Tag: Counter Culture
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Brew-ha-ha
Back in June of last year, I posted about my experience with making homemade soda from Emma Christensen’s book True Brews: How to Craft Fermented Cider, Beer, Wine, Sake, Soda, Mead, Kefir, and Kombucha at Home. At the time I was like “I’m only gonna make soda because I already make milk kefir and kombucha…
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How I learned to love the blob
I have some pretty serious tactile issues. Some things I just do NOT want to touch. Like slimey things.. or gooshy things. This is the reason I refused to even consider trying to make kombucha. I mean.. Look at this just … look at it. That’s a kombucha scoby. Scoby is an acronym for Symbiotic…
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So, about that Kvass…
So, about that beet kvass… I’m actually enjoying this in small doses. It’s pretty salty, though. I’m hoping that after it continues to ferment a bit in the fridge it will mellow out a bit. Next time I’m going to try sea salt. But will I drink it? Yes! I have a second ferment going…
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Kvass update
Kvass Update: The beets are now floating and I had a thin layer of funk on top, which I removed with a clean spoon. Smells really good though! Read the original post here
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I like beets so I really hope I like this kvass
I like beets.. no really I do. I like them pickled, mostly.. and sometimes I like them roasted.. but mostly pickled. I bought a bunch of beets from my last trip to the Co-op and had intended on making an apple and beet salad from “Whole Grains for a New Generation” (which we are reading…
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How to make Yogurt
Continuing my “what’s moldering in the drafts folder” theme, I bring you this post I started in July of 2012. I’m not making much yogurt these days because I’m currently turned onto kefir thanks to some grains I got at a swap recently. FYI: pretty sure Betsy will be doing a milk kefir post as…