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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.

Taking good care of yourself has never been so much fun! Blending and brewing your own soothing, invigorating, healthy, or just plain delicious herbal teas is as good for the spirit as it is for the body! With Herbal Teas’ simple instructions and recipes for every need, age, and life situation, even beginners can dive right in for the healing or just for the joy of it.

Here are just a few of the herbal teas that you will discover:

- Energy Boosters
- Stress Busters
- Detoxifying Teas
- Love Potion Teas
- Dream Teas
- Teas For PMS
- Teas For Teenagers
- Uplifting Teas
- Prenatal Teas
- Teas For Healthy Skin
- And Many More!

Explore the many flavorful possibilities of vinegar. With dozens of recipes for infusing vinegar with herbs, spices, vegetables, and flowers, Maggie Oster fills this delightful book with mouthwatering mixtures that go far beyond salad dressing. Use your homemade vinegars to add some zing to everything from Green Chile and Cilantro Sambal to the white cream sauce enriching your pork chops. Oster also includes tips on making cleaning products from vinegar, so you can keep your kitchen naturally spotless when you’re done cooking.

Vinegar is versatile! And this book covers it all:

- Directions for buying, making and flavoring inexpensive, easy-to-make vinegars - dozens of ideas for combination herb, spice, vegetable and flower vinegars.
- Recipes for using flavored vinegars - just a splash for exhilarating basic vinaigrettes, fruit and vegetable salsas, flavorful and tenderizing marinades, spicy dessert sauces and many more.
- Gift packaging ideas and customized labels.
- Step-by-step instructions for growing flavorful herbs indoors and out.
- Household uses and hints - more than 100 home uses for vinegar, including polishing chrome, prolonging the life of cut flowers and preparing natural beauty treatments.

This American pilsner dried malt extract will produce a light golden color and a subtle malty flavor. It can be used in any ale or lager style where a very pale color and light maltiness is desired. It is highly fermentable and creates a delicate, crisp flavor and a light-bodied beer.

Even beginners can make their own fermented foods! This guide includes in-depth instruction for making kimchi, sauerkraut, and pickles and then offers more than 120 recipes, using those basic methods, for fermenting 64 different vegetables and herbs. You’ll discover how easy it is to make dozens of exciting dishes, including pickled Brussels sprouts, curried golden beets, carrot kraut, and pickled green coriander. The recipes are creative, delicious, and healthful, and many of them can be made in small batches — even just a single pint.

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Eat live foods! Make lacto-fermentation part of your kitchen. A classic preserving method, the process yields nutrient-dense live foods packed with vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and probiotic goodness. Master the techniques for making sauerkraut, kimchi, pickles, and fermented condiments, and then explore how to apply those simpler skills to fermenting with more than 60 fresh vegetables, herbs, and even a few fruits. In addition to 140 recipes and suggestions for an intriguing array of ferments, you'll find delicious recipes that bring your creations to the table as part of any meal.

Beer has inspired, influenced, and excited human beings for thousands of years! Discover the mysteries of the fermented beverage, revealed at last in this intriguing book of cultural history, poetry, song, little-known facts, and quirky quotes by beer drinkers from Nietzsche to Darwin.

Readers will be astonished to learn the esoteric facts that were discovered such as that in most ancient cultures only women were allowed to brew, and for much of history beer was considered a nourishing alternative to drinking water!

From the Back Cover:

Did you know that...
- The Mayflower abandoned its search for further destinations and landed in Plymouth because they had run out of beer?
- Women in ancient Sumeria dominated the art of brewing and tavern keeping, operating under the protection of Siduri, goddess of the brewery?
- Twenty people literally 'drowned in beer' in 1814 when a vat in a London brewery exploded, creating a tidal wave of beer?
- Alewives in Colonial America brewed a special high-test 'groaning ale' for a mother-to-be to swig while she was in labor?

The revised and rejacketed third edition of Cider offers thorough coverage of every step of cider making, from choosing and planting the best apple varieties to enjoying the finished product. Recipes include sweet and hard ciders, sparkling cider blends, and cider-based foods.

This newly updated handbook shows you how simple it is to turn fruit into nature’s most refreshing drink:
- Make fresh and delicious sweet and hard ciders - including blending and sparkling ciders
- Build your own working apple press
- Enhance your cooking with cider as an ingredient
- Choose the right apple cultivar for the flavor you want
- Plan and plant your very own home orchard for the freshest batch of cider ever!
- Plus interesting bits of history and lore shed light on cider’s colorful past.

The Easy Auto-Siphon can start siphoning beer or wine with just a single stroke without disturbing sediment due to it's anti-sediment tip. It is easy to use and has a smooth, leak-free operation. The anti-sediment tip, the racking cane and the body disassemble easily for cleaning. This is the ideal size for most carboys and buckets between 3 and 6.5 US gallons and will transfer much more quickly than the 3/8in size.

The Easy Auto-Siphon is not only easy and saves times, but it is also more sanitary. It requires a minimum of 6ft of 7/16in ID food-grade vinyl tubing and can be used with a 1/2in Auto-Siphon clamp which are available separately.