Gutbasket Kombucha SCOBY, Starter Liquid 250 ml with Instructions Booklet | Live Culture, Organic, Probiotic, No Vinegar, No Artificial Flavors | Make Kombucha Drink at Home

The kit is fantastic, GutBasket has included all the equipment and Scoby needed to brew amazing batches of kombucha. You could include a siphon tube to your order on Amazon to transfer the kombucha into bottles. This will make your life much easier. I'd recommend that you order 3 more glass bottles if you intend to brew all 4 liters from a batch as this will give you flexibility to experiment with more flavors and will fit all the kombucha that you brew into glass bottles. 4 liters kombucha = 5 bottles since you'll be using fruit which occupies space in the bottles to flavor the kombucha. TEA BREWING: I'd recommend that you start by learning to optimize tea brewing time to hit the sweetspot as this takes some getting used to. You'll get a feel for your preference in a couple of brews. I'm still perfecting brewing time as I'm experimenting with a lot of different tea's. PRIMARY FERMENTATION: I had to adjust the fermentation times to the climatic conditions in south india. Found that 4-5 days in 28 degree temperature is ideal. Chances of your brew turning very sour are high if you do not keep checking after 5 days in 28 degree temperatures. Remember that you'll be doing secondary fermentation of 3 days with fresh fruit to extract flavour so a total of 8 days fermentation. In any case, do experiment and see what you prefer. I like mine on the slightly sweeter side. So 5 days primary is good for me. SECONDARY FERMENTATION: DO NOT FORGET TO BURP - Burp once everyday. But, to preserve carbonation, what I found is that you can refriegerate for 3-4 hours on the 3rd day of secondary fermentation before opening and transferring your brew into drinking bottles. This will reduce the carbonation loss. I found that storing your kombucha for 3 days in the fridge in smaller bottles before use gave me the perfect results i was looking for! All in all a great kit. Thank you GutBasket and thanks to Manil for the great product and service!

I have been a regular customer of gutbasket. While their products are excellent, their support is fabulous :) Highly recommended! They have a loyal customer in me :)

Works well, the jar is big enough for a 4L brew. Been brewing flavoured buch with seasonal fruit. You may need to add more sugar than what’s specified in their recipe, at least for the first batch.

Gut basket people are very professional, they supply quality products, their instruction manual is simple and precise, their scoby is just perfect. The are very committed and would go beyond leaps and bounds to ensure that the user gets a good experience. in fact they’ve been in support all through the brewing process with timely messages to check if things are going fine and assisted me throughout. The kombucha I brewed was quite a success, was delicious, sparkling and had the perfect tart. See photo. follow instructions verbatim & make sure to keep a check on the temperatures in summers, the brew is delicate and the sweet spot lies between 24C to 28C, don’t hesitate to turn on the AC. This Gutbasket initiative is Really impressive! Wishing the entire team a huge success.

I am completely new to fermenting. This starter kit came with everything I needed and the instructions were very precise and easy to follow. I have just had my first glass of delicious homemade kombucha. The Gut Basket staff answered queries on whatsaap immediately, even on a Sunday morning. I would definitely recommend this product to anyone who is interested in making kombucha at home. The fantastic thing is you don't need to keep buying from them to make subsequent batches. Once you have the Scoby you just keep brewing.

Got the most horrific stomach infection after consuming this. Made it like how they said absolutely clean with hot water. My wife and I had it and we both had to rush to the hospital. We both kept getting diarrhoea for days. Saw all these excellent reviews and how pocket friendly it was and bought. Missed our first vacation after our wedding we were to take the next day all because of this ridiculous purchase. On doing a stool test it was E. Coli and the only new thing was this cursed product. After returning home from the hospital after 4 days, I see this mold on the Kombucha jar. A fun activity that we wanted to do turned to this horrific experience. I will be complaining to FSSAI/consumer courts and make sure that these guys are scrutinised and shut down. Stay away if you care for your life. Don't think I ever want to have Kombucha agai in my life.

Struggling with an autoimmune disease, I was trying out various holistic approaches to deal with it. Kombucha helped my gut health and in turn my immunity but store bought kombuchas can be expensive in the long run. So bought the GutBasket kombucha brewing kit and it has been working perfectly for me for the last year or so. I have done repeat batches from the same scoby, messed up with it and then bought only the scoby pack from Gut Basket again and that too worked well. The best part through all this was the help I received from their team when ever I wasn’t sure if the fermentation process was coming along fine. To be honest though, the literature they send along with the brewing kit has excellent information and if you follow those instructions you have a successful batch brewing for sure. Have had many second fermentation batches where I experimented with different fruits/flavours and that is the best part of brewing kombucha at home. I am very happy with the kombucha kit and the excellent team at Gut Basket.. hoping to try out the other kits they have to offer soon !!