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We generally like the flavor combination of a sweet fruit with the snap of ginger. This recipe is no exception. The sweet cherries provide a delicious fruit flavor and the ginger adds some spiciness. Using raw ginger root is also a great way to insure that your kombucha is fizzy. You can use ginger root in five different forms.

Read this post, 5 Different Ways to Make Delicious Ginger Kombucha with Fresh Ginger, to learn more about that.

For this recipe we used finely minced fresh ginger root that we peeled first. Mincing ginger provides lots of surface area for the raw kombucha to interact with, so you get lots of flavor. Mincing it also makes it easy to get into the neck of the bottle, which was particularly important in this case.

We made the cherry ginger kombucha while we were traveling, staying in a small town in Mexico, and we did not have much of a selection of bottles to bottle our kombucha in. We ended up using screw top wine bottles. They weren’t ideal, but that is all we could find.

To learn about which bottles we prefer to use to bottle our kombucha read Best Bottles for Flavoring and Storing Kombucha.

We used fresh cherries that we purchased at the grocery store. We would normally prefer to use organic fruit, but that was not an option. We washed the cherries well, and as we do with all our produce in Mexico, disinfected them with an iodine solution that can be found in all grocery stores throughout Mexico.

We minced the cherries too, for the same reason, to provide lots of surface area for good flavor and to make it easier to get the fruit inside the narrow neck of the wine bottles.

This cherry ginger kombucha recipe starts with a freshly brewed batch of kombucha made from a combination of black and green tea. Like all our flavoring recipes, we used raw kombucha that was brewed to have only a slight amount of sweetness. You can find the recipe for brewing a batch of raw kombucha here.

Additional sources for cherry kombucha recipes.

This recipe, from The Roasted Root also makes use of sweet berries and ginger. It is meant to mimic a very popular commercial kombucha, GTs Gingerberry.

Whenever I’m between batches of kombucha and choose to buy it from the store, I always gravitate towards GT’s Gingerberry. I had a feeling you might be a Gingerberry junkie too, so for my most recent batch of home brew, I copy catted GT’s. I simply added pure blueberry juice (you can also do pomegranate or a blueberry-pomegranate hybrid!), frozen blueberries, and fresh grated ginger to my homemade kombucha prior to bottling it for secondary fermentation.

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Here is another cherry flavored kombucha recipe from Cooking Light. This one is for Cherry Basil Kombucha. The author recommends using cherry juice and fresh basil leaves. However there is no reason why you couldn’t use fresh minced cherries instead of the juice. If you do opt for juice, make sure you buy one that is pure cherry juice, without additional additives or sugar.

Ingredients 3 1/2 quarts water 1 cup granulated sugar 6 bags black tea 2 bags green tea 1 cup starter tea (prepared Kombucha) 1 SCOBY 1 gallon jar 5 (16-ounce) glass airtight bottles 1 clean plastic bottle 6 tablespoons cherry juice 12 basil leaves How to Make It In […]

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