??? RE: Starter pot WAS: Re: Proud father

April 13, 2006

*A kombucha starter pot is a container filled with mature and very

*acidic kombucha. You make it by letting KT ferment for many weeks.

*The acidic kombucha is not usually drunk (too sour!) but only used as

*a starter for new batches of KT.

Hi Margaret,

Thanks for posting, or re-posting this. A couple of questions though.

1) Does the starter have to go into the fridge?

2) Can I start a batch today with one scoby, then next week add my

babies from the rest of today's batches, since by then it has brewed

some, and make that my starter?

Thanks

April 14, 2006

That would be a perfect place to store you new babies . Maybe even

split them up in a couple of storing jars. I usually brew five gallons at a

time

so I usually have many babies.

For some strange reason, my storing jar went kaput and got mold so I lost all

my wonderful babies. Now I plan to use two or three pots for my new babies.

You know what they say about keeping all your eggs in one barrel, LOL

Many Happy brewing year to you my friend, Myrna

In a message dated 4/13/2006 2:40:56 PM Pacific Standard Time,

trackmum@... writes:

have 7 jars of kombucha brewing right now. Next week, when they

will be ready for 'harvest', I will presumably have 14 SCOBYS (7 mamas

and 7 babies). Would I be okay to leave the one jar of brewed

kombucha alone, and simply add my extra SCOBYS to that jar of 1 week

old brewed tea, and call that my starter pot?

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