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Yes the other concern should be circulating that water so that you don't have a hot spot. Those aquarium heaters get really hot(like burn your finger and melt plastic hot) when they aren't submerged and so I know they kick out quite a bit of heat. So if you simply place the bottles into a tote...

2128 :( knicked the top of it on a beer bottle. I also crushed my floating thermometer but I didn't like that thing anyways.

I'm fairly sure you will get rusty caps. It won't be the end of the world, but it won't be ideal.

A little note on that. I experimented with growing a scoby once but using only open fermentation. I made a regular batch of sweet tea and instead of adding kombucha tea + scoby I only added white vinegar to bring the pH down to around 3. I covered it with a cloth and let it sit for...

Interesting idea. Where did you get the idea to build a scoby from scratch? Is that something that is known to work?

Yes to doing some SMaSH brewing. This is about what my thoughts have led me to. I need to get a solid feel for what each grain contributes. Chewing on a few malted grains out of the bag doesn't really tell you what the finished beers will taste like. SMaSH brews will give me a 5 gallon sample...

What was your target FG? 1.010 doesn't seem that high to me. If your hydrometer is working properly(calibrated) then I would say the yeast did their job just fine. Perhaps you just like your beer to be a little on the drier side, in which case you can use more highly fermentable and/or...

I can buy 2-row pale malt in bulk quite easily and I would like to use it as roughly 70-80% of all my brews. My concern is that most well reputes recipes I find online make much more use of other base malts such as Marris Otter or Pilsner Malt. How do all these base malts compare? Are...

Well this has been a fairly loosely organized experiment. I think I will do a repeat with much more exacting procedure on a 5 gallon scale. The bottom line however is that I have a gallon of what seems like beer. Primary was done in 48 hours! I racked to a secondary. The samples I tried...

I searched everywhere on the internet for results of someone attempting to brew a simple all malt based beer using the yeast from a kombucha culture. I couldn't find any so I fired up my stir plate and gradually added 250ml jars of premade canned malt extract wort to the yeasty sediment of a...

Hello everyone on HBT, I've been a member for a number of years, and on and off hobby brewer. Just getting back into it this winter and finally making some posts here. I do all grain in a mash tun and 5 gallon batches. I also brew Kombucha since it's tasty and so much less work than...

I like to be able to offer my KT to people who might be interested in trying it. Those people may not be used to the idea of gulping down a baby scoby. I haven't been brewing KT lately so I haven't been able to try this idea out but I wonder if this will prevent it from happening: scoby...

That's what it should look like

Most people are suggesting add more sugar... but what I think is important before that advice is given is does the kombucha that you are bottling have much sweetness left? If you are bottling relatively sweet kombucha then there is really no need to add more sugar. The issue may be more that...

Why do you want stringy dark fibrous yeasty sediment in the bottom of your bottles of kombucha??? ... I do think I know how you can prevent the gooey booger ball mini-scoby from forming. It's an idea I have not yet tried but I intend to. When you bottle you are leaving a small bubble of air...

That is a very healthy looking Kombucha scoby.

I believe if you use a campden tablet now you will need to repitch yeast in order to bottle carb.

It sounded to me like you had two questions: 1. Does anyone thing that if any concrete got into the crushed grain, that it would "contaminate" the beer? My answer is no. I would not be worried about a small amount of dust affecting the beer. I imagine that the amount that would make it...