Beginning Continuous Brewing

[Guest guest]

Hello KT Friends,

I only got one reply to my post below. Could some more of you

wonderful people reply, please? )

Thanks!

Christi

>

>Thanks to this group, I have been successfully brewing single stage

>KT since this summer. I received a 2 1/2 gallon glass vodka

>infusion container with an all plastic spigot for Christmas and so

>I'm ready to start continuous KT brewing )

>

>I read the files and checked out Happy Herbalist, but I want to

>make sure that I properly make the switch over from single stage KT

>brewing to the continuous method. I have my 2 gallon container that

>has KT with my SCOBY that should be ready to drink on Wednesday. I

>started it last Wednesday. So this Wednesday, do I just take that

>finished tea along with the SCOBY and put it all in my new 2 1/2

>gallon container and then add a feeder solution of room temperature

>sweet tea (2 quarts water, 1/2 c. sugar, and 6 t-bags) and begin

>drinking it when????

>

>Would I be able to have 1 quart daily replenishing it every 2 days

>with my feeder solution of 2 quarts sweet tea?

>

>Do I drink some, replenish it, and then drink some the next day?

>

>Am I kinda getting this or am I way off?

>

>Thanks!

>Christi

[Guest guest]

Christi...

There is a document in the files section of the website titled

" Continuous brewing system for kombucha.doc " .

The URL for the files section is below.

Please read through it and then come back with any questions it does

not answer for you.

Other than removing just a percentage of the finished tea and then

replacing it with new sweet tea, the procedures are the same. As

always, KT is done when it tastes done to you.

kombucha tea/files/

Christi....

How soon you will be able to harvest your continuous brew is entirely

circumstantial. Just as some single brews take only seven days and

others up to three weeks, so it is with continuous brewing.

When it tastes good harvest and replenish. When it tastes good again,

harvest and replenish. And so it goes. In time you will know the

rhythm of your continuous brew. There are no hard and fast rules.

So, just go with it and see where it leads you!

Happy brewing... :-)

Gayle

On Dec 30, 2008, at 6:24 PM, smileyhsmommy wrote:

> Hello KT Friends,

> I only got one reply to my post below. Could some more of you

> wonderful people reply, please? )

>

> Thanks!

> Christi

>

>>

>> Thanks to this group, I have been successfully brewing single stage

>> KT since this summer. I received a 2 1/2 gallon glass vodka

>> infusion container with an all plastic spigot for Christmas and so

>> I'm ready to start continuous KT brewing )

>>

>> I read the files and checked out Happy Herbalist, but I want to

>> make sure that I properly make the switch over from single stage KT

>> brewing to the continuous method. I have my 2 gallon container that

>> has KT with my SCOBY that should be ready to drink on Wednesday. I

>> started it last Wednesday. So this Wednesday, do I just take that

>> finished tea along with the SCOBY and put it all in my new 2 1/2

>> gallon container and then add a feeder solution of room temperature

>> sweet tea (2 quarts water, 1/2 c. sugar, and 6 t-bags) and begin

>> drinking it when????

>>

>> Would I be able to have 1 quart daily replenishing it every 2 days

>> with my feeder solution of 2 quarts sweet tea?

>>

>> Do I drink some, replenish it, and then drink some the next day?

>>

>> Am I kinda getting this or am I way off?

>>

>> Thanks!

>> Christi