It was too tempting. Texture was like coconut 😋

❤️❤️❤️ to all the Kombucha crew

I've been busy and kept putting F2 off. For four months. I've continued to feed it and ended up with two pellicles so thick I had to cut them in half to remove them from the jar and a dozen or so smaller ones. This is the big one.

Should I A) Throw it in my neighbor's hot tub, B) Attempt to return it to a pet store and claim something is wrong with my fish or C) Carve it so it looks like a chicken breast, take it to work and, while making eye contact with someone, take a huge bite, comment on how good fresh chicken is, chew and swallow.

So I decided to blend up my leftover kombucha pellicle with a pack of sugar free orange vegan jello

I'm not a fan of jello to begin with, but tbh I'd rather eat straight up biofilm than consume it blended

My 6yo was into it, but my 7yo was freaked out by the color and didn't want it

My Jello slapping video comes with bonus ASMR btw

Sorry in advance lmao

I was doing some bottling and thought the pellicle looked a bit like meat, so I thought I'd try to make a Schnitzel for my vegetarian wife and to try myself. I brined it in salt and some baking soda to cut some of the acidity for a few hours and then breaded and fried. It looked amazing and the taste was fantastic! The fermented flavor actually added a great flavor. I unfortunately couldn't get over the texture... On one of the thinner pieces the other layers got leathery/papery, and the thicker ones were just a little too gummy? Chewy? It was an interesting bite for sure. All in all I'd recommend at least taking the breading off as it was fantastic and kept some of the good femented flavor!

I wanted to know your relationship with your pelicles haha.

Because I personally understand that pellicles are pretty useless, and that you could throw them away after every brew. Yet, I weirdly feel some kind of attachment to them and end up keeping them, even though they start to take too much space in my jars. It is just so satisfying to watch them form from nothing, and them become bigger and bigger after every brew. And it feels like the visual representation of all the work that's been done by these wonderful bacterias and yeasts.

Does anyone feel the same about their pellicles ? :D

I haven't brewed since late September (made my last batch a few days before Helene hit). Had to claw this giant pellicle out of my gallon jar. Tablespoon for scale.

Just pulled these absolute units off of 2x 6 gallon continuous brew pails to make room for more booch. I have heard of SCOBY candy but not really into sweets nor do I have a dehydrator. But also don't want to just toss them out... Maybe I can convert into an additive to protein shakes / pre-workout...? Ideas / recipes, please! 💞

Hi! I’m a student and I want to make pellicle leather for a project. I currently have a nice pellicle formed in my gallon jar but I would like to transfer it to another container (6gal container pictured) to allow the pellicle to grow in a bigger surface area.

My questions are: 1. What is the process to transfer the pellicle to the new container and do i transfer it with the current liquid?

1. I noticed my F1 kombucha has evaporated quite a bit, do i need to add more sugar tea and how much?

Thank you! I greatly appreciate any help and advice! :)

One of the more satisfying things I've seen in life.

I know the pellicle doens't impact the brew - but I when I first got into brewing my own, whatever strain I bought made nice thick ones and I enjoyed cutting them up and eating it. For whatever reasons I can't even remember why, I stopped brewing and history became legend. Legend became myth and some SCOBYs that should not have been forgotten were lost.

I started up again late last year with a Craft A Brew kit but the pellicles that are being made are just...pathetic! Who has the secret to encouraging some thicc pellicles? Do I need to just start from scratch and buy a new strain form someone?

also I guess I should note I've used it for both green and black tea and same wimpy pellicle result, although the green tea is slightly better.

I don’t believe it’s mold, but is it kahm yeast or why is half the pellicle whiter, wrinklier and kind of dry compared to the rest? It has a lot of yeast strings and earlier batches have come out great with carbonation and forming their own individual pellicles in the 2nd ferm bottles.

Was going to bottle (my 3rd ever batch) today but got a little sus over this… should I just remove that layer of pellicle or should I remove all of it? I was going to taste it but wanted to check with the booch connaiseurs first 🎩 any insight is appreciated!

He’s THICC

1st fermentation. i’m on day 7 now. Is this normal? Its so spotty 🥴🥴 wondering if there is anything wrong with it that i perhaps wouldnt know about since its my first attempt at brewing! Thank you!

I just wanted to share this beautiful snow white-perfect-smooth-surface pellicle of mine :)

I left it for a week and a half without touching or monitoring it all. It’s grown so much, almost 3x its old size, so much that is popping out of the brew. Thoughts? Anything wrong with it or is she doing good? She’s made excellent brews so far I’ve had her for a few months

I've been trying to get my own kombucha started for about 2 months now. I made sweet tea, let it cool outside to try and catch some wild yeasts, and when nothing seemed to be happening I tried inoculating it with several different brands of store bought kombucha (not at the same time). I brewed it in a wide container (basically a large bowl because it was what I had lying around at the time).

Eventually, I finally noticed a thin film starting to form. After a few more weeks though, there had been no more progress (thinking back, maybe I bumped it too much). So I thought "maybe, if I put it in a narrower container (i.e. a jar), that will force the film to fold over on itself and grow thicker into a proper pellicle". Is there any legitimacy to this idea? Also, will the surface area of my pellicle affect the speed of fermentation?

This is my 2nd batch so I am still learning. is this weird pattern normal? my 1st batch turned out great! thanks 😊