Plymouth Pickle and Fermentation Festival

05/25/2026

The festival workshops have been scheduled and include:

(1) Coffee Cupping (1030 am -noon)
(2) Cheese 101 (1230-2 pm)
(3) Fermented Pickles (230-4 pm)

Registration information for these workshops can be found in the Events section of this FB page and on the IndieFerm website at www.independentfermentations.com/events

05/05/2026

It's right around the corner!

05/03/2026

Interested in making your own Kombucha? We'll have the supplies for sale at the festival!

Learn how to make kombucha at home with this simple step-by-step recipe. Tips for beginners, fermentation basics, and flavor ideas included.

04/13/2026

Thanks to Paula Marcoux for teaching the educational and entertaining sourdough workshop yesterday. Great fun and delicious, fresh-baked sourdough bread. We hope everyone has success with the sourdough starter and baking sourdough bread!

Next up in our fermentation lineup is a Fermented Pickle Workshop. Flora and Rose will explain what a lacto-ferment is and show you how to make fermented cucumber pickles. See the events page for details on how to sign up for the workshop. All ingredients will be provided and you will take home a jar of pickles.

03/18/2026

More fun with fermentation coming your way! We are excited to host a goat cheese making workshop on Saturday, Apr 4th from 1-2:30 pm at our brewery (127 Camelot Drive in Plymouth). Cheesemonger Jen Tolliver will be teaching the workshop and Elaine from Duxbury Creamery will be providing the goat's milk and will have cheese available for purchase. Additional details are included in the flyer. Hope to see you at the workshop!

02/28/2026

Continuing on with our Fermented Food Series, we are holding a hands-on kimchi making class on Saturday, Mar 7th starting at 1 pm. This is a popular class and there are only a few seats left. Details are provided in the post photo.

02/18/2026

There are still a few seats left in our Thursday wine & cider class, our Saturday kombucha class and the Mead class on Sunday. Email us at [email protected] if you want to take any of the classes.

Add some gut-healthy spice to your life! We just posted the popular kimchi-making class on Eventbrite. It is scheduled for Saturday, March 7th from 1-3 pm. Here is the link

Learn how to make your own gut healthy kimchi!

02/11/2026

This cold, snowy winter is dragging along way too slow. But, fear not!, we have the 3rd Annual Plymouth Pickle & Fermentation Festival to look forward to - on June 13th, 2026!!

Yes, it is PPFF planning time again so check this page for updates.

We don't have enough time at the Festival to fit in all the fermentation classes so we are planning several in advance. We had a Homebrew 101 class, focusing on beer brewing, at the end of January (apologies for not posting it on this page). The next class is a WINE & CIDER making class on Thursday Feb 19th starting at 6 pm. The cost is $40; email [email protected] to sign up.

We also have a KOMBUCHA brewing class on Saturday Feb 21st starting at 1 pm and a MEAD making class on Sunday Feb 22nd starting at 4 pm.

And there's more!

Check out www.independentfermentations.com/events for more information on all of the upcoming classes and events.

10/03/2025

It isn't the Pickle and Fermentation Fest, but you might want to stop by IndieFerm Brewing tomorrow afternoon for Oktoberfest to support the Plymouth Schools Music Programs. Pretentious Pickles will be there and we will be having kraut mobs (i.e. make your own sauerkraut from scratch) throughout the day.

09/06/2025

Who's going to the Somerville Fermentation Festival tomorrow (Sunday)? We are!!

And it is going to be great. Join us and lots of other great fermenters if you can. It is at the Somerville Armory which is a great venue for events. All the details are at: https://www.somervillefermfest.com/

We will have our kombucha, hot sauces, other ferments and our beer will be available at the bar. Yes, there is a bar!!

Sunday, September 7, 2025. Explore the world of fermentation with food vendors, speakers, community activities, and more.

07/01/2025

The homebrew shop will be closed Friday for the holiday so stock up Thursday. Also, it appears that the Warped Pours Festival has been cancelled. Bummer. We will have to come up with some kind of replacement for that before the summer is over, stay tuned.

Also:
Join us at the Marion Farmer's Market this afternoon (Tuesday) for beer, kombucha, and other ferments (like hot sauce and fire 'booch) from 2 to 6 PM. It is a great market with lots of vendors at a nice spot in Washburn Park. While you are in the area stop by Kate's Simple Eats ( https://www.facebook.com/katessimpleeats ) in downtown Marion for lunch (they also have our kombucha!!).

The taproom will open this afternoon at 4 PM featuring the return of Wedding Vows While Standing in a Shallow Grave New England IPA (feel free to shorten it to "Shallow Grave" when ordering or you might be there all evening, it's kind of a long name. The inspiration came from here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObinLPssZ4Y (skip ahead about 2 minutes if you are short on time or attention span).

Looking ahead to the holiday weekend, the taproom will open early at noon on Friday to help you kick off the July 4th celebrations. And we will be serving free hot dogs all day while they last. The homebrew shop will be closed on Friday.

On Saturday, the weather forecast so far is looking good so the Shady Roosters will be playing live in the beer garden from 5 to 8 PM. And, Meadow Street Grill be be doing the cooking for you starting at 3 PM.

On Sunday, we will be at the Kingston Farmers Market starting at 10am kombucha and more.
https://www.facebook.com/farmersmarketkingston/

Local farmers market held in Kingston, MA
May-October 1st Sunday of the month
10-2 at Gray's Beach