Book description
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!
Andy Hamilton lives in Bristol where he is founder of the Bristol
Brewing Circle and runs brewing workshops and an allotment. He forages
and regularly takes groups on wild food walks, sharing his extensive
knowledge of edible wild foods, plant folklore and herbal medicine. Andy
is a co-creator of the hugely successful website:
selfsufficientish. com
(winner Nigel's Eco Awards 2009) and writes a wild drinks blog for
Guardian. co. uk
. He also writes a foraging column for
Home Farmer
magazine, writes the brewing and foraging features for the BBC's
Countryfile
magazine and writes features for the
Guardian
, the
Ecologist
,
Tow Path Talk
,
Kitchen Garden
magazine,
selfsufficientish. com
and the New York based website Civil Eats. He has also written a
survivalist column for
Wired. co. uk
. He has been a consultant survival/wild food expert for various TV
Shows and makes regular TV and Radio appearances both in the UK and
abroad on shows which include the BBC's 'Countryfile' and 'Autumnwatch'.
Andy is co-author of
The Self-Sufficientish Bible
. Find Andy at
www. theotherandyhamilton. com/
