Poll of the Day > Got into fermenting

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Turns out you can have basically unlimited free alcohol with a one time investment of a fermenting kit bought off Amazon for $27. Sure, you can make good and fancy stuff, but you can also make fermented water and add Kool-Aid flavoring.

I'm starting off fermenting watermelon/cranberry juice. At $10 for the (real) juice, it's not insanely cheap, but still more cost effective.

I've been making kimchi on and off for the past few months. It's been great.

I made a couple batches of wine and one of mead a few years ago. It's fun and I'd like to do more, but I don't really have a good place anymore to keep the batches while they ferment (the space that I could use is too poorly-insulated to maintain the right temperatures), so I haven't. The store that sells the kits does offer in-store fermentation, where they just get you to pitch the yeast and a couple other steps but otherwise handle the whole process for you (basically the bare minimum to keep up the pretense that they sold you a bulk food product and not alcohol, for licensing/tax purposes), so I might look into that. It is pricier, but at ~$5 a bottle, there's room for a bit of splurging.

adjl posted...

I made a couple batches of wine and one of mead a few years ago. It's fun and I'd like to do more, but I don't really have a good place anymore to keep the batches while they ferment (the space that I could use is too poorly-insulated to maintain the right temperatures), so I haven't. The store that sells the kits does offer in-store fermentation, where they just get you to pitch the yeast and a couple other steps but otherwise handle the whole process for you (basically the bare minimum to keep up the pretense that they sold you a bulk food product and not alcohol, for licensing/tax purposes), so I might look into that. It is pricier, but at ~$5 a bottle, there's room for a bit of splurging.

The only thing I'd be concerned with is fermenting batches without the air running. CO2 poisoning. Otherwise, I might just have 4 batches brewing at all times.

There's always more space in some cabinet.