First Brew

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Just leave it alone...and move it as little as possible.....The scoby will

do its work.....If your temp is around 72 or 73, I would taste test around 5

days or so......The brew is right when you like the taste......ron and vivian

in leander tx

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I started my first brew 2 days ago. The culture I got is a cut off so

it is kind of triangular shaped. I am using a 2 litre picket jar

which is tall and narrow, so the culture is standing on it's side on

the bottom. Do I need to do anything, perhaps to cut it in two so

that it can be horizontal?

Thanks in advance for all advice.

Maggie

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As Margaret posted earlier today........

" Nooooooooooooooooo ... any Kombucha brewer with an ounce of sense in

their

bones knows that the right thing to do with a mold infested brew is

to THROW it out altogether. Let your compost get its teeth into it,

but

thou, oh health conscious person, IF thou art, shouldst not partake of

poison!

You just can't fix mold! "

When in doubt, throw it out!

~Connie~

>

> My first attempt is 50-50 black and green tea and the recipe is the

> standard one found here.

> HHHEEELLLPPP !!!! After about 6 days, several green mould patches

have

> appeared on the surface, each about 10mm across. Is this OK or

should I

> ditch everything and find a new scoby ?. Terry

>

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>My first attempt is 50-50 black and green tea and the recipe is the

>standard one found here.

>HHHEEELLLPPP !!!! After about 6 days, several green mould patches have

>appeared on the surface, each about 10mm across. Is this OK or should I

>ditch everything and find a new scoby ?. Terry

Hi Terry,

Are you certain it is mold? Many people mistake normal SCOBY development

as mold. Mold is ALWAYS fuzzy. ALWAYS. So, clean and rinse your hands,

then move your finger across the surface of the SCOBY. If the areas that

concern you are smooth and slick like the surrounding SCOBY, it isn't mold

at all. If the areas are fuzzy, they are mold.

If they are mold, you must throw everything away, sterilize your vessels

and implements, and get a new SCOBY. Do not drink any of the brew.

Normal SCOBY development can be very different from a lot of the pictures

on the web. In addition, some websites' descriptions of mold seem

deliberately ambiguous, which leads to more people throwing away their

SCOBY and buying a new one.

So, sometimes yeastie bits or tea leaf bits get caught in the SCOBY matrix

and can look like round green/brown/blue spots. Or, thinner spots in the

SCOBY can develop that can also look round and colored. So the term " round

spots " is completely misleading.

Fuzzy. Can you check and let us know?

--V

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