With the increased popularity in home fermentation, there is a slew of new gadgets available to assist in small-batch fermenting (for our purposes, “small-batch” means amounts a half-gallon or smaller).

We put six of them to the test, and compared them with the low tech “old school” method.

All the devices in this review are designed to fit a wide mouth mason jar.

Watch the four-part series to see how each fared and who came out on top!