The Road to SCOBY – Escarpment Labs

It all started with an idea A SCOBY is a beautiful example of microbes working together to make something awesome, and in this case delicious. SCOBY stands for Symbiotic Culture of Yeast and Bacteria and is used to make a delicious, bubbly, non-alcoholic, fermented drink called kombucha that has a ton of beneficial microbes for your gut health. My fascination for SCOBYs started with the question “How do I make a SCOBY from scratch?”. Traditionally, SCOBY's are made by adding some previously fermented kombucha to some sweet tea - a process commonly known as “backslopping”. I couldn’t stop thinking “Kombucha didn’t just come out of nowhere, there must be a method to make kombucha without a previous batch”. This started my journey to try and make a SCOBY from scratch without a previous batch of kombucha. JAN 2021-APR 2021: Start
It all started with an idea A SCOBY is a beautiful example of microbes working together to make something awesome, and in this case delicious.