I made my first batch of Kombucha last weekend (3 days ago). Cleaned all my equipment with hot soapy water and rinsed everything with distilled white vinegar. Used purified water 3 qts, 1 cup sugar, 2 black tea bags and 2 green tea bags. Boiled my water for 10 minutes before brewing tea and sugar for 15 min. Let it cool. Put it in my clean jar. Put my Scoby that I had bought 2 weeks ago in the jar (I kept the scoby and its liquid in the fridge for 2 weeks before brewing). The scoby was semi-opaque and had a blob of snot like stuff hanging off the bottom - I put it all in the brewed tea including the liquid it was sitting in. I tested my PH and it was about 3.5 (maybe a little lower based on color of the pH test strip). Looks like a scoby baby is starting to form on the top but there is a lot of slimy looking stuff swimming around it. Does this look normal? I'm just wondering what it all is since it doesn't look like the classic white disk.
