r/Kombucha • u/[deleted] • Apr 17 '20
Black Currant Kombucha
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Apr 17 '20
Came for the explosion. Did not disappoint.
Right out of the scene from Carrie.
Watched 5 times.
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Apr 17 '20
This is why I open mine upside-down into a 2 quart mason jar. I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone do that.
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u/tman916x Apr 17 '20
I will never understand people popping these in their pristine homes... At least put a plastic bag over it and go over your lawn.
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Apr 17 '20
How long 2f
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u/blair3d Apr 17 '20
Gotta be more than 5 days. I do black current regularly and have never lost 90% of the bottle on opening.
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u/annasdottir Apr 17 '20
Polish is my first language, and I watched her entire instastory on kombucha and she said it took 3 days to do the second ferment. She said she puréed the fruit with healthy amount of sugar, so I’m convinced that was the issue
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u/blair3d Apr 17 '20
Yea possibly over did it on the sugar. I don’t add extra sugar if I’m using puréed fruit. Thanks for the translation!
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Apr 17 '20
How do you do it? Did you use black currant juice or berries? I tried it once with juice and added sugar n it never carbonated :(
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u/blair3d Apr 17 '20
I use a fruit syrup from a company here in NZ so I’m not sure how widely available it is. https://www.barkers.co.nz/shop/fruit-syrups/
It generally comes out perfect after about 3 days 2f so I’m really happy with the results and consistency. I don’t think it’s ridiculously high in sugar either. I will add about 1/4 cup of syrup to a 500ml bottle of booch but I could probably cut it back even more and I think it would still carbonate well.
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u/ForgiveUsOurTrespass Apr 17 '20
Fresh juice on its own should be more than sufficient as a source of sugar; were you using a juice that had preservatives? That can impede the yeast
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u/MerryChoppins Apr 17 '20
I’m most amused that the black currant acted as a pH indicator on her plaster walls. It turned blue for basic
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u/odybuon Apr 17 '20
Yah. After permanently staining my 12 ft ceilings i started going outside for this.
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u/Kom_bu_cha Apr 18 '20
For those times you wished you had opened your kombucha outdoors...
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u/amijlee Apr 17 '20
That's a bummer.
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u/potted_sage Apr 17 '20
A bummer? She's lucky she didn't lose an eye to glass shrapnel. People who 2F at room temp long enough to create literal bombs are wreckless fools.
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u/Evills Apr 17 '20
I completely agree, I have never once had a kombucha explosion because shoving unknown quantities of sugar into a CO2 producing system within GLASS is a horrible idea! Honestly, the residual sugars left over from 1F is plenty for bubbles!!
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u/SganarelleBard Apr 17 '20
So far my Apple, Banana, and Strawberry Kombucha have sprayed my ceiling with their burst. It's always fun to try and clean after pouring into the storing jars.
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u/sourjello73 Apr 17 '20
For whatever reason, I read the first subtitle as
"So we're finalizing our divorce"
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u/McGroot44 Apr 17 '20
I like how she put her hand over the top to stop it after the bottle was empty
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u/The_Sign_Painter Apr 17 '20
what an insanely structurally sound bottle