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Is it black or dark brown? My scoby always has brown trailing things (I think they're strands of yeast)

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i get stringies like that too

There are little blackish pieces clinging to the stringy stuff... Almost resembles loose lead tea. ( I used tea bags)

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I had that once, and it was tea...I think one of my bags must have broken open, I had done that once before.

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That's all normal! :)
http://www.kombuchakamp.com/basic-ko...rown%20strings

Thank you!!

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My poor kids. Yesterday, my SCOBY realized it can talk. :grin SRSLY makes a great puppet. :haha

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That scoby looks fine to me, too. Happy brewing!

I spread the kt love to my totally crunchy suspicious sil today. She tasted some at my house a couple weeks ago and after I encouraged her in my very subtle t3 way, she wanted to start doing it herself. So I brought her a jar with a gorgeous scoby. I hope the beauty is not lost on her.

Puppet scoby???! Stop playing with your food!!!!!! Simon has been dyyyying for scoby candy but I had to save the baby for my sil. :giggle
Did you let it dry out first? I definitely would not want a slimy puppet show.

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No, just when I was bottling, I was playing with it. My mother is HUGE.

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So, if you were 2nd fermenting in an old GT Kombucha bottle, how much fresh/frozen fruit would you use per bottle? How much fruit puree?

THANKS :D

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for example, in one old KT bottle i will put 2 average size strawberries, or 1ish TBS mashed blueberries.

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I think I'll try the strawberry in the next batch. Dh wants his straight-up/unflavored. I did a couple blueberry-ginger. Here's hoping!:yes

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Blueberry-ginger was goooooood!

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how much ginger did you use? I tried once...I used way too much.

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Maybe two 1-inch slivers (using a veggie peeler)? :shrug3 It was pretty subtle....I actually think I could taste the berries MORE than the ginger (so not overpowering at all!)