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Thank you all for the help. I taste tested and decided to let it sit a few more days. It was still very sweet. I've heard some of my friends say they are not able to get their home brew to be fizzy. This batch seems to be quite fizzy. Any tricks to that since I seem to have accomplished this by...

Thanks for your help

No mold on the top as I have seen other pics online of but the glob seems strange and I've seen some comments about yeast stringers. Not sure how to tell since the tea I very dark.

Its only day 8 so I haven't tasted it yet. I figured I would give it a few more days to sit. It smells like store bought Kombucha. But I'm not sure how it would smell of it were bad since its pretty vinegary smelling to begin with. Should I be concerned with the amount of floating particles?

Is this a healthy SCOBY?

I've tried attaching a pic but its not working. Large brown globs under my SCOBY the top layer of the SCOBY looks like Swiss cheese and is not smooth

I need help determining if my first batch has gone bad.