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I don't bother trying to limit the "stuff" in the brew. Mainly because I have lots of chopped ginger in the bottle, so what's a little more? If I can't manage to pour it off w/o dumping pieces in (which I can frequently do depending on scoby formation and how the pieces are floating or...

I didn't get good carbonation until I started using flip top bottles. Grolsch beer bottles...i picked them up at my local beer/bottle redemption store.

I'd be interested in hearing how this works. I'd also like the ability to make higher alcohol content in my kombucha

Remember to check the price...Amazon regularly changes their prices so it might not always be free http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DKEG5V6/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 The book mainly gives some favoring ideas, but also some things like Kombucha BBQ sauce & Ketchup & some smoothie ideas

Zapped, just curious if you ever got anywhere with this? I buy my bottled KT w/ ~1.5% ALC by volume and would love to know what the Alcohol content will be for my home brew. Also, my husband is diabetic, so it would be nice to know sugar content of home brew as well.

The Kombucha was at a pH of 3. The baby SCOBY was probably not 1/4 inch thick. Thoughts, Zapped? I got pH tape from 0.0 - 6.0 (0.5 pH increments) I was only going to bottle one up...but when I saw it was at a pH of 3 I said what the heck and bottled it up. perhaps a little over zealous.

Oh good idea to pull some out and bottle now. This will help me get an idea of where I like it. I'll make a plain bottle tonight. Or maybe just ginger. Thanks! Ordered ph tape and should arrive tomorrow. I'm anxious get a solid figure to match with my description of "yummy". Lol

I am on day 8 of the first fermentation (for my first batch of Kombucha). My sampling tonight was quite delicious, but I would prefer a little less sweetness. I plan on bottling and doing a second fermentation for fizz and was also going to flavor with blueberry juice and maybe ginger...