This is intriguing, I have actually gone completely without the starter tea and just put fresh tea and sugar and thrown the Scoby in, I find they grow additional ones quicker this way (if you need additional ones) but also it seems that they tea changes color less quick and seemingly is not the...
I read on the cultures4health site that not allowing the brewed tea to cool down enough before you put it in the jar and then drop the Scoby in is what sometimes causes mold. Although I have never had a problem with mold.
Pear. Cubed. Let it sit in the ready product with the bottle for about 4 days. Then Drink. I like it. Get a mellow pear. Really you can throw just about anything in there. I pitted some cherries once and threw them in a bottle of my already brewed and bottle stuff, left it for 4 days as well. It...