Oregon Kombucha Complete Starter Kit - Jasmine Green Tea 16.8 oz

This is a great kit for getting started in brewing your own kombucha at home!The tea and sugar are good quality items, and the instructions (while maybe a little sparse for first timers) is good enough to get just about anyone started. The SCOBY comes in a sealed plastic pouch with some starter tea (necessary to get acidity in a good place for your first batch and for keeping the SCOBY alive).I had a question about the coloring of the mother SCOBY that started forming (it was dark, but not a moldy dark that you need to watch out for). So I emailed the Oregon Kombucha company and they responded within 24 hours to let me know that the pictures I sent looked good and that the tea would be safe to drink. (What happened was the starter SCOBY had turned over and the carbonation had made it look like little volcano pores all over it).Since the starter SCOBY is kind of small, it might mean that it takes a week or two longer for your first batch of kombucha to finish brewing. After that, you'll have a brand new mother SCOBY to use in subsequent batches (these double each time you brew a new batch!).I'm on my third batch using Oregon Kombucha's starter kit, figuring a conservative $2 per 16 fluid ounces of kombucha, that's three gallons of kombucha! Three gallons of kombucha equals 384 fluid ounces. At 16 fluid ounces per bottle, that's 24 bottles of kombucha that I've brewed on one starter kit! $48 worth of kombucha for $19 is a steal. And if you spend anything more than $2 a bottle, this is a no-brainer.Pro tip: boil a couple ounces of peeled and chopped ginger in your gallon of water for 5-10 minutes, let the water cool down to 180F-190F (80C-85C), and then brew your green tea (green tea brews best in that temperature range). You get a kick of tasty and healthy ginger flavor that is so good with the green tea! My wife goes nuts for the ginger green!ProsEverything you need (quality sugar, kombucha SCOBY, and tea bag)Tastes greatGreat support if you have a questionConsSmaller SCOBY means longer first brew time

This is a cutting of a full sized SCOBY! The SCOBY I got was about the size of my thumb. All my items were sterilized & prepared properly but it never grew a full SCOBY since it was just to small and weak to make Kombucha. Save your money & buy a full sized healthy SCOBY. My mom ended up purchasing 1 for me from a guy locally & they were all full sized & very healthy.

Got this Scoby and began brewing the Kambucha. Scoby was a little sad looking but of a decent size. Within a week the Scoby had mold on top and the batch was ruined. My process was sanitary so I have to assume it was due to the Scoby I received. Emailed the company awhile later to see if they would send me a new scoby and never got a reply.

After carefully reading reviews from different sellers, I decided to go for this one due to the excellent reviews. It was nice to receive not only the SCOBY, but also the tea and sugar needed. I was disappointed in the size of the SCOBY, it was very very small, maybe like 3 x 3 cm. The first time I used it, it took a long time to make a baby SCOBY, but eventually it did. After 2 weeks I decided to make two jars of kombucha, one using the SCOBY I oredered here and another one using its baby SCOBY. I prepared both at the same time, the same way. The Kombucha with the mother SCOBY got mold... the baby SCOBY didn't.I take 2 stars off because of the tiny SCOBY I received and because it got mold the second time I used. It gets 3 stars because it included sugar and tea (overpriced though)and the SCOBY made a baby SCOBY the first time I used it.P.S. My seller was Dana's Healthy Home and I do not recommend her! The scoby was very tiny and because of that I left feedback on her page. She had it deleted to keep her feedback look good.

Well, my first batch of Kombucha did not turn out as planned, but now it seems that everything is up and running. First, the directions are clear except make sure your tea is COOL not WARM, or it will damage the colonies. I took the directions to mean let your tea cool until it isn't HOT, like how you would drink it. Once you get passed that then all is good.Three batches later, I have a healthy new SCOBY growth and I'm still playing around with the bottling aspect, such as how much fruit pulp to add. So far I haven't made a 'carbonated' batch, but maybe because the SCOBY is finally a normal growth to allow the additional fermentation. The first batch I never saw a SCOBY (maybe from my warm tea damage?), and the 2nd batch it was growing but sunk at the bottom. Basically, this is a great kit to get if you are just starting out, as you don't have to go searching for all the ingredients. If you can find easy instructions online, save yourself $9 and just buy the started tea/scoby and buy the sugar/tea bags yourself. I managed to get 100 black tagless teabags from a chain grocery store for cheap, and organic sugar in the raw for way under the additional $9 they charge you. Anywyas, great company and really cool project if you like cooking or sciency stuff. If it's not perfect on your first try, it seems pretty forgiving and just give it some more time, or brew more sweet tea to feed the beast.