By Jessica Yadegaran
From Bay Area News Group
Determined to consume more gut-healthy fermented drinks in 2023? Fizzy, refreshing kombucha is a great place to start. The combination of sweetened, cooled tea and mature kombucha is super easy to make and far more economical than buying it at the store. And tastier too, say the editors of America’s Test Kitchen, who provide fool-proof recipes for making fermented drinks in the new cookbook, “The Complete Guide to Healthy Drinks” (America’s Test Kitchen; $28).
For this recipe, you will need a one-gallon wide-mouth glass jar and three 16-ounce glass bottles with caps. You can purchase a kombucha starter, which contains the mature kombucha and the kombucha pellicle, the jelly-like culture of bacteria and yeasts that acts as a starter, at specialty retailers like Preserved Goods in Oakland or your favorite online retailer….