Strawberry Shrub Recipe- A perfect #realfood summer drink! (2024)

Do you know what the heck a shrub is? I sure didn’t, but once I tasted it, I was IN! It’s the healthiest, tastiest drink mixer ever! Good for kid or adult beverages, if you get my drift!

Last year at one of the barter’s I held, someone showed up with these tiny bottles labeled with awesome flavors like lemon pineapple and strawberry vanilla! The samples were divine and after we finished with our bottle I promptly forgot all about a shrub! But when I had ALL the strawberries sitting in the kitchen I remembered and got to figuring out how to make it!

So what is a shrub? Well it is kind of like a syrup but vinegar based. Sweet like fruit but tart from apple cider vinegar. It’s very unique and satisfies those sweet cravings but don’t leave a sticky over sugared aftertaste.

It only have 3 simple ingredients and takes pretty much NO time.

I have a few recipes using shrub to share later, but to start off we really enjoy it with bubbly water over ice. You don’t need much!

Worried about all that white sugar? This is how it was explained to me!

When a shrub ages, it is like an ecosystem. The ambient yeast (yeast on the fruit itself and yeast from the air) turns the sugar into alcohol, and the acetobacter (the bacteria in unpasteurized vinegar) turns the alcohol into more vinegar. Eventually this will stabilize and not turn the whole shrub into fruit vinegar since the bacteria-induced pH change will stall out the yeast’s fermentation process (and thus the bacteria’s acetic acid-producing pathway). – Source

I sincerely hope you enjoy this strawberry shrub recipe, it’s pure, fruity, summer in a glass.

Cheers,

Heather

P.S. Looking for other fun real food drinks? Try my probiotic pina colada!

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