Yemoos Nourishing Cultures Forum

I just received a package of water kefir grain. I purchased some a couple weeks ago that somehow did not decrease the sweetness of the water after 48 hours, even though I followed the directions exactly and made 2 batches that didn't work. When I emailed the good Yemoos folks, they sent me new grain...

I wanted a pretty scoby, too, so I brewed batches with every kind of tea I could find at Kroger this winter. What I found to make the prettiest scobies was plain green tea. I left it in for 28 days and the result was a beautiful, blemish-free, off-white scoby about 1/3 inch thick. I can recreate the...

I have looked at the academic research on the primary bacteria and yeasts in ginger beer and found that they both require oxygen to survive and reproduce. People sometimes use airlocks and end up with a fermented liquid. However, according to several sources, all academic research articles, the ferm...

I have been making kefir from a bottle of Lifeway plain kefir for a half year now and every batch is the same as the one bottle I bought. It has 12 strains of probiotics and is mildly sour. I simply use the bottom, thick curd-filled 1/4 cup added to milk to make a quart. Both whole and 2 percent mil...