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So once your tea has steeped for about 5 to 10 minutes you just remove the tea bags and the tea is really hot and if you know anything about yeast you know they have to be luke warm. First I'm going to rinse out my jar you can do this with soap if you like I like to just rinse it out because you don't want to over preponderance of the either the bacteria or the yeast you want to be taking it out, you just move the access bacteria or yeast so that they stay in balance. So we're going to pour this mixture the whole thing into our jar and it's to hot right now for us to put in the scoby but since this is a short cut, we're just going to add our sparking water our fresh pure, purified water into the jar, wait till it cool down. So I'm going to start swishing it around so I can also feel the temperature to make sure that the yeast won't all die once we put it in here. Alright that's starting to feel good now I like to let it go to this line right here, alright that's good, (what size of jar is that in) this is a gallon size glass jar, it originally held pickles, cause I like pickles. Now we're going to take our I always want to put the baby back in to give it more of a chance, put that in there, and then this one is not to big, so I'm going to put the whole thing back in, this one is about 2 of them. And it's important to put the starter on top as this will help prevent mold from growing, there we go that looks good. And now I'm going to replace, we don't put a lid on this jar because it is a fermentation process this needs to breath, so I'm going to put a cloth on top of it and you might think oh I will use a cheese cloth but you can't use cheese cloth because the weave is to loose and the fruit flies will get in so this is just an old tee shirt. You can use an old tee shirt, just any old cloth you have lying around the house and then your just going to take a rubber band and secure that on the bottom here. And last thing I like to do because I believe this is inviting nature to live into my body I'm going to do give it a prayer to tell it that I love it and ask for it to bring my body back into balance. There we go and now your going to want to put this in a cool dark place where it can be undisturbed through the fermentation process. I would say differently let it go a week and the summer you may go up to 2 weeks depending on taste. If you want to at any time of the fermentation process you would just open this up put your straw in and taste it to make sure that the flavor is to your liking and in winter it will take a little longer say about 3 weeks. So happy camping.