Booze for Free
  • Published: 15 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448110520
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336
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Booze for Free

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15 Sep 2011
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15 Oct 2017
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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.

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!
  • Published: 15 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448110520
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336
Categories:

About the author

Andy Hamilton

Andy Hamilton is an author, forager, thinker, researcher, and dad. Descriptions that, along with his love of the natural world, often inform his best-selling and award-winning works, which include The First Time Forager, Booze for Free, and The Selfsufficient-ish Bible. Andy originated the Association of Foragers, an international body and tight-knit community of those working with wild food. He lives with his family in Bristol who get around without a car, and forage, and tree climb together.

portrait photo of Andy Hamilton

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Praise for Booze for Free

Wow... it's brilliant! So many mouthwateringly delicious ideas and recipes!... But this is so much more than a 'recipe' book. Packed with fascinating and useful information about the world of foraging, not to mention a good pinch of humour, it makes me want to abandon life as I know it

Brigit Strawbridge, star of ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green’

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 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

Andy's book reveals the treasure trove in our hedgerows, fields and woodlands

Kate Humble

a wonderful guide to garden-based DIY concoctions

Independent on Sunday

Booze for Free is a book-of-the year contender... a book which I'll be reading again and again (trying out recipes and techniques as I go along), and you'd have to be drunk not to want to do the same!

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