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RE: Mighty Mighty Boosh: Green Tea Kombucha with 🌶Jalepenos & Lime🍈
I made it once when some hippy guy gave me a glass jar with just the water from his kambucha jar, and even the water itself after feeding grows a new one! miraculous! So you could say that i grew one first lol.
I didnt actually drink much of it, its proberbly lurking in the city garden i had in germany!
You can start it with a bit of Apple cider vinegar so you could do another! I love the idea of lurking scobies... they are ALIVE... thanks for the resteem 💛
When i was reading i was thinking did you mean to make from vinegar or i just read it wrong lol. So the kambucha creature can be made?!
yes definately. I started mine originally from a store bought unpasteurised kombucha which they said you couldnt do but that was bullshit, think they bought the pasteurised stuff.
So make a super strong tea - say in a 2 litre jar, you want about 10 teabags @movingman and 1 cup of sugar. Strain and allow to cool, then add about half a cup of ACV with the mother and leave in a dark place until you see it form on the top. Give it a taste - is it slightly vinegary or still sweet? You want it just vinegary - just, as it it's gone slightly tart. Then bottle with fruit for the 2f -just like a homebrew!
So that slimey creature thing, is made just from apple vinegar? Im gobsmaked! Ill definatly make some then :) it goes like a gel ontop of the water first right?!
Yeah after a couple of weeks. Make sure you use a cheesecloth or tea towel as lid, fastened with rubber band.
I have been doing some reading and no one has a definitive answer about ACV for starting a culture! But:
All scones have different cultures in them, according to area
The only way to properly test is if you send to a lab
ACV and SCOBY are essentially different cultures but both beneficial, so end result should still have benefit
SCOBY on an ACV brew COULD pick up wild yeasts from air and thus be a SCOBY anyway
Where did the original SCOBY form... surely all kombucha makers aren't using a derivative of some Adam and Eve one??? Thus wouldn't ACV be a legit way to start?
I find sometimes the only way to do it is to experiment. I will try too just to see!! I was told you could not do it with store bought boosh but that was wrong so...
@movingman let me know what halpens!!!