flavors & recipes

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.

Rose petals and pomegranate are my top choices, they work well every time and are not too sweet. I don't even have to add any sugar to it to get carbonation either.

Rose flowers! It's probably the most loved of all the flavors i make here at home. It doesn't really take that many to add a lot of flavor also.

I'm not sure what is common, but with my hibiscus brew I tend to just add what ever is read, so I would add roses, red berries, and anything else that randomly comes my way that is red and I can save until my F2.

I had the same happen to me with a few of my bottles. I would say that based on how much carbonation the bottles are leaking, it might not be a lost cause! I have had a few bottles that did leak too much, and the final kombucha was not carbonated at all and even had a bit of an odd taste to it, but that might not be relevant. On the other hand, I had a few bottles that leaked as well, but, they still carbonated pretty well, some even very well.

Test it out! See what happens with them, a slight leak is not the most ideal maybe, but it can still carbonate, so don't give it up!