Tag: fermentation

Making Apple Cider At Home – Easy Recipe

If you’re only a beginner in the homebrewing community it can be very confusing in choosing your first recipe. That is why this is the perfect place to start. When compared to beer, ciders are very beginner-friendly and simple to make. Not to mention that they taste delicious.

How To Make Ginger Beer

Ginger beer is a naturally fermented beverage with only 3 ingredients, ginger, water, and sugar. The fermentation occurs from the bacteria and yeast found in ginger. Lactobacillus is found on all types of food as is the same bacteria that gave us the ability to make tepache. While most supermarket ginger beers are nonalcoholic, the version we are making today has a tiny bit of alcohol. Just under 1%.

Making A Sourdough Starter

Yeast is a single cell organism that exists all around us. They feed on carbohydrates and as they do so they release CO2. Because of that, yeast is used to leaven bread and convers carbs to alcohol. In baking, yeast is used as an leavening agent where it converts the fermentable sugars from the grains in the dough into CO2. This causes the dough to expand or rise as gas forms pockets of bubbles.

How To Make Sauerkraut At Home?

Fermentation can take from 3-to 10 days and there is no specific amount of time. As if ferments are good to keep it from direct sunlight at a cool room temperature. You can start tasting it after 3 days and when it starts tasting good it would be ready. If you see white bubbles or white foam building at the top it means the fermentation is successful.

Processed Foods – A Necessary Evil?

Take a minute and think about all that you have eaten in a day. To make it more real take a piece of paper and just write it down. All that have touched your lips in 24 hours, including what you had to drink. And be honest. Nobody else will see it but you. Now…

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Tips On Starting With Fermentation

Whether you are going to make your first batch of kombucha or your first jar of sauerkraut there are things you should consider when starting fermentation. We have collected and analyzed the basic tips which will help you on your way to great tasting fermented products.

What Is Fermentation?

Maybe this is your first time trying to create a jar of saurkraute. Or do you just feel extra creative to try that new sourdough recipe? What do your favorite beer, kombucha and yogurt have in common? They are all products of fermentation. Fermentation has been practiced for centuries to preserve food and extend its shelf life. But also to create the best wines, beers and ciders that we all love.

How To Make Yogurt – Easy Recipe

The basis for any type of yogurt is of course milk. You can use cow milk, goat milk, any milk you want at this point. If you use raw milk you will need to cook it. Since raw milk has never been cooked this way you are killing all the potentially harmful bacteria that can make you sick. Please don’t skip these steps because consuming raw milk can be harmful, especially for children. You want to make sure you bring it to a boil.

How To Make Kombucha-Basic Recipe

Kombucha is acidic in nature. While your regular tap water would have a PH of 7, Kombucha is in a range of PH 3.5 to 2.5. The longer you leave it to ferment it will taste more acidic. The usual time for the first fermentation is from 6-9 days but that is completely up to the brewer. It will also depend on the amount sugar added and the temperature of the area in which the kombucha is fermenting.