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potiche | 13:15 Sat 04th Apr 2020 | Food & Drink
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Do we have any Kombucha makers amongst us? Latest batch tastes fab but I cant separate a new SCOBY from the mother. This happened 10days ago when I started this batch so I just left the whole SCOBY in with the new tea, sugar & residual Kombucha.
Can I just do that again? It's getting pretty big. I dont want to handle it with my hands to tear it apart, should I? Obvs it's healthy & doing its job but will the older bits eventually compromise a batch? Do they die with age?
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Ok, I admit it! I'm totally out of my depth here! I'd never even heard of kombucha until I read your post. However I wonder if this might help?
http://kombuchahome.com/how-to-divide-a-scoby-remove-baby-from-mother/
Afraid I can't help either.
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Chico.... perfect ...thnx that answers all my concerns. Happy to introduce you to the best amber nectar. It's good stuff & tastes great... even better with the fizz of a secondary ferment from fruit juice.
Coincidentally only recently I tried a tin of commercial cherry plum kombucha. It was ok, drinkable, nothing to write home about though.
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...and expensive I'd presume? Home made has delicate flavour...with slight vinegary edge but fruit juice adds flavour & natural bubbles so it pours & tastes more like a cider that cleans the palate. Really beneficial for ones gut.... I'll vouch for that. You can get started with a mail order SCOBY. Mine just sits in a big glass jar in kitchen for 10days then I strain & bottle it & brew a teapot of tea & 3 big spoons of sugar to get next lot on the go. The good bacteria in the SCOBY feed on the sugar & ferment the tea in a good way. It can veer towards vinegary so I presume theres a similarity with apple cider vinegar health benefits.

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