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I bought a book today called Booze for Free, the definitive guide to making beer, wines, cocktail bases, ciders, and other drinks at home by Andy Hamilton. Now, I don't have a ton of money right now (read: disposable income is going towards booze ingredients and maybe now more carboys because damn that apple juice is fun to play with) but I opened it and it had a section on foraging... intriguing. Then I started reading.
Some recipes:
BAY AND ROSEMARY ALE
ROSEMARY ALE
ACORN COFFEE (obvs not alcoholic)
HEATHER MEAD
HIMALAYAN BALSAM FLOWER CHAMPAGNE (in the archaic sense of champagne, quick bubbly ferment)
HOP WINE
YARROW ALE
QUINCE AND PERSIMMON WINE
CARROT WHISKEY
ELDERBERRY PORT
NOCINO
CRUCIFERLOUS VEG CHAMPAGNE (again all champagne is in the archaic sense here)
ROSEBAY WILLOWHERB CHAMPAGNE
BROOM FLOWER WINE
DANDELION CHAMPAGNE
JAPANESE KNOTWEED ALE AND WINE
2 NETTLE ALES
NETTLE WINE
LINDEN AND BITCH SAP WINES
...can you tell I'm excited?
I also found this thread by a guy here: http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f32/results-juice-yeast-sugar-experiments-83060/
It is amazing and he is amazing. Over years he does hundreds and hundreds of cidermaking trials and reports yeast, added sugar, potassium and sodium meta, etc as seperate factors. So. Good.
Some recipes:
BAY AND ROSEMARY ALE
ROSEMARY ALE
ACORN COFFEE (obvs not alcoholic)
HEATHER MEAD
HIMALAYAN BALSAM FLOWER CHAMPAGNE (in the archaic sense of champagne, quick bubbly ferment)
HOP WINE
YARROW ALE
QUINCE AND PERSIMMON WINE
CARROT WHISKEY
ELDERBERRY PORT
NOCINO
CRUCIFERLOUS VEG CHAMPAGNE (again all champagne is in the archaic sense here)
ROSEBAY WILLOWHERB CHAMPAGNE
BROOM FLOWER WINE
DANDELION CHAMPAGNE
JAPANESE KNOTWEED ALE AND WINE
2 NETTLE ALES
NETTLE WINE
LINDEN AND BITCH SAP WINES
...can you tell I'm excited?
I also found this thread by a guy here: http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f32/results-juice-yeast-sugar-experiments-83060/
It is amazing and he is amazing. Over years he does hundreds and hundreds of cidermaking trials and reports yeast, added sugar, potassium and sodium meta, etc as seperate factors. So. Good.
