Sugar

Sugars & Sweeteners

Sugar used as a sweetener or fermentation substrate. This general entry does not specify a botanical origin or refining grade.

How sugar is prepared

Infusion

Extracting an ingredient into a liquid or fat. Temperature and duration depend on the documented application.

Beverages using this technique · 1
AKA Teas
Lapsang Souchong
Sparkling
prepared as Lapsang Souchong and Earl Grey Kombucha

Official ingredient panel and caption posted 5 September 2026. The Lapsang is dried and pine-smoked. Earl Grey brings bergamot character; this does not assert addition of separate bergamot fruit or juice. The older retailer Tibicos recipe is not combined with this panel.[1]

Kombucha Fermentation (Acetic Acid Fermentation)

Fermentation with a SCOBY (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast) that contributes bright acidity.

Beverages using this technique · 1
AKA Teas
Lapsang Souchong
Sparkling
prepared as Lapsang Souchong and Earl Grey Kombucha

Official ingredient panel and caption posted 5 September 2026. The Lapsang is dried and pine-smoked. Earl Grey brings bergamot character; this does not assert addition of separate bergamot fruit or juice. The older retailer Tibicos recipe is not combined with this panel.[1]

Water Kefir Fermentation

A short mixed-culture fermentation in which reusable water-kefir grains turn a sweet water, fruit, or botanical infusion into a lightly sour, gently sparkling base. For no- and low-ABV beverage work, its value is structure: acidity, dissolved CO2, residual sweetness, and soft lactic roundness can make a blend feel integrated without relying on alcohol.

Beverages using this technique · 2
AKA Teas
Genmaicha
Sparkling
prepared as Sugar-Water Kefir

Solo Prodotti Italiani product description captured 12 September 2026; the page is undated. Proportions describe that source, not a verified current batch. Tibicos is listed at 12%; its sugar type is unspecified.[2]

AKA Teas
Jasmine
Sparkling
prepared as Sugar-Water Kefir

La Gola, 24 January 2025, gives the four-component recipe. This remains dated source evidence, not a verified current batch formula. Tibicos is 12%; the undated Callmewine capture describes its sugar-water fermentation with kefir grains. La Gola and Callmewine disagree about which tea base is fermented; that kombucha composition remains unresolved and is not assigned here. Only the retailer claim’s explicit Tibicos clause supports sugar-water fermentation here; its disputed kombucha-base account is not adopted by this connection.[3][4]