Guest guest Posted July 14, 2012 Report Share Posted July 14, 2012 Sorry, but having a really hard time understanding what you are talking about.........??????? Keep it simple////// RJ > > Hmmm. A very generous person on this list sent me some scoby babies this week and today I put two of them into qt jars of tea with 8 oz of starter ahd 1/3 c sugar. I have put these on a different floor of the house I live in now - My Dad's because I am taking care of him. It is hard to find the most peaceful place because we have so many windows open and we live right on a major highway. So we have lots of traffic noise. The only REAL quiet place I could have chosen would be the basement or the attic. But they are not the cleanest because we burn coal in the basement and I have NOT gotten to cleaning out the attic much yet. So I picked a shelf in a closet and hung a towel over the shelves to help muffle sound that the closed door would not filter. > > I say this because my brew that I left in my unoccupied house is becoming quite an experiment to me. That 9 wk old brew had leaked when I went there in April and I thought I had cleaned it up sufficiently. (That was my winner of a taste. But I did not have much to taste because so much had leaked out because of the new faucet I had installed but not tightened down hard enough.) Earlier this month when I went down again, there were no new leaks, but there were definitely leftover puddles of old booch " behind things " when I took the time to clean really good. The thing I noticed is, I have NO fruit flies in that house. Not one! Evidently it is not booch that they smell and come into your house to get. You bring them in some other way. I'm gonna start washing my fruits and veggies before I bring them into the house to see if I can get this FF problem gone. > > So I think I will empty that closet and take my CB crocks up into that same closet with the two new quarts I started. > > Additionally, I tasted one of my two filled CB crocks yesterday and it should be fermented and it wasn't. So today I took the cover off to replace all the scobys with scobys from my very acidic hotel. When I took the top off and reached innnnn...I saw bubbles all around half of the top! That's the first time I have seen bubbles in -- forever! Not since I gave my neighbor a scoby and HIS got bubbles the first brew. > > I am puzzled. How can there be bubbles on top when there was no carbonation when I decanted some yesterday to taste it and when it was obviously not fermented? I am replacing scobys because I have played around with these for too long and I feel they are just shot out by now. > > I am really puzzled by this KT. > > Lyn > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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