Re: Another new Kombucha brewer - question

[Guest guest]

What you can do is after a few good brews doing it old way, keep saving your

scobys and then begin a new brew using one of the saved scobys with the chai

tea and then measure the results.

[Guest guest]

I keep spare SCOBYs for things like that. Usually only one ferment cycle,

then compost those scobys. I have 2 SCOBY hotels so always lots of spares

to play with. And my 2.5 gal crock produces a HUGE scoby - easy to break

that into pieces for several side projects.

Jaxi

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Lobascio wrote:

> What you can do is after a few good brews doing it old way, keep saving

> your

> scobys and then begin a new brew using one of the saved scobys with the

> chai

> tea and then measure the results.

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Yes, those 2.5 gal crocks sure do make the big scobys. I have seven brews going

now and am stocked up with them in my scoby hotel and I have put three now into

my flower bed when I made the last brews. I also gave one away to someone here.

I think next I will offer some to a friend who has a dog when I pour off the

current brews. They have a jack russel terrier. Is there anything I should tell

them as for what size piece they should give her and how often? Becuz I drink kt

all day long and it does not bother me a bit, but my dad could only drink an

ounce a day when he started. So I don't know how to dose a dog. She is old and

is having health problems these last few years.

And, if I can even get them convinced to make kombucha themselves so they will

always have scobys for the dog, can I tell them they should try to get the dog

to drink some brew?

Lyn

----- Original Message -----

I keep spare SCOBYs for things like that. Usually only one ferment cycle,

then compost those scobys. I have 2 SCOBY hotels so always lots of spares

to play with. And my 2.5 gal crock produces a HUGE scoby - easy to break

that into pieces for several side projects.

Jaxi

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Lobascio < vlobascio@... >wrote:

> What you can do is after a few good brews doing it old way, keep saving

> your

> scobys and then begin a new brew using one of the saved scobys with the

> chai

> tea and then measure the results.

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

I have not heard from anyone about this inquiry so I thot maybe it did not go

out. Yahoo does not always send me every post so I have learned to repeat a post

if I don't see it myself or hear from anyone in follow-up to a post I make.

>

> Yes, those 2.5 gal crocks sure do make the big scobys. I have seven brews

going now and am stocked up with them in my scoby hotel and I have put three now

into my flower bed when I made the last brews. I also gave one away to someone

here. I think next I will offer some to a friend who has a dog when I pour off

the current brews. They have a jack russel terrier. Is there anything I should

tell them as for what size piece they should give her and how often? Becuz I

drink kt all day long and it does not bother me a bit, but my dad could only

drink an ounce a day when he started. So I don't know how to dose a dog. She is

old and is having health problems these last few years.

>

> And, if I can even get them convinced to make kombucha themselves so they will

always have scobys for the dog, can I tell them they should try to get the dog

to drink some brew?

>

> Lyn

>

[Guest guest]

<<<I keep spare SCOBYs for things like that. Usually only one ferment cycle,

then compost those scobys. I have 2 SCOBY hotels so always lots of spares

to play with. And my 2.5 gal crock produces a HUGE scoby - easy to break

that into pieces for several side projects.>>>

I keep wondering what a SCOBY hotel is?

Also, I believe I read somewhere along the way - using the 2.5 gal crock

- which indeed does produce a HUGE scoby - to just keep making the tea

and leave the scoby in there.....that that will make a richer more

powerful tea that will have more natural carbonation. So that is what

I have done so far. My scoby is indeed HUGE and I have not touched it

in the past 2-3 mos that I have been brewing.

Thanks!

J

[Guest guest]

<<<Yes, those 2.5 gal crocks sure do make the big scobys. I have seven

brews going now and am stocked up with them in my scoby hotel and I have

put three now into my flower bed when I made the last brews. I also gave

one away to someone here. I think next I will offer some to a friend who

has a dog when I pour off the current brews. They have a jack russel

terrier. Is there anything I should tell them as for what size piece

they should give her and how often? Becuz I drink kt all day long and it

does not bother me a bit, but my dad could only drink an ounce a day

when he started. So I don't know how to dose a dog. She is old and is

having health problems these last few years.>>>

My first scoby became infested with fruit fly larvae the very first week

(and I had it covered!). So I had to throw it out. I gave it to the

chickens. I also have an elderly dog (German Shepherd) with some

health problems. Never thought about giving it to the dog. I would

love to hear more about this.

What would happen with your dad when he drank more than an oz a day?

I used to drink only about an oz a day when I was purchasing GTs because

of the expense. Now that I am making my own I am guzzling it! Never

thought there could be repercussions.

Thanks!

J

[Guest guest]

I was there with my dad when I started him. I only see him a couple times a

year. So on that day, the first dose, he was happy with. The second was iffy

when he went to the bathroom. After the third, he said with great but gentle

concern as only my Dad can do, he said it gave him the s**ts. (Roughly

translated, that means the big D.) So then I told him to just stay with an ounce

a day for a few days.

I can drink KT without any limit and have only felt a little bit of a brief buz

a time or two myself. Once was a warm feeling in my left collar bone and the

front of my left upper arm. The other time it was a warmth in the back of my

neck that lasted just a few mins. The neck area received trauma when I had a

brain tumor removed from that site 30 years ago. The collar bone/arm thing could

be the result of a trauma or just a hereditary thing. I had " torn my shoulder "

in 2008 and never could get it " fixed " by modern medicine because I did not have

health insurance. The tear was in my shoulder, but the pain built over a year to

go down my arm to my wrist and down my back. It was pretty excruciating. Quite

surprisingly, tho, I healed that up with a changed diet and the right amount of

good water during the year 2009 and so the pain was long gone when I started

drinking KT in the spring 2011. My dad is lately having alot of soreness pain in

that identical area of his arm. Not his shoulder, tho. So who knows.

I don't know if my Dad has ever drank any KT without me pouring some and giving

it to him. I don't ask my dad anything about his KT anymore. I just know that he

has to want it. I encouraged him as much as I could. He has to choose to

continue with it. I started him in the spring and when I went back in Aug, he

had not touched any of it.

As for your chickens, they probably eat until they are satisfied so they didn't

gobble it all up at once, I'd say. Dogs, on the other hand, will chow down all

you give them. So the eating styles are different and since the scoby is

medicinal, I suppose there is some learning you have to do before you just give

it to any animal.

----- Original Message -----

My first scoby became infested with fruit fly larvae the very first week

(and I had it covered!). So I had to throw it out. I gave it to the

chickens. I also have an elderly dog (German Shepherd) with some

health problems. Never thought about giving it to the dog. I would

love to hear more about this.

What would happen with your dad when he drank more than an oz a day?

I used to drink only about an oz a day when I was purchasing GTs because

of the expense. Now that I am making my own I am guzzling it! Never

thought there could be repercussions.

Thanks!

J

[Guest guest]

I was there with my dad when I started him. I only see him a couple times a

year. So on that day, the first dose, he was happy with. The second was iffy

when he went to the bathroom. After the third, he said with great but gentle

concern as only my Dad can do, he said it gave him the s**ts. (Roughly

translated, that means the big D.) So then I told him to just stay with an ounce

a day for a few days.

I can drink KT without any limit and have only felt a little bit of a brief buz

a time or two myself. Once was a warm feeling in my left collar bone and the

front of my left upper arm. The other time it was a warmth in the back of my

neck that lasted just a few mins. The neck area received trauma when I had a

brain tumor removed from that site 30 years ago. The collar bone/arm thing could

be the result of a trauma or just a hereditary thing. I had " torn my shoulder "

in 2008 and never could get it " fixed " by modern medicine because I did not have

health insurance. The tear was in my shoulder, but the pain built over a year to

go down my arm to my wrist and down my back. It was pretty excruciating. Quite

surprisingly, tho, I healed that up with a changed diet and the right amount of

good water during the year 2009 and so the pain was long gone when I started

drinking KT in the spring 2011. My dad is lately having alot of soreness pain in

that identical area of his arm. Not his shoulder, tho. So who knows.

I don't know if my Dad has ever drank any KT without me pouring some and giving

it to him. I don't ask my dad anything about his KT anymore. I just know that he

has to want it. I encouraged him as much as I could. He has to choose to

continue with it. I started him in the spring and when I went back in Aug, he

had not touched any of it.

As for your chickens, they probably eat until they are satisfied so they didn't

gobble it all up at once, I'd say. Dogs, on the other hand, will chow down all

you give them. So the eating styles are different and since the scoby is

medicinal, I suppose there is some learning you have to do before you just give

it to any animal.

----- Original Message -----

My first scoby became infested with fruit fly larvae the very first week

(and I had it covered!). So I had to throw it out. I gave it to the

chickens. I also have an elderly dog (German Shepherd) with some

health problems. Never thought about giving it to the dog. I would

love to hear more about this.

What would happen with your dad when he drank more than an oz a day?

I used to drink only about an oz a day when I was purchasing GTs because

of the expense. Now that I am making my own I am guzzling it! Never

thought there could be repercussions.

Thanks!

J

[Guest guest]

The groups don't have many talks about giving KT to animals, tho there are a

couple and it has been done. One person just drizzles a T on their dog's food.

Joyce comments that she is going to research it more.

I would be interested in knowing how she researches it even if just to tell my

friends how they can research it, too, so they feel more comfortable. Because,

ya know, KT is " just another weird thing Lyn is doing these days " to anyone I

have shared this with so far. You know what I mean.

Lyn

----- Original Message -----

People have posted previously about dehydrating extra SCOBYs and feeding

those to dogs. Actual KT as I recall it was a small amount. Teaspoon or

so. Have you logged into yahoo groups and done a message search?

[Guest guest]

LOL ... yeah I know ... just gifted some SCOBYs today and it is funny to

watch the faces of people new to it. They are ugly until you grow to love

them and then they become lovely. But it does look like a crazy mad

scientist experiment to most. We are so far separated from how our food is

made these days people are often weirded out by it.

Jaxi

> The groups don't have many talks about giving KT to animals, tho there are

> a couple and it has been done. One person just drizzles a T on their dog's

> food. Joyce comments that she is going to research it more.

>

> I would be interested in knowing how she researches it even if just to

> tell my friends how they can research it, too, so they feel more

> comfortable. Because, ya know, KT is " just another weird thing Lyn is doing

> these days " to anyone I have shared this with so far. You know what I mean.

>

> Lyn

>

> ----- Original Message -----

>

>

> People have posted previously about dehydrating extra SCOBYs and feeding

> those to dogs. Actual KT as I recall it was a small amount. Teaspoon or

> so. Have you logged into yahoo groups and done a message search?

>

>

>

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>

>

[Guest guest]

Im sure we do! My son calls it my mid life crisis even though i been doing

stuff for yrs.

> The groups don't have many talks about giving KT to animals, tho there are a

couple and it has been done. One person just drizzles a T on their dog's food.

Joyce comments that she is going to research it more.

>

> I would be interested in knowing how she researches it even if just to tell my

friends how they can research it, too, so they feel more comfortable. Because,

ya know, KT is " just another weird thing Lyn is doing these days " to anyone I

have shared this with so far. You know what I mean.

>

> Lyn

>

> ----- Original Message -----

>

>

> People have posted previously about dehydrating extra SCOBYs and feeding

> those to dogs. Actual KT as I recall it was a small amount. Teaspoon or

> so. Have you logged into yahoo groups and done a message search?

>

>

[Guest guest]

A SCOBY hotel is a jar with SCOBYs in it that you use for back-up if you

want to experiement or if something unfortunate should happen to your

primary brew/ferment.

Usually I will add, or sometimes completely switch out the tea for some

" newer " KT, but still old enough to be acidic enough to protect the

scobys. The hotel often forms its own extra scoby on top, so over time you

could end up with a jar with many many layers of scobys in there. Some

people use scobys as a facial treatment, some on wounds, etc etc. There

are many potential uses for extra scobys. Obviously once used in such a

way you should compost it or throw it out after that.

I saw a good picture of a hotel somewhere. Trying to remember. If I can

find it I will try to post it. Might be helpful reference for folks. I am

visual and it helped me.

Jaxi

I keep wondering what a SCOBY hotel is?

Also, I believe I read somewhere along the way - using the 2.5 gal crock

- which indeed does produce a HUGE scoby - to just keep making the tea

and leave the scoby in there.....that that will make a richer more

powerful tea that will have more natural carbonation. So that is what

I have done so far. My scoby is indeed HUGE and I have not touched it

in the past 2-3 mos that I have been brewing.

Thanks!

J

[Guest guest]

A SCOBY hotel is a jar with SCOBYs in it that you use for back-up if you

want to experiement or if something unfortunate should happen to your

primary brew/ferment.

Usually I will add, or sometimes completely switch out the tea for some

" newer " KT, but still old enough to be acidic enough to protect the

scobys. The hotel often forms its own extra scoby on top, so over time you

could end up with a jar with many many layers of scobys in there. Some

people use scobys as a facial treatment, some on wounds, etc etc. There

are many potential uses for extra scobys. Obviously once used in such a

way you should compost it or throw it out after that.

I saw a good picture of a hotel somewhere. Trying to remember. If I can

find it I will try to post it. Might be helpful reference for folks. I am

visual and it helped me.

Jaxi

I keep wondering what a SCOBY hotel is?

Also, I believe I read somewhere along the way - using the 2.5 gal crock

- which indeed does produce a HUGE scoby - to just keep making the tea

and leave the scoby in there.....that that will make a richer more

powerful tea that will have more natural carbonation. So that is what

I have done so far. My scoby is indeed HUGE and I have not touched it

in the past 2-3 mos that I have been brewing.

Thanks!

J