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Thanks for the reply. My second fermentation is in flip top, air tight bottles so this shouldn't be the problem.

I've been brewing Kombucha for a few years now and my wife and I love a frothy head on ours but I can't seem to get a consistent result from batch to batch. Now for the last few batches I have no head and no fizz. Basically I've just made juice. I don't know what my issue is. Here's my process...

I tried something different with one of the bottles that I had on my counter that was on it's second fermentation. Instead of pouring it through a filter to get rid of the new little scoby I fished the scoby out of it and put it in the fridge. That seems to have made a huge difference. It seems...

One thing that I forgot to mention is that after the first fermentation (about 3 weeks) as one big gallon batch, I put the kombucha into the individual bottles and add flavoring, fruit juice most of the time, and keep it on the counter for an extra 7 days so there is some sugar to help with...

I've gone through 3 batches of kombucha so far and each one has been a disappointment. The first batch I put in some screw on cap bottles after the second fermentation and learned that they weren't air tight (my mistake). The second batch I filtered to get the little scoby out and then put it...