The Other Scoby - Jun
Jun Scoby looks like Kombucha Scoby and even brews like Kombucha but its not Kombucha Scoby!! There is one marked difference though. Jun Scoby feeds exclusively on Honey! I managed to get a Jun Scoby shipped all the way from US via the Happy Herbalist. Did the brewing with green tea but the final brew turned out to be quite disappointing; no bubbles, no new layer of Scoby and the drink was flat. In short, I failed. It turned out that the honey that I was using was not pure enough (bought from Giant hypermart). By the time I used real organic Acasia honey it was too late, the Scoby had failed to function. Disappointed, an idea cropped into my head. Why don’t I try to train my kombucha Scoby to “feed” on honey? Off I went to brew with the same procedure, replacing sugar with honey with kombucha Scoby. Fast forward two weeks into the future all I got was another failed brew, proving once and for all that kombucha Scoby and honey does not mix. After that incident I stop