Craft A Brew – Kombucha Jar with Dispensing Valve – For Kombucha Fermentation – Includes Custom Cloth Cover- Proprietary Design

Great glass jar, fun shape, sturdy stainless steel spigot
I was a bit scared to start my whole kombucha journey – fear of being poisoned, have bottles explode in my face, have the bacteria SCOBY escape its jar and come for me in the night!!!I’m going to post this review on the starter kit, heater- also this brand, and book products, since it was the starter kit, gallon jar/heater, and book combo that has set me on my kombucha home brew journey….Make sure you clean jar, spigot and test for leaks before you start brewing – mine was fine, so I was good to go….I bought the starter kit last month, plus The Big Book of Kombucha and was reading it, talked to friends who’d brewed their own kombucha in the past; they all recommended a glass jar with spigot to do continuous brew rather than mess about with the SCOBY, risk it getting contaminated, and make everything simpler. I bought one from Home Goods, but as I kept reading, I realized the cute crystal glass and plastic spigot would not be good…Went back to the drawing board, researched on Amazon and found a great kombucha gallon jar, with stainless steel spigot, and bought their heater, kombucha likes 78 degrees…and ferments faster…A week ago, I followed a hybrid of directions from my book, the starter kit, and jar people….and created my first go, this starter kit is great, has everything you need, the tea is a mix of organic green and black tea, I’m ordering more today, cane sugar, vinegary smelling starter kit and healthy looking thin layers of cream and tan SCOBY, cane sugar, PH strips – I’m going to use their gallon jar to experiment once my SCOBY needs to be cut smaller…Once I’d mixed everything in my jar, my PH was 2.5 = perfect….added the stick on temp gauge, and my heater, and it’s cook little hat…I had placed the gallon jar on a small towel so I could drag it forward, rather than lifting it….i talked to my dear little Scooby Doo, it is a living organism, every time I was in the kitchen, kept temp at 78-80 degrees, a new white seal grew on top, and stringing strands grew down, all by the book….I sampled it today, it was sweet, but a little tart, and decanted half off into an old big 48 oz kombucha bottle, and added fresh ginger, hibiscus, and lemon juice- I will burp it every day for 3-4 days, and when the bubbles, flavor is to my liking, I’ll strain it into small bottles and put them in the fridge.My research says let the SCOBY sit in more concentrated mixture for a few days before adding more sweet tea and starting the process all over again…So far, it has been fun, and I look forward to drinking the real flavored stuff in a few days…

Craft A Brew is a Phenomenal company!
I ordered this off of Amazon (obviously) but the jug that I received had a chunk of glass chipped out of it, I emailed the company directly and their customer service was absolutely phenomenal!!! They were very quick in responding to my email and helped me with the issue, my new jug arrived today and it’s in perfect condition!!! I couldn’t be happier!!And speaking to the jar itself it is the perfect size, It has the two cup and 1 gallon measurements already on the glass, it is easy to put together with the washers and spout. the little bee netting for the top is absolutely adorable! I highly highly highly recommend purchasing this and I would even recommend purchasing it from the company directly, no offense Amazon but I don’t know what your fees are for small companies. Haha

Works For Me
This 1 gallon size is perfect for me. It was easy to put the spout in and came with all the hardware. I enjoy the honey bee design and shape of the jar. I have had no leaking issues around the spout. The seal is holding up nicely. It comes with instructions on what you need to get started and how to get started as well. My house is usually warm so the fact that it doesn’t have a warming pad was not a factor in my purchasing it. I would recommend it to anyone wanting to start the kombucha journey.

I didn’t want to waste my time with cleaning strings and crud from a spigot, so I just went with the plain jar. It’s worked out well. I bought 2, one for brewing and one for a scoby hotel. I just wish it came with a temperature strip- I had to steal one from my husband’s sourdough stuff haha.

El recipiente es de buen material, fuerte y funcional para la preparación de Kombucha. Facilita la extracción del líquido y puedes dejar al scoby con el líquido de arranque listo para la siguiente preparación.