Yazan: Dave | 27 July 2012 | 4 Comments
Categories: foraging, Home Brew, Lifestyle and Recipes, Wild foods
Town planners of 20th century often included cherry trees in their planting schemes as they loved the blossom. The fruit was something of an afterthought, but not for us foragers. It has meant that added to the list of usual places to hunt for cherries you should include housing estates and parks. You will more [...]
Yazan: Andy Hamilton | 18 June 2012 | 9 Comments
Categories: Home Brew, Homemade, Lifestyle and Recipes, Wild foods
Although we already have an elderflower cordial recipe on our elder article it is one for making it in bulk. I decide that as I have just made a smaller batch of elderflower cordial, some elder flower champagne and our forum is buzzing with talk of elderflower wine it would be good to put up [...]
Yazan: Andy Hamilton | 13 March 2012 | 2 Comments
Categories: General Gardening, guest blogs, Herbs, Home Brew, Reference, Uncategorized
Huge thanks to our latest guest blogger, Rob Hopkins for allowing us to reproduce the following blog. Rob is the founder of the Transition network and author of five excellent books. Sometimes the simplest ideas carry with them, when thought through, such a powerful taste of how the future could be that they are quite irresistible. One such [...]
Yazan: Andy Hamilton | 14 August 2011 | 30 Comments
Categories: Budget living, foraging, Fruit growing, Herbs, Home Brew, Homemade, Wild foods
Despite the long lonely days (and sometimes nights) with just a keyboard for company, the occasionally twinge of RSI, the days of procrastination and the slow withdraw from everyday life, I love being a writer and especially a non-fiction writer. One of the main reasons is that I get to choose what to write about [...]
Yazan: Andy Hamilton | 22 December 2010 | 7 Comments
Categories: Home Brew, Reference
What’s more increased bladder flow can deplete valuable vitamins and minerals such as potassium, vitamin C and various B vitamins. To further these feelings an increase in REM (rapid eye movement/dream) sleep means your brain has been falsely excited and this can lead to depression.
Yazan: Andy Hamilton | 17 February 2010 | 11 Comments
Categories: Home Brew, Ishers Tips
The wine you made in Part 2 is by no means great. It’s OKish, but it has lots of faults. Think for a moment about drinking a reasonably good wine made from grapes. What are your impressions? There’s a certain indefinable “feel” in the mouth, a sort of viscosity which your new wine doesn’t have. [...]
Yazan: IshBot | 06 January 2010 | 14 Comments
Categories: Home Brew, Ishers Tips
Messing around in a bucket Those somewhat fictitious “traditional” ancestors of ours made wine in anything they could find. Usually, they would have started it in a big bowl covered with a cloth and then finished it off in a salt-glaze earthenware pot – at which point they couldn’t see it any longer. And that’s [...]
Yazan: IshBot | 11 December 2009 | 10 Comments
Categories: Home Brew, Ishers Tips
Getting rid of the fairy stories By MKG If I said to a fairly representative group “Take some fruit juice, squeeze some lemon juice into it, empty a bag of sugar into it, top up to about a gallon with water from the tap and then stir or shake until everything’s dissolved” then I’d witness [...]
Yazan: Andy Hamilton | 20 November 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Courses, Home Brew
Home brewing – February 4th – 7-9pm – £5 per person – Bristol, Boiling Wells Lane – FULLY BOOKED Learn how to successfully make ales and country wines without having to use kits and using ingredients and to some extent equipment available to yourself. We will be learning in a relaxed informal atmosphere and you [...]
Yazan: Andy Hamilton | 29 October 2009 | 5 Comments
Categories: Home Brew, Wild foods
Nettle Beer This is an easy recipe to follow and creates a delightful, if not usual tasting beer. It is very cheap to make and follows a traditionally english recipe. Before hops were widely used in the 17th century all sorts of plant were used to flavor the ale including nettles.(Urtica dioica). It was also [...]
