kombucha

Post by **Jimmy** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 9:15 pm

Anyone make it or try it? I just stumbled across it...looks pretty disgusting but tempting to try

Graham.C · Post by **Graham.C** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 9:18 pm

I love the stuff, but its not everyone's cup of tea...

Ok that was a weak pun, but I do think its good stuff. I would love to make it myself, I bet you could get all sorts of funky flavors if you had control over the ingredients/fermentation.

Jayme · Post by **Jayme** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 10:18 am

I've not made any or tried it, but have been meaning to give it a shot. Some woman on Kijiji has a culture and will trade for homebrew

Dirt Chicken · Post by **Dirt Chicken** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 10:53 am

yeah i saw that on kijiji a while back, i think the person is in Sackville. Theres a brand they stock at planet organic thats quite tasty, think the flavour is called "Synergy" and its bright red.

Jayme · Post by **Jayme** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 8:25 am

The one I talked to on kijiji was in Clayton Park.

ryantr0n · Post by **ryantr0n** » Mon Oct 01, 2012 11:36 am

My girlfriend is in the process of growing her first mother.

It's almost strong enough to be transferred into a big jug of tea to make a batch.

I can definitely hook you guys up with some culture to grow once this one has stabilized. I can keep those interested in the loop if you wish.

Graham.C · Post by **Graham.C** » Mon Oct 01, 2012 1:35 pm

ryantr0n wrote:My girlfriend is in the process of growing her first mother.

It's almost strong enough to be transferred into a big jug of tea to make a batch.

I can definitely hook you guys up with some culture to grow once this one has stabilized. I can keep those interested in the loop if you wish.

awesome. I'll trade you some beer for it.

ryantr0n · Post by **ryantr0n** » Mon Oct 01, 2012 2:19 pm

Deal - I'll start up a thread once it's big enough to part with.

We started it from the bottoms of a bottle of raw kombucha we got somewhere (honestly cant remember) so it took a while to get going. It's picking up the pace very quickly now that it's had some time to think.
Couple/few weeks and I can probably hook you up.

Post by **Jimmy** » Tue May 20, 2014 9:43 pm

I started to grow a scoby over the weekend...purchased a bottle of raw komcucha from Sobeys and started from that. It was my first time trying kombucha but I enjoyed it!

dean2k · Post by **dean2k** » Tue May 20, 2014 9:57 pm

Jimmy wrote:I started to grow a scoby over the weekend...purchased a bottle of raw komcucha from Sobeys and started from that. It was my first time trying kombucha but I enjoyed it!

Cool. Save me from googling, how do go about growing one from the dregs?

Post by **Jimmy** » Tue May 20, 2014 10:06 pm

I realllly don't know much about it...but..

I basically took about 1 cup of the kombucha (which also contained a small scoby), and pitched that into a mixture of 1 cup of black tea and 2 tbsp of sugar. It's in a mason jar with a dish cloth over the top, held on with a rubber band.

That's pretty much it. It seems to be working and it seems to make sense based on beer brewing techniques.

dean2k · Post by **dean2k** » Tue May 20, 2014 10:13 pm

Awesome. Going to see if Amherst Sobeys also carries Kombucha. Somehow I doubt it and I'm not too sure the cafe here in Sackville will want to share their scoby.

Post by **Jimmy** » Tue May 20, 2014 10:26 pm

dean2k wrote:Awesome. Going to see if Amherst Sobeys also carries Kombucha. Somehow I doubt it and I'm not too sure the cafe here in Sackville will want to share their scoby.

It was in the "Natural Food" section, refrigerated with the almond/soy/coconut milks.

dean2k · Post by **dean2k** » Wed May 21, 2014 12:07 pm

Jimmy wrote:
dean2k wrote:Awesome. Going to see if Amherst Sobeys also carries Kombucha. Somehow I doubt it and I'm not too sure the cafe here in Sackville will want to share their scoby.
It was in the "Natural Food" section, refrigerated with the almond/soy/coconut milks.

Found some.. But it's labeled as "multi-green" with algae.

Post by **Jimmy** » Tue Jun 03, 2014 6:11 pm

Seems like I've got a decent SCOBY now..not really sure to be honest

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dean2k · Post by **dean2k** » Tue Jun 03, 2014 6:20 pm

Cool. I have one almost 2 weeks old but it looks extra gross because of bits of algae, which I don't want to get confused with mold. But ask it might cost me is a gallon of tea so no biggie.

I have another one on the go from a bottle of the ginger kombucha that'd less than a week old, but coming along beautifully

dean2k · Post by **dean2k** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 7:00 pm

Lesson learned. I have successfully grown 2 SCOBYs from bottles and followed directions to a tee to brew up two 1 gallon batches. So now I have approximately 1.5 gallons too much of the stuff

Sure the kombucha will keep if refrigerated, but finding a suitable glass storage container(s) with plastic lids is rather a pain. The next batch will be significantly dialed back.

Post by **Jimmy** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 8:06 pm

I haven't done anything with mine. I grew the SCOBY and it's been sitting there ever since

Post by **chalmers** » Fri Jun 27, 2014 3:31 pm

Pretty soon it will become self aware and register its own account on here.

dean2k · Post by **dean2k** » Fri Jun 27, 2014 6:16 pm

Staging, production, and distribution.

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