Culture Club: Monthly Fermentation Meetup in Leeds
Join Our Monthly Culture Club Fermentation Meetup
Every last Saturday of the month, fermentation enthusiasts across Leeds and West Yorkshire gather at Functional Drinks Club for Culture Club – a community celebration of all things fermented.
What is Culture Club?
Culture Club is a free monthly meetup where home brewers, fermentation hobbyists, and kombucha lovers come together to share their creations, swap cultures, and connect with like-minded people passionate about gut health and traditional fermentation.
Whether you're brewing kombucha in your kitchen, culturing kefir, fermenting vegetables, or experimenting with wild fermentation, Culture Club is your space to learn, taste, and trade.
What to Expect at Culture Club
Share & Swap: Bring your homemade kombucha, kefir, SCOBYs, kefir grains, or fermented foods to share with the community.
Taste & Discover: Sample unique ferments from fellow brewers and discover new flavour combinations.
Learn & Connect: Exchange tips, troubleshoot brewing challenges, and build friendships with local fermentation fans.
Blind Kombucha Tasting Competition: Submit your brew and compete for the top spot.
Blind Kombucha Tasting Competition
Each Culture Club features a blind kombucha tasting competition where brewers submit their homemade kombucha to be judged by the community. We'll taste each entry blind, and the winning brewer takes home a prize pack of 10 bottles of the best kombucha from around the UK.
When & Where
When: Last Saturday of every month, 12pm - 4pm
Where: Functional Drinks Club, Otley, Leeds
Cost: It's Free, just bring your booch and ferments to share
What to Bring
Bring any fermented creations you'd like to share – kombucha, water kefir, milk kefir, jun, tepache, kimchi, sauerkraut, or anything else you've been culturing. If you have spare SCOBYs or kefir grains, bring those too for swapping.
New to fermentation? Come along anyway! Culture Club welcomes beginners and experts alike. You'll leave inspired and possibly with a SCOBY or culture to start your own fermentation journey.
Join the Fermentation Community
Culture Club is more than an event, it's a growing community of people reclaiming traditional food skills, supporting gut health, and celebrating the magic of microbial transformation. Whether you're in Leeds, Otley, or anywhere in West Yorkshire, you're welcome at our table.
Mark your calendar for the last Saturday of the month and join us for Culture Club. We can't wait to taste what you've been brewing.
