During the last 3 weeks the Kombucha brew has been going on in my kitchen. Its no effort on my part, I periodically check the progress and then shoo away fruit flies. Today I bottled up one batch. The other batch looked like some mold grew on it, so I decided not to take a risk and threw it out.
I didn't have any juice to flavor it with, I don't drink juice anyway, so I squeezed from fresh oranges and plums, and blended some strawberries. I have read that you should try and just use the juice and not any pulp, but with the strawberries I couldn't separate it, so I don't care. I mixed some orange and plum juice, I think it will taste good (hopefully). Here is a picture of the SCOBY.
If you are going to brew your own you want to save 15-25% of the first tea batch and the SCOBY, you can either start a new batch immediately or put it in the fridge (which will halt bacteria growth). I just put another gallon of water on to boil, so another batch! Since the weather has been so hot here I think it will grow a lot better this time and faster.
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