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Yup, I've got a heater wrap with a thermostat in my Amazon cart. I'm almost ready to pull the booch making trigger.

These are actually glass bottles, but the threads are like the ones on plastic bottles.

I bought a GT Synergy pineapple kombucha today (not my favorite flavor, it turns out) and the cap fits on the Costco Kirkland brand kombucha bottles just fine. I tested it by coloring the top edge of Kirkland bottle with a water-based ink pen and there was a colored ring inside the GT cap...

Thanks for the info! Where I'm at with the cap hunt is that I'm going to swing by a store and see if I can pick up a bottle of GT Synergy kombucha. I've found a number of suppliers for caps that fit those bottles, so if the cap off the GT bottle fits the bottles I'm wanting to use I'm set.

My house is very well insulated and the thermostat is set to 68 all the time. Is this warm enough for successful F1 and F2 fermenting? Thanks!

The thermostat at my house is always set for 68 degreees. This is too cold for proper booch fermenting, right? I've read that I should use a heating mat or wrap, but is this necessary? What about heating the bottled booch during F2? Thanks!

Also, I should get my hands wet with white vinegar before removing the scoby from a booch batch, right?

I've never brewed booch before. My thought would be to have two one-gallon jars. I'd get one batch started and when that one is finished I'd get the tea ready and cooled in the second jar. When I took the scoby out of the first batch I'd put some of the new booch into the newly brewed and...

Thanks for the link as well - that's a better price than I found earlier!

I haven't tried anything yet. I switched thinking from buying new bottles to reusing store bought ones only today. These bottles look just like the ones for GT kombucha, so I'll bet I could use those kind of caps. I'll have to buy a bottle of that buch and see if they fit on these. Thanks!

Thanks!

They're definitely the same material, but larger.

Hey there folks! I want to get into brewing my own kombucha and I'm trying to cut down on costs a bit. I've seen on videos and read here and there about people reusing glass store-bought bucha bottles, but I'd personally want to get a better replacement cap made for resuing. How do I figure...