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With over 100 views and no replies, I must be the Rodney Dangerfield of Kombucha. :D Anyway, in case some other newbie with a weird-looking scoby stumbles on this thread: Final results- Kombucha smelled good and tasted exactly like the GT plain from whence the culture was grown. I...

Details: First batch ever, scoby grown from plain GT Kombucha. It was grown in a quart jar and about 1/4" thick when I started this gallon batch. I sterilized all my equipment before I started this batch. I've fermented wine for a couple decades and brewed beer for a couple years so I'm...

Thanks, All. I like Colombian and Java Bean Plus has a great price.

I have been getting beans from Ebay but recently got burned and would like to try to find a source outside of ebay that still has good prices for 20-25lb bulk purchases. Suggestions?

Thanks, Onkel. I'm going to give it a shot.

Looks like some good suggestions. Just a few more details: The oats are "thick" oats and require cooking, My wife grinds her own wheat and makes her own bread. Right now we have week-old whole wheat Italian with poppy seeds. I certainly don't mind roasting/toasting any ingredients, Last...

The white death is coming and I'm going to be snowed in for a couple days. No chance to make it to the homebrew store, so I wonder what I can do with the limited ingredients I have. Here's the list of what I have: 20 lbs of 2-row 4oz of light roasted barley dry Nottingham yeast Washed...

I tried this. I bought a Presto 05201 Orville Redenbacher's Stirring Popper from Amazon. I tried it without modification and it took 30 minutes to reach a very light roast. My IR thermometer indicated about 325 degrees F. The next day I bypassed the thermostat and tried again. Beans were...

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Get a piece of wet/dry sandpaper and put it on a flat surface -like your countertop. Use a little water between the counter and sandpaper to get it to stay in place. Then place your fastferment mouth side down on the sandpaper and move it on the sandpaper. I'd use a figure 8 stroke and turn the...

I made some of this stuff about 5 years ago using table sugar. I tried if after 6 months and wasn't impressed. Tried another bottle at the one year mark and it wasn't much better. Last night I opened a bottle from that batch in 2009 and it's great. Dry, crisp, clean apple flavor. I...