Once you've been brewing for a while, you'll start accumulating extra SCOBYs as each batch grows a new one.

Welcome to the SCOBY hotel, a jar where you keep your spare cultures safe, fed and ready to go.It sounds more complicated than it is.

It's basically just a large jar of starter liquid with your spare pellicles living in it, sitting quietly in your kitchen next to your other batches.

Having a hotel means you always have a backup if something goes wrong with your main brew and it gives you something to share with friends who want to start brewing themselves and is perfect for when you want to experiment with new and not so traditional flavours in the first fermentation, like Coffee Booch.

Find my SCOBY HOTEL recipe here