Kombucha Tea - gave it a taste

[delia_peterson]

I just fold the scoby up and put it in a glass canning jar and fill it with filtered water. Learn from my mistakes, mark a date on the jar and replace it with a fresh one now and then (monthly? Don't know.) You will have plenty, as you now know!
I did use a crock with a spigot, and you know those thready, filmy things in the finished kombucha? They will lodge in the spigot and clog it ultimately, and will be all but impossible to clean out. I went back to using my gallon glass jars!

Do you keep this in the fridge or on the counter?

 

[Dace]

Delia....if you are suspending brewing, keep the scoby in filtered water in the frig. If you are brewing keep it on the counter.

 

[delia_peterson]

Delia....if you are suspending brewing, keep the scoby in filtered water in the frig. If you are brewing keep it on the counter.

I am planning to take the original and give it to my DD, but I dont see her till Thursday. So I put it in jar with filtered water and in fridge?

 

[Dace]

Well I should let someone else give you an answer but if It were me I would probably leave it in some tea and pop it in the frig, that was how BBH shipped me mine.

Hopefully someone smarter than me will come a long and give a better answer.

 

[delia_peterson]

Well I should let someone else give you an answer but if It were me I would probably leave it in some tea and pop it in the frig, that was how BBH shipped me mine.

Hopefully someone smarter than me will come a long and give a better answer.

I will take your answer Dace, lol! I know mine survived shipping and then sitting on my counter a day or two..I am still at the stage where I am afraid I might kill it...

 

[big brown horse]

Well I should let someone else give you an answer but if It were me I would probably leave it in some tea and pop it in the frig, that was how BBH shipped me mine.

Hopefully someone smarter than me will come a long and give a better answer.

I will take your answer Dace, lol! I know mine survived shipping and then sitting on my counter a day or two..I am still at the stage where I am afraid I might kill it...

Well, I'm not smarter... I think you should "feed" it some fresh tea and sugar as Dace said. I think putting it in the fridge will slow the process down a bit.

 

[delia_peterson]

So fresh tea and sugar? Ok I am making my next batch now. I had maybe 3 cups of tea left from the first batch..this stuff is awesome! I love it, I drink it as often as I can.....my DD is excited to get hers going! I cannot thank you enough BBH for sending me my starter...and Dace for always taking time to answer questions. BBH and Dace, thanks for not being impatient with me.

 

[big brown horse]

So fresh tea and sugar? Ok I am making my next batch now. I had maybe 3 cups of tea left from the first batch..this stuff is awesome! I love it, I drink it as often as I can.....my DD is excited to get hers going! I cannot thank you enough BBH for sending me my starter...and Dace for always taking time to answer questions. BBH and Dace, thanks for not being impatient with me.

I almost forgot!! Add a bit of your starter tea too.

 

[Dace]

Trust me delia...there are many other here who have very patiently answered all of our questions, so we owe lots of paybacks!

I love my tea too!

 

[miss_thenorth]

Do you guys just keep filling the same jar, or do you wash the jar. I've been making this for a while now, and keep reusing the same jar. I leave the scoby in it and add more sweet tea. What do you do?