How to Make a Big Batch of Kombucha

Step 3 The Giant Teabag Workout

Wring out the giant teabag into your brewing bucket, soak it with water, repeat until you don't feel bad about throwing out or composting such a large amount of used-up tea leaves. That 1.5 cups of dry tea swells up to become quite an impressive mound.

I cut the top off a plastic springwater carboy to make the brewing bucket seen here.
I'm in the process of kneading the last tea-essence out of the teabag.
Actually that's impossible, but you have to give up sometime.