The transformation of sucrose into glucose, fructose, gluconic acid, ethanol, and acetic acid was determined during a 60 day tea fungus fermentation. Black tea containing 67.5 g sucrose per litre was inoculated with 10% fermentation broth including the cellulose containing coherent top layer of a previous tea fungus fermentation. The microflora embedded in the cellulose/acetan layer was characterized as a mixed culture of Acetobacter xylinum and Zygosaccbaromyces sp., respectively. The yeast cells converted sucrose into glucose and fructose. Fructose was metabolized prior to glucose. The pH value of the kombucha beverage decreased during fermentation from 3.75 to 2.42 as a result of acetic acid and gluconic acid formation. A fermentation balance of the substrates sucrose, glucose, fructose and products ethanol, acetic and gluconic acid and CO2 was calculated based on the carbon-mass (g substrate × number of C-atoms × 12 / molecular weight of substrate) as parameter. The total carbon-mass at the start of the fermentation was 30.5 g. The analogous values obtained after 10, 20, 30 and 40 days were 30.7 g, 30.5 g, 28.6 g, and 30.5, respectively. The good stoichiometry implies that all major fermentation products have been accounted for