Blood Orange Kombucha with Sage and Honey
Blood orange kombucha with sage is one of the best kombucha flavor combinations! It’s the perfect herbaceous, citrusy flavor combination for fizzy kombucha. This sage blood orange kombucha recipe is for a second fermentation flavoring and carbonation.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Total Time: 10 minutes
- Yield: 1 Quart
- Category: Drinks
- Method: Fermentation
- Diet: Vegan
Ingredients
- fermented sweet tea from primary fermentation
- fresh sage leaves
- blood orange juice, fresh squeezed
- raw honey
Instructions
- How much juice you need depends on how many bottles you would like to make. For a 1-liter bottle, you will need about 4 oranges, 5 sage leaves and two teaspoons of honey.
- Heat the blood orange juice, honey and the sage leaves in a small pot until it simmers. Strain out the sage leaves, and let the juice cool.
- Fill a 1-liter swing top bottle about halfway with fermented sweet tea from primary fermentation.
- Top off the bottle with blood orange juice so that there is about an inch of headspace left in the bottle.
- Secure the bottle lid and gently invert it a couple times to mix.
- Allow it to ferment at room temperature (70-80 degrees F) for 5 Days.
- Carefully open the lid to see if it is carbonated to your liking. If it is refrigerate, if not continue to ferment for a few more days, then carefully check the carbonation again.
- Keep refrigerated
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