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It's easy and pretty forgiving! I copied some notes from the old place's kombucha sub:

Ingredients:

• 1 quart/4 Cups filtered water
• 1/4 Cup sugar
• Tea (3bags or 1Tbsp)
• Starter culture/kombucha 1-2 cups (2 cups for first time)

Brew the sweet tea. Let it cool until it reaches room temperature (below 90F/32C). Alternatively, brew a smaller batch of hot sweet tea and add cold water to bring it closer to room temperature. (~quart/4 cup volume)

Add the starter liquid (this can just be kombucha from the previous batch) in your brewing vessel (1.5 quart / 6 Cup volume)

Cover the vessel with a fine breathable cloth (or coffee filters) that will let air pass through but not bugs or dust. Most cheesecloth is not suitable as the holes are too big! Use a rubber band to secure the cloth tightly.

Leave it to sit in a warm corner of the house out of direct sunlight. Minimum recommended temperature is 65F/18C, with optimum around 80F/27C. After about a week, you can begin tasting it. Does it taste too sweet? Leave it alone for a while longer. Does it taste perfect? Bottling time! Brew time depends ENTIRELY on preference.

Bottle the kombucha, adding either fruit juice, fruit, or sugar (don't use square bottles). This bottling process is also known as secondary fermentation or "2F" and will help create carbonation/fizz. If adding fruit juice, fill 10-20% of the bottle with juice and cover with kombucha. If adding sugar, start out with 1 teaspoon/4 grams per bottle (450mL/16oz), and adjust based on experimentation. If fruit - again, experiment, or check what other people have done by scrolling through the posts or checking the wiki article on flavoring. If you need flavour inspiration, check this chart. Remember to reserve some of your brew to use as starter liquid for your next batch.

Let the bottles sit at room temperature for anywhere between 1 and 7 days, to create enough fizz. It depends on amount of sugar, the strength of your kombucha etc. For more information about timing this process and avoiding bottle bombs, check the carbonation wiki article.

Refrigerate the finished bottles to stop the fermentation process and allow more CO2 to dissolve into the liquid

My first attempt at making kombucha seems to be going well and I'm excited about it!

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You both have a 3 year old together. So I'm just guessing here, but are you exhausted and getting on each other's nerves simply from constantly being around each other and being parents?

Every relationship will have solvable and un-solvable problems. Some you've listed don't seem like a huge deal. Can you just text each other when on opposite sides of the apartment?

Maybe you need some time to socialize outside your partner (or alone time) so you aren't getting annoyed with each other.

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

To have a mature forest garden backyard with something to harvest April through October

Is this loss?

Very cool! I hope they're planting nuts, legumes, and herbs as well as fruit

Don't let great be the enemy of good

Yeah like maybe programmers can relate with DBAs which can relate with System Admins but they're all pretty different