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Irish moss removes excessive protein from beer when ended at the end of the boil. It is composed of Chondrus crispus, a marine algae, and is an excellent method to reduce protein haze, improve flavor stability and overall quality in beer. Add 15 minutes before the end of the boil and chill rapidly to enhance protein precipitation.

Pour a stiff drink and crack open this comprehensive guide to everything there is to know about the world’s greatest whiskeys. Exploring the traditions behind bourbon, Scotch, Irish, and even Japanese whiskey, you’ll discover how unique flavors are created through variations of ingredients and different distilling techniques. With advice on how to collect, age, and serve whiskey, as well as suggestions for proven food pairings, you’ll be inspired to share your knowledge and invite your friends over for a delicious whiskey tasting party.

Create new and unusual homebrewed favorites with recipes guaranteed to work well with home equipment. Enjoy more than 240 beer and ale recipes contributed by brewing suppliers, homebrew clubs, and individual artisans across North America.

“Send us your best”, said Karl F. Lutzen and Mark Stevens, in their appeal for the favorite recipes of homebrewers across North America. Homebrew clubs, brewing suppliers and homebrewers took up the call. Now here it is!

Homebrew Favorites is a nuts and bolts guide to creating unusual brews at home, including:

Make your own soft drinks that are tastier, healthier and cheaper than anything you’ll find in stores! From soda water to sarsaparilla, in Homemade Root Beer, Soda & Pop, you’ll find easy-to-follow instructions for more than 60 traditional batches of old favorites and experiment with new combinations of natural ingredients to create your own refreshing recipes.

You’ll make fabulous, fizzy creations like:

1 Glass gallon jug for water, wine, vinegar or any non-carbonated beverage. This is also an ideal fermentation vessel for small batches of beer, wine, vinegar, kombucha and more. Fits #6 rubber stopper and 38mm screw cap (available separately).

The SafAle WB-06 yeast is best suited for German-style Weizens, Wheat Beers and Belgian Ales. It produces a subtle fruity character and a spicy phenolic flavor that is characteristic of these beer styles.

It s a DIY cook's dream come true: It's pizza night, and you've made not only the crust and sauce but the mozzarella, too! Or you're whipping up quesadillas for a snack, using your homemade Triple Pepper Hack. Or the dinner party's in high gear and out comes the cheese plate and yes, you've made all the cheeses on it! Even better you made them all earlier that day. In a cookbook whose results seem like magic but whose recipes and instructions are specific, easy-to-follow, and foolproof, Claudia Lucero shows step by step with every step photographed exactly how to make sixteen fresh cheeses at home, using easily available ingredients and tools, in an hour or less. The approach is basic and based on thousands of years of cheesemaking wisdom: Heat milk, add coagulant, drain, salt, and press. Simple variations produce delicious results across three categories Creamy and Spreadable, Firm and Chewy, and Melty and Gooey. And just as delicious, the author shows the best ways to serve them, recipes included: Squeaky Pasta Primavera, Mozzarella Kebab Party, and Curry in a Hurry Lettuce Wraps.

One-House Cheese is a friendly, unintimidating, absolute beginner's guide to making cheese at home that includes everything you need to know to make 16 original cheeses in less than 60 minutes each, plus recipes for serving suggestions, accompaniments for building your own fresh cheese plate, and 3 bonus DIY Dairy essentials (yogurt, butter, and ghee). Instructions are fully illustrated with step-by-step color photos (think How to Grill or Magic) to yield maximum, foolproof results. The one-hour cheeses are separated into three categories: Creamy and Spreadable (Meyer Lemon Ricotta, Fromage Facile, French Kisses, Classic Cottage Cheese), Firm and Crumbly (Curried Paneer, Honeyed Toast Cheese, Chivo Fresco, Ale-Washed Squeakies), and Melty and Chewy (Raw Mozzarella, Favorite Melty Mozzarella, Triple Pepper Hack, Pizza Filata, Chipotle Lime Oaxaca, Brown Butter Burrata, Haloumi? Halou-you!, Smoky Cheater). One-House Cheese demands little investment in the way of time or money, but yields results in high quality.

Long neck bottles ideal for bottling beer, soft drinks, cider and any other homemade beverages. The amber brown glass minimizes light exposure and they are compatible with all standard bottle cappers and 26.5mm bottle caps. Includes 24 bottles, corrugated box and dividers.

Create your own delicious liqueurs. Pattie Vargas and Richard Gulling provide recipes for over 100 home-crafted cordials to suit every occasion, from cinnamon coffee liqueur to spiced blackberry brandy, and pineapple rum to black walnut liqueur. The simple instructions and insightful tips will have even beginners filling bottles with after-dinner joy. Learn to use your flavored liqueurs to spice up main dishes or add an extra pop of flavor to timeless desserts, and be sure to invite some friends over to enjoy a few sips.

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Create delicious, elegant liqueurs for entertaining or gift giving. It’s easier than you think! This complete guide serves up more than 100 easy recipes for delicious cordials to suit every occasion, including fruit-, nut-, herb-, and cream-based liqueurs, ‘candy cordials’, coffee liqueurs, and flavored brandies, vodkas, and rums.

Recipes Include:
- Cinnamon Coffee Liqueur, Crème de Cacao and Ouzo Mint Julep
- Rosemary-Tangerine and Ginger Liqueurs Black Walnut
- Hazelnut and Vanilla Butternut Liqueurs Black Currant
- Strawberry, Peach, Apple and Melon Liqueurs Spiced Blackberry Brandy
- Peach Brandy, Lemon Vodka and Pineapple Rum
- Peaches and Cream Dreamsicle Liqueur and Chocolate Covered Cherry Cream

Cordials from Your Kitchen offers home-crafted versions of popular and traditional favorites, along with an astonishing array of original recipes. This thorough guide also presents simple recipes for using cordials to make delicious dishes, desserts, spirited fruits, and suggests creative gift-giving ideas.

German Northern Brewer has a full, herbal character with floral notes. It has a very well-balanced flavor and a satisfying hoppiness. It is an offspring of Brewer’s Gold with some ancestry from an American wild hop. This English-bred variety is grown world-wide but Germany has become one of it's most favored growing regions.

Newly revised and updated, the Homebrewer's Companion is the master-level companion to the world’s bestselling beer making book, The Complete Joy of Homebrewing. In this inviting, easy-to-follow, hands-on guide, Charlie Papazian, the godfather of homebrewing, takes readers beyond the basics of homebrewing. This second edition of the classic volume includes detailed charts and tables, the latest techniques and equipment information, new recipes, and more, including:

- Added details on the art and science of brewing beer
- Up-to-date malt and fermentation charts
- Websites and resources
- Everything you need to know about hops and how to use them
- Expanded information on yeast and microbiological enhancements that can make your beer even better
- A list of beer styles with references
- 55 beer recipes and 10 mead recipes, plus dozens of new recipes
- How to make gluten-free beer
- An expanded glossary of beer characters and a beer evaluation section
- Expert insight and recommendations on beer and food pairings and cooking with beer

You’ll never think about compost the same way again! Turn the compost bin upside down! The nutritious, organic diet your garden craves is as simple as creating compost heaps right in the garden. Plants and compost live together in labor- and time-saving harmony, producing bright, sweet, juicy vegetables all season long.

If you have a backyard, or even a sunny porch or balcony, you can grow your own hops, brewing herbs, and malt grains to enhance the flavor, aroma, and uniqueness of your home-brewed beer - and ensure that you have the freshest, purest, best ingredients possible. Simple instructions from experts Joe and Dennis Fisher guide you through every step of the process, from setting up your first hop trellis to planting and caring for your herbs, harvesting and drying them, malting grain, and brewing more than 25 recipes specifically designed for homegrown ingredients. This fully updated second edition includes a new section featuring color photography of the plants, expanded information on growing hops in small spaces, innovative trellising ideas, an expanded section on malting, new profiles of prominent grower/brewers, and up-to-date information on grain-growing best practices.