Hello
I've been making kombucha for about 2 years. Last January had a problem with all of my mothers. For some reason my kombucha stopped making big thick mothers. Instead my mothers were paper thin and the kombucha was very sweet even after 20 days of brewing. I went ahead and bought some new mothers and did a test and the new mothers took off and was making big fat mothers and strong kombucha within 10 or 14 days. So went ahead and threw out all of my old mothers that weren't producing correctly.
Well now I fear that it's happening again and I can't figure out why.
The first time around I suspected that the mothers went bad because I started using star san to clean my vessels. But then I stopped using starsan completely so now that is ruled out.
I am using alkaline water could that be it? I also moved all of my operation to a new closet with lots of blankets. (Before it was in the kitchen up in a cabinet) It's been a little cold for the last few weeks but nothing less than 50 degrees.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I bought some new mothers from amazon.com and they are in the mail.
I also uploaded some pics
I've been making kombucha for about 2 years. Last January had a problem with all of my mothers. For some reason my kombucha stopped making big thick mothers. Instead my mothers were paper thin and the kombucha was very sweet even after 20 days of brewing. I went ahead and bought some new mothers and did a test and the new mothers took off and was making big fat mothers and strong kombucha within 10 or 14 days. So went ahead and threw out all of my old mothers that weren't producing correctly.
Well now I fear that it's happening again and I can't figure out why.
The first time around I suspected that the mothers went bad because I started using star san to clean my vessels. But then I stopped using starsan completely so now that is ruled out.
I am using alkaline water could that be it? I also moved all of my operation to a new closet with lots of blankets. (Before it was in the kitchen up in a cabinet) It's been a little cold for the last few weeks but nothing less than 50 degrees.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I bought some new mothers from amazon.com and they are in the mail.
I also uploaded some pics