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Help: bottled kombucha keeps growing slime - new scobies!

Postby AlexandraPchb on Sun Mar 15, 2015 5:02 am

How do you stop bottled kombucha from growing slime???
When I bottle the kombucha, I filter it through a cheese cloth but despite that, as well as growing a few brown strings of harmless yeast in the bottle, it also insists on growing what seems like a kombucha scoby!
Help, this is very inconvenient as I daren't give bottles to my friends in case they find this gelatinous substance in their glass?? Thanks a million.
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Re: Help: bottled kombucha keeps growing slime - new scobies

Postby AlexandraPchb on Thu Apr 16, 2015 1:44 am

Anybody?
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Re: Help: bottled kombucha keeps growing slime - new scobies

Postby Christopher Weeks on Thu Apr 16, 2015 7:27 am

Growing a SCOBY is what kombucha does. In my (limited) experience, though, it takes a while -- much longer than it takes to pressurize once I've bottled. How quickly is it happening for you?
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Re: Help: bottled kombucha keeps growing slime - new scobies

Postby hannajom on Thu Apr 16, 2015 3:09 pm

Mine seem to grow baby mothers if I don't fill the bottles up.
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Re: Help: bottled kombucha keeps growing slime - new scobies

Postby Tibor on Thu Apr 16, 2015 10:17 pm

Are you refrigerating your bottled Kombucha ?
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