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No. any type of sugar is fine for kombucha in fact each kind imparts different flavors into your finish drink (just like beer) the only things to watch out for are oils (herbal Teas, hops, etc) as over time these will build up and kill ur scoby

thanks for the reply CvilleKevin. The cider completely stopped bubbling when i racked it so I added a yeast pack and it instantly took off, we'll see how it goes from here. Devon

Hi Pappers, thanks for the reply. I did add more sugar in secondary in order to up the alcohol content, it was at about 5% and nearly bone dry, this particular batch I'd like to get upto about 9% and backsweeten with a non fermentable sugar before bottle carbing. Devon

Should this be done? I splashed one of the three batches of cider while transferring to Secondary, my thoughts were to add some oxygen to the liquid as I added a bunch more sugar to get the alcohol up (I'm thinking this batch will be going to tertiary while the others go to bottles). I...