Kombucha SCOBY Hotel
SCOBY Monster... RAAAWR..
What's a SCOBY hotel?
Isn't it obvious? You know your SCOBYs are alive right? It's true! Look it up! Well, the hotel is the spot on your counter where your SCOBYs slime out of their jars at night while you're sleeping....
They can hang out, have a beer, bitch about you and hook up with other SCOBYs....... and now you know where SCOBY babies come from! It's those SCOBY whores, out lookin' to get some! If you're not careful you can have SCOBY's breeding like bunnies!
I kid! Really, it's just a jar you stuff your extra SCOBYs into. They do keep reproducing if they're healthy, I usually get a decent sized, peel-able baby every second brew, about every 15 days. These babies gotta go somewhere! You can compost them, make them into jerky treats or gummy candy, or you can put them in a hotel. It's nice to have extras ready to roll in case your SCOBY gets contaminated by bugs or mould.
All you need is a decent sized jar, usually a bit smaller than the one you brew in, depends on how many you wish to save. Then you just need some tea, just like you were going to brew, then instead of actually using the brew, you just let them sit in there and stew. For a lid I use a cloth with a rubber band around it, pretty simple.
I feed mine a cup or so of fresh brew tea every 3-4 months and it's held up just fine, the SCOBYs are quite happy in there.
If you do find mysterious slime marks across your counter though, don't say I didn't warn you!
Ahhh! Scoby monsters!
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Hahaha he'll get ya!
That is funny!! You reminded me that I have to start a fresh batch of kombucha. On the list it goes :) I let my last batch go to vinegar and the scoby monsters have been hanging in their hotel. Who knows what has been going on there :)
Hahaha they're crafty little buggers so who knows indeed!
Happy to help! We have had a mould issue this summer, it's our first time dealing with it and it spread despite our best efforts so we're starting from scratch again! :)
oh. mold is nasty!!! Hope your new start goes smoothly. The good thing is - at least here - that so many people are into making kombucha that it is easy to get a replacement scoby.
I think I underestimated how easily it can spread LoL
The spores can get trough fabric cloths and cross contaminate if the jars are close to each other :(
We always just use a bottle of GT and grow the baby :)
Yes. it is good to keep things very clean around ferments and canning and all of that. Glad you found a way to regrow a new one easily
Thank you! I'm glad too :)
Our SCOBIEs were all hanging in a cupboard and it spread so quickly!
First mould issue in 6 years so I guess that's not too bad! LoL