Another Booch Bombing

We've been making kombucha fairly successfully for many months now, experimenting with various types of tea for the base and with many different flavorings.

Yesterday I was preparing the tea for my next batch, waiting for Cindy to bring hers in so I could re-use the SCOBY*, when I heard, "Help, help, HELP" coming from her office.  The plastic spigot on the gallon jar she was using had failed spectacularly, shooting the spigot outward and spewing kombucha all over the floor of her office and the hallway.  Worse yet, she had tried to stem the flow with her hand and the jagged glass around the spigot opening had sliced four out of five of her fingers, so the blood was flowing as freely as the kombucha.

Don't Get A Jar With A Cheap Plastic Spigot For Your Booch

We got the mess on the floors cleaned up and Cindy patched up, but she was really bummed at losing that batch, because she had planned to flavor it with herbs and grapefruit juice.

So I had her drink the grapefruit juice instead to help her body recover from the shock, and we'll get a new jar (maybe with a spigot intended for brewing) and make a new batch.




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* SCOBY is an acronym for Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast.  The bacteria and yeast consume the tea and the sugar to produce the beneficial probiotics in the finished product.  Provided you actually get to the finished stage, of course.

For more information on brewing kombucha, check out the information at Kombucha Kamp.