a few Q's about old scobies...

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I am being forced into moving from my location( a whole other story!)

but have scobies that have been in a container with tea from that batch

for a month or better...I had no new brewing containers to use them

till I drank what I had. some of them are kind of dark looking, but

they have produced several batches previously, and it may be just scoby

aging!!?? So except for mold is there a way to know if a scoby is old,

or 'dead' and would not work for tea again? I am trying to thin things

out for the move, have been giving scobies to people who needed and

would use them, but have a few that I am unsure about. Can anyone give

me a little more info about this, I would appreciate it! And if

anybody is near the Seattle or Everett area in Washington State, I

would be happy to hand one over to you if you need it!! I still have

some fresher looking babies that were more recently born!! I am just

not sure how this move will go, and trying to prepare for the survival

of my mushrooms and plants.

Thanks, Janet