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Wild Drinks & Cocktails

Handcrafted Squashes, Shrubs, Switchels, Tonics, and Infusions to Mix at Home

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Create your own handcrafted drinks and cocktails using local, fresh, or foraged ingredients.

Tired of boring, artificial, too-sweet drinks? Go wild! It's time to embrace drinks featuring local, fresh, or foraged ingredients. It's easy with Wild Drinks & Cocktails.

Using ingredients you can find in your own backyard, farm, or local market, you can create artisan drinks that will leave you feeling refreshed and even revitalized. Learn useful fermentation techniques to make your own kefi,and homemade soda. Brew your own teas, mix your own squashes, shrubs, switchels, tonics, and infusions. You can even use the recipes to create powerful and healthful craft cocktails.

Craft drink expert Emily Han creates unique flavors in the 100 drink recipes, each with powerful health benefits, along with a sentimental nod to drinks of another era. Wild Drinks & Cocktails teaches you the techniques you need to know to handcraft your own infused waters, syrups, vinegar drinks, spirits, wines, and sodas.

Join the drink renaissance with Wild Drinks & Cocktails.

"Emily Han's carefully crafted book, Wild Drinks & Cocktails dispels the common wisdom of great drinks are only to be built by professionals. These simple cocktails are not short of brilliant- from locally-gathered ingredients constructed with our own, very capable hands, no pro's needed!" - Warren Bobrow, author of Apothecary Cocktails, Whiskey Cocktails, and Bitters and Shrub Syrup Cocktails

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    • Library Journal

      February 1, 2016

      In her first book, Los Angeles-based "wildcrafter" and drinks expert Han provides recipes for syrups and various libations to make at home using gathered or purchased plants, flowers, spices, and fruits. After a section covering tools, safety, and processes, the book is divided into chapters on Teas, Juices, and Lemonades; Syrups, Squashes, and Cordials; Oxymels, Shrubs, and Switchels; Infusions, Bitters, and Liqueurs; Wines and Punches; and Fizzy Fermentations. Though some, such as apricot and meadowsweet liqueur or dandelion and burdock soda, will require either foraging skills or an extremely comprehensive specialty store, many others, including fig and vanilla rum or meyer lemon and bay leaf syrup, can be made with ingredients available at large supermarkets. Most recipes require a considerable amount of time--ranging from a few hours to several days--between preparation and consumption for steeping or flavor development. Han also provides a list of resources for ingredients and supplies, as well as suggestions for further reading about plants, drinks, food preservation, and related agricultural topics. VERDICT An excellent companion volume to Ashley English's Quench, this beautifully photographed work will be a boon to both imbibers and teetotalers with adventurous palates and an interest in unusual ingredients.--Stephanie Klose, Library Journal

      Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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