Kombucha may sound like a dance, but it's actually a sweetened tea (typically black tea) that has been fermented by a mass of microorganisms consisting primarily of bacterium xylinum and yeast cultures called a Kombucha colony. Although it is new to the west the drink actually dates back to the Quin Dynasty in China where it was poetically referred to as the immortal- health elixir because it was believed to balance the spleen and stomach and aid in digestion. Eventually news of this drink reached Russia and then Eastern Europe sometime around the early modern age when tea became an affordable drink accessible to all and not just the elite.