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I'm almost certain I'll have to leave the caps on my growlers loose when I freeze my tea. How long could acidified tea keep in the fridge before spoiling, unsweetend as well as sweetend?

I'm not too worried about alkaloid degradation since I'll be using dark glass. If I really felt inclined to do so I could get bottles instead and use o2 absorbing caps.

This is more out of curiousity than anything, I highly doubt any tea I make will sit around long lol

TBC, you have every right to be pissed. I would've flown off the handle already, I don't do well with people screwing around with me like that.

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Problem with growlers is the shape. The neck freezes and makes a plug then the water under it can pop the glass as it freezes even with a loose cap in narrow neck bottles.

Mason jars are made to be frozen with liquids in them but you have to leave appropriate space.

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I'm almost certain I'll have to leave the caps on my growlers loose when I freeze my tea. How long could acidified tea keep in the fridge before spoiling, unsweetend as well as sweetend?

I'm not too worried about alkaloid degradation since I'll be using dark glass. If I really felt inclined to do so I could get bottles instead and use o2 absorbing caps.

This is more out of curiousity than anything, I highly doubt any tea I make will sit around long lol

TBC, you have every right to be pissed. I would've flown off the handle already, I don't do well with people screwing around with me like that.

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Problem with growlers is the shape. The neck freezes and makes a plug then the water under it can pop the glass as it freezes even with a loose cap in narrow neck bottles.

Mason jars are made to be frozen with liquids in them but you have to leave appropriate space.

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That’s shitty, tbc.  I was gonna order up a culture from that shop but that sounds pretty weak sauce.  I just plated that K1 I got from eBay on Monday... the vendor told me it was a year old but fruitts...we’ll see how it does. Shoot me you addy and I’ll get a plate out to you tomorrow.

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Posting again the one on the right has bacteria and the start mold it looks. 

The left far less bacteria. No mold.

Still not sure where I Fucked up. At least on the left one. Watched this like 3 times.

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Assuming your Poly is in tight enough to stop falling contaminants, there's a few things I'd recommend:

1. Don't pull on the Poly to lift the lid up. I can't see that helping anything and you're likely agitating the barrier between contaminants and your agar.

2. I'm assuming you wiped the jars down before this and are only using the towel to turn the rings. If not, wipe them down properly.

3. After you wipe them, you constantly put your hands over the jars. Even if you're gloved up, try not to put your hands over anything, especially when you're touching shit in between, like other jars, your rack, etc.

4. Put the lid back on slower. I could see that kicking shit up.

5. Make sure you have the ring turned all the way before you try and pull the ring/lid off.

6. Even when I'm taking a ring off, I try not to put my finger over the lid/SFD. I just use my index and ring or thumb to turn from the side. And if the lid is tight, I'll often wipe around it once the ring is off.

Check out the video in my signature for me doing G2G. You can see the distance I keep between my hands and my jars, as well as the slower motions I'm recommending when opening/closer jars.

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I just finished watching your video actually

I'll post another one tomorrow night. I like how you lift your lids.  I wouldn't feel comfortable putting the lid back on an lc tou.