Colorful Scoby - with Butterfly Pea Flower - New tea recipe extra caffeine

 June 8th

Butterfly Pea Flower tea is vibrant indigo.  I'm hoping the biofilm will grow in the same color. For some reason the previous the bacterial cellulose has not growing very fast. Since this tea is caffeine free I decided to as some instant coffee to see if this will help. I noticed that the higher level of caffeine makes healthier biofilm.

I'm using the the old scoby since it has given me great results so I'm hoping to see some purple ish bacterial cellulose.  Aside from the blue tea I have added a mix of English breakfast sweet tea. 

June 16th

This Mat grew so quickly.

June 22

I was worried that the lab was too humid, but in 1 week I got an a solid sheet of Cellulose, I left it for a whole week to dry. The results below are from June 22. Probably I was ready after a few days of leaving it to dry but I'm glad I waited.