Pellicle XXL
New to brewing. Started a few months back and have had a few decent batches up to this point. I had a small stockpile of finished kombucha in the fridge and didn’t start a new batch after the last one. I kept a small volume of tea in the jar for the next batch and left everything on the counter. It started to dry up and I wanted to keep the scoby alive, so almost 2 weeks ago, I put in a cup of black tea with a little bit of sugar. It’s obviously been pretty happy because it’s formed this mega pellicle on top of the existing ones. This thing isn’t even 2 weeks old and it’s well over an inch thick. Golf ball for scale. I mostly just found this funny and wanted to share.
I typically use Lipton black tea. The initial scoby was fermentaholics. How do I manage this thing? It seems unusably large at this point. Thanks!