I love your fermentation videos! Really clear instructions and I appreciate all the added tips. They’ve definitely become my go-to when I’m looking for fermentation ideas. Looking forward to your next video. 👍🏻😊 Julia
Did everything you did and it's the best kombucha I've ever had. On my 3rd ferment now and I've started a gallon of Jun. Your channel is awesome and very informative. Thank you for all your hard work!
XARBOMBA Thank you for the appreciation. It's not really hard work when it's a labor of love. Getting viewers like you enthused about this stuff is my reward. Keep up the good work!
Can't stop looking at the beautiful look outside your windows. That must be so calming. And of course thanks for all the informatiins. All the best from Germany, Alice
I use white tea or green tea for my komboocha. I a few months ago finally got a big batch brew jar and spigot for it. It's a 3 Gal jar. I made my own komboocha mother before making komboocha batches. I saw lots of ways to make the mother on RU-vid and decided to experiment on the multiple methods simultaneously. I've been experimenting on different recipes to see what works and what doesn't. I've gotten tea komboocha and coffee komboocha down pat. I'm still tinkering with herbal tea komboocha. And yes, I drink all of the above. I mostly stick with white or green tea komboocha, but I do drink the coffee on occasion. I've never been a big coffee drinker, so my tolerance for that level of caffeen is low. I also have insomnia, so sleep deprivation is a prob. Sleep deprivation sucks when you've got a busy day ahead including busses for transportation. Coffee is a must on those days, but it wires me. Om used to using lots of sweetener and creamer in my coffee to improve the taste and lower the caffeen. Turning coffee into komboocha lowers the caffeen and adds health benefits. Downside us the flavor. I second ferment it with Berry juice and stevia to balance the flavor. I drink all my komboocha as second ferments with stevia added. I have loads of flavor combos I've done. And yes, I use sugar to sweeten my komboocha. I think I'll try honey next.
I have been making Kombucha off and on for the last 4yrs. Recently I started again and one thing I have always had a problem with was flavoring it and getting a good carbonation! I started using a warmer and this last batch I got excellent carbonation! Thanks for your video!
Yes it's expensive and thank you so much for making it affordable for working people. I am well on my way to homemaking things and using natural reduced costs cleaners and health products thanks for being a great part of my journey.
Great video! You're fun to watch. I like to use a stainless steel pot to boil the water, organic cane sugar, and organic black tea. I get nice results.
I've been trying to brew my own kombucha for years and until someone mentioned that I try distilled water I had no luck at all. I have tried filtered, spring, a friends well water and everything else you can think of and until I went with distilled I kept getting mold. So for me that is what I have to use. I guess it's just something with my area. haha, I don't know but I am so glad I am now making my own. Great video thank you
I must get back into making this stuff again, it was sure nice and way cheaper than buying it commercially made. Nice Kitchen and view out the window by the way.
I was going to wait till it warms up its winter here in Aussieland and my house gets as cold as a fridge hehe. I do have one of those thermostatic control seed mats, I could adjust it up to 40.C at that temp it would be a little hot for it. I do make Kefir though, thanks for the fast reply.
I've used the frozen juice concentrate from the freezer section, filled up to about the bottom of where the label is for kevita or gt bottles. It's been nice to taste new flavors
Better Done Yourself thanks, I've had decent success with the 100%juice brand. Also purchased dried elderberries from brew supply and tasted pretty good with just one tbsp. Next experiment will be with full leaf hops the guy recommended
LOVE your channel.. I didn't know you shouldn't use tap water WHICH I been using now I'm off to get a Britta.. I cannot believe I just through away about 40 bottles cause they didn't carbonate the way I wanted then I seen the lids you use. Where do I get those? I'm just SO MAD at myself.. LOL
I've made a few batches with 2nd ferments but I'm having a problem. My 2nd ferment comes out super super carbonated. Not like yours at all that was easy to open and pour. My bottles take about an hour to open, slowly open, close, slowly open, close, until l can open it safely without losing half the liquid. What am I doing wrong?! I've been using only a quarter cup of fruit. Whole fruit. And I was even burping the lids, burping the lids, burping the lids. And it's still totally fizzy. I used the wrong type bottle, and one bottle exploded, glass shards flying every where. So I'm very cautious now. Unsure how to proceed. I have old kombucha bottles (some plastic-maybe the plastic ones were from a different beverage) and those lids look like they are ready to split open when second fermenting. And my other question is, if you didn't want to second ferment would you leave your kombucha in original crock and just drink as needed from the fridge? And can you do a second ferment without all the fizz, just for the extra flavor? I guess I'm just using the wrong bottles. Maybe those ring type lids are the key. Love your videos!
Is there a method of knowing how much sugar or juice is left behind in the final product? I'm doing a low carb diet and would love to drink this again, but I've been hesitant. Love your channel! Keep it up.
Kombucha is awesome, is there a way to stop the scoby boogers from growing? I would like to sell a few bottles at the farmers market but i think the floating scoby residue might put people off lol
Nope. You can try limiting the amount of air in each bottle to try to limit the SCOBY growth during the 2F. Or pasteurize and keg it but, no, you can't stop the SCOBY.
Once it's carbonated, move the bottles to the fridge. They should be good for at least a month. It won't go bad, but it will continue to get more sour.
I brew a gallon batch and it’s been about 10 days and it tastes watery, not sour or sweet. Is there something that could be the reason? I do exactly as you did here in this video. Thank you for doing them, by the way!
Thanks for the video. BTW, where did you get the bright green thermometer? And I can confirm that the hot water in the bottles to release the labels really works. I puzzled that one out myself some time ago. If there is any glue substance remaining then instead of Goo Gone (chemicals) I just use a still wool pad and some soap and the glue comes right off. The fizzy end product really makes me thirsty right now.
Love the crock idea, have ordered one but how do you monitor the temperature in the crock? Will a stick on thermometer stick to the ceramic crock? Do you wrap a seedling warmer around your crock?
The pellicle? I just put it in a bowl or just throw it away. There's more than enough SCOBY in the kombucha that gets left in the crock for the next batch.
not the same as what they use in water treatment. it's in solution and is so close to the boiling point of water that it takes 20 min at a rolling boil to get the chlorine out of a gallon of water. boil a gallon of water for 20 min and you don't have much left. you're better off setting the water in the sun for 3 days so you evaporate less water and all the chlorine.
i live in Hoosick Falls NY, a super-site because of PFOA ground water contamination from a Teflon manufacturing plant, so i use a Berkey Lite with the extra fluoride filters and a shower filter. but before i moved here i always use a Brita.
I made my very first batch of Kombucha using a mother of vinegar scoby I made from making raisin vinegar. They do work and there is vinegar in Kombucha. If you let it ferment long enough it will turn to vinegar and you can still use it as a starter liquid if you forget to save some from the previous batch. Or you can make a very delicious vinaigrette or anything else you would normally use vinegar for.
Yes, it's thermostatically controlled. Sometimes I doublecheck that mine is plugged in because it doesn't seem very warm. Check one of the bottles on it tomorrow and you'll see it's warming them...
Better Done Yourself sorry I love your videos and I was admiring the star gazers and thought I hope he doesn’t have a cat around those. The vet tech in me was concerned.
