Is the yeast ok?

[Joeb]

For high alcohol kombucha:

I already made the kombucha, took out the scoby, and now I'm in the 30 day alcohol stage....

I added the yeast yesterday (so that yeast was brand new from a packet 20 hours ago). White Wine yeast, two packages for 5 gal carboy.

But it looks black on top. Is that ok?

In addition, per youtube video I put in 1/3 cup of orange juice For each gallon. The juice was cold, but it was just a cup or so.

Is this ok? Thank you in advance.

 

[maxt50]

I am about to do the same thing, I will let you know what it looks like. Black does seem a little odd though, but it doesn't seem like mold does it?

 

[Joeb]

I don't think mold can form in less than 24 hours but I'm no expert. It seems to have settled down a bit, looks normal except for one black patch. I'm still not sure what black means here.