New To Brewing

[Guest guest]

greetings ,

i do suggest thinking about cultivation of kombucha from the perspective of the

scoby themselves at first in order to reorient your approach as you evolve

through experience with brewing. i do definitely

suggest you feeding the scoby naturally occurring sweeteners rather than

processed refined sugars!

this point over using any form of sugar that has been extracted from a simple

whole plant food source

has been a primary contention among this group and continues to be now. the

quality of ingredients a

culture receives will directly reflect into its therapeutic strength overall

once inside your body. it is just this simple. better ingredients, better

quality. this is always true and evident without any exception as anyone with

personal brew experience will know from using refined white bleached sugar,

in-organics like generic " no name " tea bags and tap | faucet water all used for

brewing with a sickly-looking scoby that has been handled with bare hands and

contacted with metallic surfaces. it is about hygiene and a

conscious work ethic- if a person wants to cultivate quality? otherwise...if

the only ingredients we use are the cheapest of the cheap, then what do we

expect to produce as with anything else. all junk type ingredients are

commercially subsidized in the us states, canada and throughout most of the

world to disempower the abilities of the informed shopper. they are not really

cheaper, just made to appear in such a way to the average person by removing the

transparency of the backdoor dealings happening.

create, experiment, listen to your intuition & the scoby will let you know. . .

blissful brewing,

~Rezz

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To: original_kombucha

Sent: Mon, June 6, 2011 8:24:09 PM

Subject: Im new too, and have a question

First, I want to thank EVERYONE here for sharing your knowledge,

patience, AND scobies :}

Thanks to all who offered and a special thanks to Irene for her generosity.

I brewed a jug (sun tea jar) of tea and put in my organic evaporated cane syrup

sugar and dropped in my scobies.

2 days later I saw what looked like i had left a plastic bag on my scobie so I

opened the towel to get the plastic but it wasn't a plastic bag at all.

I read a little more and found that this was the forming of a new scobie(?)

It is now white and about 1/8 " thick.

Thoughts?

Opinions?

What are my next steps from here?

Thanks again,