Kombuchaorganic® KOMBUCHA Tea CULTURE (Large SCOBY with Strong STARTER TEA - Makes 1 Gallon) by Kombuchaorganic®

I have bought this twice from the same company. Scoby are healthy and make great kombucha. Same with their milk kefir.Absolutely love it.

Decent size scoby and a small amount of liquid. I made my kombucha and the scoby is still in good health and I have a baby scoby too so all good. Good instructions came with it which was helpful for a beginner, I would recommend.

Good looking scoby it is square rather than round but that is fine says it makes 1 gallon but the instructions only make 2 LTRs but once again that is fine hopefully the scoby will grow well to make gallon batch the 2nd time around

Not a well shaped rounded square as they have pictured it, nor would I consider it huge. The scoby is a semi-square piece cut from a larger scoby. It was folded up and squished into two vacuum sealed plastic bags. Annoyingly the scoby remained folded when placed in my sweet tea. I would've preferred it to open up flat and probably would have if it wasn't folded when packed.The amount of 'strong starter tea' measured only 75mL. It might be enough if it's as 'strong' as advertised.The paper work indicated it was only suitable for a 2L batch. I'd expect a 'huge scoby' to deal with at least 4L on receipt.I'm disappointed with the misinformation in this listing and I'm sure it will grow to a 'huge scoby' eventually, but I bought it to use for a large batch now.Buy this 'huge scoby' but expect a medium/small or just buy a small one with the intent of growing it. I'm sure it still works. I'm just disappointed with the misleading description.Expectation vs reality...Update: Still worked fine, but also with a lesser quantity of sweet tea than I'd hoped to start brewing with from receipt. I left it with 2L of sweet tea for 4 weeks and I had strong vinegar/starter tea by the end of it.Some of that vinegar is now in a bottle for storage to rinse the vessel after cleaning and for making dressings. Some of the vinegar has been split between a couple of jars with sweet tea to grow back-up scobies. These are growing quite well and even after 3 days the pellicle formation is very noticeable.Still not happy about paying extra for a 'huge Scoby' that wasn't though.

Despite several attempts (I am an experienced kombucha home-brewer) this scobi is unable to successfully brew kombucha. The freshly made tea becomes cloudy within a short period of time (too much yeast growth) and the new scobi that develops at the top of the brew jar remains very thin. More like a 'veil' than a new scobi.The scobi's I have brewed with in the past have been thick and healthy, building up many layers over time. This scobi does not do this. The 'new' scobi's that have developed in the brews I have made with this, have been so thin that they could not hold their shape, even after several weeks of brewing. I do not think the scobi I was supplied was healthy or very lively. It may have been dormant for too long. When I wrote to the supplier about this they downplayed it on the basis that a 'new' scobi had grown, saying all was probably well. However, the new scobi was (and is) an ineffective film, rather than a robust culture. I would not buy this again and regard it as a waste of money.

Really good all worked fine. Had a couple of question further on and they answered all my questions really quickly. Nice to have that back up.

I’ve been using this scoby for about 6 weeks now and it has produced some fantastic kombucha. I now also have multiple baby scobys that I am giving away to friends

the scooby is not a large one and it's not for 7 l(1 gallon) but for 2 litre tea as per their instruction.