My SCOBY arrived today!!

RunningRichelle

SO EXCITED to my make my own Kombucha, I've been spending too much on GT's.

I just need a gallon-sized glass container.

Suggestions on the best place to buy one? I live in the US, in Omaha, NE, which is a decent sized city.

Thanks in advance!!!

Joydriven

I went with a half gallon canning jar, thinking I'd have two jars going at the same time so one would finish brewing every 5 days. I did just read about a continuous brew system that sounds interesting. Basically, a really large container with a spigot and you draw off a two weeks worth, re-add your sugar tea solution and repeat.

My scoby was dehydrated and required a quart jar and a month long wait. Just finished Tuesday and now it's resting in the half gallon jar.

No babies yet but it's looking better already.

Oh, and somehow I missed this point. Probably because I got water kefir grains at the same time and have been restarting those every three days. But, scoby's do not like raw sugars or any with added molasses so any of the brown sugars essentially. I used Raw sugar in this first batch with the dehydrated one and hope it's ok. Also, used a regular dinner spoon to try to wrestle the scoby from folding over onto itself. Fingers crossed it survived, it looks like it's grown.

Good luck with yours! You sound as excited as I was, am. I've been eyeing Pickl It jars for my water kefir and fermented veggies. Then, maybe feta, mozzarella? It's a whole wide wonderful world of yeasts and bacterial out there!!!

RunningRichelle

I went with a half gallon canning jar, thinking I'd have two jars going at the same time so one would finish brewing every 5 days. I did just read about a continuous brew system that sounds interesting. Basically, a really large container with a spigot and you draw off a two weeks worth, re-add your sugar tea solution and repeat.

Thanks!!! I'll make sure not to use raw sugars.. Right now I have some plain organic cane sugar, so that should work!

I'll have to read up on what it means to have the SCOBY make a baby.

deanna198888

I found a jar at the thrift store. My husband and I just made our first batch of kombucha, we started it with a bottle of GTs instead of buying a scoby so we are throwing this first batch out and restarting now that we have a nice mother.

Joydriven

With most batches, a new scoby forms on the top layer of the solution so you can end up with additional batches/jars brewing. Or you can just use both the original, mother and the new, baby one in the same jar. Sometimes they fuse together. Having a baby ensures that everything is fermenting along well. The baby is the small gelatinous blob.

Organic raw sugar is perfect scoby food!

If my metal maneuverings and poor sugar choice manage to kill my scoby, I'll go the GT route. At the time I'd read that manufactured Kombucha no longer could activate new scobys. I think it was in the midst of the changes regarding alcohol content and relabeling and re manufacturing other companies went through.