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Hey I herbal tea is kind of a no go for booch right because the scoby needs something particular to black tea - least that's what I've been told, if someone could elucidate this for me i'd appreciate it, anyway, has anyone done a licorice tea kombucha say using something like this...

Hey I'm planning on taking my green tea booch and bottling sometime this week and engaging in some secondary flavoring with ginger root (bought it last week, hopefully it's still good, been in the fridge) and some limes to get that ginger citrus flavor from Moscow mules that we like so much. I...

Hey all I'm making my first batch of booch, I misread a recipe and now have 1 gallon of freaky sweet green tea (4 cups of sugar and 12 bags of green) should/could I still pitch my scoby or is this level of sweetness toxic to my scoby? Will it take forever to ferment? Other than being very...

Hey guys, making my first melomel (peach) and have a few questions that I was hoping your collective intelligence and benevolence would be willing to answer for me, many thanks. Saturday (it is now Tuesday morning) I got 30# peaches and I rinsed in start san, skinned, and pitted 10# right...

Hey all, I have a homemade external counterflow chiller that doesn't quite hit 22C on the worts first run, so I have to recirculate the wort for a few minutes before getting it chilled sufficiently (assuming there's nothing clogged in the ball valve like last time). I am thinking on installing...

Hey all, I was at a garage sale today and got this steal of a deal...

Hey all, I'd like to make a 1 gallon test batch of a licorice stout after the dutch candy Dubbel Zoute licorice (http://www.dutchsweets.com/venco-dubbel-zoute-licorice-venco-p-72.html) - it is a very salty black licorice candy. This'll be my virgin self made batch and I've been brainstorming...

Hey, I have a slight problem, on the input side of my pump (about 1 inch of male plastic threading) I over tightened a house barb (brass about 1/2 inch of female threading) and in doing so I chipped off some of the male threading on my pump. Now it has a drip that's a little too persistent to...

Hey All, I'm planning on getting a bottling bucket and using it as an intermediate storage, pouring from my boil kettle into the bucket, then hooking the spigot up to 1/2" hose to a pump to more hose to my wort chiller. I'm just curious about how well the bucket and the spigot will handle the...

Hey all, I'm working on building my counterflow chiller and was just wondering if you have suggestions on which pump I should get. It needs to be strong enough to pump from my kettle (I have about 4' hose) to and through my chiller (2' hose followed by 20' of 1/2" copper pipe and a bit more...

Hey all, I've been building a countercurrent chiller and got this 10$ Everbuilt Drill pump figuring it'd be good enough to pump a few gallons of wort but when I tested it, it pumped a few globules of oil/grease that was used as an internal lubricant into my copper piping that is meant to be food...