What is SCOBY?

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What is scoby? Scoby is acronym that stands for symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast. That is generally the term that is accepted within the kumbucha community because there has not been a lot of research done on kumbucha in terms of specific test and in this kind of thing. A lot of the evidence that they have about it is antidote sense it has been around for 1000 of years obviously it is doing something good. I have a question. Sure. Talking about the difference of greater time sweeter going to more vinegary is that better of a health benefit to brew longer? There is cause more of the acid would be present and actually the best method if you are looking at the acid available, there are lactic acid and different acids that are really healthy for your that are present. If you do a continues brew which I have in a silty jar so you just drink out of there and then add fresh on the top so there is constant flow of new tea and the old mixture. But once it gets to he vinegar stage it is not as delicious so you might it doesn't have to go to that stage in order to be entirely beneficial. If there ever a point of with the scowling and you need to say good bye to it. Well at a certain point it will stop producing babies and that is when it is the really dark brown on the bottom and you will see that. What that dark brown is usually is yeast and it is has gotten to a point where it is not able to reproduce anymore. Then you would put it either in your compost pile or as gruesome as it might sound I put it in the little trash compactor no that is not what they are called. Garbage disposal. Garbage disposal that's it and I send it back to nature where it gets all chopped up. I was feeling a little guilty when I do that I'm like I'm sorry I'm cutting you into pieces. But that way it don't go live in land field much better. But generally they can be used for a long period of time and they would continue to reproduce for you so while your spending you know 360 a day for 2servings this cloudless serve you for a lifetime and even if you go on vacation you could put it in the refrigerator and it will go dormant so when you come back to it, it may take a couple of cycles for it to be fully back in. But you can put it in the refrigerator if you know your going on vacation for a period of time and you just don't want to let it turn into vinegar that is possible. Well I'm interested in trying how to make it. Let's make kombucha.

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