The real journey begins... Notes and updates from the lab

This is the lab notebook for Island Alchemists, a small fermentation lab on Gozo.

Nothing here is for sale yet. For now the site is a place to show the work as it happens: what's growing, what went wrong, and what I learned from it. Every project has its own page with a batch log, so you can follow along from the first jar.

Three things are on the bench:

• Rice koji and amazake. Spores are being ordered for the first batch.
• Water kefir. Grains built up and resting in the fridge before the step up to bigger batches.
• Wild Gozo yeast. Still an idea, perhaps an expedition to find some wild growing prickly pears is warranted.

If there's something you'd like to see fermented, or a question about how any of this works, use the suggestion box at the bottom of the home page. The best suggestions will turn into experiments here.

New entries roughly every two weeks. But i can only take on a certain number of projects at a time. As well as avoiding cross contamination issues.