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Community Cultures offers fermentation education through in-person and virtual workshops, as well as larger international events.

Community Cultures provides Fermentation Education opportunities throughout the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania region. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, workshops are also now offered virtually. The goal is to make fermentation education accessible to all through affordable workshops.

05/08/2026

We were able to sneak out our popular Relax, Mom soda early this year, in time for Mother's Day! With aged, rose-infused honey (with 2025 rose from ) and cardamom, it's a soothing and pleasantly refreshing flavor for those moms..and anyone adjacent to a mom (...all humans, really). Plus, western PA forest soda is back, packed with mushroom medicine and forest flavors! We have a few bottles of paw paw and pine soda left--just ask for the reserved bottles before they slip out. The fermented veg and condimens live on, bringing you the preserved flavors of fall and winter. See yinz at Bloomfield, rain or shine!

05/02/2026

pull your sweater back out. we have fermenty things.
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03/03/2026

TOMORROW, Wednesday March 4th, we're wrapping up a busy 2 weeks of workshop with a virtual one on water kefir, touching on everything from soda to condiments! We'll be away for most of March so this will be the last offering until April. Stay bubbly...

02/26/2026

CALL FOR ARTISTS!
seeking a community member who can illustrate a background for new product labels!

think: whimsical, Western PA-inspired, funky, vibrant, and fun. a chaotic web of interconnectivity.

email jess at communitycultures dot com with some previous work!

02/24/2026

This new batch of hard cider is ACTIVE, just like ICE is in Pittsburgh right now. Ferment with your community, create resiliency, and take care of yourself and your neighbors. We can learn so much from collaborative ferments and SCOBYs, and turn these microscopic ecosystems into a reality in our society. I'm always thinking of what we can learn through fermentation, applying microbial lessons to other aspects of life. Happy brewing...ferment the revolution!

02/23/2026

Dearest garlic mustard,
popping up so early,
what lessons shall thoust teach us?
i guess
perhaps
i shall remove & ferment you sooner than last year...

02/19/2026

The Miso workshop is back at Two Frays, diving into all things umami, aged and fermented! Taste your way into Japanese cuisine, learning about koji (the backbone of so many important Japanese food products) and the tasty fermented bean paste it helps create. Each ticket includes 1 beer on draft from Two Frays! Sign up link in bio

02/18/2026

new virtual workshop tonight! sign up link in bio

02/17/2026

This past weekend was the second month of our Winter Fermentation Immersion Program. It's exciting to see microbes come to life within a group of interested folks, witnessing them evolve along with the ferments. In January we focused on fermented vegetables and lactic acid bacteria, and this week we pivoted to fermented beverages and condiments, touching on wild soda, vinegar, kombucha, tibicos, hard cider, cultured nut cheeses, kanji and veggie kvass. One student even brought in a microscope so we could zoom into the invisible world of microbes in wild soda and water kefir. The program is half way done, but there's so much more to cover! Next month we enter the world of mold and fermented beans, focusing on koji, miso, tempe(h) and beyond. It's also wonderful to come out of this weekend and launch right into Kojicon to learn more to bring to the next weekend of the program. Stay tuned for more updates!

02/13/2026

new virtual series, 1 workshop a week over the next 3 weeks! (join for whichever speaks to you, whole series registration is not required). embrace the creative possibilities within fermentation and culinary adventures! this is for beginner and intermediate fermenters, and pairs well with the album Butterfly 3000 by King Gizzard!
I'm often looking for ways to play more within fermentation, and sometimes when i'm focused on teaching and selling products I can lose that playfulness. with this series I hope to be motivated to play around more in the kitchen, and encourage others to do so within new and old fermentation practices. dust off those cobwebs! what's inspiring you these days? send me a photo of a ferment you had fun with lately, or tag me and share it with the world!

sign up link in bio

02/09/2026

the kombucha mother has so many uses! fermented tea, clothing, candy, fruit leather AND hats and masks for halloween costumes (or themed parties?). this wednesday we're popping over to our friends at to share all things kombucha and wild soda. sip on a tasty beverage from the bar and leave with a kombucha mother, a jar of soda to ferment at home, and plenty of ideas to creatively ferment and transform ingredients in your kitchen.

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Pittsburgh, PA
15218

Website

http://www.communitycultures.com/

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