Tastes and smells like sweaty feet.........

[Guest guest]

Grew my own mother from High Country Kombucha -- and it tasted and smelled like

sweaty

feet. Got sick, and let it overbrew by a couple of months!!

Now I have started a fresh batch, used a bottle of GT's for my starter, peeled

off the bottom

youngest layer, and rinsed out my hotel.

Will this effect an improvement, or have I overdone it by letting it overstay?

TIA,

Jolly

I took mama out and back in, and now my hands smell like sweaty feet.

[Guest guest]

Jolly...

Nothing about Kombucha should smell like sweaty feet. It should have

an apple cidery or vinegary smell depending on how long it has brewed.

I would recommend you ask for a SCOBY, tried and true, from someone

and go with that!

There's most always someone around able to send one if asked....

Good luck!

Gayle

On Dec 30, 2008, at 3:41 PM, wrote:

> Grew my own mother from High Country Kombucha -- and it tasted and

> smelled like sweaty

> feet. Got sick, and let it overbrew by a couple of months!!

>

> Now I have started a fresh batch, used a bottle of GT's for my

> starter, peeled off the bottom

> youngest layer, and rinsed out my hotel.

>

> Will this effect an improvement, or have I overdone it by letting it

> overstay?

>

> TIA,

> Jolly

>

> I took mama out and back in, and now my hands smell like sweaty feet.

>

>

> ------------------------------------

>

>

[Guest guest]

I agree with Gayle that it should not smell like that, BUT some weeks I

have checked my kombucha every day,

and about 2 weeks ago when we allowed the house to be cool, I had an off

smell for two days and then it

disappeared when we warmed up the house.

I have seven jars that I have started (at different times) from bottled

KT's and the scobys are from a

bare skin to one that is a 1/2 inch thick.

Six of the jars have nothing in common except that I had fed them with

green tea prior to the smell.

So, when all the jars developed the same smell - I held judgment until I

could figure if it was the tea,

an problem inside the jars, wild yeasts?, or just the temperature.

SEEMS to have been the temperature, because my normal carbonation is

back too.

Oh, yes I checked PH too and it wasn't above a 3.5

In other words you could / might have the same thing happen again,

unless you can figure out

why it happened the first time. You have NOT given all the variables for

me to 'guess' what

could have been off.

aka Piper

USDA zone 8; Waco, TX

Gayle Marks wrote:

> Jolly...

>

> Nothing about Kombucha should smell like sweaty feet. It should have

> an apple cidery or vinegary smell depending on how long it has brewed.

>

> I would recommend you ask for a SCOBY, tried and true, from someone

> and go with that!

>

> There's most always someone around able to send one if asked....

>

> Good luck!

>

> Gayle

>

>

> On Dec 30, 2008, at 3:41 PM, wrote:

>

>

>> Grew my own mother from High Country Kombucha -- and it tasted and

>> smelled like sweaty

>> feet. Got sick, and let it overbrew by a couple of months!!

>>

>> Now I have started a fresh batch, used a bottle of GT's for my

>> starter, peeled off the bottom

>> youngest layer, and rinsed out my hotel.

>>

>> Will this effect an improvement, or have I overdone it by letting it

>> overstay?

>>

>> TIA,

>> Jolly

>>

>> I took mama out and back in, and now my hands smell like sweaty feet.