If this is the first of our shares you have seen on ginger bug sodas, you may enjoy the videos we did in our earlier shared fermented soda series (they are in the fermenting playlist on our channel and are step by step vids). This includes episodes on: - starting a ginger bug - making ginger beer - making raspberry soda - making creaming soda - refreshing a ginger bug after using - using the ginger scraps for other uses - resting a ginger bug to take a break from soda making and then waking it up again I hope these help if you are keen to give this a go.
I really loved this video - you are so clear and concise and anytime I had a thought you answered it in the next sentence. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us - I want to do this and will put out a video when I do to show you how it turned out. Your content is sooo good!! THANK YOU! I cannot wait to make our own batch! 💚
That is such lovely feedback and we would be so SUPER excited to see how you guys go with the fermented sodas 😁😁😁 Any chance you saw the raspberry soda vid? Could you imagine substituting the raspberries for your island forraged berries!!!!?!
Im new to this but I am fermenting with a balloon on top (as i understand a lid is not necessary for fermentation) then putting a cap on for carbonation.
For fermented sodas you really need something solid as it is the pressure buildup from the CO2 that creates the carbonation in the liquid. But yes, I have seen other types of ferments where people have used a balloon.
@freeleeTheBananaGirl I hope it helps. The fermented sodas are fantastic and you can really play around with flavours once you have the key steps under your belt 😀
Some people put sugar and ginger every day without water , I did like this and my ginger bug became white cooud jelly 😊😊😊and after one week I put some water.. Good not bad.
That's for sharing your method Sanja 😀 One thing I have learned along the way is that there seems to be good results people get with differences in the method for ginger bugs. That jelly effect you mentioned is also something I have heard others experience, with water too. I suspect there is a particular bacteria that goes that way, but I would love to know if that is the case 😀
Especially when starting weekly is recommended. But our bug is very mature now and we aren't diligent to that anymore and it does well. But I do try to remember to feed at least every few weeks. The longest I went was 6 and it did restart of feeding.
I have had great success from your original series with the raspberry and other fruit based ones I have tried. However, for the life of me I can’t get any carbonation in the ginger beer or creaming soda. 🤷♀️ I’m thinking it has to do with the sugar levels in the fruit ones?? Any ideas?
I do find fruit ones (especially raw fruit which often adds yeasts from the skins too) often the most active. And mandarin juice... goodness knows why, but always super active. Ginger beer I do get really good ferments from. In fact my latest I will share on our Facebook tomorrow and just had to burp it at day 2, as the bottle was hissing a bit unnervingly. I wonder if there could be something with the ginger source you use. Some do get sprayed with inhibitors and in the same way they affect bugs could affect your beer. Creaming soda is a touchy one and we do find too much vanilla seems to slow the ferments. I'm thinking it is the alcohol in the extract. I'm actually going to try creaming soda with vanilla beans, to test if that is a bit more failproof.
@@Bush_Edge_Homesteading_Aus my bug was about 8 months old when I did it (it’s no longer active as I didn’t feed it) and my ginger was organic. I have done every type of frozen fruit from supermarket and fresh passion fruit. Will have to try again as I like the look of the lime one 👌
Passionfruit?!? Yum! That's a flavour we haven't tried yet and am now keen to. Thanks for the idea. I hope you do get good success if you try the lime. It is such a delicious, sherbet-like flavour.
We have seperate short bite videos on different steps, like making a bug, making specific sodas, resting bugs, etc... This one is a detailed end to end one, going through all the things we get asked more on.
You would probably find RU-vid Howto videos more your thing than following along with us Neil. We are a 'People and Blog' channel that share the things we get up to, chattering about it to help give others the confidence and inspiration to give things a go too.
