: 75 Recipes for Homemade Brews, Fixers, Elixirs, and Mixers

Kombucha—a fizzy, fermented tea-based beverage packed with probiotics, vitamins, and enzymes—has home brewers salivating. And who better to guide you through the brewing process than a tea guru with more than forty years of experience under his belt? Stephen Lee, cofounder of Tazo Tea and Stash Tea, turned his attention to fermented tea and founded Kombucha Wonder Drink in 2001.

In Kombucha Revolution, Lee reveals the secrets to brewing the perfect batch of kombucha and caring for your very own SCOBY (Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast). He also shares his favorite recipes—plus contributions from brewers, bartenders, and chefs like “Kombucha Mamma” Hannah Crum and Wildwood’s Dustin Clark—for infusing your brew with fruits, herbs, and spices, and incorporating it into juices, smoothies, sauces, snacks, sweets, and cocktails.

With recipes for Lavender–Green Tea Kombucha, Cranberry Bitters Cocktails, Kombucha Vinegar, Green Smoothies, Kombucha Lime Ceviche, and Kombucha Pear Sorbet, mixing this healthful brew into your everyday lifestyle has never been so revolutionary.

3. Kombucha!: The Amazing Probiotic Tea that Cleanses, Heals, Energizes, and Detoxifies

Kombucha is lauded worldwide by healers, athletes, yogis, and other health-conscious souls, and is now going mainstream. Kombucha, a fermented tea beverage, has many cleansing, healing, and detoxifying effects.

Eric and Jessica Childs, founders of Kombucha Brooklyn and experts on the wonders of kombucha, share their knowledge in this complete guide to kombucha. In addition to the science and culture of ‘buch, Kombucha! includes recipes and reveals inventive uses for the beverage in cooking, cocktails, and beauty products, tapping the benefits of probiotics for radiant rejuvenation.

4. True Brews: How to Craft Fermented Cider, Beer, Wine, Sake, Soda, Mead, Kefir, and Kombucha at Home

You can make naturally fermented sodas, tend batches of kombucha, and brew your own beer in the smallest apartment kitchen with little more equipment than a soup pot, a plastic bucket, and a long-handled spoon. All you need is the know-how.

That’s where Emma Christensen comes in, distilling a wide variety of projects—from mead to kefir to sake—to their simplest forms, making the process fun and accessible for homebrewers. All fifty-plus recipes in True Brews stem from the same basic techniques and core equipment, so it’s easy for you to experiment with your favorite flavors and add-ins once you grasp the fundamentals.

Covering a tantalizing range of recipes, including Coconut Water Kefir, Root Beer, Honey–Green Tea Kombucha, Pear Cider, Gluten-Free Pale Ale, Chai-Spiced Mead, Cloudy Cherry Sake, and Plum Wine, these fresh beverages make impressive homemade offerings for hostess gifts, happy hours, and thirsty friends alike.

5. Delicious Probiotic Drinks: 75 Recipes for Kombucha, Kefir, Ginger Beer, and Other Naturally Fermented Drinks

The health benefits of probiotics are no secret—doctors from both the Western and Eastern medicine camps sing the praises of probiotics for their positive effects on digestion, metabolism, and the immune system. Enthusiasts of kombucha—a bubbly probiotic drink now sold regularly in stores from Manhattan delis to Seattle food co-ops—point to its high levels of B vitamins and amino acids, improving mood, energy levels, joint function, ligament health, and skin health. Now you can learn to make kombucha, as well as numerous other probiotic drinks, at home!

With clear step-by-step directions, beautiful photographs, and more than seventy-five recipes, this is the ultimate guide to homemade probiotic drinks. You’ll find numerous recipes for:

• Kombucha
• Jun
• Kefir
• Lacto-fermented lemonade
• Ginger beer
• Cultured vegetable juices
• And more!

In addition, you’ll find recipes for making yogurt, smoothies, and kefir ice cream. Fermenting drinks may seem daunting, but Julia Mueller shows how it can be fun, much more cost-effective than buying ready-made drinks from the store, and delicious!

6. Kombucha: For Beginners! – Learn How To Make Kombucha, The Miracle Fermented Tea, At Home!

We all need detoxifies and gut cleansers at one particular point in our lives. When such cleansers come handy with amazing flavors and bonus qualities, they end up becoming part of us. Kombucha Fermented tea is a good example of a detoxifier that will double as a beverage!

In this guide “Kombucha: For Beginners! – Learn How to Make Kombucha, The Miracle Fermented Tea, At Home,” get firsthand information on how you can make your Kombucha tea at home. Get the step by step procedure of preparing this fizzy, fermented tea with simple equipment that is available within your reach.

The book is written in a simple language that is easy to read and understand. You will find the information therein resourceful as you learn and prepare a product that will bring wonderful health benefits to your family.

In general, it will be fun for the entire family. Take the next step and secure your copy of this book! In some few days, you will enjoy drinking a beverage that tastes as great as your favorite soda beverage, while giving you amazing health benefits just like your favorite smoothies! Have an enjoyable experience!

7. Kombucha: Discover The Amazing Kombucha Revolution – 23 Delicious, Probiotic Fermented Kombucha Tea Recipes

People these days are taking a much greater interest in health and healthy foods. More and more people are learning what it means to be healthy, and to choose foods that have the greatest health benefits. If you are interested in the healthy eating world, you are sure to run across the fermented drink known as kombucha.

Kombucha is a fermented drink that is loaded with health benefits. But, if you want to save some money, you are going to be better off if you make it yourself. Kombucha is loaded with health benefits, but it is going to cost anywhere from three to five dollars per bottle, and if you are drinking it every day, it is going to add up quickly. If you make it yourself, however, you are going to save a lot of time, money, and enjoy a lot more variety in what you drink.

When you make it yourself, you can add in fruits, juices, spices, and even vegetables… and I am going to show you how. You don’t want to toss in any kind of flavor, as kombucha has a distinct taste as it is and you don’t want to do anything that is going to ruin what you already have. But, if you know how to put in the right flavors, you are going have a wide variety of drinks available to you. And this book is going to show you how.

I am going to give you the best of the best recipes so you end up with the best kombucha time and time again. It doesn’t matter how much experience you’ve had with kombucha, with this book, nothing is going to stop you from success.

8. Kombucha for Beginners: Fermented Tea Drink Recipes

Are you looking for more information about making kombucha at home? Check out this book about fermented tea. This guide is very well suited for beginners and advanced kombucha brewers. You can make your own kombucha at home. This book includes lots of recipes for you to try out.

When you get the book this is what you will get:

• Chapter 1: get to know kombucha. What is it an why is it such a asked after probiotic drink?
• Chapter 2: Learn more about where kombucha came from.
• Chapter 3: health benifits of kombucha
• Chapter 4: What’s exactly in a kombucha. An overview of the nutritional value
• Chapter 5: Start making your own kobucha at home! What do you need?
• Chapter 6: An overview of the diffirent brewing methods of kombucha
• Chapter 7: Actual kombucha recipes for you to try out!
• Chapter 8: What if something went wrong? How to deal about it and what’s it’s cause?
• Chapter 9: Clarifying some kombucha myths
• Chapter 10: The end of this book and a general conclusion on the subject.

9. Kombucha Brewing: Improve Your Health One Glass at a Time

For 5000 years, generations in East Asia have enjoyed the refreshing taste of Kombucha, a fermented drink that has become popular in modern times thanks to its multiple health benefits.

In Kombucha: Improve Your Health, One Glass At A Time, you will find easy recipes with step by step guides to making your own Kombucha brewed drinks. Contents include:

• Discover the best recipes, traditional and modern
• Maximize the probiotic benefits with brewing tips
• Easy instructions for beginners

Order your copy today and discover a drink that improves your gut health and improves your digestion!

10. Fermented Beverages for Healthy Guts: 50 Easy Fermentation Recipes

Welcome to the wonderful world of fermented drinks! If you’re looking for a fun and delicious way to improve your health, you’ve come to the right place!

In this book, you will find In these pages, you will discover:

• What home fermentation works and how to brew different types of fermented beverages at home.
  The health benefits of fermented beverages.
• How to get started making your own delicious fermented drinks with a step by step approach.
• More than 50 recipes for creating ten different types of fermented beverages including: Fermentation Vegetable Juices, Kombucha Teas, Jun Teas, Water Kefir and Milk Kefir recipes, Lacto-Fermented Lemonades, Yougurt and Smoothie recipes, Fermented Sodas

The sections in this book are organized by type of beverage. Each section begins with how-to instructions on brewing the drink and then provides recipes for flavoring the beverage to ensure a tasty experience.

Fermentation can be frustrating. It can be time-consuming, confusing, but more than anything, it is absolutely magnificent once you get the hang of it! Not only is the process of fermenting drinks (and food!) fun, but it also teaches you a great deal about basic chemistry and human health—and it’s utterly delicious.
Fermenting drinks do not need to be expensive! In fact, it is very cost-effective to brew all of these beverages at home.

11. Kombucha: The Best Recipes For Making Kombucha At Home

Kombucha is an amazing drink made from fermented tea. It has been touted by those who consume it regularly and by others as being a universal cure-all for everything from arthritis to urinary infections. The established medical community isn’t quite so sure of its efficacy.

Read Kombucha: the best recipes for making kombucha at home to learn:

• A little about its history
• Views from the established medical community
• View from a folklore or historical vantage point
• How to brew Kombucha
• How to define scoby
• How to make scoby
• And how to take a vacation from your brewing.

You can also learn why come kombucha is a mild drink sort of like any carbonated beverage, and why other kombucha is a little bit more of a drink for grown-ups. Learn about flavoring kombucha, how to trouble shoot a batch of kombucha that doesn’t look just quite right. Oh, and incidentally? You can even use the fluid off a batch of SCOBY to help clean up the kitchen. Don’t wait—open up the first page, and learn how to brew your very own kombucha. We can promise you that it isn’t sweet tea from Georgia, USA.

12. Kombucha: The Complete Beginners Guide – Learn How To Make Probiotic Fermented Kombucha Tea

Have you ever heard of Kombucha? If so, do you want to learn how to make it? Or, do you perhaps want to learn about the various health benefits it offers and how it might benefit your life to begin brewing and making your own?

On the other hand, if you haven’t heard of Kombucha, do you want to know more and possibly learn how to make your very own Kombucha tea? Or, are you trying to live a healthier lifestyle and add some probiotics to your life? If any of these above options apply to you, then this is the perfect book for you!

However, you might be concerned that learning such a new, foreign topic might be overwhelming and even stressful. You might be completely new to the idea of Kombucha and not quite know where to begin.

On the other hand, maybe you’re worried about understanding the process of making Kombucha correctly and you’re afraid you’ll get lost. Not to worry! This book will always provide you with step by step processes and straightforward, easy to understand information that will help you understand, follow and have a successful learning experience! Thankfully, with this book, you never have to worry about feeling overwhelmed or worried!

13. Simply Kombucha

Welcome to the exciting world of kombucha! — What is kombucha? Where did it come from? Why do people drink it? Is it as healthy as people claim? And how exactly can you make it yourself? Simply Kombucha answers all those questions and more.

Just starting out? You will find detailed step-by-step instructions on sourcing your ingredients, setting up and bottling your brew, and a range of easy recipes to give you the confidence to get well under way.

Are you an experienced kombucha brewer? You will find a discussion of kombucha’s origins, an up-to-date summary of what the latest scientific research says about kombucha’s benefits as a health tonic, a long list of FAQs and troubleshooting questions, and some more unusual recipes to stretch your kombucha repertoire. No fuss. No frills. Simply complete. Simply Kombucha.

Have you come across any great kombucha books? Let us know in the comments!

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