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Synopsis
Home brewing and wine-making is fun, easy and hugely satisfying. If you garden or forage,
can follow a recipe or make jam, and you enjoy a drink, this is the book for you.
Andy's no-nonsense, easy-to-follow guide will enable the beginner and inspire the expert
with over 100 recipes including beer made from hops and but also yarrow, mugwort, elder
and other foraged plants, great tasting wines from fruit, vegetables and the hedgerows,
cider and perry from apples and pears, cordials from the leaves of a range of trees, and teas and
fizzy drinks from herbs and wayside flowers.
- Discover the secret language of home brewing and drinks making.
- Make cheap, wholesome drinks, to your preferred taste and strength
in little time, with minimum fuss and no need for expensive equipment.
- Turn your garden into a drinkers' paradise.
- Find where and how to forage for success.
- Impress your friends with the weird, wonderful and just plain tasty.
Try Carrot Whisky, Sloe and Damson Rum, Parsnip Sherry, Elderberry and Blackberry Wine,
Pumpkin Beer, Broom Tonic, Meadowsweet tea as well as classics such as Elderflower
champagne, sloe gin, prison brew... Cheers!
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Book Description
The definitive guide to home brewing hedgerow and garden wines, sherries and liqueurs, beers,
ales and porters, ciders, and also cordials, teas and other soft drinks.
About the Author
Andy Hamilton lives in Bristol where he runs brewing workshops, an allotment, forages and regularly takes groups on wild food walks, sharing his extensive knowledge of edible wild foods, plant folklore and herbal medicine.
He is a co-creator of the hugely successful website: selfsufficientish.com (winner Nigel's Eco Awards 2009) and writes a wild drinks blog for the Guardian Online. He also writes a foraging column for Home Farmer magazine, writes the brewing and foraging features for BBC's Countryfile Magazine, and a gardening column for Ethical Living. He has also written a survivalist column for Wired.co.uk and has been a consultant survival expert for TV Shows. He makes regular TV and Radio appearances both in the UK and abroad including BBC's Countryfile and Autumnwatch. Andy also writes features for the Guardian, the Ecologist, Garden Answers, selfsufficientish.com, Tow path Talk, Kitchen Garden and New York based website Civil Eats.
He is co-author of The Self-Sufficientish Bible, and founder of the BBC (The Bristol Brewing Circle).
Find Andy at www.theotherandyhamilton.com/
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- PublisherEden Project Books
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 1905811713
- ISBN 13 9781905811717
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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