Apple Cider Vinegar Adventures: First Ferment Photo Bomb
If all goes right, tomorrow I'll dig the holes for my minature fermentation cellars. See, it's the hot time of the year and many ferments actually prefer lower temperatures for best results with things like texture in sauerkraut. In the meantime, I'm sharing all the photos I took of my finished apple cider vinegar. Enjoy!
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Apple Cider Vinegar Adventures:Starting my first ferment
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I am looking forward to how this turns out. I would love to try it myself sometime. For now I have to buy my apple cider vinegar. Take care and I hope things continue to go great for you both. You have encouraged us to consider a move down there.
What's holding you back on the vinegar? I feel silly for having put it off for so long myself. It's quick and easy to start then you literally forget about it!
Also, thanks for the love! Let us know if theres anything you want to know about or want us to cover, part of why we do this is to help make the move less scary!
Thanks, the bullshit up here is making me want to make a run for the border. The life you guys are building for yourselves is an inspiration. I lived in Hawaii for twelve years and this Oregon weather is just too cold and wet. Can anyone start a business down there without all the red tape? Do people feel like they can grow their own herb without harassment from authorities? Are people worried about staying past the six months allowed? I mean do they actively seek and round up" illegal aliens"?
I somewhat miss Oregon's weather, but I get being tired of the atmosphere in the states. That's one of the nicest things, reading crappy news from the states knowing I'm very far away. In Acapulco, there's not much rounding up of illegal aliens. I happen to be one, I run from the cops on a regular basis and I've honestly never had an issue. I'm not a target, other then they wanna get bribes because we're white. The thing with the recent, very public deportation from Mexico everyone's a buzz about is that he was engaging in very risky activity as an illegal, by using the buses from Mexico city to guadalajara. Its a known route to be hit. AS an illegal I will avoid the busses until I'm more legal just to avoid any issues. But like I said, I've never had an issue, never even been asked for a visa. When I ship stuff and they ask for an id, i tell them know and write down my name. And it works. When we buy phones, we tell them no to id and they deal haha.
As for business, anyone that has the gumption, money and knowhow to start a business can do so here very easily. I've seen it myself. Certain parts of the city do extort for you to be in business in terms of having a shop or something, but business is remarkably easy. I've got myself between so many businesses for this reason and when I tell mexicans what I do I get respect, because it's the mexican way. I actually told a canadian that married a woman from here what I do and he said "Oh, so you're a mexican"(i clearly don't look the part, I look irish as fuck) The point is you totally can if you're willing to do the work. It wont be easy as I've found but it will work out. So many little niches to fill here and it's the place you could come and open like any business and do well. Any exotic food places would do well, craft brewerys would, bakeries or cupcake bakeries, frozen yogurt places, ect. even popsicle stores.
And with cannabis it's in this weird state at the moment. It's been made legal for medical purposes but there are no laws on how that will look so no one's technically doing anything about it. There are private individuals using and growing it and they've got the right to do that now, but it's still technically illegal in a lot of ways. That's all changing really rapidly though. Your main concern isn't harrasment from authorities but possible theft, which is a HUGE concern for ANY grower anywhere.
If you're ready to just ignore the state and be an agorist, Mexico will be good to you. It's much better geared for that as we've found. We're getting into all of our dream businesses and all it's taking is the work...which isn't easy. I work literally constantly but I'm free, so fuck it :)
Thank you so much Lily for all the information and words of encouragement. That sounds like my kind of place. Freedom is a little dangerous and chaotic but it's the only way to find happiness.
Ive found the same. Things are a bit chaotic here but its honestly so refreshing it hurts sometimes...in a good way haha
Does it form a sort of scoby on top? I haven't made any apple cider vinegar only kombucha and keifer. I'm up to my eyeballs in the 2 gallon jar of the Braggs Apple Cider Vinegar my husband bought a while back. I'll have to give it a whirl when that's all used up!
It's a mother of vinegar. The thing people call a scoby is actually called a pellicle. It's a cellulose mat that the acetobacteria (that exist in both kombucha and apple cider vinegar) produce as a by product. It's actually not necessary to brew kombucha or vinegar. It does hold the liquid suspended in it but at the end of the day with both kombucha and apple cider vinegar the liquid is the gold, the mat is just a byproduct!
So it's literally the same thing! The difference between kombucha and acv is the yeast in the kombucha. So kombucha produces mats and the yeast in it produces the brown globs new brewers are often so freaked out by. haha
Nice! Thanks for the info!
What does that taste like? I always wanted to make one of those but just haven't got the time to get around it. It's pretty great to go with fruit salad I think.
It didn't have the best flavor, but it was better than the cheap stuff at the store. It'll go to the birds. I think the flavor was because we're in the hot time, that often affects the flavor of ferments.
Looks very nice. I'd like to try this sometime.
Its a lot easier than I expected, even this time of year!
looks good!! wish i could make my own , just love using ACV
That looks great! Tell us how it tasted after :)
Hey, nice idea
Awesome work...I'm sure it will work perfectly
Nice lily-da-vine. The Matrix loves it.
looks great, your making me thirsty!!