5/23 – Blueberry Blast
We flavored this batch with 1/4 cup of fresh blueberry puree and 1 tsp of sugar. We’ll do a second fermentation of 2 days.
5/23 – Strawberry Fields
We haven’t done a fresh strawberry batch in a long time. We flavored this with about 50 ml (less than 1/4 cup) of fresh strawberry puree and 1 tsp sugar. We’ll refrigerate this in 2 days.
5/16 – Young Grape Ape
This is our new family that was supposed to be adopted. It’s still pretty thin but we let it ferment for 8 days. We’ll bottle this with 1 tsp of sugar and 1/4 cup of concord grape juice.
Update: We let this go 5 days in second fermentation. It’s been warm lately. We may want to cut back on our second fermentation periods now that summer is here.
5/16 Kombucha Frio
This is the first time we’ve tried slowing a first fermentation with refrigeration. We refrigerated the old family because it had fermented for a week and I needed to delay bottling. It has now been fermenting for 10 days, 3 of them in the fridge at 34 degrees. Hopefully our SCOBY family is still alive. We’ll see.
Update: We let this do a 7 day second fermentation in pretty warm temps. We popped one and it seemed very explosive for a plain. Should be interesting!
5/8 – House Oolong
We let this batch ferment for 10 days. Because it had only 1 generation of SCOBY it was still pretty sweet. We bottled it in our new brown bottles with just 1 teaspoon of sugar for Babs favorite plain buch.
5/6 – Grape Ape
Our standard recipe is now 3/4 gallons of water, 21 grams of tea, 1 cup of sugar and 1 cup of starter buch. We let it steep in 195-200 degree water, covered for 5 minutes, stir and steep an additional 15 minutes. We let this batch ferment for 8 days. It tasted about right so we added 1/4 cup of concord grape juice and 1 tsp of sugar. We’ll do a second fermentation of about 5 days.
We refrigerated this batch after 5 1/2 days. It was plenty explosive and not too sweet. If anything it was not quite sweet enough but still good. Rindon will like it. We’ll probably try a 4 day second fermentation for the next Grape Ape batch.
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