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Sweet Potato Fry Nests Recipe By Amanda Feifer Courtney Apple -
You Can Make Yogurt at Home
I love the tangy flavor of yogurt. I think it's delicious both sweetened and plain and use it all the time as a substitute for sour cream. I would have guessed yogurt was hard to make, but I was surprised: there's really not much to it. If you read the recipes, making yogurt sounds complicated, but in fact, all you have to do is combine milk with a starter culture and keep it warm. -
How to Make Herbal Wine: Basic Worty Wine
With easy-to-find equipment, simple ingredients, and the patience to wait a while, you can make your own herbal wine that tastes like summer. -
Puerto Rican Pique Recipe
Find a place for this Puerto Rican staple in your hot sauce repertoire using gentleman peppers or any small red chiles.
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Basic Jun Tea Recipe By Andrea Potter -
Pineapple Tepache Guidelines and Troubleshooting
Check out this guide for the tempting pineapple tepache drink, including troubleshooting tips and signs that it’s ready to drink. -
Simple Peach Vinegar Recipe
Homemade vinegar is one of the simplest ferments you can attempt. Better yet, this basic recipe can be adapted to fit your favorite fruit. -
Distillation for Beginners
Use this step-by-step guide to learn how you convert fermented wash into a high-proof spirit through a process known as distillation.
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Beer
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Try Top DuClaw Beer Concoctions
Learn how Jereme Zimmerman, a traditional brewing revivalist, rates some of DuClaw Brewing Company’s most popular and inspired creations. -
Beer, Wine and Cocktail Pairings
Be inspired by the Fermentation staff’s picks for sweet, savory, salty, and spicy combinations of our favorite ferments. -
Kveik: A Saccharomyces Superstar
This once-obscure Norwegian yeast is taking the brewing world by storm. -
History, Untapped: The Story of Hillbilly Gold
Two women team up to research and re-create a pilsner originally brewed by Baltimore’s historic George Bauernschmidt’s Brewing Company.
Non Alcoholic
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Basic Jun Tea Recipe
Light, lovely, and effervescent, high-maintenance Jun is worth every extra effort to ferment properly and enjoy endlessly. -
Simple Peach Vinegar Recipe
Homemade vinegar is one of the simplest ferments you can attempt. Better yet, this basic recipe can be adapted to fit your favorite fruit. -
The Transformative Art of Fermentation
Read about Kansas City-based artist S.E. Nash as he explores the wide world of microbes in his interactive, thought-provoking exhibitions. -
Ginger Beer Recipe
Learn how to turn your ginger bug starter into a fizzy ginger beer, perfect for making cocktails or drinking by itself.
Wine
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Hybrid Vines: A History of Wine Snobbery
Learn how crossbred grape varieties survived the wrath of rigid French vineyards to alter wine production across America. -
Ancient Orange Wines
Discover the Caucasus region’s ancient roots of winemaking, the aromatic white grapes grown there, and the fermentation process that gives orange wine it's distinct hue. -
Your First Foray into Wine Fermentation
If you want to be a vintner but find yourself without a vineyard, processing plant, or wine cellar, say hello to a beginner’s best friend: the small-scale wine kit. -
Voices of the Earth: TerraVox Wine and Green Dirt Farm Cheese
These Midwestern artisans incorporate a love of the land into their products, and give voice to unique flavors that reflect America’s heartland.

