It’s Aliiiive! Fermented foods and beverage ideas, inspiration, and how-to tutorials and recipes to make your own ferments!
Dried elderberry wine is a fantastic beginner-friendly wine recipe to brew at home. It’s well-suited to small-batch brewing, or can be easily scaled up to larger batches. The ingredients are simple and easy to acquire, and the wine can be made in…
This naturally lactofermented carrot-cabbage slaw isn’t your typical kraut. It’s flavored with spicy fresh ginger, and has a pleasant tang and bright flavor that isn’t overwhelming. You can serve this after a few days, while it’s very crunchy with just a hint…
Have you ever wanted to make your own homemade yogurt, but assumed it was complicated or that you’d need a lot of special equipment? Do you want to make sure your yogurt is full of active, living probiotics? Or, maybe you never…
This homebrewed hawthorn wine finishes sweet and rosy hued, with the delicate spiced apple-like scent of hawthorn fruit. It’s sweet without being overly cloying, and lovely as a dessert wine, in a spritzer, or as a tonic cordial. Botanically, hawthorn “berries”, or…
This caraway-apple sauerkraut recipe, like all recipes, is really just a ratio. It will work with different ratios of cabbage to apple, but this one gives a nice flavor without being too sweet. A good guideline is three to four parts…
Living Probiotic Foods from your Kitchen… It’s easier than you think! Sauerkraut is a traditional staple food for a reason. It’s a delicious way to naturally preserve fresh vegetables and even fruits into and through the winter months, and is more digestible…