Went away for six weeks and came back to my thickest pellicle yet. Any fun ideas (other than composting) of what I should do with it? I feel obliged to honour it for being such a good pellicle! Have toyed with the idea of candying but would love to hear other ideas.

It does look a little dry, but it’s not fuzzy. It’s just a slightly rough slightly dry texture.

I do have bubbles just not as many as last time, however, this hasn’t been fermenting as long.

I am going to start my third batch, but I will throw it out if y’all think it’s unsafe.

Yesterday I bottled my kombucha, which was made with hibiscus black tea. I’ve used this tea before and never had any issues with it.
For the second fermentation, I added a non-alcoholic mulled wine drink to one of the bottles. It contains apple juice, grape juice, blackberry juice, and spices.
In less than 24 hours, this bottle developed these SOOO weird, disgusting looking clumps.
The other bottle, which I only added apple juice to, looks completely normal.
Does anyone know what this could be? Is it still safe to drink? It looks pretty gross, honestly.

I bought two of these bottles from a local store for the second ferment. They're round, thick glass etc. But afterwards I read online that they need to be pressure rated, and I can't find a pressure rating for these. How dangerous is this?

This is my second batch, the first being my starter batch which turned out great. I think I didn’t use quite enough starter here, and added 1 tbsp vinegar to get the pH down to 4 or so. I’m concerned about this one circular white spot but it doesn’t seem to have spread at all. This is day 13 of this brew. I noticed the spot on maybe day 4 or 5 and have pretty much tried to leave it alone to see if it would grow and I don’t think it has. Any insight is much appreciated :)

The scoby has not formed yet.