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This is not a problem! If you have a SCOBY but no brewed kombucha you can use vingear to keep the acidity high enough to stop mold while the SCOBY gets established.

Made this again. Adding extra 2 cups of ale male and extra 1/2 cup of biscuit malt. SO not i's 4 cups light in colour malt and 1 cup dark malt. Crushed in a coffee grinder. Hydrometer still 1.02 Any ideas?

Interesting. As a vegetarian, cutting up the scoby was gross - as it reminded me of raw chicken. And I couldn't really get away from that to really enjoy the end result. But if someone else made it and gave it to me - I would assume that it was just a homemade gummy candy. Nothing nefarious...

I tried the scoby candy recipe in Art of Fermentation. and then started googling - apparently you can thinly slice scoby and stir fry it. Any other ways to eat the extra scobies?

I've recently read about this. Very cool to hear that it works and that's it's high in caffeine? I've heard that the SCOBY isn't 'active' anymore after fermentation when you make coffee kombucha - that you have to use an extra scoby and not your main one. Any experience with this?

1 cup ale malt 1/2 cup biscuit malt 1/2 cup roast barley 1/2 cup chocolate malt Thanks for all the replies! I want to avoid extract because it's counter to the way that I cook and I have strong feelings of such things! but maybe I'll use some to ease into this! I kinda jumped with both feet!

Urgh! I redid this and ended up with OG of 1.02. I did the mash properly this time (1 hr at 150) Foiled again? I really don't wanna go to a kit/extract. Sad face!

Oh noes! That's sad news! I see what I did - combo of extract and grain recipes and I missed a crucial piece of info! Thanks for the replies!

Crushed with rolling pin. 200 F. (I think - took grains up to 200, then pulled and drained and boiled wort)

Hey, I am brand new and decided to jump in on an all grain 1 gallon beer. It's a mint chocolate dark beer. recipe amalgamated from 4 different recipes. I used 16 cups of water and the 3 cups of grain at the start. Then I drained and boiled with hops, chocolate, and mint tea at various times. I...