Northern Brewer Everbru Deluxe Kombucha Brewing Starter Kit with Scoby Review (2026)

What is included

Northern Brewer's Everbru Deluxe kit bundles a Little Big Mouth Bubbler glass fermenter with roughly 1.75 gallon capacity, a live SCOBY culture, a mini auto-siphon and tubing for transferring finished kombucha, an adhesive strip thermometer, loose leaf black tea, raw cane sugar, a stainless steel tea ball, butter muslin and a rubber band for covering the fermenter, plus a stainless steel serving carafe, two branded glasses and a 32 ounce swing top bottle for carbonating a finished batch. That is a broad spread of gear covering the full process from brewing the sweet tea base through fermenting, bottling and serving.

The included SCOBY

A SCOBY, short for symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast, is the living culture that ferments sweetened tea into kombucha, and growing one from scratch can take one to several weeks before it is ready to use. Including a live SCOBY directly in the kit removes that waiting period and the uncertainty of a homemade culture, letting a new brewer start a first batch almost immediately after the kit arrives. Buyers should still follow standard kombucha food safety guidance around checking a SCOBY for mold versus normal yeast strands before using it, since that applies to any SCOBY regardless of source.

Batch size and process

The kit is built around a roughly one gallon batch in the included glass fermenter, which is a manageable size for a first attempt at kombucha without committing to a large multi-gallon vessel before knowing whether the hobby is a good fit. The mini auto-siphon and tubing handle the transfer from fermenter to bottle without disturbing the SCOBY or the sediment that settles during fermentation, and the swing top bottle is designed to hold the natural carbonation that builds during a secondary bottle conditioning step, which is where kombucha typically picks up its fizz.

Deluxe versus basic kits

Northern Brewer and other kombucha suppliers generally sell a basic starter kit alongside a deluxe tier like this one, with the deluxe version adding items such as the serving carafe, branded glasses and swing top bottle on top of the core brewing equipment. Someone who already owns a fermenting jar, tea ball or bottles from other kitchen projects may find some of that deluxe content redundant, and a basic kit with just the fermenter, SCOBY and starter tea and sugar could be the better value. For a brewer starting from zero equipment, the deluxe kit's broader bundle avoids a series of smaller follow-up purchases and extra shipping charges scattered across several separate future add-on orders down the line.

Who it suits

This kit is aimed at someone who has never brewed kombucha before and wants a single order that covers fermenting, bottling and serving without researching and buying each piece separately. It is less necessary for an experienced kombucha brewer who already has a fermenter and culture and just wants replacement tea or sugar. Northern Brewer is an established homebrew and fermentation supplier with a long history in the hobby space, which adds some confidence around the quality and viability of the included SCOBY compared with buying a culture from an unfamiliar seller, and support documentation is easy to find if a first batch runs into trouble.

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