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Hi Everyone! Can anyone recommend an affordable testing-laboratory that would examine which bacterium strains are present within a brew sampling? Thanks in advance! Gideon :)

Update: I found an amazing research paper published this year, 2019, entitled "Health-Promoting Components in Fermented Foods: An Up-to-Date Systematic Review." Here is the link. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6567126/ The paper exlores the correlation between raw food before...

Update: I added probiotics in capsule form to the brew. As I read elsewhere, this effort might be pointless since new bacterium strains can't survive in the high acidity of the brew. Unless I send a sample of my SCOBY pellicle to a lab, I won't know for sure if the experiment was a success...

Living in Brooklyn.:)

Great thread! Any updates? What happened since 2012? :p I think that you are all asking the right questions. From your feedback, we just need to test each new batch to determine which live cultures are present. From there, we can attempt to add new strains of bacteria after each iteration...