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Sleepy Tonic Recipe By Tanita De Ruijt Patricia Niven -
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Dandelion Beer Recipe
Use the dandelions from your backyard to brew a beer that will give you a healthy boost. -
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How to Make Mead
How sweet it is! Mead, also known as honey wine, is one of the simplest wines you can make. It only takes three ingredients — honey, water and yeast! Making mead requires patience — you should let it mellow for a year or more before drinking. But the chance to enjoy your own homemade wine makes it well worth the wait. -
![Reclaiming the Kitchen: The Art of Cooking]()
Reclaiming the Kitchen: The Art of Cooking
In this excerpt from her newest book, Barbara Kingsolver discusses how her family came to connect with food culture and the art of cooking. A day of cheese making proved to be just what the doctor ordered.
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Basic Jun Tea Recipe By Andrea Potter -
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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. -
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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. -
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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]()
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. -
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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]()
Kveik: A Saccharomyces Superstar
This once-obscure Norwegian yeast is taking the brewing world by storm. -
![History, Untapped: The Story of Hillbilly Gold]()
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]()
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]()
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. -
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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]()
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. -
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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. -
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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]()
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.
