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Jun
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Jun is a SCOBY ferment of green tea and honey rather than black tea and sugar. The culture is related to kombucha but not a swap: jun prefers honey and a cooler ferment, and the cup is softer, floral, and often a little less acetic. Calling every honey kombucha "jun" is sloppy; the culture and the feedstock matter. Drink it cold like a delicate kombucha. It will not replace a sharp black-tea bottle in a dressing. Home brewers should not pitch a jun SCOBY into cheap sugar tea and expect jun.
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Jun circulated in Western fermentation circles as a honey-and-green-tea cousin of kombucha, with murky origin stories.
Home-ferment forums treated jun as a distinct SCOBY that sulked on plain sugar.
A few commercial jun bottles appeared beside kombucha in natural grocers.
Jun remained a smaller, softer category while flavoured kombucha took the volume.