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If I can hear the caps leaking carbonation, does it mean my F2 wont be carbonated at all?
When I put the bottles to my ears I can hear carbonation leaking out. Will this completely prevent carbonation to build up, preventing the kombucha from being carbonate,or is it only leaking just excess carbonation?
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Asked Oct 25,
Nope, you will still get carbonation, but it depends how much the bottles are leaking. I recently bought bottle caps for old kombucha bottles I have, their original caps were thrown away so I ordered what I thought were good ones. I filled almost 30 of them up and found out they were also leaking like yours, but they still carbonated really well.
If anything, it prevented the overly excess fizz that would turn my bottles into a nuke, my kitchen is much cleaner now.
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