I firstly bought Kombucha ready bottled and tried it out for a couple of months. The bottles are 1/2 litres so have 1/2 of one of these bottles a day with breakfast. I was really impressed with the quality of the Kombucha and became convinced it was doing me a lot of good. I decided to make my own and bought a 5 litre Kilner Jar which has a tap on the bottom from my local CoOp and bought everything else needed from Freshly Fermented. I followed the instructions on the Freshly Fermented web site is and now enjoy my own Kombucha every day and it tastes the same as my previous bought bottles. Quality of everything bought from FF has been excellent. A couple of things to keep in mind are, if you start off buying bottles, keep the bottles, you will need them if you start making your own. FF recommend using filtered or bottled water. 5 litres of bottled water in my local supermarket costs £1.20. In our nearest Tesco's it costs £1.10. This is more than enough to last me 2 weeks. Happy Kombuchaing.