Soneone's K T doesn't taste like champagne. Bev's recipe does. Speed is everything in harvesting Kombucha Tea. No speed here. Ha.

[Guest guest]

Dear ,

Your proportions, 15 teabags, 2 weeks brewing, 1 1/2 cups of sugar seem more for

vinegary K T. Not champagne KT. I like mine sweet and fizzy.

For about 3 1/2 quarts of water, I use 1 1/2, plus, cups of sugar to 5 blacks

tea bags, I white tea bag, and 1 green tea bag.

I used to brew in an old refrigerator freezer with the door taped open a crack.

i have always tried to keep the brewing temperature between 75 degrees F and 85

degrees F. or more.

Mine is usually ready in 6 1/2 days, or 4 or 5 days in tropical warmth. If I

brewed for 15 days, it would be like Kombucha Vinegar.

I use half spring water and half tap water, bring the water to a boil in a

large Corningware pot, add the sugar and boil for five minutes, with the glass

lid on it.

I turn it offf, add the tea bags with the strings twisted, so that I can lift

them all out at once. Then I let is steep, covered with the glass lid, for 20

minutes.

When I go to harvest my K T, I assemble everything first, grab my gallon, glass,

grape juice jug and two small plastic bags.

i don't lift my kombucha scoby off my lovely brew until I am ready to pour. Want

to keep in the fizz and, sometimes, the buzz.

I I lift out the scoby and place it in a ceramic dish, cover with a plate, then

set a hug measuring cup in the sink along with my gallon jug, grab a smaller

measuring cup and start dipping my new KT into the huge measuring cup.

From the huge cup, I pour my KT into the grape juice jug, cap it tightly with 2

tiny plastic bags under the cap, tighten it and rush it to the refrig.

Of course, I poured some KT on my new baby and momma scobies, first, and then

move them to a large corningware bowl, containing my retired mommas, and return

them to the refrig.

Drinking Kombucha Tea has helped me reach almost 91 years. I believe that it

helps take one back in time, physically, especially the older acetic-acid-based

kind we have used. Not the store-bought newbies. I never hear them say that it

turned their faded eyebrows black again or flattened and faded carotene patches

on their face or turned their hair dark or blonde again or made pale personal

hair dark brown again.

Blessings on all of you. LOve. MArge.

P. S. Regarding ph, when I don't drink Kombucha, my perspiration smells exactly

like apple cider vinegar. Can you believe?

A couple of years ago, one daughter tried to cure my acidic condition, gave me

wheat grass and barley grass to drink. I upped it immediately and have had

acute, allergic, dry sinusitis ever since, if my brow gets chilled..

I made Kombucha Tea before I knew you had to have starter. The only time that I

ever seen mold on my KT was when I tried to revive a frozen scoby without

vinegar.

I left old scobies, uncovered, on the floor

once, and got white, fruit fly maggots.

Somehow fruit flies seem to have died out here in land. But the birds are

back.

Blessings on you all. LOve. MArge.

Digest Number 5021

There are 9 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

1a. Re: Pantry Explosion

From: Lobascio

1b. Re: Pantry Explosion

From: Margret Pegg

1c. Re: Pantry Explosion

From: Brinks

1d. Re: Pantry Explosion

From: yoganandaom

2a. Re: ph test

From: Lobascio

2b. Re: ph test

From: iwanttokeepanon

3. Green Tea With Lemongrass fro KT?

From: Deb Mauger

4a. Re: Scoby wanted

From: jpos123

5. Fw: Would Kombucha drops be milder for pregnant and nursing women or

From: Marjorie Russin

Messages

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1a. Re: Pantry Explosion

Posted by: " Lobascio " vlobascio@... vlobascio

Date: Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:09 am ((PDT))

Dan, sorry to hear about this mess! So you learned a lesson..what was it

exactly? What type of bottle did you have the KT fermenting in and how much

air space did you leave? And how much will you leave next time?

[Guest guest]

" Drinking Kombucha Tea has helped me reach almost 91 years. I believe that it

helps take one back in time, physically, especially the older acetic-acid-based

kind we have used. Not the store-bought newbies. I never hear them say that it

turned their faded eyebrows black again or flattened and faded carotene patches

on their face or turned their hair dark or blonde again or made pale personal

hair dark brown again. "

This touches on my concern that the source of a KT culture may be very important

to the quality of drink.

Any comments?