Is Kefir similar to Kombucha in taste?

I agree that Kombucha is DISGUSTING.
I have tasted some amazingly disgusting things in my life... but I can NOT trick myself into even tolerating Kombucha.

Kefir on the other hand... is slightly sour tasting. Store bought is very sugary too. So you get used to it pretty quick/easy. At home Kefir... which I hope to start making this weekend... is probably going to be a lot more sour and harder to get used to.

But dear god... nothing is like Kombucha. Icky.

*wipes sweat off brow* I'm glad I'm not the only who feels this way! It's also good to know that it's supposed to taste nasty as maybe I can down the drink in a couple of gulps, lol. I need some sort of probiotics as pills are a no go for me.

I haven't tried store bought Kefir but, I may have to just to know what it might taste like. I was also looking into getting the Kefir grains to make my own batch but I would have to wait till it gets a bit warmer, as the house is too cold for it.

dybeye, that doesn't sound too bad! Does it resemble sour .. raw milk? I'm not sure if it's raw milk that my family drunk in the past but it's almost like a yogurt milk, haha. (I'm Polish)

Aha! Then that isn't too bad in my book. When I was younger, I used to dislike that taste but not so much now. :)

The Kefir I make and have bought is milder than yogurt and much milder than the skim milk scd type yogurt I make.

I started kefir then switched over to it 2 weeks ago. Boy did I get gas and rumbling from that. It has finally stopped. I was ready to switch back. Mutaflor and VSL both caused a little gas for a few days but I was starting to think I was flaring. Kefir is much better on cereal. I do not find kefir that easy to make. You have to play around a lot with the amount of milk to grains and length of time. It does get sour if the curds separate and it is not allowed to vent. The plain Trader Joes brand is very similar how mine tastes when I get it right. Viili(Finnish) yogurt is really mild and half way between dannon and kefir in consistancy with the added feature of stringing like snot. I am trying that next.

kombucha and kefir taste completely different. to me, kombucha tastes like hard apple cider but that's before i flavor it with different fruits.

kefir tastes like sour milk.

I have been successful in getting a thick yogurt with skim milk. Kefir not so much. Seems to need fat and milk protein or it is pretty watery. Never had water kefir but I would think the yeast would predominate and don't see how anything could get thick without protein. The recipes for water kefir are very similar to bathtub booze. Homemade beer might be just as good for you and taste better.

a friend of mine was witness to his young son telling his mom that the soup she served for dinner one night, tasted like "monkey piss" !

maybe she used kombucha as the base

My homemade Kombucha tastes delicious to me but then again I find liver very tasty as well. Just about every bottle I make ends up with a small baby at the top and the stuff you noted at the bottom. To me it smells somewhat of yeast and tastes somewhat like apple cider vinegar.

When I was making kefir it was very tasty to me but I no longer have access to raw milk so I no longer make it. That stuff was heavenly. Thick. Delicious. Yum. To me it had a taste similar to homemade yogurt but different.

Lol embers, I think I would have to agree with you.

Tap, prior to going vegetarian/vegan, I used to love liver and all sorts of organ meats. But store bought Kombucha is just.. YUCK! Maybe homemade is better than the processed versions.. hm hm..

notsosicklygirl and others who drink it, if you haven't said that you make your own, what brand do you buy? i need to find a new one. i really want to enjoy the drink because of the hype of it. it might or might not be real so it's worth a shot for probiotics.