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Not sure if this topic goes in here. Has anyone brewed tepache? I would like a recipe.

I recently made a agave booch mead. Abv was a 13%.

That would be impossible to make. Stop being lazy and keep watch of your batches.

I usually steep my tea for 25 min. You can try using insulation around the vessel to keep the temperature stable. Per one gallon, should ferment 7-10 days. 2 gallons about 20 days. I make 4 gallons at a time cos i make mine boozy. Thats about 25-30 days fermenting.

Did you just have the starter and the scoby in the vessel or did you add more sweet tea to it? The scoby needs to feed off of the new tea for it to grow a new scoby. Usually a gallon takes 7-10 days.

Do you guys ferment the F2 in plastic buckets? If so, how does the flavor differ from using glass?

Looks normal. If its not fuzzy, its fine.

I would have never thought about fermenting only the acv with the scoby. Im currently using safale us-05. Thinking about switching to white labs cali dry ale yeast.

I made a cold brew kombucha. Using the cold brew as the starter. Made it like as you would make regular booch. But you have to make the initial cold brew first. Then I get 2 cups of the cold brew and 2 cups sugar and heat that up. You want to give the scoby something to chew on. Cool down and...

I normally steep my tea for 25 min. I use a black and green tea blend.

First of all, ec-1118 should be pitched between 86-95 deg. If youre pitching outside of that temp, your yeast is not waking up. Youre jus killing your batch. The foam being built is krauzen. Its jus the yeast foam building. Totally normal. As far as keeping the temp, use a heat wrap that you...

I reached out to tilt about it. The issue was actually when i calibrated the tilt with water. It gave me a reading of 0.000-1.000 automatically and thats what threw off my numbers. After deleted that note from the settings and getting real readings from a hydrometer, the gravity seems stable...

Yea it was pretty close. Theres about a 1.003 difference on most of my batches give or take.

Yea i dont think i worded that correctly. My starting gravity was 1.051 with the refractometer. Thats what i set it as on the tilt app as the actual sg to start. When i went to check the notes from the tilt a day and a half later, it read 1.015, but when i double checked with the refractometer...

So im brewing hard kombucha. After calibrating the tilt meter to the app, i get a refractor meter reading and dunk the hydrometer in the tank. After a couple of days, my SG wort went from 1.051 to 1.015. Of course i double checked it and clearly was off. I had recently changed from using water...

If your batch doesnt smell funny, then its totally normal. I get these sometimes during my 2nd fermentation. Its just the mother regrowing. If youre 2nd ferment is alcohol yeast, then its also totally normal. If you dont see any discoloration or black clumps, you are totally fine. Just keep an...

What kind of beer are you using for the substitute? Do you think gluten free beer will work the same?

So Im experimenting with cold brew and kombucha and want to take the next step and boozing it up. I want to see what your thoughts and ideas are for choosing a good alcohol yeast. I have a gluten free ale yeast I can use, but Im not too sure if the cold brew and the ale yeast will make a good...