Guest guest Posted July 15, 2011 Report Share Posted July 15, 2011 Thanks for the info.  I have just bottled my 4th batch.  I have thought about converting to continuous brew, but, haven & #39;t yet.  I do love the carbonation!  My 3rd batch wasn & #39;t very carbonated and I wound up dumping out all of the bottles:(.  I just can & #39;t like it without a lot of fizz. I am hoping this batch is better. I raised the temp in my apartment thinking it was just too cold in there for the yeast.  So, we & #39;ll see. I will be watching to see how your carbonation does with your continuous brew.  It will help me to determine if I want to go that route. ________________________________ From: Joyce & lt;jmillerwolfe@... & gt; To: original_kombucha Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 12:56 PM Subject: Re: Storage of KT  On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Spero & lt;lisa.spero@... & gt; wrote: How & #39;s the carbonation in the continuous brew? , It has been, as I have said before, a couple or several years since I have make KT and so, I am just getting my first batch going. Right now, it is ready for its first addition, and what I have is very very carbonated. But that doesn & #39;t tell me much, and I really am not sure about previously. I know that even with continuous brew, I had to bottle the amount I couldn & #39;t drink, and outside of my dogs, I have no one to share it with. The 5 bottles that I opened recently that were two or three years old vary: three of them were highly carbonated; one was weakly carbonated; and the fifth was flat. All tasted good, but I really prefer the carbonation. I will keep the list posted as I go further and further into continuous brewing. I know I have to empty the container once or twice a year to clean it, but other than that, keep it in a clean place, tend to it when I draw down, and keep going. JoyceM -- Support Airedale Rescue-Buy a pattern http://www.airedalerescue.net/alphabet/a_is_for_airedale/patterns/ www.dearjubilee.com www.dearjubilee-joyce.blogspot.com dearjubilee-inmyfatherswords.blogspot.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 15, 2011 Report Share Posted July 15, 2011 > ** > I will be watching to see how your carbonation does with your continuous > brew. It will help me to determine if I want to go that route. > > I'll be watching for that, too, . I love the carbonation, and just dumped one of my three year old bottle because it was flat. The other four were all nicely carbonated, and i am now on my last one. The quart I removed from the fermenting today is very very carbonated, don't know if that will hold up in the fridge or not. I am waiting for the new quart to come to room temperature before adding it. There was a gallon fermented, and I won't touch it for a few days after I add the new quart this afternoon.I don't drink very much yet, maybe a half a cup a day. Want to get to a point where I always have enough fro me and for my dogs. Joyce -- Support Airedale Rescue-Buy a pattern http://www.airedalerescue.net/alphabet/a_is_for_airedale/patterns/ www.dearjubilee.com www.dearjubilee-joyce.blogspot.com dearjubilee-inmyfatherswords.blogspot.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 15, 2011 Report Share Posted July 15, 2011 > ** > I will be watching to see how your carbonation does with your continuous > brew. It will help me to determine if I want to go that route. > > I'll be watching for that, too, . I love the carbonation, and just dumped one of my three year old bottle because it was flat. The other four were all nicely carbonated, and i am now on my last one. The quart I removed from the fermenting today is very very carbonated, don't know if that will hold up in the fridge or not. I am waiting for the new quart to come to room temperature before adding it. There was a gallon fermented, and I won't touch it for a few days after I add the new quart this afternoon.I don't drink very much yet, maybe a half a cup a day. Want to get to a point where I always have enough fro me and for my dogs. Joyce -- Support Airedale Rescue-Buy a pattern http://www.airedalerescue.net/alphabet/a_is_for_airedale/patterns/ www.dearjubilee.com www.dearjubilee-joyce.blogspot.com dearjubilee-inmyfatherswords.blogspot.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 15, 2011 Report Share Posted July 15, 2011 , I think that the carbonation won't work doing this. I put a quart of KT in a glass canning bottle with a plastic lid in the fridge -- it was fizzy when I put it in the fridge; not fizzy an hour later. I think if I want fizzy that I will need to do a secondary ferment, but if I want to have the convenience of continuous brewing, I will need to give up on the fizz . . . unless someone else know if there is something else I can do to retain it. Joyce On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Joyce wrote: > > > > >> ** >> I will be watching to see how your carbonation does with your continuous >> brew. It will help me to determine if I want to go that route. >> >> I'll be watching for that, too, . I love the carbonation, and just > dumped one of my three year old bottle because it was flat. The other four > were all nicely carbonated, and i am now on my last one. > > The quart I removed from the fermenting today is very very carbonated, > don't know if that will hold up in the fridge or not. I am waiting for the > new quart to come to room temperature before adding it. > > There was a gallon fermented, and I won't touch it for a few days after I > add the new quart this afternoon.I don't drink very much yet, maybe a half a > cup a day. Want to get to a point where I always have enough fro me and for > my dogs. > > Joyce > > -- > Support Airedale Rescue-Buy a pattern > http://www.airedalerescue.net/alphabet/a_is_for_airedale/patterns/ > > > www.dearjubilee.com www.dearjubilee-joyce.blogspot.com > dearjubilee-inmyfatherswords.blogspot.com/ > > -- Support Airedale Rescue-Buy a pattern http://www.airedalerescue.net/alphabet/a_is_for_airedale/patterns/ www.dearjubilee.com www.dearjubilee-joyce.blogspot.com dearjubilee-inmyfatherswords.blogspot.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 10, 2011 Report Share Posted September 10, 2011 I can give you another picture of coal and how it permeates the air. For years in my coal-heated house, I had an umbrella tree that I just could not get to look nice. I would chop it down often, but it would never get new leaves on the remaining stems. Only on what would grow up from the cut. One year I decided to really chop it down and pot new trees for christmas gifts. I hoped this pruning would make it get full, but it didn't. It would always shoot up, put out new leaves in the new growth, but the lower leaves would die. But the chutes I gave away became huge trees for them. My sister's grew to the ceiling. Quite impressive. She didn't even have much light in that room.  Once I moved out of my coal heated house and came to live here, I didn't think I would keep it long in this little trailer because it was never nice. But I dusted the leaves for one last time of that coal dust and kept it watered and halfway watched it. One day a friend was visiting, who had kept this tree for me in her garage until I found a place to live, and she was amazed at how good it looked. By that time I had been thinking it was filling out, too. Now, three years later, I won't part with it! It is so full, I have to keep moving my 3 fake birds that are perched in the branches to make them be visible.  Evidently, it could not breathe in that house I lived in first.  Like I said, I am really amazed by my dad's healthy, thick scobies. He didn't even have a rubber band around the top to hold the towel, so it had to be breathing some coal dust. From: Lyn K godisbest4me@... Please excuse me for this seemingly naive question, but how can KT be used outwardly and not leave a sticky film in every application?  My brews still take 2-3 weeks, so I have not ever had an extra batch to play with. I have about five crocks and jugs going new this week because my brews take so long.  Maybe I should get a book and learn the ins and outs of how to get a healthier scoby or something. I don't really know. It seems like brewing is so easy, it shouldn't need a book study.  My very first brew, that I took north for my Dad in March, that he barely drank any of, when I visited him last week, tasted WONDERFUL. He had it refrigerated all this time, in swingtop bottles. I was also shocked at the brewing scoby in the gallon jug that I had also taken with the bottled brew that day. It was the healthiest, happiest scoby I have ever seen. About 5 layers thick and perfectly symetrical and evenly creamy in color all the way through. Just beautiful. That scoby came from me and even mine that are sitting the the scoby hotel all summer don't look near that nice. The only thing I can think that is different is that his jar had a towel over it all these months. My gallon-jar-scoby hotel is sealed with a lid. Unless, scobys like the air in his house. He burns coal. Could it be that! Coal really does permeate the air. To give you an idea, when I stay there, about three times a year for 3 days each time, at least one day I will wake up with a headache or a near headache. Also, I used to burn coal, too. So when I moved, I moved out of that situation and my breathing became clearer as my lungs cleared out. So coal really does permeate the air.  I made new tea for his jug, but I haven't pestered him about tending it and he hasn't mentioned that he has. So I don't know how it is behaving in the new brew.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 10, 2011 Report Share Posted September 10, 2011 I can give you another picture of coal and how it permeates the air. For years in my coal-heated house, I had an umbrella tree that I just could not get to look nice. I would chop it down often, but it would never get new leaves on the remaining stems. Only on what would grow up from the cut. One year I decided to really chop it down and pot new trees for christmas gifts. I hoped this pruning would make it get full, but it didn't. It would always shoot up, put out new leaves in the new growth, but the lower leaves would die. But the chutes I gave away became huge trees for them. My sister's grew to the ceiling. Quite impressive. She didn't even have much light in that room.  Once I moved out of my coal heated house and came to live here, I didn't think I would keep it long in this little trailer because it was never nice. But I dusted the leaves for one last time of that coal dust and kept it watered and halfway watched it. One day a friend was visiting, who had kept this tree for me in her garage until I found a place to live, and she was amazed at how good it looked. By that time I had been thinking it was filling out, too. Now, three years later, I won't part with it! It is so full, I have to keep moving my 3 fake birds that are perched in the branches to make them be visible.  Evidently, it could not breathe in that house I lived in first.  Like I said, I am really amazed by my dad's healthy, thick scobies. He didn't even have a rubber band around the top to hold the towel, so it had to be breathing some coal dust. From: Lyn K godisbest4me@... Please excuse me for this seemingly naive question, but how can KT be used outwardly and not leave a sticky film in every application?  My brews still take 2-3 weeks, so I have not ever had an extra batch to play with. I have about five crocks and jugs going new this week because my brews take so long.  Maybe I should get a book and learn the ins and outs of how to get a healthier scoby or something. I don't really know. It seems like brewing is so easy, it shouldn't need a book study.  My very first brew, that I took north for my Dad in March, that he barely drank any of, when I visited him last week, tasted WONDERFUL. He had it refrigerated all this time, in swingtop bottles. I was also shocked at the brewing scoby in the gallon jug that I had also taken with the bottled brew that day. It was the healthiest, happiest scoby I have ever seen. About 5 layers thick and perfectly symetrical and evenly creamy in color all the way through. Just beautiful. That scoby came from me and even mine that are sitting the the scoby hotel all summer don't look near that nice. The only thing I can think that is different is that his jar had a towel over it all these months. My gallon-jar-scoby hotel is sealed with a lid. Unless, scobys like the air in his house. He burns coal. Could it be that! Coal really does permeate the air. To give you an idea, when I stay there, about three times a year for 3 days each time, at least one day I will wake up with a headache or a near headache. Also, I used to burn coal, too. So when I moved, I moved out of that situation and my breathing became clearer as my lungs cleared out. So coal really does permeate the air.  I made new tea for his jug, but I haven't pestered him about tending it and he hasn't mentioned that he has. So I don't know how it is behaving in the new brew.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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