hi everybody! (and an inverted SCOBY...)

[Guest guest]

from Brooklyn here. Nice to see all the information being passed around

here. I just

got a SCOBY from Anahata Balance (organic-kombucha.com) and started my first

brew. We're

using organic japanese green tea and organic sugar, filtered watered etc. The

SCOBY sank to

the bottom--which it seems is normal? Two half-golfball-sized brownish clumpy

stringy

lumps formed and have floated to the top and now the white stuff is growing into

them. I

stirred the solution (w/ sterilized spoon) the first two days as directed in the

event that you

have a sinking SCOBY. The SCOBY has now floated to the top to join the brown

lumps. Little

bubbles have formed around the lumps (not the SCOBY yet it seems though). The

SCOBY is

not smooth white side up though. I have tried to set it white side up before

and it kept

flipping itself over to the side that is offwhite and has little brown filiments

growing from it.

(ha, sorry this is getting to be very long, just a very nervous first-time

dad!!) How important

is it that the smooth white side be facing up?

One more question. I'm going to start up a Pu-erh batch once this brew makes

its new

SCOBY and i wanted to know: is there's any reason why a SCOBY grown in green tea

would be

weird to use to make a Pu-erh brew? I'll just be using the green tea kombucha

from this

batch as a starter, I guess.

Cheers!

Chris