DIY Probiotic Soda with Ginger Bug
DIY Probiotic Soda with Ginger Bug
DIY probiotic sodas | Did you know you can make homemade probiotic soda with a bug?
Not that kind of a bug, but a ginger bug. It’s sort of like a sourdough starter but for sodas. The natural yeast and bacteria present on the surface of ginger will begin to ferment the sugar you add, allowing you to make fizzy and delicious probiotic sodas. The whole process takes about a week.
GINGER BUG:
Day 1: Combine 2 c water, 1/2 c of diced organic ginger, 1 tbsp sugar in a thoroughly cleaned container.
Be sure to use distilled or filtered water. Also be sure to use organic ginger, as non-organic ginger may be irradiated. You don’t need to peel your ginger.
You can seal the jar tightly with a lid, or use cheesecloth and a rubber band.
Day 2-6: Each day, add 1 small diced piece of ginger & 1 tsp sugar
The temp of your kitchen will affect the speed at which your ginger bug ferments. If you have a colder kitchen, keep feeding the ginger bug for up to 10 days before using. Keep your bug out of direct sunlight. You’ll know it’s ready when it’s frothy on top and produces bubbles without touching it.
SODA:
We’d recommend using 8 fl oz (236 mL) pressure safe swing top bottles.
When you’re ready to bottle, sanitize your bottles in a large pot of boiling water for 5 min.
Next, strain your ginger bug with a fine mesh colander.
In the 8 fl oz bottle, combine .5 to 1.5 fl oz of ginger bug liquid, 4-5 fl oz of shelf-stable sweetened fruit juice, and fill the rest of the bottle with filtered water, leaving 1″ of headroom.
Let sit at room temp for 2-3 days, then refrigerate before serving. If you see a bubbly ring forming at the top of your liquid, you know it’s working.
BE VERY CAREFUL WHEN OPENING: keep a hand over the lid and point the bottle away from your face.
Use preservative-free juices that aren’t sold refrigerated. Make sure your juices have sugar content, otherwise the fermentation won’t work.
These sodas will have an alcohol content similar to kombucha, so they’re not suitable for children, or people who can’t drink.
Keep your bug in the fridge and feed once a week, or keep it at room temperature and feed daily.
If you see or smell anything strange, THROW IT OUT. #gingerbug #probiotics #soda #diy
when to stop fermenting before it gets alcholic
How much sugar how mich salt? How mich ginger?
I MUST TRY THIS.
Just do it in a plastic bottle with a rubber glove on the top. When the glove will wave hello, its time to freeze
Ginger tastes gross. make kombucha
doesn’t that have alcohol??
It looks delicious
Remove sugar then you get real taste of this drink
You can keep the bottles open and put a balloon on the mouth opening. Depending on hoch much it is inflated, you will be able to tell how much it is fermented… and most importantly: no bursting bottle!
better to drink like these juices immediately. and thanks for sharing
Tip: use ginger with peel , for good fermentation
Very vital information 👌✌👍
My bug is still so sweet after 6 days, so that I hesitate to put more sugar inside On some days… I thought the sugar would be converted to lactic acid!? It’s my first attempt😕
Try indian probiotic drink Kanji 😊 it will ferment without sugar as well. If looking for healthy alternative can give a shot.
Can I use honey instead of sugar?
can i substitute the sugar with something else?
Amazing, I will try it! I’ve been taking an antibiotic for my skin for 6 weeks and have to up my probiotics so this is perfect and much cheaper!
What temperature is ‘room temperature’ my house is 18 C in the winter during the day and drops to 16 C at night.
If I use external heat to ferment, what setting should I use?
So can you combine/substitute kombucha for the juice with this? Or would that be extra explosive? 😂
I am going to make this as soon as I get some poptop bottles..thank you ❤
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Is there alcohol in this drink?
I’m 99% sure it’s a prebiotic soda and not probiotic
can this be done with sweetner?
Diabetcoke
GINGER ALE
Isn’t likely to be mildly alcoholic?
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And then we are surprised that Covid exists
Wow! That looks great! But, unfortunately , not for a diabetic….ironically we, especially, need good gut health! 🙁
But sugar is not at all healthy
Just not all types of bacteria are healthy!!! Fermented could meen a healthy food when fermented with the right bacteria in the right way or simply bad diarrhoea and problems
I don’t like ginger. What can i use instead?
Does anyone have recommendations on what juices to try out with this? My ginger bug is ready to be used but I’m not sure what juice would be best! 🙂
Will the natural sugar content in the juice not help it ferment? Or must it be juice that has added sugar to it?
Ginger beer 😊
Can you use honey instead of sugar ?
Where to get those bottle?
This haram right?
This is remake shame.
Ginger swamp water with juice
GINGER BUG=organic ginger + sugar and water.
everyday for several days (maybe 2-5days) and add more ginger and sugar… then in a sterilized bottle, add in 2 oz ginger bug + a sweet juice (someone in the comments said they used fresh squeezed orange juice without the pulp). then for another 2-3days let it ferment more with the juice, and IMPORTANT according to comments!!! let it burp twice or every 12 hours(let some gas out to avoid SODA EXPLOSION!!!. and some else here said to let it accumulate some gas before putting it in fridge or in other words DON’T burp it and put in the fridge, a NO NO for a good soda. Commentator said fridge temp slows down accumulation of gas. hope it helps for a 1st timer like me hehe. comment your 1st DIY ginger bug or ginger bug soda, would like to know how it went and was it good tasting 😉
Too much sugar😢
How much of the ginger can you taste in the final drink?
Can i add the fruit or fruit juice with the ginger bug at the beginning?
Can i use honey instead of sugar
A Question, do you need sugar? Can u use something else instead?
Honey instead of sugar is ok, too, correct?
Perché vi procurate il diabete da soli
Cmq tutto ciò che è fermantato favorisce lo sviluppo del cancro!😢🤦🤦🤦