Fermented drinks

If you won't EAT your probiotics, surely you'll DRINK them! Here are 50+ probiotic and lacto-fermented drinks beyond Kombucha and kefir, including ginger soda, pineapple kanji, mead, and more. It's easy to boost your gut health when ferments taste this good!

The tradition of mead or honey wine goes back millennia in Nordic countries, and it’s no surprise that countless variations have developed over the years. Sima is a quick fermented lemon soda, that’s technically a mead at heart. It’s only fermented ever so slightly, just enough to make it a bubbly effervescent lemonade suitable for heavy drinking on a hot spring day, or sharing with young ones.

Fruit kvass with berries, lime, and mint is a gluten free version of a Russian fermented drink. This fermented fruit recipe makes a refreshing, bubbly drink

Tepache is a wonderful, effervescent, lightly fermented pineapple beverage popular in Mexico. It is made from the skins and core of pineapple; you can enjoy the fresh pineapple flesh and also make use of the parts typically discarded in order to enjoy it over a longer period of time.

Learn how to make smreka, a fermented beverage from the Balkans and made with juniper berries. It's super easy to make, and it's great for your gut health!

Want to make homemade soda? We'll teach you how to make a ginger bug the easy way for fizzy natural sodas. Ginger beer (ale), root beer, fruit soda, & more!

Hibiscus kombucha has tart and floral flavor and a beautiful bright pink color. It boasts benefits from hibiscus tea, and healthy probiotics!This recipe makes about six 16oz bottles.

The simplicity of water kefir – fermented water! – explained. Plus an in-depth, step-by-step guide to making this nutritious, probiotic, gut health hero. This drink is a great non-dairy alternative to milk kefir. Fermentation is a simple yet mysterious process. As a natural phenomenon, it happens whether we are present or not. Any food, in … Continue reading

This naturally fermented lemonade soda is loaded with probiotics that give it its characteristic fizz and foam. A dryer soda, the lemonade is only slightly sweet, and notes of honey play well with lemon. Serve it over ice, garnished with fresh lemon slices.

This healthier homemade ginger beer is perfectly fizzy, has an excellent kick of ginger, and is packed with probiotics. It’s a ginger beer that’s naturally fermented. The fizziness and the probiotics come from a ginger bug. The ginger bug is made up of water, fresh ginger, and sugar. That’s the first thing that needs to be set up when making homemade ginger beer. Once the fermentation process is well underway and you’ve got it bubbling, you can make your own ginger beer whenever you like!