Can be frozen - but keep unsealed until frozen oherwise carbonation released before freezing may cause bursting. Freeze as rapidly as possible so forming ice crystals cannot become large enough to damage cells. Thaw out in fresh tea. Can use pieces or crush pleces of a few bits of skin around sides of container at surface level to start new culture. Massage tea in for cellulite.
Distilled water is boiled with sugar and black tea is added.
Kombucha, on the other hand flourishes even in the dark precisely because it contains no algae components. They argue that the Saccharomycodes is a yeast that does not have spores and is therefore not in the family of candida, so it can be actually antagonistic to the troublesome yeast that infects so many people. In addition there is the combination of budding and fission. The fission yeasts reproduce by means of fission like bacteria, they don't bud nor have spores. The Pombe fission yeast of the Kombucha culture belongs to this type.