Kombucha/Brew Log

2023-10-05 22:50:36 UTC

The kombucha was basically vinegar last night, so I emptied one of the jars and threw its SCOBY away. I'll restart the other jar this evening and try to keep its SCOBY alive while I turn my attentions to coffee.

Returned from my trip early yesterday morning

Mango kombucha smelled rancid so I threw it out
The ginger kombucha tasted quite good, but most of the bottle were flat? I poured those out and kept the ones with a bit of carbonation. I'm going to run to the store today and grab a strainer so I can re-bottle it and separate the kombucha from the ginger fibres and whatnot
Poured out all but 2 cups of the kombucha I left in the first fermentation, threw away one of the pellicles because it was looking a little old (dead?), and halved the other one that looked healthier
Thoroughly cleaned the jars after emptying them
- They were really hot after taking them out of the dishwasher, so I put them in the refrigerator. They were too cold after that, so I ran some warm water over them until they reached approx. room temperature
Started two gallons in the first fermentation cycle based on the same starter and same pellicle. Initially, one was based on a flavoured kombucha from GT with a home-grown pellicle and the other was bought from Amazon. I don't know which I threw out and which I saved, but they're now identical ¯\_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Moved bottles to refrigerator to slow fermentation process while I'm away from home

Intended to bottle almost a gallon of ../04 recipes/plain mango, but it turned into mango/nectarine. One mango was completely unripe and the other was barely somewhat ripe so I added a big nectarine (¬_¬")
Bottled almost a gallon of ../04 recipes/spicy ginger minus the cayenne
- Kinda worried about this one. I used a blender to purée the ginger, honey, and brown sugar and it produced a lot of foam; I tasted the foam and it was quite horrific