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WE🥤 This is how a ginger bug makes natural soda in any flavour you like.
Through wild fermentation, using just raw ginger, sugar, and water, you can create your own probiotic soda at home.
On the skin of ginger live wild yeasts and lactic acid bacteria.
Feed them sugar, and the magic begins:
✨ Yeasts turn sugar into carbon dioxide and a little ethanol
✨ Lactic acid bacteria create lactic acid for tang and preservation
Seal it in a bottle to trap the carbon dioxide and you’ve got real, naturally carbonated soda.
My favourite flavours:
1. just ginger
2. black currants to make cassis (from my garden)
3. red currants (from my garden)
4. cranberry
5. green tea
How start a ginger bug?
A ginger bug is like a sourdough starter. You need to feed it to keep it alive.
Ginger bug starter 🍹✨
Ingredients:
350 ml clean water
1 tbsp unpeeled fresh ginger, chopped (important: must be organic!)
1 tbsp cane sugar
Method:
1️⃣ Chop the unpeeled ginger into small pieces (don’t peel, because the skin has wild yeasts!).
2️⃣ Add the water, ginger, and sugar to a clean glass jar. Stir vigorously to dissolve the sugar and introduce oxygen.
3️⃣ Cover loosely with a cloth or lid and keep at room temperature.
4️⃣ Every 24 hours, feed with 1 tbsp chopped ginger and 1 tbsp sugar. Stir well.
5️⃣ Repeat daily until you see bubbles, a slightly yeasty smell, and fizz when stirred — usually after 3–5 days.
✨ Once active, store in the fridge and feed once a week.
I shared my full recipe for making fruit based soda in a new video!
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