continuous brewing and crocks

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Re: " continuous brewing " and crocks

For anyone else that is interested, Happy Herbalist had all the info

and more on continuous brewing to get me going.

http://www.happyherbalist.com/continuous_brewing.htm

I've been brewing continuously for about 2 months now, and its working

beautifully. I pull about 3-4 bottles off of my 3 gallon jug every

2-3 days and replenish w/ sweet tea.

Let us know how yours turns out when you start.

Kurt

> > Here we go again, here is what I tried to say:

> >

> > I'm impressed Gayle!!! I'm going to have my husband do that for us,

> we

> > are so sold on on using our crock, that I'm ready to not use the

> gallon

> > size jars at all, " continuous " brewing is soooo much easier than

> using

> > the gallon jars, and WAY less mess, not to mention the ease of

> bottling

> > up-what a breeze!!! If anyone is interested in knowing what the

> > continuous brewing method is, I would be more than happy to send

> the

> > directions I just recently wrote up, which I think was easy to

> > understand, wasn't it, Rodrick? Just let me know if someone wants

> this

> > information-if I had known the difference when I was starting out,

> I

> > would have just started out with this method-that's how sold I am

> on

> > it!!! Jeani

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

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I have started a brew with GT's KT and been very successful.? Are you adding

some of the finished KT to the batch?? I added about half of the bottle to my

sweet tea and it produced a new scoby in about 8 days.?

Re: " continuous brewing " and crocks

Hi everyone!

Great group you have here and I have found so much information!

I also just joined because I wanted to be able to read through past

posts to learn what I'm doing wrong.

Today is October 20. I made my first Kombucha batch on September 19

per instructions found on many webpages (3 qts. filtered water; 6

Black organic Whole Foods teabags; 1 cup of raw sugar; one 16 oz.

bottle of GT Kombucha (original)as my starter; covered my glass jar

with a coffee filter/rubber band; everything was followed to a " T " ).

When nothing changed after about 10 days, I suspected that my NJ

kitchen counter area may be too cold so I moved it to our gas oven

where the broiler pilot light underneath provides a constant warm

temperature. Last week when still nothing has happened, I brought it

up to our bedroom where it is always at least 75 degrees, sometimes

more (I thought perhaps the fresh air would be better than the oven

although the oven is rather inexpensive and hardly insulated, etc.).

In that jar is the little scoby found in the bottle of GT's Kombucha

only. The level I started with left a mark on the jar and shows that

the mixture has evaporated by an inch. I noticed the jar has about a

1/16 of an inch level of silt at the very bottom, but absolutely

nothing more. When checking for smell, I noticed it smells of slight

vinegar and tea.

When nothing occurred with first batch by October 1, I made another

batch using the same recipe as above but three Black and three Green

teabags; one cup of white sugar and with one cup of white distilled

vinegar as my starter. That jar was placed in the oven, and still

today, nothing. The only thing I can see is that the bottom has what

looks like sand or grit.

Last Friday, October 17 I poured a 16 oz. bottle of GT's original

Kombucha in a small pyrex dish covered with a paper towel/rubber band

and placed it in the oven utilizing the pilot light. (I'm trying this

per a post on this forum last week on starting a scoby from a bottle

of KT.) I put the dish in the oven because the outside temperature

has dropped and we haven't turned on the heat yet. There's nothing to

see yet as it has only been three days.

So, I have three batches of varying KT's but I'm pretty sure I will

need to chuck the first two. I'm thinking I should try to make yet

another batch using the crock pot method I read here today to ensure a

constant temperature and leave it undisturbed. If okay, I'll be

asking Rodrick Shank off line for that recipe.

Anyone, feel free to jump in here to advise me. Should I request a

full-fledged scoby from someone if available, or do you think I should

keep trying to get a " specimen " either from the three other batches,

or like I said, chuck the first two and start over while hoping the GT

specimen develops into something I can use. ly, I haven't seen

anywhere where someone had this much trouble making the tea. I must

be doing something wrong, for sure.

Thank you for any thoughts you may have on this.

Joan

> > Here we go again, here is what I tried to say:

> >

> > I'm impressed Gayle!!! I'm going to have my husband do that for us,

> we

> > are so sold on on using our crock, that I'm ready to not use the

> gallon

> > size jars at all, " continuous " brewing is soooo much easier than

> using

> > the gallon jars, and WAY less mess, not to mention the ease of

> bottling

> > up-what a breeze!!! If anyone is interested in knowing what the

> > continuous brewing method is, I would be more than happy to send

> the

> > directions I just recently wrote up, which I think was easy to

> > understand, wasn't it, Rodrick? Just let me know if someone wants

> this

> > information-if I had known the difference when I was starting out,

> I

> > would have just started out with this method-that's how sold I am

> on

> > it!!! Jeani

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

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I wouldn't call them SCOBY's really, but I always get some pretty thick

" slimeys " in mine.? Still owrks great to start a batch if you don't have a SCOBY

though.

Re: " continuous brewing " and crocks

I've never seen a SCOBY in GT's KT.? I've even asked others that have drank it

longer than me.? If anyone is getting SCOBY's from GT's brew...you've got a

prize!

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