My kombucha is finished! I bottled it last Friday in three glass bottles and started another batch with the baby SCOBY. I wasn't sure how long to let it sit, so I opened one bottle after a day or so and it wasn't fizzy yet. Then two days later I opened the second bottle, and it was mildly fizzy, so I decided to let it sit for a tiny bit longer. Today I opened the third bottle and was about to sip it when it made a geyser of foam! So I think most of the fizz left there because the kombucha remaining is slightly fizzy (that's more than mildly, but less than soda).
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| It was taller than that before I got a hold of my camera! |
It's a bit sweet, so I think next time I won't put as much syrup in it. I did like the way it tasted after the first fermentation, so I'll just do some plain at some point, too. But in any case, I think it tastes pretty good. There's a slight grapefruity aftertaste, I'm not sure where that came from, it's probably an acid the bacteria or yeast made. I haven't died yet, so that's a good sign.
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| Look at the head on that one! |
I put the other two bottles in the fridge, I'm drinking the exploding bottle warm, but I don't think that's so bad. We'll see what sitting in the fridge does for the other two. Unfortunately, because I opened them early and let them sit again, the two bottles grew little bitty thiny SCOBY's on top, so I might scoop them away. They look kinda funky. :) I'll be bottling last Friday's batch of kombutcha in about a week, so I'll be sure not to open those ones for three days.
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| This is what the kombucha looked like right before I bottled it. Two and a half SCOBY's! |
Cheers!
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