kombucha

I often hear that puréed fruit is better to use for F2 than chunks, and I notice people saying using the chunks is “for beginners” so I attempted making a dragon fruit/peach purée (blended the fruit with some of the kombucha) This is how all of the bottles came out, and I’m left wondering why...

Hello. I am a kombucha home brewer who’s in the process of going commercial. I had some kombucha I brewed tested for alcohol content and it was over the 0.5% level. I am trying to get the alcohol level below 0.5% by reducing the amount of sugar in my first brew, lower the temperature of F1, and...

First time here trying to force-carbonate my Kombucha in a minikeg (grolwer-werks 1 gallon). It comes with a 16gr co2 cartridge which they say should be enough to force carbonated the 1Gallon at 12 psi, in 2-3 days, and last through serving it. I followed the instruction, left it at 12 psi in...

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...

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...

Hello and happy new year to all! I started my 1st ever kombucha brew 7 days ago. Noticed this on the surface of the pellicle yesterday when checking on it. I know mold is typically dry and fuzzy. This is dry, not fuzzy. It's got a strange color to it tho... Being a 1st time brewer I guess I...

Okay This Scoby just arrived: Brine was dripping everywhere inside the huge box Amazon supplied. I've never tried to brew anything before, but the scoby itself looks okay to me and there's about 4 ounces of liquid left. Can I salvage this? And if so, how? Should I just put everything in the...

Meaning can I create kombucha from scratch without a mother, scoby or store bought kombucha?

So i have been practicing home style kombucha brewing from last 3 years and finally decided to move into more commercial aspect of business. However, i found out that to be in non-alcoholic segment of market, i need to have less than 0.5% alcohol in my product, which i couldn't control with...

Hi everyone:D, I wanna ask , i just saw, there is sanitizer called HOCL or hypochlorous acid , it safe if swallowed and also kill bacteria. Can i use it in my glass jar before brewing kombucha? Substitude for star san. Thankyou.

I am preparing kombucha in a SS conical fermenter of 60 litre and in my secondary fermentation i added carrot and turmeric as flavoring. The current volume of liquid is 40 litre in a 60 litre conical fermenter. For first two days, i could see bubbles rising up in airlock, but now nothing. Also...

Greetings friends, I have 2 bottles containing scobies which I last fed with green tea in October 2020 but kept them (scoby hotel) in a dark container and today (1 June 2021), I finally took them out wanting to make a fresh batch of Kombucha, however I noticed that on the top layer of both...

Hi I've started to learn how to brew and was happy to find this forum. I bought a starter's kit and followed the instructions for the first batch, which came out tasty. Before i begin the second batch, i wanted to conform that the mix im starting with looks and smells the way it should. The...

I started my first brew yesterday and I have a couple of questions: - I used this recipe: 1 tablespoon Loose black tea; 100grams of Sugar; 3 pints of water. Does that ratio sound ok? - I’ve got a 4 litre Kilner Jar with a flip top. At the moment I covered the jar with cloth. Could I close the...

Hi I’m brewing my first batch of kombucha! My scoby is at the bottom but on top there is this cloudy thing, is that mole? I hope that someone can help me☺

Did a few rounds of Kombucha but this is the first time I encounter this! Is this actually mold? The whole jar smells good though, doesn’t have any foul smell.

Good evening everybody, I am here to ask for an advice on the strange apparence of my Kombucha scoby... I started fermenting a scoby from scratch on 11th December 2020, by using a non-pasteurized and non-flavoured green tea kombucha purchased by shop. This is my first attempt ever on fermenting...

I was looking around to see if anyone has created a SCOBY from wild yeast and almost everyone said that it's nearly impossible. but why? why can you ferment tea like you can other things. so i went outside with a knife and some clean labeled bags and collected a few different things. i collected...

Hey, So I’m 6 days into my first ever Kombucha fermentation and I thought I’d sneak a peak under the cloth today to see how it’s shaping up, and I think that mould might be forming on the surface (but I’m not sure...) There are about 6 white circles that look at bit furry - is this mould? Or...

I want to make high alcohol kombucha. I watched a video about it on Youtube which piqued my interest. I was about to buy a bunch of stuff on Amazon but I thought I should get better information from my friends at Homebrew Talk. What kind of wine yeast should I get? The youtube video said I...