Hooch: Simplified Brewing, Winemaking, and Infusing at Home

Hooch: Simplified Brewing, Winemaking, and Infusing at Home

by Scott Meyer

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Overview

For anyone who has considered brewing a batch of beer or mead at home, or making a custom barrel of wine with local fruit, this thorough guide will clear a path to the bottle. It demystifies the process: from planting hops and fruits to pruning, harvesting, fermenting, flavoring, and bottling one-of-a-kind drinks from your own backyard. It serves as a starting point not only for wines and beers, but also hard ciders, meads, and infusions, and even touches on at-home distilling

Perfect for the city-dweller, urban gardener, or anyone with limited space and a desire to make custom concoctions, Hooch offers projects to suit any lifestyle. With recipes for brews made from grapes, hops, and herbs, DIY boozers will find everything they need to begin a brewing journey.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780762446032
Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
Publication date: 05/28/2013
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 6.80(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Scott Meyer is a former editor-in-chief of Organic Gardening magazine, and a frequent writer of all varieties of do-it-yourself. He is the author of The City Homesteader and he lives in the Philadelphia suburbs.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Chapter 1 Fermentation Basics 10

Essential Supplies 11

Serious About Sanitizing 19

Water 21

Simple Science 22

Yeast Husbandry 28

Fermentation Steps 35

Chapter 2 Homegrown Wines 40

Grapes 44

Berries 52

Orchard Fruits 61

Citrus Fruits 70

Root Crops 74

Summer Vegetables 79

Foraged Foods 86

Chapter 3 Home Brews 92

Growing Hops 93

Growing Barley 101

Ginger Beer 118

Chapter 4 Cider with a Kick 123

Growing Apples 124

Making Cider 131

Variations 136

Chapter 5 A Honey of a Drink 140

Keeping Bees 141

Making Mead 147

Chapter 6 Dare to Distill 156

The Still 157

Ingredients 160

Distillation Steps 163

Chapter 7 Interesting Infusions 175

Flavored Vodkas 176

Simple Sangrias 185

Chapter 8 Garden to Glass 187

Resources 195

Bibliography 201

Index 203

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