Recent content by kiki374

I agree. It will work just fine but might take a little longer to produce a scoby. I just started brewing kombucha recently and had the advantage of a friend to explain the process and give me a scoby but brewing without came up in our conversation and she confirmed it’s success.

Thankyou for sharing. I have started a batch of rice wine since reading your posts and easily found the rice and yeast balls st a local chinese grocery. My wine has been fermenting for two weeks now and has lots of liquid. I was wondering if a new batch could be started with a few tablespoons...

For the older style heating pads with no timer check the Salvation Army or garage sales, good luck thick yogourt can be obtained with the 'right' culture, Jersey milk is the best, we have our own cow...

That's called pressed yogourt and my kids can't get enough of it!!!

It happens sometimes with cheese making and it's called phage. They recommend changing cultures periodically and, of course, keeping equipment scrupulously clean. Maybe you could try changing your usual yeast and only using boiled water. Hope this helps.

I agree with lizimamabear about the microwave and the whole milk. Microwaves kill your food. Good fat in whole milk. I just use a cooler lined with a blanket to ripen my yogourt and leave it overnight. The temperature varies very little. We add homemade jam from either cranberries or...

I make yogourt from whole Jersey cow milk and follow a slightly different method. I heat the milk to pasteurize it then cool it down to 52 C and then add yogourt culture AND 1 tablespoon of (1/4 cup previously boiled water cooled with 3 drops rennet). My yogourt always turns out thick and...

I make cheese about once a week from my Jersey cow and was also looking for something to do with all the whey. Since we can only eat so much cheese and ricotta ourselves, I decided to look up making a fermented brew. This is my recipe: I ripened my whey overnight with the help of 1/2 cup of...

I just did a Google search for whey beer...