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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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Recensione:
"A wonderful guide to garden-based DIY concoctions." (Independent on Sunday)
"Andy's book reveals the treasure trove in our hedgerows, fields and woodlands." (Kate Humble)
"Who could turn down a snifter of perfumed quince and persimmon fizz, horseradish-infused vodka, lavender mead, damson rum or home-grown pumpkin beer? All made more irresistible, of course, by the cost-saving." (Daily Telegraph)
"Some guys have all the luck. Andy Hamilton has 'road tested' over 100 DIY drinks -many of them pleasantly alcoholic- to be made from the plants of the garden, hedge, field and wood, and has brought the results to the pages of his Booze for Free. The result is a home imbiber's delight, full of lore, sense, entertainment, humour, botany, history and tongue-tantalizing recipes. Hamilton has that wholly underrated, but absolutely essential skill in a practical matters, of writing with pure clarity and absolute readability. His recipes won't let you down. You may fall down after sampling some of the stronger brews, but that's another matter." (John Lewis-Stempel, author of The Wild Life: A Year of Living on Wild Food)
"For those who give a damn about the planet but still want to enjoy a beautifully crafted pint of the finest, Booze for Free is absolutely compulsory reading. Sláinte Andy." (Mark Boyle, author of The Moneyless Man)
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"Andy's book reveals the treasure trove in our hedgerows, fields and woodlands." (Kate Humble)
"Who could turn down a snifter of perfumed quince and persimmon fizz, horseradish-infused vodka, lavender mead, damson rum or home-grown pumpkin beer? All made more irresistible, of course, by the cost-saving." (Daily Telegraph)
"Some guys have all the luck. Andy Hamilton has 'road tested' over 100 DIY drinks -many of them pleasantly alcoholic- to be made from the plants of the garden, hedge, field and wood, and has brought the results to the pages of his Booze for Free. The result is a home imbiber's delight, full of lore, sense, entertainment, humour, botany, history and tongue-tantalizing recipes. Hamilton has that wholly underrated, but absolutely essential skill in a practical matters, of writing with pure clarity and absolute readability. His recipes won't let you down. You may fall down after sampling some of the stronger brews, but that's another matter." (John Lewis-Stempel, author of The Wild Life: A Year of Living on Wild Food)
"For those who give a damn about the planet but still want to enjoy a beautifully crafted pint of the finest, Booze for Free is absolutely compulsory reading. Sláinte Andy." (Mark Boyle, author of The Moneyless Man)
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.
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- EditoreEden Project Books
- Data di pubblicazione1998
- ISBN 10 1905811713
- ISBN 13 9781905811717
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine224
- Valutazione libreria
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