Make Your Own Water Kefir

Make Your Own Water Kefir

 You may be thinking "what on earth is water kefir?" Well, to put it simply, it's a fermented drink that is crazy good for you. 

A list of health benefits of drinking water kefir (courtesy of this homemaker.)

1. Strongest natural remedy against any allergy
2. Strongest natural antibiotic without side effects
3. Treats liver disease
4. Treats gallbladder, dissolves gall bladder stones
5. Clears the body of salts, heavy metals, radionuclides, and alcoholic products
6. Cleans the body of chemical antibiotics
7. Treats kidney stones
8. Good bacteria in kefir are able to fight off pathogenic microorganisms
9. Lowers level of LDL cholesterol
10. Cleans the gastrointestinal tract
11. Irritable Bowel Syndrome
12. Treats gastritis
13. Treats pancreatitis
14. Treats ulcers
15. Prevents and treats colon cancer
16. Improves digestion
17. Improves the body functions
18. Improves the human immune system
19. Cures Candida
20. Cures hypertension
21. Stops growth of cancer cells
22. Speeds up healing process
23. Treats psoriasis
24. Treats eczema
25. Treats inflammatory diseases
26. Reduces size of tumors
27. Treats heart disease
28. Reverses calcination of blood vessels
29. Clears the blood vessels
30. Boosts the bodies energy
31. Natural “feel good” food
32. Treats lung infections
33. Normalizes metabolism thereby can be used as for weight loss
34. Cures acne
35. Has anti-oxidants and anti-aging properties
36. Nourishes hair
37. Treats the gum disease parodontosis
38. Lessens effects of medicines
39. Replenishes body of good bacteria after antibiotic
40. Balances the microflora of the body’s digestive system
41. Regulates blood pressure
42. Lowers blood sugar
43. Lowers blood lipid levels or cholesterol and fatty acids
44. Treats diarrhea
45. Treats constipation
46. Promotes bowel movement
47. Anti-stress properties
48. Treats sleeping disorders
49. Treats depression
50. Treats attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
51. Improves the brains neuro functions like reflexes, memory retention, attention, the five senses
52. Reduces flatulence
53. Lactic acid fermentation enhances the digestibility of milk based foods. People who cannot otherwise digest milk, can enjoy the vital calcium rich Kefir.
54. Treats yeast infection
55. Eliminates vaginal odors
56. Cures wrinkles
57. Treats arthritis
58. Treats colitis
59. Treats gout
60. Cures migranes
61. Treats rheumatism
62. Treats other stomach disorders
63. Detoxifies the body
64. Improves protein quality of milk, and enhances absorption and digestion
65. Good bacteria manufacture B vitamins such as B3, B6 and folic acid.
66. Aids in treating tuberculosis
67. Treats stomach cramps
68. Treats chronic intestine infections
69. Treats liver infections
70. Treats asthma
71. Treats bronchitis
72. Treats sclerosis
73. Treats anemia
74. Treats hepatitis
75. Healing effects on catarrh, digestive nodes, astral nodes, bilious complaints
76. Treats leaky gut syndrome
77. Prevents metastasis
78. Cures bad morning breath

 Do you want some yet?????

You do? Well good! Let's make some crazy-good-for-you water kefir!

First off, grab a gallon glass jug, and add in your kefir grains (I think we have almost a cup of grains). Next fill your jug up with a gallon of water (not from your sink, use well water or filtered water). Pour in a cup of organic cane sugar, and half a cup of raisins, or molasses, either one will work. Cover the jug with a cheese cloth or some such thing, and leave overnight. The next morning, replace the cloth with a lid. Let your kefir sit for another 24 hrs or so. Most people brew their kefir water for 48 hrs, but we brew ours for 60 hrs. We find it to be less sweet and more fizzy and bubbly. Yum!

Here is what the kefir grains look like.

We use filtered water to make ours.

Here we have our water, and kefir grains.

Add in your cup of organic cane sugar.

A note on the sugar: I try and avoid any type of sugar (even if it be organic cane sugar), as my body does not tolerate it well. But when you add your sugar to the kefir water, the grains eat up the sugar and produces gases (that's where the fizz and bubbles come from). When you put your lid on the jug, it contains all that gas and it ferments. Therefore, when you drink the kefir water, the sugars from the sugar, raisins (or molasses) have been eaten up, and you're just consuming the bi product with all the wonderful health benefits.

I ran out of raisins, so I used molasses.

Put your cheese cloth on, let it sit overnight, replace the cloth the next day with a lid, let ferment for another 24 hrs, or if your like us, for 60 hrs. What ever suits your fancy and your taste buds.

Once it's ready, strain off your raisins, or if you're using molasses you can just pour off the water kefir into another jug, being careful to contain your grains, then repeat steps and enjoy your water kefir and all of it's crazy-good-for-ya health benefits!

Do you drink water kefir?

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Blessings - 

~ Aspen