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I'm sorry for your loss. :-(

Hi Beets - I read the same thing too about GT, but that was after I made a beautiful, perfect Scoby using plain GT kombucha. I ignored that article and now my second beautiful, perfect Scoby from plain GT is almost finished. So far so good. I start bottling my first batch with my new scoby tomorrow. Can't wait to see how it all turns out.

Uh-oh! We're supposed to "burp" the bottles? What does this mean? If anyone is a prime candidate for a Kombucha Explosion it would be me. Things like that just happen to me, lol. So, if I bottle my Kombucha, and leave it on the counter for 4 days to let it fizz, at what point do I "burp" the bottles? And how do I do that? Thanks. Lisa

Wow! There are some great flavor suggestions in this thread so far. Thanks everyone. So far I've only made the plain version and cherry flavored. I added 1 ounce of organic cherry juice (cherries the only ingredient) into a 16 ounce bottle. The first time I added 2 ounces of juice and the Booch was too sweet. I'm bottling my first batch with my own Scoby tomorrow and I think I'm going to experiment with blackberries, blueberries and lemon. Yum. kb0426 - your mango-blackberry-jalapeno sounds amazing. If you make it, please let us know how it tastes, and how many jalapeno peppers you added. Good luck, everyone!

http://smallnotebook.org/2009/07/27/how-to-make-kombucha-tea/ I just started making my own Kombucha a little over a month ago. I've also made two perfect Scoby's following the information in the link above (I hope it works). Super easy, and my Kombucha is delicious. Thanks for getting this started. Lisa