Contents

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Why One-Gallon Batches?

Suggested Equipment for Beginners

Yeast and Other Ingredients

The Basic Brewing Process

The Gift of the Bees

Heavenly Honey Mead

It’s All About The Honey

Master Recipe: Basic Mead

Lovely Lemon Balm Mead

Wildflower Mead

Blueberry Muffin Mead

Rosemary and Clementine Mead

Rose Petal and Hibiscus Mead

Vanilla Bean and Chamomile Mead

Lemon and Ginger Mead

Black Cherry Mead

Cyser (Apple Mead)

Pyment (Grape Mead)

Vintage Varietals

Fruit and Country Wines

Let’s Define “Wine”

Master Recipe: Fruit Wine

Spiced Pomegranate Wine

Honeysuckle Wine

Peppermint Wine

Elderberry and Rose Hip Wine

Strawberry and Linden Flower Wine

Grapefruit Wine

Scarborough Fair Wine

Earl Grey Tea Wine

Raspberry-Pear Wine

Chocolate-Cherry Wine

Johnny-Jump-Up

Ciders Sweet and Dry

An Apple A Day …

Master Recipe: Basic Cider

Perry (Pear Cider)

Orange-Hibiscus Cider

Dark Ginger Cider

Maple Syrup Cider

Chai-Spiced Cider

Summer Berry Cider

Dry-Hopped Cider

Flower Garden Cider

Grains and Gruits and Hops, Oh My!

To Hop, or Not To Hop?

Master Recipe: American Pilsner

Thyme and Honey Saison

Root Beer Brown Ale

Lemon-Pepper Ipa

Apricot American Wheat Beer

Blueberry Porter

Elderflower Pale Ale

Deep Roots Chocolate Stout

Beyond the Brews

Mulled Mead, Wine and Cider

Mulled Red Wine or Cider

Mulled Mead or White Wine

Basic Simple Syrup

Ginger-Honey Syrup

Cinnamon–Brown Sugar Syrup

Cooking with Homebrews

Spent-Grain Flour

Herbed Spent-Grain Crackers

Spent-Grain Granola

Spent-Grain Beer Bread

Marinades and Sauces

Cider-Poached Pears

Fruit-Scrap Vinegar

Acknowledgments

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