Booze for Free

Some guys have all the luck. Andy Hamilton has ‘road tested’ over 100 DIY drinks - many of them pleasantly alcoholic- to be made from the plants of the garden, hedge, field and wood, and has brought the results to the pages of his Booze for Free. The result is a home imbiber’s delight, full of lore, sense, entertainment, humour, botany, history and tongue-tantalizing recipes. Hamilton has that wholly underrated, but absolutely essential skill in a practical matters, of writing with pure clarity and absolute readability. His recipes won’t let you down. You may fall down after sampling some of the stronger brews, but that’s another matter – John Lewis-Stempel, author of THE WILD LIFE: A YEAR LIVING ON WILD FOODFor those who give a damn about the planet but still want to enjoy a beautifully crafted pint of the finest, Booze for Free is absolutely compulsory reading. Sláinte Andy – Mark Boyle, author of THE MONEYLESS MANWow… it’s brilliant! So many mouthwateringly delicious ideas and recipes!… But this is so much more than a ‘recipe’ book. Packed with fascinating and useful information about the world of foraging, not to mention a good pinch of humour, it makes me want to abandon life as I know it – Brigit Strawbridge, star of ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green’Booze for Free is a book-of-the year contender… a book which I’ll be reading again and again (trying out recipes and techniques as I go along), and you’d have to be drunk not to want to do the same! * *Andy’s book reveals the treasure trove in our hedgerows, fields and woodlands – Kate Humblea wonderful guide to garden-based DIY concoctions * Independent on Sunday *

Andy Hamilton lives in Bristol where he is founder of the Bristol Brewing Circle and runs brewing workshops and an allotment. He forages and regularly takes groups on wild food walks, sharing his extensive knowledge of edible wild foods, plant folklore and herbal medicine. Andy is a co-creator of the hugely successful website and writes a wild drinks blog. He also writes a foraging column for Home Farmer magazine, writes the brewing and foraging features for the BBC’s Countryfile magazine and writes features for the Guardian, the Ecologist, Tow Path Talk, Kitchen Garden magazine, and the New York based website Civil Eats. He has also written a survivalist column. He has been a consultant survival/wild food expert for various TV Shows and makes regular TV and Radio appearances both in the UK and abroad on shows which include the BBC’s ‘Countryfile’ and ‘Autumnwatch’. Andy is co-author of The Self-Sufficientish Bible.

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