[foodhackingbase] My Introduction and a Request for Advice

[Frantisek Algoldor Apfelbeck]

Hi Sasha and Alex,
I do wonder how did you stored you kombucha? The culture doesn't like 
temperature above 25C too much, 30C for longer periods of time are not 
making it happy for sure and if not fed properly under such conditions 
contamination with molds (quite clearly visible) is likely to happen 
quite pretty fast. If you stored your culture in fresh medium in the 
fridge you should be fine.

Anyway share some pictures if you can and I wonder about the flavour :-) 
As Alex mentioned finding pictures with contaminated kombucha mothers is 
quite quick job.

I'm sure that we can find someone in Europe to share cultures with you 
by sending however I'm sure that there are people in Sofia who have 
kombucha and milk kefir. Have you talked to the falk in InitLab? We had 
kombucha workshop there last year it is hopefully still alive in the 
community. Bobson may know more, he is based in Sofifa too, shall I ask 
him?

Sincerely from South Korea,

Frantisek

On 2015-01-07 19:47, Alexander Dietrich wrote:
> Hi Sascha,
> 
> nice to hear from more people who produce Kombucha! I haven't had
> problems with my culture going bad so far. Frantisek will know more,
> but he might be traveling right now.
> 
> If you do an image search for "spoiled Kombucha", that's probably what
> your culture shouldn't look like.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Alexander
> 
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> On 2015-01-04 14:03, Sascha wrote:
> 
>> Hello Foodhackers,
>> 
>> I'm Sascha. I am based in Sofia and currently I am restarting my
>> Kefir and Kombucha Cultures that went into Storage in Summer.
>> 
>> I am not absolutely sure which ones are still god to use, would
>> anyone like to give me some advices based on pictures and
>> descriptions of the taste?
>> 
>> Best Regards,
>> 
>> Sascha
>> 
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