This accessible home-brew guide for alcoholic and non-alcoholic fermented drinks, from Apartment Therapy: The Kitchn's Emma Christensen, offers a wide range of simple yet enticing recipes for Root Beer, Honey Green Tea Kombucha, Pear Cider, Gluten-Free Sorghum Ale, Blueberry-Lavender Mead, Gin Sake, Plum Wine, and more. You can make naturally fermented sodas, tend batches of kombucha, and brew your own beer in the smallest apartment kitchen with little more equipment than a soup pot, a plastic bucket, and a long-handled spoon. All you need is the know-how. That's where Emma Christensen comes in, distilling a wide variety of projects-from mead to kefir to sake-to their simplest forms, making the process fun and accessible for homebrewers. All fifty-plus recipes in True Brews stem from the same basic techniques and core equipment, so it's easy for you to experiment with your favorite flavors and add-ins once you grasp the fundamentals. Covering a tantalizing range of recipes, including Coconut Water Kefir, Root Beer, Honey-Green Tea Kombucha, Pear Cider, Gluten-Free Pale Ale, Chai-Spiced Mead, Cloudy Cherry Sake, and Plum Wine, these fresh beverages make impressive homemade offerings for hostess gifts, happy hours, and thirsty friends alike.

Autorentext

EMMA CHRISTENSEN is a food writer, beer reviewer, and homebrewer; currently her writing appears daily on Apartment Therapy: The Kitchn. In addition, Christensen writes a twice-monthly syndicated column for Tribune Media Services on weeknight meal solutions for harried home cooks. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.



Inhalt

Introduction Brewer's Pantry Brewer's Toolbox Brewer's Handbook Chapter 1 Soda Pop Expert Interview: Jesse Friedman, SodaCraft Master Soda Recipe Ginger Ale Strawberry Soda Orange Cream Soda Watermelon-Mint Soda Cherry-Lime Soda Grape Soda Grapefruit Soda Root Beer Chapter 2 Kombucha Expert Interview: Eric Childs, Kombucha Brooklyn Master Kombucha Recipe Peach Iced Tea Kombucha Hibiscus Kombucha Blackberry-Sage Kombucha Honey-Green Tea Kombucha White Tea-Pomegranate Kombucha Chapter 3 Kefir Expert Interview: Nancy Van Brasch Hamren, Nancy's Yogurt Master Milk Kefir Recipe Master Water Kefir Recipe Cherry, Pistachio, and Cardamom Kefir Smoothie Banana-Berry Kefir Smoothie Mango Lassi Kefir Smoothie Ginger-Pear Kefir Coconut Water Kefir Sparkling Raspberry Kefir Wine Chapter 4 Hard Cider Expert Interview: Jeffrey House, Ace Cider Master Hard Cider Recipe Dry Apple Cider Sweet Spiced Mulled Cider Pear Cider Hard Lemonade Jamaican Ginger Beer Pineapple-Brown Sugar Cider Chapter 5 Beer Expert Interview: Dann Paquette, Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project Master Beer Recipe Amber Ale IPA Apricot Wheat Ale Saison Farmhouse Ale Gluten-Free Pale Ale Mocha Stout Chapter 6 Mead Expert Interview: Oron Benary, Brothers Drake Meadery Master Mead Recipe Dry Mead Chai-Spiced Mead Renaissance Fair Sweet Mead Vanilla-Peach Mead Cranberry Mead Blueberry-Lavender Mead Chapter 7 Sake Expert Interview: Greg Lorenz, SakéOne Master Sake Recipe #1 (Easy) Master Sake Recipe #2 (Advanced) Cloudy Cherry Sake Jasmine Green Tea Sake Meyer Lemon-Thyme Sake Gin-Infused Sake Chapter 8 Fruit Wine Expert Interview: Glenn Foster, Talon Wine Brands Master Wine Recipe Plum Wine Strawberry Wine Blackberry Wine Raspberry-Rhubarb Wine Blueberry-Pomegranate Wine Summer Melon Wine Sparkling Sour Cherry Wine Resources Measurement Conversions Acknowledgments About the Author Index

Titel
True Brews
Untertitel
How to Craft Fermented Cider, Beer, Wine, Sake, Soda, Mead, Kefir, and Kombucha at Home
EAN
9781607743392
ISBN
978-1-60774-339-2
Format
E-Book (epub)
Veröffentlichung
14.05.2013
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
11.81 MB
Anzahl Seiten
192
Jahr
2013
Untertitel
Englisch