Timeline for Ginger Bug Expansion
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| Mar 20, 2021 at 10:50 | comment | added | barking.pete | The person asking the question seems to have accepted the answer. Maybe that person like many others erred and termed their "ginger beer plant" a "ginger bug". On the other hand if they really do mean " how can a propagate random microbiome" then the answer is simple - carry on doing whatever it is you first did. Such microbiomes are like leaven for bread. Having done that the first time then there is nothing to stop it being done again - ad nauseum. Any particular mix might be difficult to propagate but it could probably be best done by inoculation of more boiled ginger beer mix. But why... | |
| Mar 18, 2021 at 19:08 | comment | added | LudvigH | The bug does not form a polysaccharide matrix as far as I know, so you cannot pick it out and wash it and so on. So I guess you can rinse a scoby (as you state in the answer), but not a bug (as in the question). | |
| Mar 18, 2021 at 16:23 | comment | added | barking.pete | Bug and SCOBY might different but the basic biology is the same. The only problem is that "bug" cannot be washed or easily filtered. On the plus side it is usually easy enough to remake every time. If a particular "bug" is deemed good then it can be kept going by simple inoculation of a new brew with the old. However such random "bugs" are not usually stable and the mix often changes over time as the mix of bacteria and fungi react to the local environment factors (heat, nutrients, etc). Continued propagation of the "bug" often yields indeterminate results over the mid/long term. | |
| Mar 11, 2021 at 7:58 | comment | added | LudvigH | A ginger bug is not a SCOBY. The scoby-variant is called a ginger beer plant, or GBP. So does your answer refer to a GBP or to a ginger bug? | |
| Dec 9, 2017 at 4:04 | vote | accept | TrisketBiscuit | ||
| Dec 6, 2017 at 10:22 | history | edited | barking.pete | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 5, 2017 at 20:22 | history | answered | barking.pete | CC BY-SA 3.0 |