Hello! hello!
I hope everyone is having a super Sunday.
For me, Sunday is now all about kombucha. Brewing a new batch, bottling the old batch, reading and making notes.
Every Sunday I'll update about my progress towards the best 'bucha ever. Stay tuned if you're interested and thank you!
Stray observation: My favorite fermented things start with K!
So, after a successful first batch my SCOBY made a baby! That's also something that will happen every time a batch is completed. The SCOBY makes a baby SCOBY that can be used in the next batch and so on. Soon, we'll have many many generations co-living in some sugar tea around here. I'm a proud...well..GOD? :D
For now, I have two 3litres jars brewing.
THERE ARE PHOTOS!
If you look closely you might notice that the tea is in two different shades of dark. That's because I am experimenting with pu-erh tea in one of the jars. This is an already fermented tea that has a pungent, earthy taste that I think might complement the Scoby well. Time will tell.
And one aerial photo for the biggest fans:
One thing to note here: I want to experiment with covering the jar with a coffee filter which I heard can be better than cloth. As you can see, some o the tea went over and stained the cloth which I now have to change and pray that little fragments are not in the batch now and spoil it. One can hope!!
That's it for today. Still, a photo with my bottles that are now in the second fermentation stage. I'll tell you all about it next Sunday!