Owly055
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6 days ago, I dumped out my continuous brewer (2 gallon) because it had stopped making scoby for some reason.
Scoby is NOT necessary to make kombucha, but kombucha if it's got the right microbe population will always make a scoby. When it stopped making a scoby, I did not hesitate at all to dump it out, though it seemed to taste OK.
REBOOT TIME
Procedure:
1: 4 bottles of GT Original + 1/2 gallon of sweet tea in my 2 gallon fermenter
2: 6 days later with a new scoby, I added a gallon of sweet tea, doubling to 2 gallons
3: 6 - 7 days from today, I will begin harvesting kombucha 2Liters every 4 days.
Note that 2 Liters is approximately equal to 4 bottles of GTs. Two weeks and you have a nice scoby, and recover your original investment.......... and have a continuous brew going that will produce 2 liters every 4 days.
I've done this before..........It's the easiest way in my opinion to get started in kombucha.
H.W.
Scoby is NOT necessary to make kombucha, but kombucha if it's got the right microbe population will always make a scoby. When it stopped making a scoby, I did not hesitate at all to dump it out, though it seemed to taste OK.
REBOOT TIME
Procedure:
1: 4 bottles of GT Original + 1/2 gallon of sweet tea in my 2 gallon fermenter
2: 6 days later with a new scoby, I added a gallon of sweet tea, doubling to 2 gallons
3: 6 - 7 days from today, I will begin harvesting kombucha 2Liters every 4 days.
Note that 2 Liters is approximately equal to 4 bottles of GTs. Two weeks and you have a nice scoby, and recover your original investment.......... and have a continuous brew going that will produce 2 liters every 4 days.
I've done this before..........It's the easiest way in my opinion to get started in kombucha.
H.W.
