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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.

Uncork all the answers! Alison Crowe, WineMaker magazine’s popular ‘Wine Wizard’, supplies practical, easy-to-follow answers to every question and problem that stands between you and your perfect vintage - from choosing the raw ingredients to fully understanding the mysteries of fermentation. Smooth and well-balanced, this broad range of wine making solutions will satisfy the most inquisitive vintner.

Here are just a few of the questions that you will find answers to:

- What could cause a bitter or tart taste in a cherry wine?
- What are the guidelines for aging and storing country fruit or vegetable wines?
- How are egg whites used as a fining agent?
- Is it possible to add too much yeast?

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!

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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.

Use the earth's naturally cool, stable temperature as an energy-saving way to store nearly 100 varieties of perishable fruits and vegetables all year long. Root Cellaring explains how to successfully use this natural storage approach. It's the first book devoted entirely to the subject, and it covers the subject with a thoroughness that makes it the only book you'll ever need on root cellaring.

Root cellaring need not be strictly a country concept. Though it's often thought of as an adjunct to a large garden, a root cellar can in fact considerably stretch the resources of a small garden, making it easy to grow late succession crops for storage instead of many rows for canning and freezing. Best of all, root cellars can easily fit anywhere. Not everyone can live in the country, but everyone can benefit from natural cold storage.

Root Cellaring will teach you:
- How to choose vegetable and fruit varieties that will store best
- Specific individual storage requirements for nearly 100 home garden crops
- How to use root cellars in the country, in the city, and in any environment
- How to build root cellars, indoors and out, big and small, plain and fancy
- Case histories — reports on the root cellaring techniques and experiences of many households all over North America

Admiring brightly colored jars of jams, jellies, marmalades, and other fruit spreads in your pantry is sure to bring a bit of summer sunshine into even the coldest, grayest days of winter. Combining centuries-old lore with state-of-the-art methods, this bulletin will teach you everything you need to know to transform fresh fruit into tempting preserves. Here you’ll find wonderful, flavorful recipes — even some that are low in sugar.

These are just a few:

Red Raspberry Preserves
Spiced Strawberry Jam
Ginger Jam
Apple Butter
Lemon Jelly
Carrot and Orange Marmalade

Infuse your yard with the flavor, fragrance, beauty and healing power of organic herbs. Whether you want to work herbs into existing flower or food gardens, grow them in containers, or plant a dedicated herb garden, Homegrown Herbs is your in-depth guide to everything you need to know about planting, caring for, harvesting, drying and using more than 100 herbs.

This is the definitive guide to planting, growing, harvesting, and using 101 popular herbs. A step-by-step primer for gardeners of every level, it includes in-depth information on seed selection, planting, maintenance and care, harvesting, drying, uses in the kitchen, home pharmacy, crafting and body care. Sensational color photographs by Saxon Holt bring the information to life. With renowned herbalist Tammi Hartung as a guide, readers will discover that growing their own herbs is one of the easiest ways possible to bring more beauty, flavor and health to everyday life.

Tammi Hartung has been growing and working with herbs for 30 years and is a frequent teacher and lecturer at herb and gardening conferences. She and her husband cultivate 500 varieties of herbs on their organic farm in Colorado.

Tammi Hartung offers dozens of ideas for using your homegrown herbs:
- Prepare relaxing herbal baths and soaks
- Mix custom seasoning blends for your favorite recipes
- Make healing tinctures, liniments and elixirs
- Perk up recipes-salads, soups, pastas, vegetables, eggs-with fresh or dried herbs
- Personalize homemade body creams with your favorite herbal scents and healing properties
- Give homemade herbal vinegars and butters as holiday gifts
- Put the soothing power of herbs to good use in sleep pillows and heating pads
- Craft wreaths and potpourris with long-lasting fragrance and beauty

Baking with sourdough is truly a wonderful craft and produces breads with an amazing flavor and texture. After learning about how to start a sourdough culture, your eyes will be opened to this ancient method of bread making and you will have a new appreciation for this simple food. Explore numerous recipes in this book such as traditional white bread, sourdough pretzels and even old-fashioned sourdough pancakes!

Learn How To Make:
- Sourdough White Sandwich Bread
- Sourdough French Bread
- Sourdough Pumpernickel
- Sourdough Whole Wheat Bread
- Molasses Rye Bread
- Sourdough Banana Bread
- Sourdough Skillet Biscuits
- Old Fashioned Pancakes
- Apple Muffins
- Sourdough Pretzels
- Sourdough Zucchini Bread
- Sourdough Cherry Cobbler
- Strawberry Shortcake
- Sourdough Chocolate Cake
- And More!

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Since the 1973 publication of Storey's first Country Wisdom Bulletin, our commitment to preserving the arts, crafts, and skills of country life has never wavered. We now have more than 200 titles in this series of 32-page publications, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.

Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins contain practical, hands-on instructions designed to help you master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. From traditional skills to the newest techniques, Storey's Bulletins provide a foundation of earth-friendly information for the way you want to live today.

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.

Be at the top of your bartending game with The Bartender's Black Book - the ultimate drink recipe collection for the 21st century. Compiled by master mixologist Stephen Kittredge Cunningham, this updated 10th edition is the most recent, up-to-date and complete guide on the market! With 143 brand new recipes added and over 2800 recipes total, you'll get all of your classic cocktails and the hottest new drinks too. Loaded with tips, tools and Robert M. Parker Jr.'s most recent Wine Vintage Guide, this indispensable book is the go-to manuscript for amateurs and professionals alike.

It is alphabetized with an index by ingredient so that it's easy to find the drinks you want. Additionally, it's spiral bound so that it can lie flat when opened to your drink selection as you mix your cocktail. It has over 2800 recipes including classic cocktails, martinis, coffees, punches, shots, frozen and dessert drinks. It is unbiased without preference to specific brands, has an easy to use index by ingredient, spiral bound, mixing instructions and metric conversion chart.

The Pilsner glass is best for serving this crisp and clean style of beer from Germany to the Czech Republic. The tall and slender design preserves the carbonation and delicate flavors of the Pilsner style.

The Pilsner glass is best for serving this crisp and clean style of beer from Germany to the Czech Republic. The tall and slender design preserves the carbonation and delicate flavors of the Pilsner style.

Ten thousand years of cheese making (as well as butter and yogurt making) wisdom is distilled in this detailed booklet. Expert cheesemaker Ricki Carroll teaches you the latest, most healthful methods for whipping up delicious dairy products in your own kitchen. Here is everything you need to know - from what equipment and ingredients are required to how to pasteurize your own milk. And, of course, you get recipes for making cheeses and other dairy products that surpass anything you could buy at the store.

Learn How To Make:
- Queso Blanco
- Fromage Blanc
- Whole-Milk Ricotta
- Feta
- Traditional Cheddar
- Gouda
- Monterey Jack
- 30-Minute Mozzarella
- Parmesan
- Sour Cream
- Butter
- Yogurt
- Crème Fraiche

Raise a glass of homemade burgundy and enjoy the fruits of your labor. This informative guide provides an overview of the entire home winemaking process, from the vine (or the boxed kit) to your glass. With more than 100 recipes for a wide range of delicious wines, ports, and champagnes, you’re sure to find a wine to suit your taste. Clear diagrams for setting up your equipment and fail-safe instructions ensure that your home winemaking will be a success.

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Few pleasures are more gratifying than pouring a glass of fine wine, admiring its clarity and color, savoring its rich bouquet, raising it to your lips, and knowing that you made it yourself. With this complete guide to home winemaking, such pleasure can be yours with little fuss and lots of fun. The Home Winemaker's Companion will guide you as you progress from making your very first batch of kit wine to mastering advanced techniques for making wine from fresh grapes. Included are Gene Spaziani's tried-and-true recipes for 115 delectable wines…even port and champagne! Making consistently great wine at home is easy; the hardest part is being patient while your wine ages!

Imagine making your own ciabatta, sourdough, English muffins, challah, naan, rye bread, brioche, and more! Even complete beginners can successfully bake their own bread with this in-depth course in core bread-making techniques. From buying flour to slicing a warm baguette, you’ll find everything you need to know to make artisanal loaves of every bread style, including straight doughs, sourdoughs, yeasted flatbreads, and more.

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If you've never known the satisfaction of taking a warm fragrant bread from your oven, now is the time to start kneading. Lauren Chattman anticipates all the questions and provides answers for every situation likely to arise in the home bread baker's kitchen. Her start-to-finish primer on everything bread will make confident bakers of the most hesitant beginners.

Master the craft of bread making with Lauren Chattman's Home Course:
- Purchase, store, and work with the best ingredients for the bread you want
- What is a pre-ferment? Learn how yeast behaves and how to control fermentation to produce various breads
- Knead confidently by hand or in a stand mixer or food processor
- Know your dough! Ferment, turn, shape, proof, and score your dough like a pro

16oz Pint glass for serving a wide variety of beers, cocktails and soft drinks. As a mixing glass, it can also be used with any standard cocktail shaker for preparing mixed drinks. This classic bar glass is specially treated to create a durable, long lasting DuraTuff rim that has an increased resistance to thermal and physical shock.

Take beer tasting to a whole new level at your home, bar or restaurant with a professional wood serving flight! This wooden board accommodates 4 tasting glasses and fits glassware with a base diameter of up to 2.25in (57mm).

* Beer tasting glasses available separately

Fully revised and updated, The Complete Joy of Homebrewing is everything you need to know to brew beer at home from start to finish including new recipes, updated charts on hop varieties, secrets to fermentation, beer kit tips, and more - from the master of homebrewing...Charlie Papazian. The Complete Joy of Homebrewing is the essential guide to understanding and making beer, from stouts, ales, lagers, and bitters, to specialty beers and meads. Everything to get started is here: the basics of building a home brewery, world-class proven recipes, easy-to-follow instructions, and the latest advancements in brewing. Master brewer Charlie Papazian also includes the history and lore of beer, the science behind brewing, and tips on how to create your own original ale.

This completely revised and updated edition includes:
- An expanded and updated homebrew recipe chart: How to brew 53 traditional beers
- A Beer Styles chart with easy-to-understand descriptions of key flavor and aroma characters along with homebrew technical data to make your own recipe formulations
- A list of more than 75 beer types describing strength, hop aroma, bitterness, flavor, color, sweetness, and alcohol percentage
- Expanded charts on 68 hop varieties, descriptions, and uses
- Brand new recipes
- Beer kit tips
- Key information about using and understanding hops
- Five secrets to fermentation
- And much more

This large glass is inspired by the elegant Wheat beer glasses of Germany and is perfect for serving a wide variety of styles. The slender form is also particularly suited to Pilsners, Lagers and Draft Beer. 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 to contain a large, fluffy head and to release the aroma the beer.