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Tropical Pineapple Kombucha with Fresh or Bottled Juice

Learn how to make tropical pineapple kombucha with fresh or bottled juice. This bright, bubbly brew is refreshing, gut-friendly, and perfect for summer sipping!

  • Prep: 10 minutes
  • Total Time: 120 hours 10 minutes

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. It is vital that you use carbonation safe bottles for secondary fermentation. This recipe makes 6 cups, so I use three 16-ounce bottles. You can use fresh pressed juice (see notes) or bottled pasteurized juice; both work great (ensure it’s 100% juice, no additives).
  2. Mix the pineapple juice, lime juice, and coconut water.
  3. Fill a carbonation safe bottle about 1/2 full with fermented sweet tea from primary fermentation.
  4. Top off the bottle with the juice mixture so there is about an inch of headspace left in the bottle.
  5. Secure the bottle lid and gently invert it a couple of times to mix.
  6. Allow it to ferment at room temperature (70-80 degrees F) for about 5 Days.
  7. 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, carefully checking the carbonation again.
  8. Keep refrigerated.

Notes

  • If you press your own juice, you can juice the pineapple skins, too. Wash the pineapple well first. Also, I strongly suggest sticking to organic or homegrown pineapple. Conventional pineapples are often sprayed with high levels of toxic fungicides. 
  • Use the pineapple scraps from juicing to make our Pineapple Vinegar
  • If using fresh pressed juice I suggest heating it to 145° F for a few minutes then cooling before using. This ensures no wild microbes get introduced into the kombucha.
  • The juice ratio is slightly adjustable. The best ratio for lower sugar is 3 parts kombucha and 1 part juice. For slightly sweeter, as with this recipe, I do half kombucha half juice.

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