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Posts tagged “fermentation”

Brewing Beer at Home: Siphoning and 2nd Fermentation
Beer Sessions

A week after brewing our first batch of beer, it was time to transfer it from the primary fermentation bucket into a clean carboy. We've never actually siphoned anything before, so this was quite an...

Brewing Beer at Home: The Wort and First Fermentation
Beer Sessions

This past weekend, we got out all our shiny new beer brewing equipment and went to work. In this first phase, we boiled the wort, added the yeast, and got our very first batch of beer fermenting hap...

Homemade Sauerkraut: A Century-Old Family Tradition

I've escaped to the family farm for a bit this summer, just in time for making sauerkraut. It's an annual summertime tradition carried on by my parents as it was by my grandfather, great grandfather...

How To: Make DIY Sauerkraut

In today's shaky economic times combined with a movement to eat more sustainably, we're turning more to DIY food-related projects. From making our own bacon to building root cellars, we're learning h...

Food Science: What is Buttermilk?

In all our recent posts on buttermilk and what to do with it, we realized that there's one topic that we haven't covered. What, exactly, is buttermilk?!...