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Fermented Cassava Dough Recipe By Fran Osseo-Asare & Barbara BaËTa -
Rustic Sourdough Bread Recipe
Use this recipe to bake your own rustic sourdough bread using a sourdough “leaven” or sourdough starter and you’ll have your own sourdough boule. -
Mead Through the Seasons: Fall
Brew this Cyser mead to help celebrate this year’s harvest. Perfect for beginners, this fun twist on cider is best enjoyed during the fall, but can be drank throughout the year -
Long Live Lemon Balm: Lemon-Berry Chardonnay Cordial
Lemon balm was traditionally consumed in wine cups and cordials for its medicinal benefits.
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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.

