Milk Kefir Grains, Turkish Strain, Bulgaros, Pajaritos, Live Probiotic Starter.

This is the first time I've attempted to make my own Kefir! I received the Milk Kefir Turkish strain grains, a live probiotic starter, today, and I was happy with the nice way the grains were packaged. When I opened the small container with the grains, the aroma was delicious! I found the instructions very easy to follow, and hopefully I will be successful in this endeavour! I plan to do a follow-up review when I have delicious Kefir to drink and a good established culture. I'm updating this review to let you know that the grains arrived alive and already producing delicious Kefir! I'm sure that I'll have a good established culture for lots of home-made Kefir! Can't recommend highly enough!

This was either not enough grains, or these grains were no longer living because they did not produce kefir. I used to sell grains, so I know very well how to make kefir and keep it going. I lost my grains in a move, so I bought from this seller to start up again. I changed out the milk daily, but could not get these grains to work. My theory is that these are not freshly active grains being sold.

When my order arrived on Monday, the dry ice had melted and everything was hot. I wasn't hopeful, but quickly put what I hoped were living grains in cold, raw milk and waited. After 24hrs I stirred, put the coffee filter back on top, and waited. Day 2, because my house is warmer, I strained the milk and found even fewer grains than had arrived. Although I believed they wouldn't recover, I put them in a clean container with more raw milk and about 25% pasteurized goat milk. 24hrs later I stirred. Today, Friday, I found that the grains had survived, and now I've got about 1/4 cup of healthy grains !! I didn't taste the milk since it was almost all consumed so I divided the grains and put them in a mix of raw cow and pasteurized goat milks to ferment. I'm looking forward to drinking real kefir in the next few days. Thank you !

This is the worst milk kefir. Milk kefir should look like the picture. What I got wasn't anything near that. I followed the instructions included that showed how to get your kefir to come alive again. It didn't work. Included in the product was a number to text and an email address to contact them if you weren't happy with the product, no one ever responded to me. I have made milk kefir before, so I do know how the process works. This product is severely messed up!

Don't be disappointed that the grains-clumps are tinier and smaller than what you might see in the (macro, of course) product picture (at least for this initial stage), the Kefir is creamy and tastes great. (you can, obviously, adjust the time, for more or less acidity/sour flavor). You'll be pleased! I'll see it on the long run, but I'm happy at this point. Thank you!

I don't give it five stars because the amount and size of grains was very small and it took some time to grow them, but the end result was very good.

Making justice, this is a good kefir. Day 1, 24-May-2023 It arrived in a vacuum sealed package, whole and live! I was surprised! I received like a 1 teaspoon of whole kefir ready to go. It seems that they shipped it frozen, great choice for protecting it, because it does arrive alive and well. This one will start producing kefir in a couple of days, will update. My Kefir background, About three years doing my own kefir. When I started my own batch back on September 2020, the one I got online arrived barely alive, carelessly packaged, and I had to resurrect it. Took like 2 weeks the resurrecting. It lasted until May 4th, 2023 when its bottle broke during moving. Again, this Simply Life Kefir is good kefir.

I noticed from the beginning that the grains didn’t have a good consistency, unlike de other brand I used before. I did three primming batches as the directions on this product said. I got only three usable batches after that and each one left me with less and less grain. Today after my third batch I have no grain left. No refund so a waste of money.