Brewing Books
Cider - $14.95
Annie Proulx & Lew Nichols. Cider making is easy, and this book guides you through every step of the process, including building your own apple press. Includes recipes featuring cider. Tr paper, 224pp. Storey
Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby . . . see Cookery
Compleat Meadmaker
- $19.95
Ken Schramm. Veteran beverage hobbyist Schramm introduces the novice to the wonders of mead. With easy-to-follow procedures & simple recipes, he shows how you can quickly & painlessly make your own mead at home. He also introduces flavorful variations for meads using spices, fruit, grapes, and even malt. Tr pb, 212pp, index, 5p biblio, extensive sources list, web sites. Brewers Publications
Cordials From Your Kitchen - $14.95
Pattie Vargas & Rich Gulling. More than 100 clear and simple recipes
for cordials, including fruit, nut, herb, and cream-based liqueurs, coffee
liqueurs, ‘candy cordials’, flavored brandies, vodkas, and rums. The book
provides recipes using original fruit or flavoring materials and ones using
commercial extracts, as well as recipes for using the cordials. Tr pb,
171pp. Storey Books
The Homebrewer’s Garden - $14.95
Joe Fisher & Dennis Fisher. This book contains instructions on growing your
own hops, unusual grains, and flavoring herbs, building and using an oast or hop dryer, and malting. There is a 40 page
descriptive list of suitable herbs. The authors then proceed to give 30 recipes
(for beers, ales, stouts, mead, cider, and perry) They conclude the book with a glossary of brewing terms, and
a list of sources for herbs, seed grain, and brewing supplies. Storey Books.
Homemade Soda - $18.95
Andrew
Schloss. Soda is fun to drink and fun to make, and
best of all, the home soda maker controls the sweetness and ingredients,
creating a drink that’s exactly right. Offers bubbly recipes and simple instructions for the easy to learn
techniques. Trade paper, color photos& illus throughout, 336pp., brief resources list, index. Storey
Luscious Liqueurs
- $12.95
A.J. Rathbun. 50 recipes for sublime and spirited infusions. Making liqueurs at home is relatively simple, and homemade versions are a bargain compared to what you get at the store. In this book, Rathbun shows you how to make your favorite liqueurs at home. The recipes feature infusions that meld liquor with a wide variety of fruits, herbs, and spices. The introduction gives you all necessary information on equipment, techniques, and ingredients. HC, 4-color design, photos, 96 pp. Harvard Common Press
Making Medieval Mead, or Mead Before Digby - $5.00
Christina M Krupp & Bill Gillen. This useful & interesting book
attempts to collect all available recipes from sources prior to the publication
of Digby’s Closet. The first two parts are
thorough discussions of the ingredients used in mead and the process itself,
while the third part gives recipes prior to 1600, and
the fourth recipes from after 1600. Recipes include both the original text and
an English translation. (Recipes from Domostroi
do not include the original Russian.) Considerable biblio, glossary. 60pp, paper,
saddle-stapled. SCA, Inc.
Making Wild Wines & Meads - $16.95
Pattie Vargas & Rich Gulling. Easy, step-by-step
instructions for making wines from fruits, berries, flowers, and more. Chapter on meads, metheglin, and melomels. 125 recipes, glossary, 165 p. paper. Storey Books.
Sip Through Time - $18.00
Cindy Renfrow. Representative
sampling of brewing recipes from earliest times to the present. Organized first by type of recipe, then chronologically. Biblio, list of sources; 300+p, pb.
Uncorking The
Past: The quest for wine, beer, and other alcoholic beverages - $18.95
Patrick E McGovern. In this lively tour around the world and through the
millennia, the author tells the compelling story of humanity’s ingenious,
intoxicating quest for the perfect drink. This perfect drink, whether it be mind-altering, medicinal, a religious symbol, a social lubricant,
or artists inspiration, has not only been a profound force in history, but may
also be fundamental to the human condition itself. Paperback,
320pp, 10 color photos, 30 b/w photos, 4 maps. Extensive index, select bibliog.. University of California Press
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