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Thought you may be interested....I am getting kefir grains in few days, and have received a recipe using 1 cup of honey to 1 gallon of water, kefir grains, a few weeks, and then voila honey mead! Has anyone tried this? I am going to try the basic recipe first, and then experiment with adding herbs...possibly ginger to start. The kefir grains are supposed to spead up the fermenting process. I will let you know how it turns out, and if you have tried this, I would love to hear any suggestions.
~Blessed Be
~Blessed Be
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Re: mead fermented with kefir grains
Sun, November 8, 2009 - 6:30 AMKefir grains are for fermenting milk.
If you are to ferment something else with them, you must wean them from milk and onto the new substance.
So, do it gradually, say start with 100% milk for the first batch then cut it 90%/10% with the new substance for each small batch until the Kefir is doing good with the new substance. (80-20, 70-30,etc.)
Unless your Kefir grains are already weaned. They may be, but you must be sure or you will kill them. -
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Re: mead fermented with kefir grains
Mon, November 9, 2009 - 7:30 AMWater kefir grains would work just fine to ferment mead. I wouldn't bother to put the grains in the mead, I would make the water kefir and then add the finished kefir to the mead mix so the second fermentation of the kefir would do the work.
Here is the info on water kefir. I bought my grains off ebay.
users.chariot.net.au/~dna/ke...ivekefir
This is a link to a pdf for making water kefir beer, it might be useful in making mead.
www.traditionaltx.us/KefirBeer.pdf
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Re: mead fermented with kefir grains
Mon, November 9, 2009 - 10:23 AMhmm..interesting. thanks for all the information..but i am a little confused, because the woman I received my kefir grains from had made mead a couple of times with her grains....but I do believe she waited to have enough "biomass" so that she still had enough grains for her kefir, and the extras for the meadmaking, in which case, if the grains died after making the mead there wouldn't be much loss. I am going to wait till my kefir grains grow enough that I have plenty in case they don't make it. thanks for the tips on dillution, I'll give it a try. Has anyone actually made mead with kefir grains? -
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Re: mead fermented with kefir grains
Mon, November 9, 2009 - 11:03 AMYou could also strain some of the whey from your kefir and add that as a started. I just did that with fruit and it fermented really quickly. the whey is a carrier for the bacteria and yeast and that is what you need. This way you would not have to sacrifice your cutlure. Although I have made soda with the cutlure and then put it back in milk with no problem. Sometimes it is colored so looks funny, but it works just fine.
Blessings
Linda
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