by Annoyeddragon on Wed May 30, 2018 7:12 am
I used carton apple juice in the small bottle because I had no luck with my self made rhubarb batch (allotment grown, no pesticides). It was surprising how vigorously it carbonated in such a short while, which had me hopeful. So I made some lemonade with the second go, which thus far has also failed to carbonate :/
So I tested a carton juice again, this time pineapple straight out the fridge, and it was bubbling before the days end.
I'm really not sure what I'm doing wrong with the self made batches for them not to work, the carton juice proves the ginger bug is working. I'm using non-chlorinated bottled water, the same stuff works just fine to top up the ginger bug and made brine to ferment cucumber slices without problem. It can't be the sugar, the ginger bug is doing fine on it.
I'm going to let my ginger bug recover a few days then try again using a water filter. If it's not the water, then I'm not sure what's going on.