Kombucha started. No pictures. Just looked like a gallon of black tea with the SCOBY in it. Give it 10 days or so and I have plain ol' kombucha, ready to bottle and drink. However, I will add more sugar to get the desired potential ABV and pitch the yeast. Then let fermentation do its thing for ~14 days and BOOM, hard kombucha. What should I call it? Bitcoin Booch?
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The SCOBY has formed. Next step is to make a gallon of sweet tea, add the SCOBY to it (and some of the liquid from the mother), and let it ferment into Kombucha for a week or two. After the kombucha is ready, I'll add sugar to it, and yeast to ferment it into 5% ABV (or greater) hard kombucha. View quoted note โ†’
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Bitcoiner Booch in action ๐Ÿค“๐Ÿฆ ๐Ÿ”ฌ Active fermentation by the yeast is creating ethanol and CO2 (bubbles seen in video) but the bacteria feeds off the ethanol (leaving only minimal ABV levels of 0.5-1%) creating the lactic acids associated with the tartiness of kombucha.
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Kombucha started. No pictures. Just looked like a gallon of black tea with the SCOBY in it. Give it 10 days or so and I have plain ol' kombucha, ready to bottle and drink. However, I will add more sugar to get the desired potential ABV and pitch the yeast. Then let fermentation do its thing for ~14 days and BOOM, hard kombucha. What should I call it? Bitcoin Booch? View quoted note โ†’
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