$16.95
No. 05 Beet
Raw sauerkraut · 16 oz glass jar
Cabbage and beet fermented together until the whole jar turns deep magenta. The color is the beet — nothing is dyed.
$16.95 Never heated
Packed cold. Ships Monday & Tuesday.
Free shipping on any 4 jars.
Broken jar on arrival? Send a photo — we replace it.
What it tastes like
Earthy and sweet up front, sour on the finish. Softer and rounder than the classic.
How to eat it. On grain bowls, avocado toast and hummus. With oily fish or on rye with butter. It makes any plate look like someone cooked on purpose. It also stains — go easy on white shirts.
Ingredients
Ingredients: Cabbage, beet, sea salt.
That is the whole list. No vinegar, no sugar, no starter culture, no preservatives — the bacteria already on the cabbage do the work, and salt keeps everything else out.
Live cultures: present and active. We do not pasteurize, so nothing in the jar has been heated.
Net weight: 16 oz (454 g) in a glass jar.
How it ships
We ship Monday and Tuesday only. Nothing sits in a warehouse over a weekend. Orders placed later in the week go out the following Monday.
Packed cold, not frozen. Every box goes out in an insulated liner with a cold pack. No dry ice, no styrofoam — fermented food does not need either.
Your box may arrive warm. That is normal. Cold packs melt. Boxes sit on porches. None of that harms a live ferment: the salt and the acidity are what keep it safe, not the temperature. A jar can spend days out of the fridge and be perfectly fine. Put it in the fridge when it arrives and carry on.
Transit is 2 to 5 days across the continental US. We do not ship to Alaska, Hawaii or outside the United States.
If a jar arrives broken, send us a photo within 48 hours and we replace it. No need to send anything back.
Storage
Keep it in the fridge. Always, from the moment it arrives. This is live food, not a shelf-stable pickle.
Unopened: about 6 months. Opened: about a month, and it stays good as long as the cabbage sits under the brine. Push it back down with a clean fork if it rises.
It is still fermenting. That is the point. The jar may hiss when you open it, the brine may look cloudy, and the lid may push up a little. All three mean it is alive and working.
It may leak. Open it over the sink the first time, especially if the box travelled somewhere warm.
The flavour keeps changing. A jar you open in month four is sourer than the same jar in week one. Neither is wrong — pick the one you like and buy accordingly.
Beet is sauerkraut made the slow way — still alive in the jar.
Never heated
No pasteurization. The cultures that made it sour are still in the jar.
No vinegar
The sourness comes from fermentation, not from anything poured in.
Cabbage, salt, beet
That is the whole list. Nothing added to hold it steady.
Small batch, in glass
Fermented slowly, packed cold and kept cold all the way to your fridge.
What is in the jar.
Fermented in its own brine for weeks, then packed cold. Nothing is added after — every flavor goes in at the start.
Cabbage + sea salt
Shredded fine, packed tight, kept under its own brine.
Beet
Fermented with the cabbage from day one, not stirred in after.
It keeps changing in your fridge.
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Day 1 Bright & crunchy
- Opens with a hiss — live cabbage makes CO₂
- Clean, fresh sourness with the beet up front
- At its crunchiest
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Month 1 Rounder
- Still fermenting slowly in the cold
- The sourness deepens and softens at the edges
- Keep it pushed under the brine
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Month 3 Deep & tangy
- Noticeably more sour than week one
- Brine may look cloudy — that is normal
- Great cooked into dishes, added off the heat
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Month 6 Last forkful
- About six months unopened in the fridge
- Opened: about a month
- Pick the stage you like and buy accordingly
How to eat it:
A forkful with a meal, most days. Add it at the end, off the heat — heat kills the cultures. On grain bowls, avocado toast and hummus. With oily fish or on rye with butter. It makes any plate look like someone cooked on purpose. It also stains — go easy on white shirts.
How Beet compares:
WellFerment
Typical canned sauerkraut
Typical vinegar slaw
Live cultures in the jar
Never heated
Sour from fermentation
not vinegar
Stays crunchy
No sugar or preservatives
Nothing to hide behind.
Most jars on a grocery shelf have been heated, dosed with vinegar or sweetened to taste like something afterwards. Ours is cabbage, salt, beet and time.
No vinegar
No sugar
No preservatives or starter cultures
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Beet plus any of our 14 flavors, in any mix. Four jars ship free, and the more jars you pick, the less each one costs.
4 jars · $14.95 6 · $13.95 9 · $12.95 12 · $11.95 a jar
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