Audit hold: The former home fermentation procedure and its variations are withdrawn pending a complete process review. Do not prepare, taste, serve or consume a batch using those directions. This page supplies no operative ingredient amounts, fermentation steps, serving dose, bottling schedule or active Recipe output for the held procedure.
What the Review Found
The old recipe claimed a gallon of drink from a much smaller starting-liquid quantity; the stated servings and calories were consequently unsupported. Its starter range did not define acidity or culture performance. Temperature, taste and claimed raw-honey enzyme benefits were used in place of process controls, while below-boiling tea preparation and prolonged counter cooling added handling gaps.
BCCDC’s jun review addresses actual acidity limits, alcohol, contamination and bottle pressure; it is a food-safety review for operators, not confirmation that an unknown starter and a taste-only recipe are suitable. The source itself must be read as a whole, with its jun-specific controls and limits. TFA cannot keep the old formula and assume a generic kombucha SCOBY or pH snippet repairs it. The sealed second ferment, ginger/lemon, cucumber/mint, lavender, rose-hip and culture-conversion/indefinite-care suggestions remain held with the local base. Their quantities and timing are removed, as are alcohol estimates and weeks-long storage claims.
What Must Be Resolved
A complete source-specific process must settle ingredient and starter identity, actual vessel capacity and yield, time/temperature controls, contamination and acidity endpoints, alcohol expectations, pressure handling and final storage before this local recipe can be restored. Flavor, visible bubbles, a normal smell or a calendar alone cannot clear an unresolved ferment. Cold storage slows microbial activity; it is not a universal stop switch.
Review Boundary
This hold concerns the former TFA instructions. It does not withdraw the culinary tradition or require clinical testing of ordinary food flavor variations. The sources below are evidence for the comparison and unresolved controls, not substitute directions to combine with the old recipe. No probiotic, digestive, mineral, immune or treatment benefit is established for this batch. No kitchen, acidity, alcohol, pressure, microbial, clinical or shelf-life testing was performed.
