Yemoos Nourishing Cultures Forum

Howdy folks, thanks for the forum, and the join. Been making water kefir, but decided to try a teaspoon of fancy molasses instead of some of the sugar. The ferment seems to want to go on forever, haha. Will the addition of molasses prolong the fermentation? Also added a piece of lemon with this expe...

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ANother part to this question I guess, would be, as long as there are bubbles, the grains are being fed right, and not starving to chance of an imbalance of bacteria, and yeast? Thank you.

And yet another question? If I decide not to use juice to carbonate, how much sugar per cup of finished kefir is acceptable to use please? Thank you. I would like to throw some ginger in this batch I had the lemon in for example with out any juice?? How much ginger per cup of finished as well? A pie...

Thank you for your kind reply Frankie, all what you said makes perfect sense, grains are healthy, and growing, so I think we nailed her so far.

MAde coconut kefir, is some goooood. When I went back to whole milk, everything seemed to slow down, and got sluggish. I rinsed grains before adding to coconut, then again before going back into whole milk. Anyone think this is normal,, or did I murder the little buggers?