[Foodhacking_at_camp] Kvass beverage

[Frantisek Apfelbeck]

** Hi Alexander,
** I've quite nice headache and your email made me smile quite a bit, thanks! 
(specially the PS about Americans and health ...)  Answers in the post.



----- Original Message ----
From: Alexander Chemeris <alexander.chemeris at gmail.com>
To: foodhacking_at_camp at lists.hackerspaces.org
Sent: Tue, August 2, 2011 9:28:35 AM
Subject: [Foodhacking_at_camp] Kvass beverage

Hi all,

I can do a small workshop/demonstration about traditional Russian
beverage "kvass":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvass

** Great I'm working on kvass just recently in Ireland. I had different 
commercial variants it few times and it's really nice drink.

I can show how to do self-made kvass from black bread and kvass from
wort (you can buy it in Russia specifically for kvass).

**That would be cool. I've tried to make it once from white bread and brown 
bread but I used fresh loaf + baker yeast + water (t=+-30C) and it did not work 
out. Two weeks ago I've tried to use the pre-prepared wort for kvass which I've 
bought in "eastern European shop" with granos tibicos culture 


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibicos 

at t=+-25C and the result was very nice. I harvested after four days and did 
secondary carbonation at room t and moved it to cold later on (I do not have 
proper cooling space so carbonation is an issue sometimes).

Though to make this happen I need some help from local people, as I
can't bring everything needed from Russia. Specifically, to make good
kvass we need a warm place for 24h (25-30 centigrades) for
fermentation phase and a refrigerator (~5-10 centigrades) for
carbonation stage. 

** We will build up an experimental incubator 

https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Experimental_incubator

with guts from bioboard (if I get it from Biobridge)

https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/BioBoard

This project is really important to me and I believe to the spread of life 
culture foods and beverages in general. So we should have this baby ready for 
the kvass.

Sieve will be also needed. Is possible to get
access to such places/equipment at the Camp? And is it interesting for
the FooHacking village?

** We will do brewing of probiotic beverages on daily bases so all necessary 
equipment will be present.

http://events.ccc.de/camp/2011/wiki/Probiotic_beverages

If you like to add the kvass project here please do so

http://events.ccc.de/camp/2011/wiki/Non_alcoholic_beverages

if you prefer to make it just smaller as a one workshop you can post it here

http://events.ccc.de/camp/2011/wiki/List_of_Workshops

or you can of course post it in both as you like. What day/s time/s you would 
like to have? I would not recommend the Thursday 11th because that is the open 
party day so we will be crazy. Maybe 10th of August could be better so we can 
taste the results? I'd like to hold the workshops from 16:00-19:00 every day 
except Thursday 11th. I did not posted all dates yet having it open to 
discussion (I do not want to take all the slots, well actually I want but anyway 
...). We may have enough capacity to host two workshops in the same time but I'd 
not rely on that yet but I'll try to have this multiple option.

PS Commercially sold kvass often has taste similar to Cola, but it is
much more healthy. This makes me wonder why it is not popular in, say,
US where people tend to worry a lot about their health.

** In US the majority of people doesn't really give a dam about anything, health 
included. At least that is my experience. Mind me, the SF bay area is amazing, 
the organic movement, sustainability etc. is really developed.

-- 
Regards,
Alexander Chemeris.
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