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Welllll that's the other thing. I had already steeped two more quarts with the flavored green tea before I REALLY started worrying about it and posted on here. I just went out and picked up regular organic green tea bags, so do you think I could pull the SCOBYs out and put them in a new batch?

I actually had tasted it just a bit before I realized which tea bags I used. Tastes great! I'm so excited for it to get a little carbonation, cause I think I'll like it even better than the commercial stuff. All that to say… tasted/smelled fine to me. Thanks for weighing in!

Here's a picture I found on another blog about kombucha, and my SCOBY looked identical to it. I was worried about the texture and mottled white cloudiness, but this blog said this is a completely healthy culture: http://www.kombuchakamp.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/100_3230.jpg There...

So, this was my first attempt at homemade kombucha, and I'm afraid I effed it all up. I know not to use flavored teas, but I accidentally used a flavored green tea (kombucha flavored, ironically enough). I didn't even realize I'd used the wrong one until I went to bottle this batch; I went to...