Everything You NEED To Know About Water Kefir & How To Make It | Boost Your Gut Health

You can also use 1/4 cup milk kefir whey which has been separated and filtered from milk kefir as your starter culture. Works great.

I love making water kefir! The benefits are unreal 🦋

Great video!! For a good source of minerals, try throwing in 5-10 raisins (remove them after 3 days) or 1 date (remove or change after 5 days). I get amazing carbonation when I use either (I heard figs work really well).

Thank you!! This is the first video I've found that actually explains what water kefir is, how to make it, and what the health benefits are.

Loved this video, and I'd love more videos on water kefir/fermented drinks. There is a serious lack of content and resources in regard to this lovely magic beverage IMO.

Brilliant video!!!

Thanks bro.

what I plan to do is allow the first firmentation a shorter amount of time (let it go 1.5 to 2 days). Then, allow for a longer second ferm. This way, I can skew towards a higher carbonation. I think that is a tweak I am going to do. There are two things I find important: 1. Very very low alcohol content (I am very sensitive to alchol); 2. High carbonation.

Thank you. Good video

Thank u man, god bless.

Its great to see fitness coaches talking about probiotics. I have been brewing my own Kombucha and Kefir for years. Have you ever or do you make rejuvelac?

I had a period of making this several years ago and went off the boil as it over-took my kitchen. I'm about to embark on it again and appreciate the straight forward explanation of how to use it as I had forgotten. I would love to hear more about the Korean Chung 🙂🙏

Campden tab can get the chlorine out of the water without harming the natural yeast and bacteria. You can get them from online or brewing supplies stores. Which is inexpensive compared to using mineral or bottled

Excellent video thank you. Does the sugar get broken down completely? Asking from a glucose intolerant or insulin perspective. Basically, is water kefir safe for those folk with insulin resistance or diabetes to drink?

Good video! Water kefir really helped my gut health once I started making it myself. I filter about a half gallon of tap water that sits for the three days between batches and presumably declorinates in that time. The grains are very healthy and growing. The recommendation that came with the grains was to add 1/8 tsp baking soda to every second or third batch, but the grains didn't do well and diminished over time. I now use about 1/2 a tsp with every batch and get more grains every time. Probably varies with the local water quality, so if you're not getting more grains every time, try varying the amount of sodium bicarbonate used in the batch.

You have to add dried fruit. The waterkefir needs them as a nitrogen source. It works so much better and the grains grow like crazy.

In romania we use this thing to sour our soups. We call it Bors

Have you ever experienced mushy/applesauce-y texture in your grains when dehydrating them? Also, I added grape juice into my second fermentation, and it started tasting like alcohol, as if it had over fermented, but it wasn't bubbly yet. Any tips? Thanks for the video!

I'm new to fermenting. I wonder- what is the difference between water kefir and ginger bug? Also- is there a problem in mixing microbiology" by placing jars of different ferments next to each other? Thanks

Can't these water grains made at home.?