Lizzard77 Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 I simply love the word symbiotic, it sounds so zen. I also like the fact that I sound smart when I say "Symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megmac Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 Whoa-I spoke too soon! Scooby took a deep sea dive today. Thank goodness for this forum-I would have thought I killed him! Hanging at the bottom, hopefully growing rapidly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megmac Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 Just bought tapatalk-my first post on my phone. Stay tuned for questions lol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan W Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 Meg, it took me a little time to be able to log in with it so nice job!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moluv Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 When I explain to people what kombucha is and how the scoby works I liken it to yogurt (so mainstream!). I say that yogurt is made by certain strains of bacteria that eat the sugar in the milk and produce a byproduct that makes it taste tart. Then I say that kombucha uses a different bacteria (scoby) to eat the sugar out of sweet tea (also so mainstream, ESP in Texas) and leaves a tart byproduct. Anyone can understand that and get past the ick factor. It is amazing to me how many people don't realize that beer is fermented with yeast also- and that we have facilitated bacterial/yeast cultures for all sorts of foods and drink (uh, cheese? Sourdough? Pickles?) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizzard77 Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 Most people don't like to be that close to their food sadly. They don't want to understand where it came from of the process of how it came to be. I think that is one reason why, in America, we have such an obesity epidemic, if folks understood what went into the crap they ate, they *hopefully* would not eat it. That is a great, people friendly way to describe kombucha Mo! Too bad once any of my friends smell it they don't want anything to do with it. Too bad, their loss! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kb0426 Posted June 16, 2013 Author Share Posted June 16, 2013 Just like their first sniff of beer! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizzard77 Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 Exactly KB, but they all drink that and it's bad for them. I vigilantly try to convert them, I got my bestie to drink a GT's Mango so am going to try her with one of my sweeter homemade ones......we'll see. Creating Kombucha lovers one person at a time! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
percypat Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 My husband loved kombucha when I brought it home from the store in a nice shiny bottle. Now that he's seen how it's made he can't bring himself to drink more than a sip. When I opened our first really fizzy bottle and gave him a taste you could see the internal battle on his face: he liked it, loved the fizz but just cannot get around the fact that it was made by our slimy friend Frank. Oh well, more for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
percypat Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 Sophie I noticed when I use frozen mango, it didnt taste mango. When I used a fresh very ripe one, it was amazing. I did fill the bottle about 15% with the mango which I had smashed into a puree. ______________________________ Ah, so not just me then. Maybe a good way to insure fizz if I want some plain! This one got fizzier much faster than all the others! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan W Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 Sophie, isn't it weird how some are way fizzier and there doesn't seem to be rhyme or reason for it. My daughter is the same. Huge GT fan but she doesn't really drink my homemade. She claims it gives her a headache..??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
percypat Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 I thought maybe the sugar content in the mango was higher and that helped, but who knows ... The difference between my remaining raspberry ones is noticeable and they got the same stuff! A headache, really? With hubby it's just flat-out disgust Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan W Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 Oh the headache..I think she just wanted a cut and dried "no" that I couldn't try to persuade her out of. She's a sneaky dickens who knows me well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megmac Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 First tapa pic. You can see my hubby is doing his part. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megmac Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 Can you see scooby in there? To the left of the sticker remains. He standing up on the bottom now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizzard77 Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 Lolz!!!! My hubinator came home with a pack of Grolsch tonight and said "See honey, I support your Whole30, I am sacrificing and drinking this so you can have more swingtop bottles" Yeah, Uh-huh, just like you sacrificed back when I could drink and partook in 3 of my 4 Grolsch (expensive stuff, it is)! Good luck Meg with bottling, did you decide on flavors? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megmac Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 Some grape for sure, but maybe with some ginger and lemon added? Definitely orange vanilla, and maybe strawberry lime? I have some gorgeous strawberries I froze, and I'm not a smoothie girl so haven't found a good use for them yet. Any idea how to make something like gingerade? Gingerberry should be pretty easy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan W Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 Gingerade ingredients on GT bottle are just ginger and kombucha. I have never been able to replicate it but like my hibiscus, I think the dried ginger is much different than the fresh. You can also use candied which would add to the fizz but I have not tried that..especially while on W30. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missmary Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 I get something very close to gingeraide with a second ferment of ginger juice (they juice it for me at the co-op juice bar, but you could blend or puree then squeeze through cheesecloth). I've tried just cutting up fresh ginger root and putting it in, but that didn't add much flavor at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nadia B Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 I grate the frozen knob with microplane. Super intense ginger flavor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
percypat Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 I also grated mine and it was very gingery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
percypat Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 So after all my whinging about everyone else getting smooth, pretty, pale SCOBYs, look what I found when I checked the big bottle of plain booch from last Tuesday's batch ... A gorgeous little pale round baby. This bottle isn't very fizzy so I've put some of the liquid into smaller bottles with dried fig and the baby is hanging out in the remainder. I think I'll feed it some sweet white tea and hopefully it'll keep growing. In other news, Frank and his other baby appear to morphing into an enormous Frankenbaby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan W Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 This will be your smooth and round kid who lives on top of the sea. Nah...related to Frank? It will be up to no good. :0) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
percypat Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 I think you might be right! They're on opposite sides of the kitchen at the moment, trying to keep it away from Frank's influence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derval Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 Speaking of Grolsh bottles, I nabbed a microbrewery beer bottle off someone at the party, it's like a brown glass Grolsch My friend is coming over today with a dozen clear glass 750ml lemonade bottles with swing tops for me 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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