Re: Ray's Kombucha-Problems?

[Guest guest]

Ray... three days is much too early to worry about what is going on

with your brew.

You need to let it sit completely undisturbed for at least a week!

Don't stir, don't lift out the SCOBY, don't worry!

Make sure it is properly covered and forget about it!

The baby will form as a thin veil across the entire top of the

fermenting vessel and will gradually thicken into the well known and

loved pancake! It may have an incredible number of variations, so

don't worry about that either.

Margret has a photo essay, but I can't find it just now. Hopefully

she will pop in and post the link to it.

Meanwhile...do some perusing of the photos and files sections at the

site, and do some googling...there is a wealth of information out

there for the taking!!!

Good luck and welcome to the world of Kombucha!!!

Gayle (In overcast and below freezing Wisconsin)

On Nov 22, 2008, at 6:54 AM, Ray wrote:

> Hello All,

>

> Well I got my scoby and followed the instructions, made the brew and

> in three days I check the stuff.... And I don't know what I am looking

> at.

>

> Can some of the KT Jedi Masters look at these pictures and tell me if

> my KT is ok, bad, growing mold, good to go, ect.

>

>

kombucha tea/photos/album/596063383/pic/list

>

> We love KT and have been getting Dave's, but that is becoming an

> expensive habit.

>

> Any input and analysis is greatly appreciated.

>

> Ray

> Wisdom Farms

> Hill Country Texas

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

You want to check out some *proper* mo(u)ld?

Go thou unto " 's mouldy bits " at the photos pages.

Thereby hangs a tale.

:¬))

Ray wrote:

> Hello All,

>

> Well I got my scoby and followed the instructions, made the brew and in three

days I check the stuff.... And I don't know what I am looking at.

>

>

[Guest guest]

Jar 1 looks normal to me. Jar 2 - don't know what-all that is in

there!

Wait longer and see what happens. If it's good it can only get

better, but if there's something bad in there it'll only get worse

and then you'll know for sure.

-PattyT ('nuther Texan, born in Seguin)

>

> Hello All,

>

> Well I got my scoby and followed the instructions, made the brew and

> in three days I check the stuff.... And I don't know what I am

looking

> at.

>

> Can some of the KT Jedi Masters look at these pictures and tell me

if

> my KT is ok, bad, growing mold, good to go, ect.

>

[Guest guest]

In message <gg9d5r+odfaeGroups> you wrote:

> Jar 1 looks normal to me. Jar 2 - don't know what-all that is in

> there!

Hi Ray and Patty, I'm quite confident that the danglies you can see on

Pic 2 are ooglies. I get them all the time. They are slimy yeasty dangly

or blobby things which can be green/brown/black coloured depending on the

tea pigments present. They really are harmless and quite non-fuzzy.

They mostly adhere to the scoby on top. Just strain them out at bottling

time. They can also grow in the bottle/after bottling.

If there are ooglies I always know I have a good brew.

No worries,

Margret:-)

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[Guest guest]

Question: I've just started brewing and have noticed something similar

in my brew... they're black and they form on the underside of the

scoby. Otherwise, the brew seems quite healthy, though odd-tasting

since I added a cup of oolong to an otherwise all-green tea batch to

replace what I drank taking 'samples' of it. Just a bit unnerving

when expecting a very light pinkish to get black things in there...

>

> > Jar 1 looks normal to me. Jar 2 - don't know what-all that is in

> > there!

>

> Hi Ray and Patty, I'm quite confident that the danglies you can see on

> Pic 2 are ooglies. I get them all the time. They are slimy yeasty dangly

> or blobby things which can be green/brown/black coloured depending

on the

> tea pigments present. They really are harmless and quite non-fuzzy.

> They mostly adhere to the scoby on top. Just strain them out at

bottling

> time. They can also grow in the bottle/after bottling.

> If there are ooglies I always know I have a good brew.

>

> No worries,

>

> Margret:-)

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[Guest guest]

In message <ggsdt3+36uieGroups> you wrote:

> Question: I've just started brewing and have noticed something similar

> in my brew... they're black and they form on the underside of the

> scoby. Otherwise, the brew seems quite healthy, though odd-tasting

> since I added a cup of oolong to an otherwise all-green tea batch to

> replace what I drank taking 'samples' of it. Just a bit unnerving

> when expecting a very light pinkish to get black things in there...

Hi, dear Inventor,

I can assure you, this black slimy-stringy stuff is very normal.

Have a look on mine on my Kombucha experiment. They look ugly,

that's why they are called ooglies ;-) They are very easy to wash off in

KT (never water, because of it lacking acidity!)

http://www.therpc.f9.co.uk/family/scobygrow/home.html

Have fun, and don't worry. I, too use oolong tea occasionally with

green, and white as well.

Greetings on a cold night,

Margret:-) UK

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