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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
Anchovy essenceSauces and condiments12 months
Birch sap wineAlcoholic drinks24 h – 3 days
Bog butterFermented milk0 min – 200 years0 %
Bonchester Cheese PDOCheese6–12 days11 °C
Buxton Blue PDOCheese28 days – 2.3 months8–14 °C0.3 %
CaerphillyCheese10 days – 6 months10–12 °C1 %
CheshireCheese3–10 months16–18 °C
Cider (apple)Alcoholic drinksat least 42 days3.3–4
Derby / Sage DerbyCheese30 days – 4 months16 °C
Dorset Blue Vinny PGICheese2.8–4.6 months
Double GloucesterCheeseat least 6 months16 °C
Dovedale Cheese PDOCheese2–4 %5–6
DunlopCheese6–18 months5.2–5.4
Exmoor Blue Cheese (Exmoor Jersey Blue)Cheese21–42 days
Ginger beer (brewed, ginger-beer plant or ginger bug)Alcoholic drinks4 days2.9
Gorwydd CaerphillyCheese42 days – 2 months
Greek strained yoghurt (strangisto)Fermented milk6–10 h42–46 °C
Ice wine (Eiswein, icewine)Alcoholic drinksat least 30 days15–17 °C4
Lancashire (Beacon Fell PDO)Cheeseat least 21 days16 °C2.5 %
Montgomery's Cheddar and the Artisan Somerset Cheddar PresidiumCheese11 months – 2 years
Mushroom ketchup (18th-century English)Sauces and condiments1 min – 12 h
Mycoprotein (Quorn)Other28–42 days
Non-grape fruit wines (cherry, sour-cherry, elderberry, mulberry, pomegranate, plum, pineapple)Alcoholic drinks2–12 months3.4–3.6
Orkney Scottish Island CheddarCheese6–18 months8–10 °C1.6–2.1 %5.1–5.4
Perry (poiré)Alcoholic drinksat least 12 months5–15 °C
Pomace-water drinks (piquette, lora, ciderkin)Alcoholic drinks24 h – 14 days3.3–6
Red LeicesterCheese2–12 months16 °C2 %
Single Gloucester PDOCheese2 months
Staffordshire CheeseCheese14 days – 12 months7–10 °C2.5 %
StiltonCheese42 days – 2.8 months6
Stinky eggs (aged salmon roe)Fish and seafood10 min
Swaledale (Swaledale Ewes' Cheese PDO)Cheese21–28 days5 °C
Teviotdale Cheese PGICheese15 days
West Country Farmhouse Cheddar PDOCheeseat least 9 months
Worcestershire sauceSauces and condiments12 months – 2 years2.3–3.8 %3–3.9
Yorkshire Wensleydale PGICheese14 days – 12 monthsup to 2.2 %4.4–5.4
Baron BigodCheeseup to 56 days
Beenleigh BlueCheese
Bees wine (beer bees, Californian bees)Alcoholic drinks7 days
BerkswellCheese3–5 months
CabocCheeseup to 6 months
Clabber / bonny clabberFermented milk
Cornish BlueCheese2.8–3.2 months
Cornish YargCheeseup to 35 days
CrowdieCheese
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 bread3–4 days
Perl LasCheese
Plum jerkumAlcoholic drinksat least 6 months
Shropshire BlueCheese
Sour oat jellies (Scottish sowans and Russian oat kissel)Cereals and bread24 h – 7 days
Sparkenhoe Red LeicesterCheese6–14 months11 °C
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 milk
TunworthCheese42 days

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