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Fermentation Atlas

United Kingdom

61 ferments from United Kingdom, with how each is made.

61 entries listed here.

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FermentKindMain stepTemperatureSaltpH
Ale (top-fermented barley beer)Alcoholic drinks14 days20 °C5.5
Anchovy essenceSauces and condiments40 days – 12 months16–28 °C18–33 %
Bonchester Cheese PDOCheese6–12 days11 °C
Buxton Blue PDOCheese28 days – 2.3 months8–14 °C0.3 %
CaerphillyCheese10 days – 6 months10–12 °C1 %
Cider (apple)Alcoholic drinks30 days – 6 months3–12 °C3.3–4
Dovedale Cheese PDOCheese21–28 days8–14 °C2–4 %5–6
DunlopCheese6–18 months5.2–5.4
Ginger beer (brewed, ginger-beer plant or ginger bug)Alcoholic drinks4 days
Herman (Hermann) friendship cake starterCereals and bread4 days
Ice wine (Eiswein, icewine)Alcoholic drinksat least 30 days15–17 °C4
Lancashire (Beacon Fell PDO)Cheeseat least 21 days16 °C2.5 %
Perry (poiré)Alcoholic drinksat least 12 months5–15 °C
Pomace-water drinks (piquette, lora, ciderkin)Alcoholic drinks24 h – 14 days4–5
Staffordshire CheeseCheese14 days – 12 months7–10 °C2.5 %
StiltonCheese42 days – 2.8 months6
Swaledale (Swaledale Ewes' Cheese PDO)Cheese21–28 days5 °C
West Country Farmhouse Cheddar PDOCheeseat least 9 months10 °C5.3–5.4
Worcestershire sauceSauces and condiments12 months – 2 years2.3–3.8 %3–3.9
CheshireCheese3–10 months16–18 °C
Derby / Sage DerbyCheese30 days – 4 months16 °C
Double GloucesterCheeseat least 6 months1.6 %
Exmoor Blue Cheese (Exmoor Jersey Blue)Cheese21–42 days
Gorwydd CaerphillyCheese2–4 months1 %
Baron BigodCheeseup to 56 days
Beenleigh BlueCheese
Bees wine (beer bees, Californian bees)Alcoholic drinks7 days
BerkswellCheese3–5 months
Bog butterFermented milk3.5–4.5
CabocCheeseup to 6 months
Clabber / bonny clabberFermented milk24 h – 2 days
Cornish BlueCheese2.8–3.2 months
Cornish YargCheese
CrowdieCheese14 days
Dorset Blue Vinny PGICheese
Gaulish and Iberian beer-froth leavenCereals and bread
Ginger wine (English)Alcoholic drinks14 days
Innes LogCheese
Isle of Mull CheddarCheese9 months
Lanark BlueCheese3 months
Lincolnshire PoacherCheese18 months
Llymru (North Welsh sour oatmeal flummery)Cereals and bread
Montgomery's / Keen's / Westcombe CheddarCheese
Mushroom ketchup (early modern English)Sauces and condiments3–9 days
Mycoprotein (Quorn)Other
Non-grape fruit wines (cherry, sour-cherry, elderberry, mulberry, pomegranate, plum, pineapple)Alcoholic drinksup to 27 days22–24 °C
Orkney Scottish Island CheddarCheese6–18 months
Perl LasCheese
Plum jerkumAlcoholic drinksat least 6 months
Red LeicesterCheese
Sgait ghoirtFish and seafood
Shropshire BlueCheese
Single Gloucester PDOCheese
Sour oat jellies (Scottish sowans and Russian oat kissel)Cereals and bread24 h – 7 days
Sparkenhoe Red LeicesterCheese
SticheltonCheese14 days13 °C
Stinking BishopCheese
Sýra and blanda (Icelandic fermented whey and whey drink)Fermented milkat least 12 months
Tätmjölk (butterwort-started ropy milk)Fermented milk24 h – 2 days
TunworthCheese
Yorkshire Wensleydale PGICheese

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