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Thanks for making this! I'm real interested in creating my own. Would I be able to tackle a low-budget attempt at this with the goo at the bottom of another kombucha? I know there's the booger-ish thing at the bottom of the store-bought ones, but I've always heard it called the "mother".
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SCOBY and cheese cloth ordered. God help us all. I have also enrolled the girlfriend into helping. I am probably on the goddamn spectrum when it comes to this poo poo and I don't want to kill my new symbiosis friend.
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Mar 1, 2017 22:09
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Welp, I forgot to buy PH strips. I'll have to find a store with some (there's some brew stores around). Sooooonnnnnnnn....
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Mar 7, 2017 00:39
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Astonishing Wang posted:gently caress that poo poo I've never used one. Is your water super funky? Got some from a homebrew shop, but they're homebrew specific. Only go down to like 4.6. I'm just going to wing it. First batch, en route! Pics when I get home. Pics:  I'm excited but I'm not sure how it'll turn out. The SCOBY that I got from a friend seemed to be the outer trimmings of a SCOBY so it wasn't really circular. Not sure how much that matters in the end. Here's to hope! Cannon_Fodder fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Mar 28, 2017 |
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Mar 27, 2017 14:04
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Nice. I'm going to try my first infusion on Friday when I get home. I I'm about to pull the trigger on some 1 or 2 gallon jars.
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Mar 29, 2017 20:25
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I mixed a bit with orange juice for the second fermentation (2 days). No complaints. Next, I shall attack the mango.
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Mar 31, 2017 15:50
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The first one I made was with an Amazon scoby. I have 3 more jars that are still fermenting with some friend-of-a-friend sourced scoby. I want to try to do a running culture of some sort in a 3 gal jar. I'm about to pull the trigger on one to see what happens.
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Mar 31, 2017 16:37
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Mikey Purp posted:This thread reminded me that I have 1 gallon of kombucha that I brewed almost a year ago that is still sitting in a dark cabinet in my kitchen. Pretty sure the SCOBY is sentient by now. You made a jar full of alien preserves. Pics?
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Apr 1, 2017 00:09
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Astonishing Wang posted:This is a reminder to not put a glass bottle of super hot tea into a sink full of ice water to cool it down. The bottom will crack and it'll start leaking tea into the sink, and you'll burn your dumb hands trying to pick up the hot bottle of tea to save it. Good idea! I just started my 2 gallon continuous brew. poo poo gun be siickkk.
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Apr 5, 2017 16:39
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Cannon_Fodder posted:Good idea! 4/1, I started my CB with very little starter and a fair bit of SCOBY, but it had been broken up by the person I got it from so it was in cut strips. (not sure why) Queue Monday; the CB is moving along beautifully, but still too sweet to call Kombucha. Today I get to go home and taste it for the first time since Monday and I'm very very pumped to see the results. I've also started another gallon batch with a different SCOBY to see if this one turns out any better, taste-wise. You've sent me down the rabbit hole.
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Apr 13, 2017 16:20
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I looked into it a bit, and had some info in the book I used (sorry, I'm at work right now) but the main point is that there's herbs and tea. 2 different things. http://www.kombuchabrooklyn.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/tea_blending1.jpg Some teas and herbs CAN make a decent tasting kombucha but can (on the long-term) cause damage and reduce efficiency to/of the SCOBY so you try to save SCOBY in a scoby hotel for experiments, but not your bottom-bitch SCOBY. Here's the authors of the book explaining it on their site: https://www.kombuchakamp.com/tea-and-kombucha-what-to-use-and-what-to-avoid Good luck!
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Apr 13, 2017 18:50
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I've been introducing people to Kombucha. Very mixed results. ProTip: Do not describe it as "kind of a snotty hockey puck made of germs."
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Apr 25, 2017 21:12
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In between getting a dog and moving from 3 houses to 1, I've let my CB go far too long. Methinks I've got some Kombucha Vinegar and a 3 inch thick scoby. At least starting a new batch should be a cakewalk.
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Jul 14, 2017 18:32
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I was making some pretty tasty stuff with the bog-standard Nestea Coldbrew packs. I do need to step up my tea quality but I'm so overwhelmed by this house move that I haven't done diddly poo poo with my scoby friend.
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Jul 19, 2017 20:14
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mindphlux posted:have you guys learnt how to just brew some loving liptons and stop drinking literal garbage yet Regarding Kombucha:  Kiss my butthole, friend.
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Sep 18, 2017 17:09
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One of us! Nice man, I let mine fall by the wayside while I got a puppy and bought a house but soon the SCOBY will ride again.
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runchild posted:My aunt gave me a scoby for Christmas and I finally got to taste my first batch of booch this weekend. Used candied ginger (my homegrown had gone bad) for the 2nd ferment and it’s amazing. So drat gingery, so drat good. I like this a lot! Looks like I'm shoppin' for Ginger.
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