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So….. today, I tried my first bottle of the hoppy kombucha, and it is actually pretty good now that it has sat in the second ferment, and then rested a week in the fridge. I can still taste and smell the hops; but the flavor reminds me of an overly bitter grapefruit juice. I think that i like...

I am just making my first batch of experimental hoppy kombucha. The video that i watched said to add the hops after removing the kombucha from the SCOBY jar, and then let it sit for a couple of days. It was really smelling like hops, so I might have put in too much for the half gallon batch...

What I have been doing is putting 2-3 of the family size teabags in the filter of my drip coffee pot (I just use it for making tea), and letting it go through the normal drip process. Once it is finished, I add the sugar to the brewed tea, stir, and then just let the sweet tea sit until it has...

Since I am just now going to be planting my Alpharoma rhizomes (once they arrive), it will be fall before i have any actual hops to try and flavor my kombucha with. Can I order something from Amazon that would work for me to try using to flavor the kombucha before then ? I will probably try it...

I did find the kombucha forum and also the fermenting one, which I am also interested in reading and maybe participating in. I am learning about fermenting, and currently making milk kefir, mesophilic yogurt, sauerkraut, and kimchi, as well as the kombucha. My husband refuses to touch any of...

I am brand new at this , too; but what I did was start out with the little SCOBY and made a few batches until I had grown more SCOBY, then I moved the starter to a gallon jar and did the same thing. Now, I have a gallon jar and a 1&1/2 gallon jar, both with several SCOBYs in them, and doing...

I am a senior lady , now living in northern Alabama, and I have just started making kombucha. I was thinking about the possibility of flavoring my kombucha with hops, and when searching to see which hops might grow best in Alabama, I came across this forum, and thought I would enjoy reading and...