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I never pop bubbles and just use an old milk gallon jar or pickle jar.
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:banghead I got to stop drinking kombucha! apparently I lack self control :shifty its so so good. I'm drinking it all before the next batch is ready, and I started a 2nd brew too.
(this last one I made tasted just like hard cider. Fresh blackberries are awesome 1 day...not so much 2 days :shifty) I wanna try ginger next. AND I found a fellow BW that has water kefir grains! I'm going tomorrow! :jump |
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I saw the movie "Big Wedding" yesterday. There was a continuous brew of kombucha sitting on the counter! :roll Diane Keaton took a whiff and screwed up her face, lol. It was awesome to see the booch on the big screen!
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sooo. Containers for second brew really do matter...:shifty
I've been doing it in old kombucha bottles, but I bought one poptop style one from Ikea. WOW :jawdrop It made a HUGE Pop whoosh sound and was so fizzy! I think I'm converting to just using those...is there a place to get smaller ones that is cheap? These are only $4. Plus it only took 1 day when all the rest of the bottles (from same brew) still had very very little. Oh and slight PSA, its good to check to see if a new scoby has formed before you take a swig of a new bottle :doh Not expecting a slimy thing in your drink can be gross...I did eat it though :P~ |
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I still haven't gotten the guts to eat one yet :shiver |
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I'm sure its very healthy, but I don't know that I would really intentionally do it. |
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My kids now ask for it "Without an euuuuuuuuaaaaaaagh."
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what do you all do when the balance gets all off on your KT? ..as in something got messed up and it doesnt taste right now?
in the past i've just thrown the entire deal away and gotten a new scoby from someone...is there a way to make it healthy again? |
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So, I need to start over because I killed all my SCOBYs when life got busy. I was going to grow new ones from GTs and thankfully I saw this
http://www.foodrenegade.com/kombucha-scoby-experiment/ If you remember the big brew ha ha from 2010 when Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms got involved with kombucha :rolleyes and GTs had to reformulate in order for it to be available to people under 21 :rolleyes. Apparently it doesn't grow good SCOBYs anymore. So now I have to find someone . . . :mutter[COLOR="Silver"] :soapbox Thank you federal gov't. Meanwhile, somewhere someone is selling crack to kids but THANKFULLY no one under 21 is buying kombucha that might get them drunk if they drank 30 bottles! :rolleyes But they made my life more difficult so I guess all is not lost. :mutter ---------- Post added at 12:44 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:43 AM ---------- Quote:
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What!? at least i saw that before DH went out and bought some to try to start a booch again. :sigh
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i can mail some if anyone needs them. i have some that have been in my fridge as "extras" for a few rounds now (i do throw extra booch and tea in there every other week or so to keep them fed) so just pm me and tell me how to ship it
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:scratch the KT I bought a few months ago grew one...its huge huge now. ETA Ok...run down of my scoby growing, but I used synergy. It took a month in september to october to get what Is in flicker link though
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I hope the pic isn't huge!! Brewed my first batch, got my scoby on Saturday, started brewing on Monday... Temps have been in the 60-70s in the house...
What is this black stuff? Mold? I hope not, there is nothing on the top.. Just the usual milky color http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/11/yba4u8ep.jpg |
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