Booze for Free
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-905811-71-7 (ISBN)
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. You can discover the secret language of home brewing and drinks making. You can make cheap, wholesome drinks, to your preferred taste and strength in little time, with minimum fuss and no need for expensive equipment. You can turn your garden into a drinkers' paradise. You can find where and how to forage for success. You can impress your friends with the weird, wonderful and just plain tasty. You can 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!
Reviews / Votes
"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. Slainte Andy." Mark Boyle, author of The Moneyless ManMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 127 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-905811-71-7 (9781905811717)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Andy Hamilton
Booze for Free
E-Book
09/2011
1st Edition
Transworld Digital
€14.99
Available for download
Person
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/