Gift Ideas

Barbara Ellis provides expert answers for all of your toughest vegetable-growing questions. Designed to be used as an in-the-garden reference, this sturdy little volume is packed with helpful information on everything from planning a garden and sowing seeds to battling pests and harvesting organic crops. With clever tricks to cut down on weed growth, secrets for maximizing production in confined growing spaces, and fail-safe watering guidelines, you’ll have the know-how and inspiration to grow your most abundant vegetable garden ever.

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Know more, grow more! Do you ever wish you had a master gardener right next door? Now you do, with this little reference that delivers big vegetable truths to all your questions:
- What are the easiest vegetable crops to grow?
- How soon can I plant my peas in spring? How can I grow almost all my own food?
- Can I grow vegetables in containers? Is there any way to make weeding go faster?
- What can I put in my compost piles?
- How can I keep birds from eating my crops?

Build your own winery! Learn how to set up a home winery and construct all the basic equipment for just a fraction of what commercially manufactured products would cost. Leading you through the entire winemaking process, Steve Hughes includes building plans and step-by-step instructions for making more than 30 essential winemaking tools. From fashioning presses and pumps to the best way to fill and cork bottles, The Homebuilt Winery covers everything you need to know to affordably enjoy delicious, high-quality homemade wine.

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Whether you have a cellar stocked with homemade vintages or are a recent convert to the rewards of home winemaking, you are likely to need some new equipment. The Homebuilt Winery provides complete building plans for 43 winemaking projects, pieces that facilitate the entire process of turning grapes into wine - from crushing and destemming to bottling and labeling. Each project includes thorough step-by-step instructions, building diagrams, an illustration of the completed piece, and instructions for use.

A home winemaker and experienced builder himself, Steve Hughes understands every step in the winemaking process and has designed projects that are useful and durable, yet easy to build with only basic carpentry skills and materials. Using his building plans, you can do anything from replacing a few worn pieces to building an entire home winery.

Garrett Oliver, award-winning Brewmaster and Vice President of Production of the Brooklyn Brewery, recognized by Gourmet Magazine as a 'passionate epicure and talented alchemist', reveals the full spectrum of flavors contained in the more than 50 distinct styles of beer from around the world.

Most importantly, he shows how beer, which is far more versatile than wine, intensifies flavors when it’s appropriately paired with foods to create a dining experience most people have never imagined. Garrett, along with photographer Denton Tillman, traveled throughout Europe visiting fellow brewmasters to trace the beers of the world to their sources. Back in the States, he met with the star chefs he has advised about beer. The resulting book is a motherload of information, lushly illustrated with Tillman’s gorgeous photographs of the world’s best beers and the breweries that produce them. Above all, The Brewmaster's Table is a new way of thinking about beer – one that will bring this under-appreciated brew to the status it deserves.

Whether it’s a Belgian wheat beer with a simple salad, a Brooklyn Pilsner to wash down spicy tacos, a pale ale alongside a porcini risotto with foie gras, or even a Framboise to accompany a dark chocolate brownie, beer is the perfect complement to any dining experience, at home in front of the TV or in a four-star restaurant.

He explains how beer is made, shows you its fascinating history, and then leads you through the amazing range of flavors displayed by the dozens of distinct styles of beer from around the world. Finally, he suggests beer pairings that will please your tastebuds and blow your mind. Whether you’re a beer aficionado, a passionate cook, or just someone who loves a great dinner, this book will indeed be a revelation.

Master home brewer Stephen Snyder presents the A to Z guide for producing expert home brewing results every time. Everything there is to know about home brewing is here - how to ferment, condition, bottle or keg, store, serve and savor your homebrews.

Also Included:
- Tips on choosing yeast, malt, hops, specialty grains and additives
- Lists of every type of beer in the world - and how to make them
- Discoveries of supply shops, beer associations and publications
- Master Brewers’ suggestions for improving your beer

Providing easy-to-follow instructions and with the zeal of a true believer, Snyder walks novice brewers through their first simplest batches to more advanced techniques to the ultimate in homebrewing - formulating your own recipes.

Topping it all off is a mind-boggling array of recipes collected from brewmasters around the world. It would take a lifetime to brew them all. For each beer type - from India Pale Ale to the heaviest German Bock, from fruit- and spice-flavored beers and Christmas beers to the blackest chocolate stout - Snyder includes endless variations and professional advice, making this, truly, the only brewing guide you’ll ever need.

This complete beer tasting set includes four 6oz pilsner tasting glasses and a wood serving flight. This pilsner-style taster features a tall narrow shape to accentuate the delicate qualities of more subtle beer styles such as pilsners, lagers, wheat beers and pale ales. The narrow shape will also reveal more subtle color tones of even the darkest brews. This beer tasting set is perfect for any serious or casual beer enthusiast and durable enough for commercial use.

Set Includes:
4 x 6oz Libbey Pilsner Tasting Glasses (#16)
1 Wood Serving Flight (96381)

This complete beer tasting set includes four 5oz mini pub glasses and a wood serving flight. These Libbey beer glasses have the classic pub design to showcase the quality and presentation of craft beer. This beer tasting set is perfect for any serious or casual beer enthusiast and durable enough for commercial use.

Set Includes:
4 x 5oz Libbey Mini Pub Glasses (4809)
1 Wood Serving Flight (96381)

Now every homebrewer can make better beer simply by knowing the basic science behind the components of beer and fermentation. Do you need to have an advanced science degree to understand brewing chemistry? Certainly not! Any brewer, explains author Lee W. Janson, can understand the basic details of the life of a yeast or the careless steps that produce those annoying off-flavors - and learn how to avoid them.

Brew Chem 101 Features:
- Nontechnical language and a highly readable style
- Explanations of the chemical reactions at each stage of the brewing process and how to avoid potential problems
- A primer on beer tasting and judging

This completely updated second edition of the best-selling beer resource features the most current information on beer styles, flavor profiles, sensory evaluation guidelines, craft beer trends, food and beer pairings, and draft beer systems. You’ll learn to identify the scents, colors, flavors, mouth-feel, and vocabulary of the major beer styles — including ales, lagers, weissbiers, and Belgian beers — and develop a more nuanced understanding of your favorite brews with in-depth sections on recent developments in the science of taste. Spirited drinkers will also enjoy the new section on beer cocktails that round out this comprehensive volume.

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Can you tell a Weissbier from a Belgian? Deepen your appreciation of your favorite brews by learning to identify the scents, colors, and flavors of all the major beer styles. This completely updated second edition of the best-selling classic explores the culture, chemistry, and creativity that make craft beers so wonderfully complex. Randy Mosher delivers expert insights into the science of brewing and tasting, along with expanded sections on serving and pairing, including recipes for beer cocktails.

The ultimate guide to enjoying every pint to the fullest features:
- 10,000 Years of history
- Dozens of distinct styles
- Hundreds of breweries
- 900 Identified flavors

Add your favorite flavors and sweeteners to vodka, brandy, whiskey, and rum to make delicious homemade liqueurs. Andrew Schloss shows you simple techniques for making liqueurs using standard kitchen equipment, providing hundreds of recipes for blending your own flavored spirits with cinnamon, chocolate, honey, peaches, or anything else that might suit your fancy. Learn how easy it is to make your own versions of Baileys, Triple Sec, and Kahlúa, or try your hand at creating new and unique flavor combinations. Cheers!

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Liqueurs put the orange zing in your margarita and the coffee jolt in your mudslide. If your cocktail is fruity, nutty, flowery, or creamy; if it tastes of coffee or caramel, chances are there's a liqueur involved. Liqueurs are delicious to sip straight up, fun to give as gifts, and easy to make with 159 creative flavors, including clone versions of many of our favorite commercial brands. You'll also find recipes for unsweetened infused spirits and a selection of 80 creative brands.