Can you give us an update please!?

glad its working but you want to be careful using vinegar to start kombucha as you can end up with a vinegar producing scoby that may need some extra training to make kombucha rather than vinegar

there are old clay bots and relics that date back over 9000 years that could have been use for kombucha brewing as fermentation is one of the oldest food preservation methods, no one can pinpoint where the first scoby was from but there are many different legends about how it could have come about the most common is simply a fly that was carrying yeast landed in a cup of tea and started off the fermentation reaction. you can start off a kombucha fermentation without using starter just like how you can make wine vinegar without a starter too you just need to leave it uncovered and hope the bacteria in the air can grow a scoby before mold takes hold. hence why its normally started with making the batch more acidic first to help reduce the mold chances, hope this helped :)

I grow my own. Too bad this title is clickbait

it can be drunk but the first batch if you are growing a scoby is mostly for growth of the scoby not the production of kombucha itself

@@PepperAmmy Thank you :)

you could try but flavoring normally comes after fermentation with making kombucha you will have spare scoby in no time to experiment with

I like how this guy liked the comment yet didn't reply lmao

it depends on your taste, when growing a scoby from scratch i normally let the tea get a bit more acidic closer to vinegar so when i make a first batch of booch with it i have a big scoby already but you can always do taste tests while the scoby grows and bottle the kombucha or you can even keep the vinegar for salad dressings etc

I've read it's black tea...I'm using Tetly Orange Pekoe tea.

the longer you leave it your kombucha will turn into vinegar and become really acidic and sour

But makes great starter for the next batch!

thank you i appreciate the support ive been looking into making my own vinegar scoby for apple cider vinegar and experimenting with other vinegar flavorings

like with all ferments it can take longer but you should at least see some growth in 2 weeks

it dose sound like a mold issue the top of the scoby should be smooth or slightly bumpy but mostly the same color with no patches

@@PepperAmmy thanks for the reply. Ok , so no scoby at all. I will try to make another one...I will keep you updated. Thaaankss

Buy online your first scoby, then make kombucha as written recepy.

the starter liquid is basically the acid / vinegar you dont want to use normal vinegar or you can end up with a vinegar mother and not a kobucha mother and if you add yeast it can burn alcoholic, kobucha scobys produce their own yeast in the process of making kombucha

@@PepperAmmy if i did not want to buy kobucha scobys, can you list the steps (thanks in advance ) i thought i must use yeast!