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The Wildcrafting Brewer: Creating Unique Drinks and Boozy Concoctions from Nature’s Ingredients

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Primitive beers, country wines, herbal meads, natural sodas, and more

The art of brewing doesn’t stop at the standard ingredients: barley, hops, yeast, and water. If truth be told, the origins of brewing involve a whole galaxy of wild and cultivated plants, fruits, berries, and other natural materials, that have been once used to make a whole spectrum of creative, fermented drinks.

Now fermentation fans and home brewers can rediscover these “primitive” drinks and their unique flavors in The Wildcrafting Brewer. Wild-plant expert and forager Pascal Baudar’s first book, The New Wildcrafted Cuisine, opened up a whole new world of possibilities for readers wishing to explore and capture the flavors of their local terroir. The Wildcrafting Brewer does the same for fermented drinks. Baudar reveals both the underlying philosophy and the practical techniques for making your own delicious concoctions, from simple wild sodas, to non-grape-based “country wines,” to primitive herbal beers, meads, and traditional ethnic ferments like tiswin and kvass.

The book opens with a retrospective of plant-based brewing and ancient beers. The writer then goes on to describe both cold and warm brewing methods and provides quite a lot of interesting recipes; mugwort beer, horehound beer, and manzanita cider are just some of the many drinks represented. Baudar is quick to point out that these recipes serve principally as a touchstone for readers, who can then use the information and techniques he provides to create their own brews, the usage of their own local ingredients.

The Wildcrafting Brewer will attract herbalists, foragers, natural-foodies, and chefs alike with the writer’s playful and relaxed philosophy. Readers will find themselves surprised by how easy making your own natural drinks may also be, and will be inspired, again, by the abundance of nature all around them.

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