to get a new batch started?

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any source sugar granules do not exist in natural environments*

kombucha is not merely a tea, you brew it with " tea " /infusions

there is no such thing as kombucha tea: -it is an elixir & whole

body tonic(varying according to how one brews her/his styles?)

why is this listserv so absolutely religiously stubborn about the

usage of drug-form sugars(from any source derived) in feeding

scoby? bottom line: you feed the culture any drug form sugars,

then you will not produce an authentic active living kombucha.

what parts of unnatural & nonexistent-in-nature do we continue

on in denial, apathy, lies, distortion or brutish self-delusionality

human beings never " one-up " mother nature, ever, ever: accept

the reality why not? it's the sugar that is specifically in question

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To: original_kombucha

Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 4:55 PM

Subject: Re: Re: Trying to get a new batch started after over a year

 

Even easier.

Store bought GTs KT - original.

Pour it in a larger mouthed container - example - a wide mouth quart

jar - cover with coffee filter and just wait. It will form a lovely

scoby in a relatively brief period of time. This was how I made my

first one.

Later I got one from someone who started hers before GTs moved to

their " enlightened " version. If you can get the original where you

are go for that. The enlightened works some have suggested the

culture is not as strong as the orignal was.

Avoid any of the non-refridgerated versions - I am trying to think of

an example - but anyway - I have seen them in bottles in the

soda/bottled fizzy water area of the store. I would almost promise

you those have been pasturized. You want the raw type in the

refidgerator case.

Jaxi

> Hi, I live in Houston TX, hot hot hot also...

> I got a bottle of GTS KT and made some tea/sugar and put 1/2 bottle (8oz) of

> the KT in the tea 8oz in a 1 qt jar 16oz total and after 2 weeks had a nice

> scoby, 1/16 " then used it to graduate to more tea and a bigger container

> and now I have scobydoo's coming out of the wazoo....

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>> Hello,

>> I moved from CT to Phoenix, AZ a year ago, and this is the first batch

>> that I have attempted in this new climate/environment. I could not move

>> my SCOBY, so I tried to get a new one going using a bottle of store-bought

>> Kombucha, it molded. It can get quite warm outside here, although we keep

>> the house between 78 and 84 degrees during the summer. Should I just

>> scrap the idea of trying to grow my own SCOBY, and look for a local

>> source? Or has anyone here had any luck growing one from store bought

>> KT?

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>> Thanks for your advice.

>>

>> craving KT in AZ,

>> Suzette

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