Re: Honey/Yeast - Is now 4 wk long ferment

[Guest guest]

>>maybe you could use more starter. i would let it get acidic.<<

I always let my brews turn to vinegar bcuz I don't want the sugar. Is that what

you mean?

>>If you can, grow a hotel and use the booch from that for starter or to bump up

the

acidity of your brew if you need it.<<

I had a hotel pretty much from the start. And I have a 2 gal jug that I left get

very acidic, so I have plenty of this to try. I used my hotel booch once and it

made no change. But now I am thinking that maybe I just need to do that more

than once to see a change.

I just made new tea for one of my continuous brew crocks on Saturday. So there

isn't much room for additions. Should I draw some of that off to make the room

to do the additions of another acidic scoby and starter, or should I not be

touching it like that yet? I never touched my brews this early.

Lyn

The 4-wk Brew Person

[Guest guest]

if you want it to get strong quicker, after you draw some off

booch, instead of feeding the continuous vessel fresh sweet tea, try

feeding it some strong booch. once it gets strong enough (either by adding

enough strong booch, or slow fermentation), only then feed it fresh tea,

and only as much as you take off each day. if it gets too sweet again,

feed it strong booch again, till it catches up.

if your continuous fermentation container is small, it is very easy to wash

out the culture with sweet tea by diluting too much. you can prevent then

in three ways: put less sweet tea in (thereby diluting it less and allowing

it to get sour quicker), put more strong booch in (if you have some on

hand), or get a bigger container.

if you are doing the batch method, consider using more starter. instead of

a cup, use a pint. or maybe a quart or more. half-booch, half-tea

ferments pretty quickly. )))

jas

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> >>maybe you could use more starter. i would let it get acidic.<<

>

> I always let my brews turn to vinegar bcuz I don't want the sugar. Is that

> what you mean?

>

> >>If you can, grow a hotel and use the booch from that for starter or to

> bump up the

> acidity of your brew if you need it.<<

>

> I had a hotel pretty much from the start. And I have a 2 gal jug that I

> left get very acidic, so I have plenty of this to try. I used my hotel

> booch once and it made no change. But now I am thinking that maybe I just

> need to do that more than once to see a change.

>

> I just made new tea for one of my continuous brew crocks on Saturday. So

> there isn't much room for additions. Should I draw some of that off to make

> the room to do the additions of another acidic scoby and starter, or should

> I not be touching it like that yet? I never touched my brews this early.

>

> Lyn

> The 4-wk Brew Person

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>

[Guest guest]

----- Original Message -----

>if you want it to get strong quicker, after you draw some off

booch, instead of feeding the continuous vessel fresh sweet tea, try

feeding it some strong booch. once it gets strong enough (either by adding

enough strong booch, or slow fermentation), only then feed it fresh tea,

and only as much as you take off each day. if it gets too sweet again,

feed it strong booch again, till it catches up.<<

OK, you are suggesting increasing the amount of acidic brew that I add to my

crock. So here is what I am thinking of doing. I have a 2 gal jug that is my

hotel and that brew is nasty acidic. I drank some yesterday to be sure and 2

swallows burned my stomach for 10 mins. I think the time is ripe to use my own

hotel to help myself. So, here is my thinking. I have always put full brew into

my hotel when I would take out a scoby and starter from that for whatever

reason. I never put in sweet tea. So is it fine to put sweet tea from my current

crock into that hotel after I take out 20 oz or a qt?

>>if your continuous fermentation container is small,<<

It is a 2.5 gal crock.

>>if you are doing the batch method, consider using more starter. instead of

a cup, use a pint.<<

I have a 20 oz mug that I fill with starter for my batch brews. Was that amount

too small? (Consider that I never made much more than a gallon of sweet tea

because of trying to keep so many scobys in my brews. I think I did put quite a

bit of acidity into the sweet tea. But I will give more. In fact, I think it is

worth trying to add starter every 4 days or so. -- Lyn

[Guest guest]

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> ----- Original Message -----

> >if you want it to get strong quicker, after you draw some off

> booch, instead of feeding the continuous vessel fresh sweet tea, try

> feeding it some strong booch. once it gets strong enough (either by adding

> enough strong booch, or slow fermentation), only then feed it fresh tea,

> and only as much as you take off each day. if it gets too sweet again,

> feed it strong booch again, till it catches up.<<

>

> OK, you are suggesting increasing the amount of acidic brew that I add to

> my crock. So here is what I am thinking of doing. I have a 2 gal jug that

> is my hotel and that brew is nasty acidic. I drank some yesterday to be

> sure and 2 swallows burned my stomach for 10 mins. I think the time is ripe

> to use my own hotel to help myself. So, here is my thinking. I have always

> put full brew into my hotel when I would take out a scoby and starter from

> that for whatever reason. I never put in sweet tea. So is it fine to put

> sweet tea from my current crock into that hotel after I take out 20 oz or a

> qt?

>

the less sweet tea you add, the quicker it will recover acidity.

>

> >>if you are doing the batch method, consider using more starter. instead

> of

> a cup, use a pint.<<

>

> I have a 20 oz mug that I fill with starter for my batch brews. Was that

> amount too small? (Consider that I never made much more than a gallon of

> sweet tea because of trying to keep so many scobys in my brews. I think I

> did put quite a bit of acidity into the sweet tea. But I will give more. In

> fact, I think it is worth trying to add starter every 4 days or so. -- Lyn

>

that's a lot of starter.. but more booch makes tea into booch faster, in my

limited experience...

jas