- Welcome to You Brew Kombucha.
This is your guide to cleaning
your kombucha materials.
When it comes to cleaning
your kombucha materials,
it's pretty low-maintenance.
This is not at all like beer brewing
where you have to sanitize everything.
Kombucha is a lot more forgiving.
For instance, if I'm bottling
one of my first ferments
and I'm using the jar again immediately,
I won't even rinse it.
I'll just go ahead and
fill it with my sweet tea
and start that first fermentation
cycle all over again.
And it's worked out fine
for me every single time.
Now, if your brewing vessel
seems to be a little
bit on the gunkier side,
if there are some yeast floaties
that have gotten stuck to the sides,
you can go ahead and just use
some plain old dish washing soap
and use a sponge to scrub it off
and then rinse it really well.
You don't need to sanitize it,
you don't need to sterilize it.
Just make sure that you
rinse it really well
with hot water before you use it again.
You can even run your brew vessel
through the dishwasher
on the hot water setting
and that'll clean it up just fine too.
Some people will recommend
that you use a vinegar cure
to make sure that your
vessel is completely clean.
A vinegar cure is basically
one part distilled white
vinegar and one part water
that you use to rinse out your vessel.
And I don't recommend doing that,
only because I don't wanna
risk contaminating my kombucha
with the acids from the vinegar.
I've mentioned in other videos
how I am staunchly against using vinegar
in any part of the
kombucha brewing process,
especially in place of starter tea,
and it's because the acids in vinegar
change the chemical
compounds of your SCOBY
and could turn it into a vinegar SCOBY
as opposed to a kombucha SCOBY.
So even though I know
that using a vinegar cure
is likely not gonna do that
because you're using so
little white vinegar,
I don't even run the risk,
especially when using
hot water does the trick.
Now, when it comes to cleaning the bottles
that you put your kombucha into,
I just use a regular old bottle brush
to make sure that any
residue is cleaned out.
Just use dish soap to make
sure that it's really clean
and rinse it really well with hot water.
For more tips like this,
make sure you check out the
other videos on my channel.
And for more information,
you can always go to youbrewkombucha.com.
Happy brewing.
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