fermented beverages

What's a ginger bug? A charming name for a collection of bacteria and yeasts that colonize a bowl of sweetened ginger left on the counter for a few days. Easy to make, and easy to tailor the intensity of the ginger. Aka ginger beer, it's delicious!

Making Tomato-Vegetable Kvass with all the excitement of Bloody Mary / Virgin Mary refreshment.

Water Kefir is great, but water kefir with tamarind is Jarritos, but healthy! This sweet/tart knockoff is probiotic and full of flavor!

Fermented fruit sodas are so fun to make, simple, and delicious. The blackberries we gathered have a lot of flavor, but are really not very sweet– so turning them into fermented blackberry soda is a great option.