Audit hold: The former home fermentation procedure and its variations are withdrawn pending a complete process review. Do not prepare, taste, serve or consume a batch using those directions. This page supplies no operative ingredient amounts, fermentation steps, serving dose, bottling schedule or active Recipe output for the held procedure.
What the Review Found
The old half-gallon vessel could not contain its water plus juice, sweetener and starter with headspace; lemon count was treated as a fixed juice yield. Sugar and honey were treated as identical fermentation feeds, and unknown whey was optional without a distinct wild-culture procedure. Starting lemon acidity did not establish the diluted batch’s acidity or eliminate all harmful organisms.
The former ginger, mint, basil/pepper and berry additions, sealed second ferment, tea/cocktail mixer suggestions and overlapping weekly batches all inherited an unresolved base. Taste and white foam were incorrectly used as readiness or harmlessness assurances. No complete credible source method located in this review settled both the whey and spontaneous branches with their actual formulation. General vegetable or SCOBY guidance cannot be pasted onto diluted lemonade. The two-week sealed storage and carbonating-bottle guidance remain unresolved; no actionable version is supplied.
What Must Be Resolved
A complete source-specific process must settle ingredient and starter identity, actual vessel capacity and yield, time/temperature controls, contamination and acidity endpoints, alcohol expectations, pressure handling and final storage before this local recipe can be restored. Flavor, visible bubbles, a normal smell or a calendar alone cannot clear an unresolved ferment. Cold storage slows microbial activity; it is not a universal stop switch.
Review Boundary
This hold concerns the former TFA instructions. It does not withdraw the culinary tradition or require clinical testing of ordinary food flavor variations. The sources below are evidence for the comparison and unresolved controls, not substitute directions to combine with the old recipe. No probiotic, digestive, mineral, immune or treatment benefit is established for this batch. No kitchen, acidity, alcohol, pressure, microbial, clinical or shelf-life testing was performed.
