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Hi all,

If this post accumulates interest I was thinking of making a post once a week with instructions on a ferment that we can all do together.

Starting out week one, a nice and simple ferment with ingredients you most likely have in the fridge; Fermented carrots. It sounds bland, but fermented foods have a taste that can not be replicated by mass production.

Materials

1. Knife
2. Scales
3. Jar

Ingredients

1. Carrots
2. Water (either filtered or boiled and allowed to cool. This is done to remove the chlorine in the water that would otherwise inhibit the microbes on the carrots from thriving)
3. Salt (preferably pure rock / sea salt, without iodine or anticaking agent)
4. Garlic (or peppercorns, juniper berries, mustard seeds, anything you like the look of. If cautious, submerge spice in boiling water for 1 minute to kill any microbes on the spice)

Method

1. Wash your hands, knife, cutting surface, and jar.
2. Rinse your carrots.
3. Slice the carrots length ways,

Resources for brewing beer

howtobrew.com is my favorite instructional and what I used to start brewing. Can't recommend it enough. On the privacy side; no trackers, also no https.