Welcome to Kombucha Class!
If you have been curious/inspired about brewing your own kombucha at home, but have been holding yourself back or are unsure of where and how to start, have I got a treat for you!
Kombucha Class takes you through the exact steps to brew and flavor your own kombucha at home, start to finish, using my easy tried-and-true method. The goals of Kombucha Class are to demystify the process, give you confidence in your own brewing ability, and to let your creativity rip.
What Is Kombucha?
A fermented beverage with ancient roots, kombucha is enjoying a popular resurgence in our modern culture.
Kombucha and other fermented beverages and foods are coming back in vogue, with increased visibility and availability in food stores, the news and the natural blogosphere.
A simple-yet-complex process creates this health giving brew. A sweetened, caffeinated tea is added to a SCOBY (symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast). Simple. Over the next couple of weeks it is transformed to yield a drink that is sweet-tart, fizzy, and loaded with beneficial probiotics, enzymes, vitamins, minerals and more.
The finished beverage is low in sugar and caffeine, both of which are consumed by the SCOBY during the transformative process.
Why Kombucha Class?
I created this program to demonstrate how ridiculously easy home brewing kombucha is. If you’ve got an iota of patience, you can make your own kombucha.
Many people never try because they are intimidated or unsure.
This deprives them not only of creating their own brew, which can be a very fulfilling creative and expressive endeavor, but they miss out on an opportunity to nourish their guts as well.
After all, kombucha is loaded with beneficial probiotics. These probiotics help support YOUR gut flora, which helps to improve your digestive health and overall wellness.
Taking care of your microbiome – that vast, benevolent colony of bacteria in the depth of your gut – is a major aspect of the health of your digestion, a part of my gut restoration program, and will improve your general health and wellness as well.
The more we research into the microbiome the more we see the pivotal, central role it takes in all aspects of human health, from digestion and nutrient extraction to immune health and other protective/defense-based tasks, to our blood pressure and cholesterol and even our mental and emotional well being. Supporting your microbiome with beneficial probiotics found in kombucha is a concrete way to support your overall health.
Beyond demonstrating the ease of home brewing to demystify and un-intimidate the whole process, and to offer a vehicle of the promotion of digestive health, I developed this course to help assist you in your own creative process.
If you are someone who enjoys to tinker in the kitchen OR the garden, you are going to love brewing your own kombucha. Home brewing allows you to create a finished product of your own making and design, something you have cultivated each step of the way, and the finished product is delicious and health giving and often beautiful…something to share with loved ones, something to be really proud of.
What is Kombucha Class?
Kombucha Class is delivered to you online, as a video classroom. There is nowhere you need to be, and you may watch the course in the comfort of your own home.
Kombucha Class has five modules:
Module One
An Introduction to Kombucha, including a brief tour of the world of fermented beverages and foods, a detailed explanation of what kombucha is; the historical precedence and modern context for kombucha and home brewing; and an overview of the health benefits and applications of kombucha.
Module Two
The Anatomy of Kombucha, which is an in depth discussion of what is in kombucha; what a normal SCOBY looks like; and a little tour of the normal process of brewing. This module is specifically for newbies to home brewing!
Module Three
How to Brew Kombucha, which, along with Module Four, are the stars of the course. In this module I take you through the exact step-by-step process for brewing your own kombucha, including where to source materials, the exact order and recipe for getting a home brew started, and how to finish up your brew, getting it ready for flavoring or to be bottled as is.
Module Four
Flavoring Kombucha/Secondary Fermentation takes you through my favorite part of home brewing, which is flavoring your brew. This is where you creativity can really shine and you can use your personal preferences to create kombucha just for you, using your favorite ingredients (which can include fruits, vegetables, herbs, herbal tea, flowers and sweeteners). This Module contains over a dozen of my own personal recipes.
Module Five
Troubleshooting and Myth-Busting will help you work through practical issues you may run into when brewing while also dispelling common myths I see associated with kombucha all the time (like it gives you candida, sigh!)
Each module contains video and written instructions/synopsis. Everything you need is right at your fingertips, including links to all of my favorite sources of materials. Easy peasy.
You can watch the modules in order or you can jump around between them. I designed the course to work either way.
Questions you may have about Kombucha Class
I am on a low-sugar diet. Can I have kombucha?
The process of fermentation uses up the vast majority of the sugar. The beneficial microorganisms use it as fuel and to catalyze the reactions that change sweetened tea into kombucha.
Therefore, kombucha is very low sugar, and would be appropriate for most folks who are watching their sugar or carbohydrate intake.
I don’t like sugar. Can I use another sweetener?
No. The SCOBY requires cane sugar to transform the sweetened tea into kombucha. Substitutions like honey, rice syrup, coconut nectar, maple syrup, sugar alcohols don’t work simply because they are not the right form of sugar.
If you desire, you can use these sweeteners in the flavoring step of kombucha, but not the actual brewing process..
Luckily – the SCOBY devours and transforms most of the sugar, leaving the finished product with very low sugar.
I am sensitive to caffeine. Do I have to use caffeinated tea to make kombucha?
Yes. The SCOBY uses the caffeine itself as fuel. You can’t skip or substitute this step. There is a silver lining, though ;)
The finished kombucha has very low caffeine because the SCOBY uses most of it up.
Some folks who are sensitive to caffeine can tolerate kombucha just fine, and some folks can’t. The way to know which boat you’re in is to try it for yourself.
Finally, don’t accept an assumption or a blanket statement about something, run it through the “lab” of your own experience.
I have SIBO/candida/dysbiosis and I heard that I cannot have kombucha?
This is one of the most fascinating questions, and one where I heartily reject all blanket answers/statements.
The true answer to this is: it depends. There are going to be some folks with SIBO or candida or dysbiosis that can tolerate kombucha, and there are going to be some that cannot.
The blanket statement that everyone with these conditions should avoid kombucha is false. There is no evidence for this misnomer at all. And when we think about it, doesn’t hold up to logic.
How can beneficial organisms worsen a problem that has to do with bad guys? Good guys help crowd out and attack bad guys.
What’s more, kombucha actually contains candida-cides, which are compounds that kill candida.
The SCOBY is efficient and predictable in its production of good, healthy, beneficial organisms. These good guys go to work WITH you, and FOR you, not against you.
The bottom line is to do what works for you. If you have one of these conditions and try kombucha and you feel good, you can enjoy your own brew.
If kombucha worsens your symptoms or doesn’t make you feel good, don’t drink it. Luckily, I always offer a 90-day, no questions asked money back guarantee. Three months is more than enough time for you to figure out if kombucha is your thing or not <wink>.
Bottom Line
Please don’t deprive yourself of this lovely drink and the fun process because blanket statements on the Internet sound scary ;) There will always be folks for whom any particular food or beverage doesn’t work for.
You owe it to yourself to determine what is true for you before implicitly rejecting it out of hand. 
Enroll in Kombucha Class Now
After purchase of Kombucha Class, you’ll receive an email invitation to join the video classroom on SATURDAY AUGUST THIRD.
Once you get access to Kombucha Class, you can immediately watch and download all of the videos, PDFs and recipes therein.
I’m offering Kombucha Class at a flash sale until August 3rd. Be sure to grab your spot now!