Kombucha Starter Tea | Grow SCOBY From Scratch | 16 oz Bottle | Live Cultures for Brewing 1 Gallon of Homemade Kombucha Tea | By The Kombucha Company

I bought this to save my almost dried out SCOBY. I brewed it and poured it in and it happily making a new one. It saved the day.

This arrived as expected. I started my kombucha and the story developed well. Seems every batch I make a new story is produced.

Flatlined - zero fizz, and I make an expensive Ayurvedic herbal tea base with 15-20 expensive herbs. It's expensive for it to be wasted. But I got no bang for my buck. I don't write reviews. I feel it's doing Amazon's work for them. But in this case I lost out and wasted effort and product so I felt desire to give a caveat to most people.

Thought it might not work to start my first scoby for Kombucha but it worked fine.

With 6 to 7 years brewing experience, I know all you need is starter tea. The bottles arrived, I opened the bag and placed each separately bagged bottle on the counter. Yes, the bottom of each bottle bulged, as expected. Good sign of healthy tea! And it smells very healthy!! I continuous brew in a large dispenser with a spigot. I used both bottles (16oz each) following the recipe for 1 bottle. I like to keep it strong while introducing different water, different sugar, new environment. In a week I’ll add the other gallon of sweet tea. Added a picture my brewing of vessel & one taken after 5 days; good healthy formation of the “scoby/mother” ph was 3.0. So I added the 2nd gallon of sweet tea. Happy brewing! Update 3 weeks later I’m now enjoying my fizzy sparkling brew fight from the tap! Thankful I found your product!

This made it so easy to start making my own kombucha. After reading a ton of articles on how to make it, I decided to try this starter and let it form it's own pelicle and it worked perfectly! I'm now on my third batch (1 gallon), and have a scoby jar constantly going so I can make a new batch whenever I want: I just throw the pelicles in a gallon jar about half full of starter each time I am ready for a second ferment. The instructions are easy and clearly written, and my kombucha has tasted fantastic! If I ever end up needing another starter, I would 100% buy this again.

Update- The seller reached out and offered to replace or refund the item. I appreciate the seller trying to fix the issue. The bottle arrived with the bottom already bent outward. I just thought this was a different shaped bottle and thought nothing of it, until I tried to open the bottle and it exploded all over my kitchen. Will not be purchasing this again

I was skeptical because of past experiences with other starters. Because I'm in the middle of a move, the bottle I bought sat in the refrigerator for over 6 months. I finally decided that I better do something with it or toss it. 2 weeks ago I mixed up a batch, not really expecting it to do anything because it's been so long. IT GREW! There's a healthy pellical mat forming in the jar! I can't wait to start brewing!

It worked perfectly for my first try at making a scoby . And it already tastes so good. It has been ten days, tested the ph last night it is 2.68 . Going to start my second batch Today yay, and putting it in bottles so pleased my adventure begins.

I really wanted this to work but... it didn't. I've fermented kombucha from fully grown scobie before, so I thought this would just take a little longer. It never fermented, I waited over 3 months before I realized it wasn't gonna happen.