WATER GRAINS GOOD? MICHELLE'S

[Guest guest]

Thank you to everyone that replied. Thanks for the info Lizzie, very

interesting. And yes we Americans often rely to heavily on refined sugar. I

switched water. I am on a community well was just afraid of the chemicals used

to treat. I started leaving the water out over night and it seems to be working.

I also started adding fruit juice. I am hoping to see some growth.

If there is no growth, does that mean that there is something wrong with the

grains? "

In the Russian and Jewish

communities here and others who do lots of fermenting, we don't have the need

for large amounts of tibicos, ie we don't push them on in sugar water, just for

the sake of it - largely because you don't need that much tibi culture to

ferment say 3 cups of apple juice - you only need about one level soupspoonful

to ferment that amount..

We have heard that Americans

frequently want 'to replicate soda' but as soft drinks are condemned out here as

being sugar laden or if artif. flavoured, still chemical cocktails - we don't

see much point in drinking them, or replicating them either!

I can't see the point in being growth

obsessed, re tibicos. We keep ours at room temp in organic sugar and rain water

(when not working at fermenting) and they do grow - but not hugely. However

we don't require them to grow hugely - we are more interested in the probio we

get out of them. We def. would not keep tibis in water that had been chemically

treated.

Can you say roughly how much tibi culture you

have? - it may well be that you have ample to culture juice for one family and

so can relax about how much they grow...

best, Lizzie in Oz