Sidra natural
Dry, lightly sparkling cider from Asturias in northern Spain, pressed from cider apples, fermented without added sugar, matured through the winter and poured from a height.
Recipes
1504 records with their sources, across 11 categories.
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Fermented beverages47
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Tej (Ethiopian honey wine)
An Ethiopian honey wine made here as a controlled laboratory formulation with honey, water, a mixed bacterial-and-yeast starter, and gesho.
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Quimbombo (Umbundu maize beer)
Quimbombo is a maize beer made in an Umbundu tradition in Angola. The documented Huambo method stages malt saccharification, lactic souring, a second boil and yeast fermentation.
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Darasun
A Buryat milk spirit distilled from khurenge, the backslopped sour dairy ferment, in a cauldron still: a distillate that keeps milky and cheese-like aromas from the dairy it came from.
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Jun
Jun is a fermented tea drink made with green tea and honey instead of the sweetened tea of kombucha. Its culture identity and origin are not established, and sealed bottles can build pressure and alcohol.
Fermented lemonade from whole lemons
A lightly fizzy lemon drink made from peel-on lemons, water and sugar, held in a covered jar, bottled and kept going with small sugar and peel additions.
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Kyrgyz Bozo
Kyrgyz Bozo is a mixed-fermented cereal drink made with ground grits, sprouted-wheat ugut and carried-over starter. This registry preparation leaves cereal selection, water and starter allocation unresolved.
Tibetan chang
A 2005 Tibetan account describes cooked barley mixed with changdzi, fermented as moist grain, then steeped in water for an alcoholic drink. Grain and water amounts, starter dose and a verified safety endpoint are absent.
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Kodo ko jaanr (finger millet beer)
Finger millet fermented with marcha in surveyed Darjeeling and Sikkim communities. Tongba is the later warm-water extraction from the fermented grain. The cited accounts do not establish a complete or validated home batch.
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Burkina Faso dolo from sorghum malt
A Burkina Faso sorghum beer brewed from malted grain, soured by a spontaneous lactic stage and then fermented with a traditional yeast leaven.
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Chicha de jora with panela and pineapple peel
A contemporary Ecuadorian recipe simmers jora flour with spices, then adds panela and pineapple peel before a short spontaneous ferment. Its particular aromatics and measurements belong to this published adaptation.
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Meitei atingba rice beverage with Hamei starter
A Manipuri rice beverage: cooked rice is cooled to about 40°C, inoculated with Hamei starter cakes, fermented for a season-dependent spell, then held submerged before filtering.
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Water kefir with sugar water and raisins
Water kefir grains culture lightly sweetened water into a tart, faintly fizzy drink, with raisins added as an optional dried-fruit nutrient. Alcohol, acidity and fermentation rate vary batch to batch.
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Northern Nigerian pearl-millet kunu zaki
A thick, spiced northern Nigerian drink of pearl millet in which only part of the fermented slurry is cooked, so raw starch and gelatinised starch are recombined.
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Marcha
An ethnographic record of marcha (murcha), a dry starter cake used in Eastern Himalayan cereal fermentations. This page documents source-specific community knowledge and is not a recipe for making or storing starter.
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Mahewu from maize porridge and sprouted grain
A documentary account of Zimbabwean mahewu and one producer's formula. Its quantities exceed the stated vessels, and research does not validate it as a safe home method.
Ihwaju
Thick, sweet Korean rice wine made with a rice-based starter called ihwagok and almost no added water, fermented into a paste that is eaten with a spoon or thinned with cold water.
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Istanbul bulgur and rice boza
A thick, pale Turkish winter drink of bulgur and rice cooked to a soft cereal base, sweetened with grape molasses and fermented for two days.
Gueuze
Belgian beer blended from young and mature spontaneously fermented lambics, then refermented in the bottle to natural carbonation. The recipe follows a 2,600-litre blend studied in 2024.
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Southern Ethiopian cheka with wheat and sorghum
A 2025 study formula combines wheat dough and sorghum porridge with sorghum malt and gesho in staged fermentation. Konso and Dirashe fieldwork records distinct cereal-and-leaf Cheka variants; the study formula is not universal.
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Korean danyangju, single-stage nuruk makgeolli
An alcoholic Korean rice drink of steamed glutinous rice and nuruk, mashed in a single stage and fermented for 7 to 14 days.
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Zimbabwean chibuku from red sorghum malt
A cloudy Zimbabwean beer brewed from malted red sorghum, given a two-day lactic souring and then a longer alcoholic fermentation.
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Palm wine
Palm wine is fermented sap from several palm species. West and Central African traditions differ in palm, tapping, vessel and serving stage; this page records shared principles without claiming one universal home-scale process.
Judima
Judima is a Dimasa fermented rice drink from Assam. A 2022 Dhansiri account describes humao starter and rice fermentation, but sources disagree on the thembra bark species and do not provide a complete or validated home batch.
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Apong
Apong names Mising rice beverages in Assam, including pale Nogin and ash-associated Po:ro. Sources describe distinct preparations and do not establish one unified household recipe or validated safety endpoint.
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Korean nuruk rice wine: makgeolli or yakju
A Korean grain wine fermented from steamed rice, nuruk and yeast in two mash additions, drawn off clear as yakju or blended cloudy with rice solids and water as makgeolli.
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Light-yellow maize tella from Mekelle
A pale Ethiopian maize tella, brewed from maize baked into a kita pancake at a gentler heat and then fermented in three stages with barley malt, gesho and water.
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Brown maize tella from Mekelle
A darker Ethiopian maize tella, brewed from maize baked into a hot, dry kita pancake and then fermented in three stages with barley malt, gesho and water.
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South African sorghum-and-maize umqombothi
A South African opaque beer soured from sorghum malt and maize meal, cooked as a thick porridge, then fermented again after a second addition of malted sorghum.
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Angami Zutho rice beer with piazu
Angami rice beer from Nagaland. A surveyed method mixed cooked rice with piazu, fermented it for about four days in summer or a week in winter, then added water and filtered it. The starter ratio leaves the rice-weight basis unclear.
Musalais
Musalais is a fermented grape drink documented among Uyghur producers in A’wati, southern Xinjiang. A studied process combines grape juice and heated pomace extract before spontaneous fermentation.
Mbege
Chagga beer from the slopes of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, made by combining a fermented banana porridge with a sweet porridge of germinated finger millet and drunk fresh within a day or two.
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Zambian munkoyo from maize meal and munkoyo root
A creamy, mildly sour Zambian cereal drink in which the dug roots of wild legumes supply both the enzymes that break the cooked starch down and the microorganisms that then ferment it.
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Namibian oshikundu (ontaku) with sorghum malt
A Namibian everyday drink of pearl-millet flour scalded with hot water, thinned with sorghum malt and bran and soured quickly by a spoonful of the previous batch.
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Maroua cochette from cooked rice and malt
An alcoholic rice beer from Maroua, Cameroon, brewed from boiled rice flour with some malt and started with chai or bili-bili.
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Malawian thobwa with corn and sorghum flour
A thick, sweet-sour Malawian drink of boiled maize flour into which sorghum flour is stirred before an overnight spontaneous fermentation.
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Dahyangheukmi yakju
A clear Korean rice wine made with aromatic Dahyangheukmi pigmented rice, matching rice-flour nuruk and takju yeast.
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Morogoro maize-and-sorghum togwa
A Tanzanian cereal drink of cooked maize and sorghum flour thinned by sorghum-malt enzymes, soured by lactic acid bacteria and often started with a little of the previous batch.
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Luhya busaa with roasted maize and finger-millet malt
An opaque Kenyan maize beer: fermented maize paste is roasted into tsimbale, then mixed with finger-millet malt called kimera at ten to one and fermented a second time.
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Pineapple-skin tepache with piloncillo and chile
An Oregon State food-science lab formula ferments pineapple skin and piloncillo with jalapeño and warm spices for three to five days, then strains and refrigerates it. The handout reports wide alcohol variability.
Merissa
Sudanese opaque sorghum beer made from soured, toasted, cooked and malted grain through three linked fermentations, drunk fresh while still fermenting.
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Tigray Mies honey wine with gesho
An Ethiopian honey wine of the Tigray highlands, fermented with the leaves and stems of gesho, which supply both bitterness and the microorganisms that carry the ferment.
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Umqombothi
South Africa's opaque sorghum beer, soured by lactic acid bacteria before its mash is cooked and fresh malt stirred in, leaving a cloudy, creamy, cereal-thick drink that keeps only a day or two.
Awamori
An Okinawan rice spirit made by turning all the rice into black koji, fermenting it with water and yeast, then pot-distilling and maturing the spirit.
Honkaku shochu
Japanese pot-distilled spirit made by fermenting sweet potatoes, rice or barley with koji and yeast in two stages, then distilling the mash once so the ingredients' aroma survives.
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Zambian chibwantu from maize grits and munkoyo root
A Zambian cereal drink built on coarse maize grits rather than meal, saccharified with an extract of wild munkoyo roots and then left to ferment spontaneously.
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Maroua bitter bili-bili from malted sorghum
An alcoholic, opaque and bitter sorghum beer from Maroua, northern Cameroon, made from malted sorghum and fermented with a chai starter.
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Addis Ababa wheat borde
A thick, faintly fizzy Ethiopian cereal drink in which a wheat dough is fermented, roasted dark, then fermented a second time with barley malt into a drinkable slurry.
Yonaguni awamori
A Yonaguni rice spirit made with two-day koji, a nineteen-day moromi stage and direct-fire pot distillation, followed by filtration and tank maturation.