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 jvm
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 Re: Anyone Else Grow Kombucha? (moved)  [Re: jokefox]
#14071027 - 03/05/11 03:41 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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i recently just started drinking this stuff. Tried a ginger/kombucha mixture and it tastes like real ginger ale.
Anyone have any recipes or guidelines for starting it up?
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Re: Anyone Else Grow Kombucha? (moved) [Re: jvm]
#14071752 - 03/05/11 06:41 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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The kombucha mushroom people, sitting around all day!
who will believe you, who will believe you?
let your mother pray.
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Re: Anyone Else Grow Kombucha? (moved) [Re: linkamathingy]
#14088076 - 03/08/11 08:03 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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just opened up the carboy for the first time in awhile. chopped about half away.
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Re: Anyone Else Grow Kombucha? (moved) [Re: Yrat]
#14293220 - 04/15/11 12:47 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Wow that's a thick scoby. what is that container that you brew in? I have been looking for bigger containers but have waited to find something made of glass like a gallon pickle jar or something even bigger, but haven't yet. If you're using plastic, which it looks like from the picture, is it a specific kind or does the sub-micron level particle leakage not bother you (if it is even that severe)?
hmm a carboy..I'll google that and see if anything comes up
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Re: Anyone Else Grow Kombucha? (moved) [Re: liali]
#14293244 - 04/15/11 12:52 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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oooh a carboy..aka a demijohn...saw those at a brewing store recently but their mouths were too narrow. They were for beer and had to have special caps I think?
the glass ones were that way at least..anyway..just heard that plastics (some plastics, maybe not nearly all as is my fear-driven perception) will leech. anywhoo..mason jars for now..
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Re: Anyone Else Grow Kombucha? (moved) [Re: liali]
#14296042 - 04/15/11 04:48 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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it's a food grade plastic carboy for wine making. it's nice because it has a spigot at the bottom, so i do the "continuous brew" method: fresh tea in the top, kombucha out the spigot at the bottom. i chop and toss a bunch of the scoby when it gets too thick after awhile.
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Re: Anyone Else Grow Kombucha? (moved) [Re: Yrat]
#14564145 - 06/05/11 12:59 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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Anyone ever add Reishi or Chaga or any other medicinal mushrooms to the tea?
I been toying with the idea.
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Re: Anyone Else Grow Kombucha? (moved) [Re: SheikCorp]
#16622705 - 07/31/12 04:08 PM (9 months, 14 days ago) |
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Quote:
SheikCorp said:
Anyone ever add Reishi or Chaga or any other medicinal mushrooms to the tea?
I been toying with the idea.
I like the idea of doing that, the Katalyst Kombucha Green Lovin' [second from right] has Cordyceps mushroom in the ingredients list.
I don't know whether they use the fruit bodies or mycelium, it would be more sustainable to use myceliated brown rice like Stamets' company and NewChapter do in their extracts.
I'm in the process of making a Chaga/Amadou extract and make wild harvested tea all the time, my scoby is only a month old so I have yet to have a drinkable batch. Any other contributions warmly encouraged!
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I brew Kombucha, I'm sort of a newbie at it. I don't have a Ph meter. I go by color of the tea or taste cause I brew mine in half gallon mason jars. I'd like to have a continuous brew vessel. Do you guys bottle your Kombucha? I have been using old GT's bottles but the tops become incredibly hard to take off after doing the second fermentation. I would also like to know how to get better at making my tea fizzy. The only way I get fizz is to add fruit puree. Does the tea have to be at a certain Ph to become fizzy after bottling?
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Re: Anyone Else Grow Kombucha? (moved) [Re: lillFish]
#16656580 - 08/06/12 10:29 PM (9 months, 8 days ago) |
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Quote:
lillFish said:
I brew Kombucha, I'm sort of a newbie at it. I don't have a Ph meter. I go by color of the tea or taste cause I brew mine in half gallon mason jars. I'd like to have a continuous brew vessel. Do you guys bottle your Kombucha? I have been using old GT's bottles but the tops become incredibly hard to take off after doing the second fermentation. I would also like to know how to get better at making my tea fizzy. The only way I get fizz is to add fruit puree. Does the tea have to be at a certain Ph to become fizzy after bottling?
I too have yet to grab Ph test strips...right now I have a SCOBY that's only a couple months old and I tasted 5 days ago and it tasted great...kind of fizzy. I have yet to bottle anything as it seems a kind of awkward vessel to bottle stuff from. I like the idea of a continuous chamber like the Wine-grade vessel dudeman on page 1 had. I know it's not always great to bump oldie threads but this seems like it's worthwhile you know? Pictures to come, love to hear/see all of your guys adventures with this hobby.
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How much tea do you brew, is there sugar added
I have heard such mixed reviews but i think I will try
When you remove"scoby" can you throw some in another jar of tea to start another batch
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Re: Anyone Else Grow Kombucha? (moved) [Re: DanteB]
#16702914 - 08/15/12 07:39 AM (8 months, 30 days ago) |
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Brewer here. I just lost a mother scoby that was like 14 layers and 6 inches thick.. I just neglected it for way too long and it got contamed.
Here was a pic of it when it was last seen healthy
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Starting fresh with a new batch.
DanteB, it's quite very simple.
- Brew batch of Tea (for ~3 gallons of kombucha, I use about 8-10 tea bags (black tea) in a pot of water. Steep for as long as possible to get it super dark.
- Bring to a rolling boil, Remove tea bags, Add sugar.. for the 3 gallons I use about 1 1/2 cups of sugar and reduce heat to medium
- Stir and allow sugar to melt into tea, take off heat after about 1 minute
- I then add the "Super Sugar Tea" into my 3 gallon vessel which is ~75% full of room temp water
- Add 5-10% volume of Kombucha from previous batch as an "acidity starter", or if no kombucha, use a ~1/4 cup? of white vinegar.
- When liquid is room temperature, add scoby to sugar/tea/water mixture,
- Cover with cheesecloth and rubberbands, let sit for 3-6 weeks and then pull out scoby and start all over.
- Bottle fresh kombucha and add additives/flavors if into that sort of thing
Every batch you make, the scoby forms a new layer and it gets thicker and thicker.
You can peel "baby" layers off the bottom of the scoby and create a whole new batch of scobies, you can even cut them up and use them
They basically grow to size to fit whatever container they are growing in
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Re: Anyone Else Grow Kombucha? (moved) [Re: Az0th]
#16706092 - 08/15/12 09:33 PM (8 months, 30 days ago) |
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Very cool is green tea usable
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Re: Anyone Else Grow Kombucha? (moved) [Re: DanteB]
#16752304 - 08/29/12 05:05 AM (8 months, 16 days ago) |
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Yes! I've grown Kombucha for a few years now. I started by getting one of those bottled ones from Whole Foods that had a lot of culture hanging around the bottom. Before long I had a SCOBY and it was good times from there.
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Re: Anyone Else Grow Kombucha? (moved) [Re: DanteB]
#16752310 - 08/29/12 05:07 AM (8 months, 16 days ago) |
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Yes, green tea or black tea are the most common mediums used. White tea can also be used, but I suggest green or black.
Avoid teas with any additives like orange teas. Also avoid teas like Earl Grey which have other ingredients like bergamot in the case of Earl Grey.
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