How can I keep my Kombucha warmer in the cool months?
• Potting Pad-You can buy a “potting pad” at your local greenhouse supplier to use as a heater for your fermenting Kombucha Tea in the cool months. Simply set your jar of fermenting Kombucha Tea on the pad to give it some extra warmth. Potting pads are used by greenhouse growers to keep their seedlings at an even growing temperature. • Aquarium Heater-Some people set their jars of fermenting Kombucha Tea into a small glass 5-10 gallon fish aquarium, fill it up to near the top of the jars with water, then stick a submersible aquarium heater- set at the lowest temperature into the water in the tank. This will take the chill off the water that surrounds your fermenting Kombucha jars and keep the contents at more even temperature. You may wish to drape a towel over this “tea-tank” to help keep the warmth in. • Aquarium Heater #2-(Mike M., a subscriber to the Kombucha mailing list,) puts his one-gallon glass brew jar into a two-and-a-half gallon plastic bucket, then fills this with water up