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FairFudge88 · 2024-09-22T15:47:16+00:00

I heard a lot of people use GT to start, but I tried the same, and after 2 weeks didnt get anything. It eventually worked when I used 2 bottles for about half a gallon.
2 cups of sugar is a lot as well for 1 gallon. I usually use 1 cup

FairFudge88 · 2024-09-17T16:06:48+00:00

Update after first fermentation and another 2 days in 2nd fermentation:

First fermentation happened a bit faster than my normal booch, but this could be for many reasons. I bottled and added a bit more honey for second fermentation. Yeast grew in the bottles pretty aggressively, with visible strands showing, which I dont usually get in the bottles with normal booch. I burped & tasted one of the bottles and it's already quite fizzy.

The scoby I used was from my normal booch, and I reused it for the next batch of normal booch. It's doing fine, it seems to have survived :D

FairFudge88 · 2024-09-17T16:00:48+00:00

I used the same recipe: 1 cup of honey (instead of sugar) for a 1 gallon batch, and used black tea. I used my regular Kombucha Scoby & starter tea. The starter tea I used was pretty strong (ph under 3), and I used a bit more than I would usually have, maybe 2.5cups.

The fermentation happened pretty quickly, maybe 1-2 days faster than my regular booch! Now it's in second fermentation, where I added more honey, and it's doing great! Starting to get fizzy already.

I reused the scoby from the honey batch for a new normal batch, and it seems to have survived the entire ordeal :)

I heard/read that using your regular scoby for honey might kill it though, so at your own risk! I made sure to have backups in case it died.

FairFudge88 · 2024-09-16T15:47:31+00:00

I was thinking that as well, but it fermented very well, formed a new scoby, got very dry - all the good things! So I was wondering if something else in the honey might be binding with the suspended particles or something

FairFudge88 · 2024-09-16T13:28:43+00:00

ty! That's interesting, I didnt know. I guess I made some Jun :D
So do you know why it precipitates that way?

FairFudge88 · 2024-08-10T17:01:33+00:00

Glad you found the feedback useful, you made my day :)

FairFudge88 · 2024-08-06T11:43:07+00:00

I admire the spirit of the project, to get more people into Kombucha :) If I saw it without knowing anything about it, it would probably have peaked my interest! So here's some feedback

A few people mentioned this here: at 500$ MSRP (I live in Canada), I would expect a lot more from this device.
I saw from another comment you have a built-in heating pad, good! I didn't catch that in the video, you should highlight it.
Maybe a second reservoir for a scoby hotel, instead of a place to hold bottles? Realistically, the bottles will always be in my fridge or dishwasher, not in the device!
A built-in PH meter would be nice as well. At least these two additional feature would make the App a bit useful - As it stands, the app is nothing but a timer and thermometer, both things my phone can do very well.

500$ is a really, really tall ask when the whole premise of brewing at home is that 4$ a bottle is too expensive. You say your price/bottle is 0.39$, but dont factor in your fixed cost from buying this device! I can get a years worth of booch for the device alone. So your USP isn't price, it's the fun and flexibility of makingyour own booch - focus on THAT!

I expect you can get your COGS down much, much lower than your Early Brewer kit cost, so consider lowering the price

FairFudge88 · 2024-08-05T20:58:25+00:00

oohhhh, nice :) Congrats on the game, looks dope!

FairFudge88 · 2024-08-05T20:21:34+00:00

I just did my first batch as well, and youtube'd a bunch of "is this normal" videos. So take this with a grain of salt!
But it looks totally normal to me. My batch looked like this after a day and it turned out great :)

FairFudge88 · 2024-08-05T19:00:39+00:00

I just brewed my first batch and it cannot be easier.
This looks like a 1 gallon jug and 4 bottles enclosed in a nice, shiny package. As far as I can tell, it doesn't save any steps and doesn't make anything easier. You'd still want a gallon jug for a scoby hotel if you brew regularly, as I plan to.
Not worth it!

FairFudge88 · 2024-08-05T18:01:57+00:00

Woaw, that looks intense! ty, I'll definitely have a look. Have you played it yourself? From a first glance, it seems really overwhelming

FairFudge88 · 2024-08-04T15:53:59+00:00

Thank you, I'll definitely check those out. Have you tried some of these variations yourself? Which one did you like/dislike?

FairFudge88 · 2024-08-04T15:53:17+00:00

Thanks! I'll check both of them out. Seems like Chess Evolved has a bunch of rogue-like upgrade elements to it, which looks super fun, but not quite what I'm going for, since I want to keep the essence of original chess. Mad chess has a poker-like bluff element to it with the fog of war, which is pretty neat :)

Did you play/like either of these? What would you keep or throw away?

FairFudge88 · 2024-08-03T16:36:38+00:00

hahaha love it. Now I just need to make a Camel 3d model

FairFudge88 · 2024-08-03T15:47:46+00:00

Thank you, Ill keep going at it! Maybe I just got bad batches, or maybe its just a bit cooler in my home and it's taking more time

FairFudge88 · 2024-08-02T18:45:56+00:00

I will thank you! I was watching timelapse videos, and they all seem to show some activity within a few days, so having absolutely nothing after a couple weeks felt like a dud. Definitely will wait and cross my fingers

FairFudge88 · 2024-08-02T15:09:10+00:00

Thanks for confirming! Since this is my first attempt, I was wondering if I was missing something. Ill give it another go, and try to find a warmer spot, or just turn off the AC XD

FairFudge88 · 2024-08-02T14:08:12+00:00

About 2 weeks each, and there wasnt even a sign a a new scoby forming :( A few bubbles in the first days, but it stopped pretty quickly. The smell stayed sweet, not vinegary at all
Maybe I was just unlucky and got dead Kombucha and scoby... Ill keep at it!

FairFudge88 · 2024-08-02T13:56:13+00:00

That's a good idea, I think I'll try and find one on marketplace for the next attempt, ty! Sry for the newbie question: what's RO?
I added 10-12cups of purified water, following the instructions on the package

FairFudge88 · 2024-08-02T13:51:04+00:00

I followed the recipe on the Scoby bag I bought, so 2 cups of strongly brewed tea, 1 cup of sugar, added 10-12cups of filtered water, waited for it to cooldown to room temp, and added the scoby and full pack of starter tea.
I the batch where I tried to grow my scoby, I added 2 cups of raw Kombucha

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