/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>16470450
Rye bread soda. It's pretty refreshing.

God I wish I could try kvass.

>>16470450
they're gonna use your credit card info to order "parts"

you should just cancel that card now

Ive always wanted to try this. I cant imagine how it tastes.

>>16470457
Where are you? Russian grocers aren't super rare but they're don't usually name themselves obviously.

>>16470457
>>16470467
>>16470474
It's also not very difficult to make yourself. Time intensive but not difficult. You will also get light amounts of alcohol which is how it is normally made.

>>16470474
I live in NZ. Kvass in unheard of.

>>16470457
>>16470474
Here in the Midwest they're usually called "European grocery stores" even though 90% of the products are from Russia or Georgia.

>>16470450
чики бpики

>>16470487
I'm in IN and for me it's called Mini-Mart.us. I like to buy kvass and pickles there.

>>16470450
Alcohol or No Alcohol ?

>>16470450
so seriously yeasty farts

>>16470450
Explain taste please

>>16470450
Just more brown diabetes water that tastes slightly different cause its not HFCS and probably less sweet.

>>16470649
you're right. you can kys now

>>16470655
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Some sweet brown crack water or your eye sight and limbs you choose fag.

>>16470450
I've had fresh kvass sold on the street while visiting Kazakhstan many years ago, and it was magnificent.
None of the kvass I've tried from Russian stores in the US is all that great, FYI. It's not even close to fresh kvass. Basically a different product. Including brand in OP, it's not great. If you want the real thing, you can make it yourself. Someday I'll be assed to do it.

>>16470450

>>16471100
There's Russian urban legend about someone looking inside one of those kvass tanks and finding a wriggling mass of worms on the bottom.

>>16470657
Does anyone actually drink soda anymore? Literally everyone I meet doesn't consume sugary drinks. I'm shocked that it's still on the shelves.

>>16470450
why does that soda have a grenade pin attached to it

>>16471141
>>16470657
>>16470655
>>16470649
You are all retards. Kvass is not a sugary drink, it's a fermented bread.

>>16471142
Carrying handle.

>>16470482
Homemade is way shittier than commercially made. Tastes way different. Honestly this is one of the rare cases when commercial btfos homemade.

>>16471100
>>16470450
This. All the kvass I've found in stores near me are like pic related. They're intensely sweet and nearly flat, and there's really no flavor but brown sugar and malt. If you like Malta soda you'll just think it's a shittier version.
You have to make your own, using any dark bread that should have some type of maltose to it. I've used good slightly sweet pumpernickel from bakeries, and I've used B&M canned brown bread mixed with regular dark rye. The trick is to toast it first until slightly burnt. Then add to a jar with fresh raisins, water, and optional sugar, and ferment like wine. Its generally ready in a few days when the raisins turned back into grapes and its bubbly and aromatic. Go as far as you want, but if it gets sour it's getting too old and you want to drink it right away or use it for okroshka soup in the summer.

>>16470450
the bottle stuff is always way too sweet compared to the real thing. just make your own at home. it's piss easy. or go to some ex soviet country and by some on the streets

>>16471151
Are you referring to bottled stuff sold in stores?
I have yet to try store bought kvass that tastes anything like fresh kvass sold on the street.
>commercial btfos homemade
I don't feel like the bar is very high to beat with store bought stuff so this doesn't sound right.

>>16471109
that's what makes it so good

>>16471151
Commercial is way too sweet. And it lacks the strong doughy, yeasty flavor of homemade.

>>16470450
An extreme urge to have it as a chaser with vodka.

>>16471149
>fermented
hmmmm I wonder what all that starch ferments into... Perhaps you might know retard?

>>16473953
Starch breaks down into sugar, which further breaks down into alcohol and carbon dioxide. I wouldn't really say good homemade kvass has much of a sugary taste to it, but sometimes the storebought stuff tastes like they dumped a couple teaspoons of sugar in after the fact.

>>16470484
I live in Christchurch and I can get kvass, where are you hiding?

>>16474048
Not him, but I've lived in Napier most of my life and I've never once seen a bottle of kvass.

>>16474057
Fair, it's pretty niche here too, the same people who make that supermarket kombucha trialed kvass as well but I wasn't as popular so the only place they sell it now is the organic store at the riverside market. I always pick up a bottle or two every time I go into town

>>16470450
It's genuinely not good. Bitter and sour liquidified rye bread. It's a nice novelty to try and it would certainly be different if it's a product you've been having your whole life. But I'd much rather just have a glass of water.

>>16474278
This isn't real kvass. It's some shitty commercial soda ripoff. And yes, I've tried that particular one.

>>16474278
It's literally ginger ale made with rye.
Half of the bottled brands do suck dick though.

>>16474315
*99% of the bottled brands do suck dick though.

>>16471141
i dont know many people who drink soft drink on its own but come friday and saturday every cunt will goes 3+ bottles of kirks creaming soda mixing it with their spirits

>>16470484
>>16474048
>>16474057
>>16474243
cram a piece of rye bread into a bottle of l&p and slide it under your bed for a month then bring it out and chug it down, wa-la

>>16474784
>Creaming soda

>>16471141
Much like how alcoholics make up 90% of all booze sales, some people exclusively drink soda. They're usually very fat though and unemployed due to said obesity so you're unlikely to meet them unless you're a grocery store clerk

Soda has it's uses though, for mixer so I'd not get rid of it completely

>>16474840
>cram a piece of rye bread into a bottle of l&p
Tell me where you are so I can come over there and make you eat your own jandals.

>>16470450
Do you mean "what does it taste like"? You bought it already, all you need to do in order to find that out is to drink some and stop asking stupid questions online

Cross between beer & coke. Awesome but hard to find good stuff.

>>16470450
take a sip and then pour the rest in the sink

>>16470450
Beer, but good.

>>16471362
The worm mass provides agitation which keeps the yeast in suspension, leading to longer fermentation and a dryer kvass.

>>16475269
i beleb u