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Without thinking, I added my SCOBY and starter to warm tea :mad:. Did I kill it?

I purchased a four pack of grolsch beer specifically for making fizzy kombucha. The first batch that I poured into the bottles was extremely fizzy after sitting at room temperature for about 3 days. The next time I used the bottles, however, the kombucha was completely flat. Do Grolsch bottles...

I brewed a new batch of kombucha about a week ago and the mother didn't float to the top. There is a fragile baby that formed, but it doesn't cover the entire surface area of the jar and has massive air bubbles inside of it. Is this normal and is the batch drinkable?

I had a bunch of leftover SCOBYS in the fridge and decided to brew another batch using one of the refrigerated ones. This morning I read that you shouldn't store SCOBYS in the fridge because the culture becomes inactive and will get moldy during the fermentation process. Has anyone had this...

I had my family taste my first kombucha brew and none of them liked it. I tried it before them and noticed that it was both too strong and too sweet. I used a pungent brand of black tea (PG Tips) along with the recommended amount of sugar. Do you prefer the taste of kombucha made with green or...

I know that kombucha can take anywhere from 4-14 days to ferment depending on temperature/other factors. I read somewhere that its ideal to for each ferment to contain 25% starter, which is what I used. Then I read somewhere else that you should only use like 15%. I'm wondering if using 25%...

I had a very small mother that I added to a recipe for growing a SCOBY I found on the internet. Today (1 week later) I found a thicker, perfectly formed baby growing on top of the liquid. I took it out of the jar expecting to see the mother underneath, but couldn't find it. After removing the...

I grew a tiny SCOBY from a bottle of GT Daves (I let it sit for about 2 weeks). Since it was so small I repeated the recipe I used to grow the SCOBY, with the addition of the newly formed SCOBY. Do you guys think this will work? Will the tiny SCOBY speed up the fermentation process? Any input...

What is the shortest and/or longest amount of time it has taken you to grow a viable SCOBY?

I am attempting to grow 2 scobys in my closet right now. Both are on day 5 and one of them is doing very well, but the other one has no growth whatsoever. The one that's growing has 2 TBSP of sugar in it and the other one just has 1 TBSP. Both are in small (24 oz) jars and contain 1 bottle of...

I was wondering if anyone else has gotten a headache/stomachache from drinking kombucha. I don't normally buy it, but bought a couple bottles because I want to make a SCOBY. I drank about half of one of the bottles (GT synergy) and felt gross. Does anyone else sometimes feel sick after drinking...