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Fermented Elixirs

  • Eden Hall Campus, Lodge Kitchen 6035 Ridge Road Gibsonia, PA, 15044 United States (map)

Bubbly drinks should be celebrated! Learn about the vast realm of starter cultures and wild approaches to create carbonated drinks that soothe your soul, heal your gut, and make your heart smile. This class will cover kombucha, water kefir, wild soda, and ginger beer and include samples of a wide range of these. Participants will walk away with starter cultures and beverages to ferment at home.

Bundle this ticket with the Wild Fermented Country Wine & Mead class to save!

Fee: $65

NOTE: If you'd like to pay for this event with cash or check, please e-mail craft@chatham.edu or call 412-365-1118

10% discount for all Chatham University alumni!


Instructor: Trevor Ring


Trevor Ring is a Fermentation Enthusiast, Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, and dual degree MBA and Food Studies candidate at Chatham University. Over the past seven years he has sold his own fermented products under the business Tringo Cultures, created a Fermentation CSA, and worked for numerous fermentation-based businesses. Learning directly from the well-known fermentation revivalist, Sandor Katz (author of Wild Fermentation and The Art of Fermentation), Trevor naturally fell into teaching numerous fermentation workshops over the past four years. In 2018 he became the President of the Fermentation Club at Chatham University and started teaching workshops at Phipps Conservatory.


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