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For everything there is a season - and beer is no exception. Best-selling author Randy Mosher leads you on a delicious tour of beer-tasting opportunities throughout the year, guiding you through all the best seasonal beer releases and festivals. Discover which beers are best to drink on warm spring afternoons or icy winter nights, and learn to make the most out of Craft Beer Week and Oktoberfest. Fun, fresh, and full of insider information, Beer for All Seasons will have you enjoying the varied delights of your favorite beverage year-round.

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Randy Mosher, a nationally recognized authority on beer appreciation, is your companion for a year-long tour of discovery that opens up new tasting options for everything from mowing the lawn - try a Belgian farmhouse beer! - to tucking into the Thanksgiving turkey - a clean blond doppelbock balances that rich meal. Along the way, Mosher highlights beer festivals, suggests holiday gifts, and even outlines a full year of beer-centric travel. The world of beer is broad and varied; explore all the possibilities.

Make your best beer ever! Legendary brewer Dave Miller brings a lifetime of professional experience into your home. With complete plans for a system that requires just 18 square feet and full of small-batch recipes, Brew Like a Pro reveals the secrets of truly great draft- and pub-style brewing. Learn to make classic all-grain beers that stay fresh in kegs for months, eliminating the need for bottling. This clear, concise guide is sure to take your homebrewing to the next level.

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Elevate your homebrewed beer to new levels of quality and consistency. Dave Miller has been a homebrewer and a professional brewmaster; he has firsthand knowledge of the inner workings of a pub brewer and a unique understanding of how to adapt pro techniques for home use. Follow Miller's advice on setting up an efficient all-grain home brewer and a draft system for serving fresh, cold beer, and you'll be brewing like a pro in no time - no bottling required!

Freshly blended herbal teas offer more healing power than do pre-packaged tea bags. In Healing Herbal Teas, master herbalist and author Sarah Farr serves up 101 original recipes that not only offer health advantages but also taste great. Formulations to benefit each body system and promote well-being include Daily Adrenal Support, Inflammation Reduction, and Digestive Tonic. Additional recipes that address seasonal needs such as allergy relief or immune support will attune you to the cycles of nature, while instruction on the art of tea blending will teach you how to develop your own signature mixtures to give your body exactly what it needs. This book is an enchanting and delectable guide to blending and brewing power-packed herbal teas at home.

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Discover the healing power of herbs through the simple, satisfying process of blending your own delicious herbal teas.

Promote healing and balance with remedies like Sore Throat Soother, Blood Pressure Support, and Postpartum Nourish Tea, or delight in more lighthearted and seasonal blends like Cardamom Rose Chai, Chocolatl, and Lemon Ginger Iced Tea. No matter what you're looking for, every one of these teas is designed to enchant the senses and nourish the body.

The authors of the best-selling Fermented Vegetables are back, and this time they’ve brought the heat with them. Whet your appetite with more than 60 recipes for hot sauces, mustards, pickles, chutneys, relishes, and kimchis from around the globe. Chiles take the spotlight, with recipes such as Thai Pepper Mint Cilantro Paste, Aleppo Za’atar Pomegranate Sauce, and Mango Plantain Habañero Ferment, but other traditional spices like horseradish, ginger, and peppercorns also make cameo appearances. Dozens of additional recipes for breakfast foods, snacks, entrées, and beverages highlight the many uses for hot ferments.

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From the best-selling authors of Fermented Vegetables comes a tongue-tingling array of condiments sure to heat up your table. These recipes combine probiotic goodness with spices and flavors inspired by cuisine from around the world.

Best-selling author Jeff Alworth takes serious beer aficionados on a behind-the-scenes tour of 26 major European and North American breweries that create some of the world’s most classic beers. Learn how the Irish make stout, the secrets of traditional Czech pilsner, and what makes English cask ale unique by delving deep into the specific techniques, equipment, and geographical factors that shape these distinctive styles. Contemporary brewers carrying on their traditions share insider knowledge and 26 original recipes to guide experienced homebrewers in developing your own special versions of each style.

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Learn to make the world's iconic beers with techniques and recipes from the pros. Behind-the-scenes tours of 26 outstanding European and American breweries reveal the processes, equipment, and ingredients that distinguish each style.

Your knowledgeable guide is beer guru Jeff Alworth, who explores such fascinating topics as the old-time Czech brewing traditions behind Pilsner Urquell's winning flavors and how Belgium's rich agricultural history shaped Dupont's celebrated saison. Along the way, you'll learn what makes an Irish stout similar to an English ale, garner insights into the uniquely American love of hoppy beers, and more. And, most valuably, contemporary brewmasters share their secrets to help you create your own versions of these 26 classic beers.

Meet the natural lovechild of the popular local-foods movement and craft cocktail scene. It’s here to show you just how easy it is to make delicious, one-of-a-kind mixed drinks with common flowers, berries, roots, and leaves that you can find along roadsides or in your backyard. Foraging expert Ellen Zachos gets the party started with recipes for more than 50 garnishes, syrups, infusions, juices, and bitters, including Quick Pickled Daylily Buds, Rose Hip Syrup, and Chanterelle-infused Rum. You’ll then incorporate your handcrafted components into 45 surprising and delightful cocktails, such as Stinger in the Rye, Don’t Sass Me, and Tree-tini.

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Start with more than 50 recipes for bitters, garnishes, syrups, infusions, and juices using plants readily found in backyards, farmers' markets, and along roadside fields. Bottle up the goodness of fresh berries, fruit, flowers, leaves, roots, and seeds; then delight in their flavors all year by incorporating your wildcrafted components into 45 surprising and delicious cocktails.

Home Sausage Making is the most comprehensive go-to reference on the subject — and the re-designed fourth edition is better than ever, with 60 percent new and updated recipes, the most current guidelines for popular charcuterie techniques such as dry curing and smoking, and more. Step-by-step photos make the process accessible for cooks of all levels, and 100 recipes range from breakfast sausage to global favorites like mortadella, liverwurst, chorizo, salami, kielbasa, and bratwurst. Recipes for using wild game, chicken, seafood, and vegetables ensure there’s something for every taste. An additional 100 recipes highlight creative ways to cook with sausage.

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Discover the world of flavor possibilities when you make sausage at home - from spicy andouille, linguica, and chorizo to down-home bangers, kosher salami, and satisfyingly sweet maple breakfast sausage.

Step-by-step directions teach you how to create fresh, smoked, and dry-cured sausage. Equipped with your new skills, you can then make links and patties that appeal to every palate, with 100 recipes for beer, poultry, pork, wild game, seafood, and even vegetarian sausages.

This giant mug holds an entire liter of beer or your favorite beverage! A mug of this size will certainly quench the biggest thirst at Oktoberfest or simply create a beautiful addition to your bar.

Does the beer buyer at the liquor store ask your advice? Do you understand the difference between a turbid and a single infusion mash? Do you travel with a tulip glass handy? Have you even eaten ramen just to afford a vintage Cantillon gueuze? If you answered 'yes' to any of these questions, you may be a Beer Geek and in need of this hilarious guide. Patrick Dawson provides everything you need to fully live a life ruled by beer, from the Ten Beer Geek Commandments and the Beer Geek Hall of Fame to guidance on what to drink, how and where to drink it, how to gracefully correct an uninformed bartender, where to buy 'geek goods', how to flawlessly execute a beer tasting, how to plan the ultimate beer-centric vacation, and much more. Includes quizzes to help you determine your level of geekery, as well as witty illustrations by Greg Kletsel.

Brew your own kombucha at home! With more than 400 recipes, including 268 unique flavor combinations, you can get exactly the taste you want — for a fraction of the store-bought price. This complete guide, from the proprietors of Kombucha Kamp, shows you how to do it from start to finish, with illustrated step-by-step instructions and troubleshooting tips. The book also includes information on the many health benefits of kombucha, fascinating details of the drink’s history, and recipes for delicious foods and drinks you can make with kombucha (including some irresistible cocktails!).

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Kombucha! It’s the fermented tea that’s fun to say and good to drink, plus it promotes a healthy gut. Expert brewers Hannah Crum and Alex LaGory reveal how easy, inexpensive, and safe it is to make your own delicious kombucha, with instructions for batch and continuous brewing. They share hundreds of flavoring ideas and recipes for using kombucha and SCOBYs. With history, health benefits, and the science behind this ancient beverage, this book is a must-have whether you’re a beginner or long-time kombucha lover! Includes: in-depth brewing techniques, 268 flavor combinations, recipes for cooking with kombucha, plus smoothies, cocktails, and more.

This exquisite glass is designed to serve the delicious wheat beers of Germany known as Weizen or Weissbier. In addition to simply being beautiful, the form of the glass is particularly suited to this style and other effervescent beers.

The height of the glass preserves the higher levels of carbonation found in these styles and a slender base enhances the subtle color. Finally, the top of the glass is wide and curves inward to contain the large, fluffy head and to release the lively, delicate aromas. This glass is also great for serving draft beer and many other bubbly beers with a light or delicate character.

Enjoy your abundant harvest of garden-fresh fruits and vegetables throughout the year with these simple, yet satisfying home-preserving techniques. For fresh-off-the-vine flavor and a full payload of vitamins, you can’t beat the fruits, vegetables and herbs preserved from you own garden. For more than 25 years, countless gardeners and cooks have turned to Keeping the Harvest for complete, easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions on how to save some of the homegrown goodness of summer. Now this classic handbook has been entirely updated so you can take advantage of the latest techniques and most up-to-date equipment. Furthermore, all directions in this new edition follow the USDA’s most recent guidelines for home preserving.

In this updated edition, you’ll learn new timesaving methods such as using a microwave oven to blanch vegetables and quick-dry herbs, as well as venerable tricks of the trade, such as adding a little salt and vinegar to keep preserved fruits from losing their vivid color in the jar. Each chapter is packed with important technical details - for example, how much headroom is required when freezing fruits and vegetables, or how to keep liquid from boiling out of the jars. The authors have also included a host of simple, down-home recipes for making tasty pickles and relishes, delicious jellies and marmalades, and even your own ketchup and chili sauce.

Ranging from advice on the optimal time to pick your produce to what equipment you’ll need to how to maintain an accurate inventory so nothing goes to waste, Keeping the Harvest teaches you proven methods so you can enjoy your garden’s abundance all year long.

Learn All About:

- Canning
- Jams & Jellies
- Freezing
- Pickling
- Drying
- Curing
- Cold Storage

Make a variety of goat milk cheeses with this complete kit including Chevre, Fresh French Style Goat Cheese and Lactic Cheese. Included with the kit are kitchen-tested recipes to make easy, delicious cheese and all you need is the milk! The recipe booklet also contains recipes in which to use your freshly made cheese as well as instructions for making a mother culture.

This kit makes 8 delicious types of cheese including Farmhouse Cheddar, Gouda, Monterey Jack, Feta, Cottage Cheese, Colby, aged hard Italian cheeses and Ricotta. This kit has enough supplies for making forty 1lb batches of cheese cheese and all you need is milk and a few basic kitchen utensils. That's 40lb (18.1kg) of fresh, homemade cheese!

With a little effort and a lot of fun, you can make your very own preservative-free cheese! Start now and make this a family tradition. This kit comes with detailed recipes that make the cheese making process easy and enjoyable.The included basket mold is an ideal mold for soft and hard cheese. When making harder cheese, simply use an inverted small plate or large jar lid as a follower/pressure-plate. Then place your desired weight on your plate to distribute the weight evenly. A weight of 3 to 20lbs (1.4kg - 9.1kg) is the working range for this mold. Hard cheeses may require cheese wax and a hard cheese mold (available separately).

A beautiful cowboy boot design decorates this 1/2 Liter glass mug. It’s a fun and creative serving glass for beer and a great mug for root beer floats, party favors or just to display on your bar!

What's your favorite beer? Enjoy home brews that taste just like the commercial brands you love to drink. Mark and Tess Szamatulski have spent years perfecting 200 recipes for popular ales, lagers and specialty beers, and you can make them all at home. Tested and retested, tasted and retasted, these recipes deliver the flavors you crave.

Magic Hat #9. Ithaca Brown Ale. Moose Drool. Samuel Adams Boston Ale. Try making clones of these and 196 more popular commercial beers! Revised, updated, and expanded, this second edition of CloneBrews contains 50 brand-new recipes, fully updated mashing guidelines, and a food pairing feature that recommends the best foods for every beer.

Other Included Recipes:
- Brooklyn Summer Ale
- Celebrator Doppelbock
- Checker Cab Blonde Ale
- Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA
- Razor Edge Lager
- Saison Dupont
- Skull Splitter
- Spitfire Premium Kentish Ale
- Tsingtao
- And More!