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.
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 isco-author of The Self-Sufficientish Bible.
"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*
"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’*
"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!"
*www.realepicurean.com*
"Andy's book reveals the treasure trove in our hedgerows, fields
and woodlands"
*Kate Humble*
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