Kombucha recipe:

ingredients

• 6 cups water
• tea - around 7 tea bags, or loose tea to make 7 cups
• one cup vinegar
• one cup sugar (you can also use molasses or honey - this is what the kombucha scoby eats, so it needs to have calories)
• scoby (this is the fungus thing that makes the tartness and carbonation) (if you do not have a piece of scoby, you can use a bottle of commercial scoby)
• fabric (cut up t-shirt, pillowcase, etc is fine - it needs to let air in but not let flies in)
• glass jar
• rubber band or hair tie

instructions

• boil 6 cups water with one cup vinegar, dissolve sugar in, and add tea bags to make tea
• let the tea cool
• combine the tea and scoby in a glass container
• put the fabric over the lid of the container and seal it on with a rubber band
• Let the tea sit for a few weeks in a place with good air flow and no direct sunlight. A nasty looking snot colored rubbery layer will form on the surface. This is scoby, not mold. Eventually, bubbles will form under the scoby and this means the tea is carbonated and ready to drink.

Mold issues:

If you see oddities on the surface of the kombucha, google around to determine whether it's mold or not. Normal healthy scoby looks absolutely disgusting and yeast blooms can look really strange but are part of the scoby and not mold.

If you identify mold and it's a small spot, then dump some vinegar on it. The vinegar makes a bad habitat for mold and will prevent further growth. The most common mold is penicillin. Think about it, penicillin is harmless for most people, but makes some violently allergic. If you are allergic to penicillin, then especially don't drink moldy kombucha.

If you see mold growing all over your kombucha, then throw it out.

Flavors of kombucha:
Try making kombucha with different teas and see what works. You can use an internet search engine to see what will kill the scoby, but you'll get misinformation. For example, Earl Grey tea works fine even though internet consensus says it doesn't. You can also grow kombucha in straight fruit juice (boil first to sterilize, then cool and add scoby). Basically, scoby needs sugar and acid to keep growing. Go nuts.

Enjoy some government documents:

• Florida Attorney General Opinions (pre-1970)
• Florida legislative histories (pre-1998)