Kombucha Scoby & Starter Tea by Joshua Tree Kombucha | (No Vinegar or Artificial Flavors Added!) - Make 5 Gallons

I started my kombucha journey early 2021. Used this started and it’s still going strong after all these years! I’ve made dozens and dozens of gallons all stemming from this start! I will say 14 dollars for a scoby and some tea is a bit pricy! I believe it was around 10 when I purchased it. You can culture this same thing from some plain kombucha purchased in store! Overall though this product gave me a strong start that I still have from this day! It did take a while to get going as there wasn’t a lot of the tea which is what you actually need. The scoby holds no value.

Priced reasonably and did its job.

It is, first of all, very strange to get a blobby monster thing in a plastic pack in the mail. HOWEVER, it is great, worked very well, very much alive, and I recommend this SCOBY to anyone looking at them online. I was drawn to this company because they are local and seemed like good people. It worked out very well.They come with a simple chart for how much tea and sugar to use, which I now keep on my fridge. I made my first batch in about a week, at which point a giant second SCOBY had formed, and the tea was pretty vinegary (in a good way). I did a secondary ferment in swing top bottles by adding some ginger and juice, let them sit for a few days (stir your batch before doing a second fermentation to bottle - I forgot to do this and had some bottles with much more yeast/carbonation than others), and then they were delicious, slightly sweet, tart, effervescent kombucha. It was great.Heads up - when I brew this, even though I have the top of my fermentation container covered with a clean towel, there are definitely fruit flies attracted to it that land on the towel (as they would with any kombucha ferment). I keep a bottle of wine with maybe a half a cup of old wine at the bottom and a drop of dish soap in it as a fly trap right next to my kombucha ferment. I haven't had any problems or any fruit flies at all since.Happy brewing.

I was a first time maker of kombucha when I purchased this product, so I was nervous about buying a SCOBY online. I wanted to make my own SCOBY, but I cannot find a local vendor that sells raw kombucha to do so. I purchased this SCOBY because of the positive reviews and now I'm about to start my fourth batch of kombucha. So yummy! This SCOBY arrived healthy and with very easy instructions and a small chart for making a small batch (quart) or a large one (1 gallon). I'm so glad I finally purchased it! Now I'm enjoying homemade kombucha at a fraction of the cost and it tastes better too. Not nearly as tart as store bought. I've even done a second fermentation with various fruits. Even taster than the store's. The combinations are almost endless and now at my fingertips. This product is so inexpensive that it paid for itself with only a third of the first batch I made. It's a no brainer to buy this SCOBY. I would buy again.

We tried to brew/ferment some kombucha, but this scoby never produced a fermented product. It grew, but did not ferment the tea. After several weeks trying, we threw it out.

My SCOBY travelled quickly across southern CA and arrived looking very thick and healthy, with a diameter of about 5” and a sturdy strand of yeast that I suspect managed to grow during the 2 days since packaging, I am very pleased with the healthy state of it and the very reasonable price. My information sources have given me some concerns over the small diameter and small amount (1/4 cup) of starter tea in with the SCOBY, but so far, so good. I set the SCOBY up in a quart jar with about 3.75 cups of sweet tea plus the starter. I covered it with a piece of a flour-sack tea towel secured with a rubber band. If I get a good growth in the next 5-6 days, I will have enough starter liquid to relocate it to a gallon jar. Time will tell, but the SCOBY sure looks strong right out of the package.UPDATE: good success with this SCOBY. Transferred SCOBY, its new baby SCOBY, and ALL the brew to a gallon jar after 5 days. Going great!

I was very impressed with the SCOBY as well as the amount and taste of the starter liquid. The SCOBY was thick, consistently shaped, and smooth in appearance. It is light in color, indicating that it is a young SCOBY and I have many brews to darken it up a bit until it is replaced by the many SCOBYs I expect from future brews. While I understand that the SCOBY doesn't have to be attractive, I'm glad I got a good looking one to start. I had a 1/2 gallon jar filled with room temperature sweetened black tea ready for it. I took the smallest taste of the starter liquid, it was fine, before pouring the rest into the tea. The starter liquid was filled with many floating bits, indicating a strong healthy starter liquid. Gave the tea a quick stir then carefully slid my handsome SCOBY into it. It doesn't matter if it floats, sinks or something in between, but it floated and fit well at the top of my half gallon mason jar.This was a random selection from the many choices I had from Amazon, and I am glad I chose this one.

When looking for a scoby I read lots of reviews but none were recent so I just wanted to add my experience. This came quickly, was exactly as described, grew well, and my Kombucha tastes great. It is small I think like 4 inches, but within 5 days had grown across the surface of the 1/2 gallon jar I am using. It also had some started liquid, and since I was only doing a half gallon I only needed half of it. I put the other half of just the liquid in a glass container and in 1 week it had grown another scoby. Completely satisfied with the quality and growth rate.