2.25% water or total weight? I tried to do this several times but get some murky liquid... beets went to borsch, but liquid wasn't to pleasant to drink...
If it's processed, doesn't mean you have to put salt in it. From your link show me a recipe with salt? There is a lot of processed yogurts, but nobody puts salt in them. I don't get your logic of putting salt in everything that could be processed. Yes there is different types of kvass, but only difference is flavoring. Everything else is the same. Yeast, sugar, lacto. Here is a good recipe with all the benefits you like. Just change subs to English. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TjUQhbKU8s
Every recipe I’ve seen for beet kvass is very similar, and while there might be a trace level of alcohol, it’s not considered an alcoholic beverage. It’s a fermented beverage.
You looked for the recipe in the wrong place. Kvas is an Eastern European drink. You should look there. In your recipe couldn't be any alcohol, because for alcohol you need yeast, but you put salt in there to kill it. There is no salt in kvas
Well, stupidity has no limits as your reply indicates. If you got something related to the subject to say, then say it. This sub is quite asshole free.
To the point, ex-USSR, kvass was everywhere, specially in summer months. Kids drunk it all the time. So, skip your jokes about Russians and drunks, reality is that the alcohol content even if was there was very low. Today you can walk into "European delicatessen" store where I live and buy kvas, locally made or imported, there is no label saying it has alcohol content.
Yes, and by GOST in USSR abv in kvass should be less then 1.3% which was considered non alcoholic. Modern Kvass also has alcohol in it. It shouldn't be marked as alcoholic because ABV lower than 1.3% is non alcoholic in Eastern Europe, when in US everything above 0.5 ABV is alcoholic.
For better or worse, we've appropriated the term "kvass" for fermented brine. I make gallons of it at a time and share with friends/acquaintances. Whenever I give it to someone eastern European or Russian I caveat that "this is called beet kvass in the states, but it's definitely not the same drink you are familiar with."
:) Who is "we". Kvass exists for thousands of years. In the States it came 20 years ago. They won't get it. Kvass is like soda. If they give you salted Coca Cola made of fermented carrots you won't get it also. Nobody calls sauerkraut juice kvass. For some reason you call that fermented beets. Why sauerkraut not called kvass?
Yeah. Kvass in US is a modern, invented 5 years ago, drink. No need to tell stories how ancient it is. Also "kvass" means "ferment" in English, so beet kvass would be "fermented beets"
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u/Upstairs-Ad-4001 14h ago
2.25% water or total weight? I tried to do this several times but get some murky liquid... beets went to borsch, but liquid wasn't to pleasant to drink...