Homemade Liqueurs and Infused Spirits: Innovative Flavor Combinations, Plus Homemade Versions of Kahlúa, Cointreau, and Other Popular Liqueurs

What do you get when you add flavors and sweetener to vodka, brandy, whiskey, or rum? Homemade liqueurs! You’ll be delighted by how easy it is to make your own versions of popular brands such as Bailey’s, Triple Sec, and Kahlua, as well as dozens of original flavor combinations. Andrew Schloss shows you the basic techniques for making a liqueur – typically as simple as combining fruit with liquor and sugar, letting the mixture sit for a week, straining, and enjoying – and then provides more than 150 recipes organized by types of flavoring, which include fruits, herbs, spices, nuts and seeds, vegetables, coffee, tea, chocolate, cream, caramel, honey, and butterscotch. Schloss also shows you how to make infused spirits, which are flavored but don’t contain sweeteners. And finally, he offers 80 recipes for irresistible cocktails you can make with your homemade liqueurs and infused spirits. Cheers! Here are 32 recipes for making your own signature hot sauces, ranging from mild to blisteringly hot, as well as 60 recipes that use homemade or commercial hot sauces in everything from barbeque and Buffalo wings to bouillabaisse and black-bean soup. Try making chowders, tacos, ribs, salads, seafood, and more. There are even recipes for scorching cocktails, like Daiquiri Diablo and Slow-Burn Martinis Author Jennifer Trainer Thompson, recognized as a leader in the spicy foods movement for her cookbooks and four hot sauce posters, has talked about hot sauce on hundreds of talk shows, including "Live with Regis" and "Good Morning America." She has traveled her own personal "Trail of Flame," speaking at conventions and in the media about hot foods, and serving as guest chef at Hot Nights at restaurants in Boston, Philadelphia, and the Berkshires.

Make your own soft drinks that are tastier, healthier, and cheaper than anything you'll find in stores!

From soda water to sarsaparilla, in Homemade Root Beer, Soda & Pop, you'll find easy-to-follow instructions for more than 60 traditional and modern soft drink recipes. Your whole family can make delicious batches of old favorites and experiment with new combinations of natural ingredients to create your own refreshing recipes.

You'll make fabulous, fizzy creations like:

— Old-Fashioned Root Beer

— Sarsaparilla Soda

— Birch Beer

— Virgin Islands Ginger Beer

— Lemon-Lime Soda

— Cherry Vanilla Soda

— Cream Soda

— Raspberry Shrub

— Molasses Switchel

— Coffee Whizzer

— Fruit Smoothie

— and much more!

Making your own soda is easy and inexpensive. Best of all, you control the sweetness level and ingredients, so you can create a drink that's exactly what you want. Using a few simple techniques, anyone can make a spectacular variety of beverages. Try Pomegranate Punch, Chai Fizz, Fruity Root Beer, Sparkling Orange Creamsicle, Honey Cardamom Fizzy Water, Sparkling Espresso Jolt, Cold Fudge Soda, Lightly Salty Caramel Seltzer, Sangria Shrub, Maraschino Ginger Ale, Malted Molasses Switchel, or Berry Vinegar Cordial. Some recipes show you how to re-create the flavors of favorite commercial soft drinks, and others show you how to use homemade soda in decadent desserts and adult cocktails. The delicious possibilities are endless! - Publisher.

Making your own soda is easy and inexpensive. Best of all, you control the sweetness level and ingredients, so you can create a drink that’s exactly what you want. Using a few simple techniques, anyone can make a spectacular variety of beverages. Try Pomegranate Punch, Chai Fizz, Fruity Root Beer, Sparkling Orange Creamsicle, Honey Cardamom Fizzy Water, Sparkling Espresso Jolt, Cold Fudge Soda, Lightly Salty Caramel Seltzer, Sangria Shrub, Maraschino Ginger Ale, Malted Molasses Switchel, or Berry Vinegar Cordial. Some recipes show you how to re-create the flavors of favorite commercial soft drinks, and others show you how to use homemade soda in decadent desserts and adult cocktails. The delicious possibilities are endless!

Add some fizzy sparkle to your life and discover the delicious and refreshing world of homemade soft drinks. Drawing on centuries-old traditions from American general stores and pharmacy soda fountains, this fun and informative guide has recipes for perennial favorites like birch beer and ginger beer, as well as more adventurous concoctions like Molasses Switchel and Dandelion Champagne. Stephen Cresswell provides easy-to-follow directions that cover everything from extracting the earthy undertones of sassafras for an exciting root beer to whipping up a caffeine-charged Coffee Whizzer.

How Do You Like Your Hot?

Add a shot of hot sauce to your favorite dishes and spark a fire to thrill your taste buds. Make the hot sauce yourself and you can boost the heat, try out different vinegars, play up a favorite spiece, or adjust other ingredients to make a fiery condiment that's truly your own. Jennifer Trainer Thompson offers everything you need to know about making hot sauces, and then gets you started with 32 recipes that span every style, from a three-ingredient Louisiana hot sauce to a Caribbean concoction redolent of tropical fruits and ginger.

Get brewing! This foolproof beginner's guide to brewing great beer at home includes everything you need to know to make your very first batch. With step-by-step instructions, insightful advice, and simple recipes for a variety of beer styles, you'll be proudly sipping your own homemade beer in no time. This revised edition covers additional techniques and equipment, as well as new varieties of hops and other ingredients. Ground yourself in the basics of homebrewing and experiment with new tastes and combinations. It's fun, easy, and oh-so-rewarding! This title contains everything hot-sauce fans need to know to make their own signature hot sauces and then cook with them. What makes a hot sauce hot? What are the basic ingredients? Chile peppers - how to find, purchase, and work with the best chillies for the flavour you want. Hot sauce is good for you and is a tasty way to add flavour to reduced-salt foods. Capsaicin, the chemical that makes chilli peppers hot, is a potent anti-inflammatory agent; it may help to relieve migraines, sinusitis, and arthritis and to encourage cancer-cell death Making your own soda is easy, inexpensive, and fun. Best of all, you can control the sweetness level and ingredients to create a drink that suits your individual taste. In this guide to all things fizzy, Andrew Schloss presents a handful of simple techniques and recipes that will have you recreating your favorite commercial soft drinks and experimenting with new flavor combinations. Try your hand at Pomegranate Punch, Sparkling Espresso Jolt, Slightly Salty Caramel Seltzer, and more as you explore the endless bubbly possibilities. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen! From mild to blistering, renowned author Jennifer Trainer Thompson offers 32 recipes for making your own signature hot sauces, as well as 60 recipes that use homemade or commercial hot sauces in everything from barbeque and Buffalo wings to bouillabaisse and black bean soup. Try making spicy chowders, tacos, salads, and seafood — even scorchingly delicious cocktails. Bring your own handcrafted heat to your next barbecue and feel the burn! Everyone knows how to drink beer, but few know how to really taste it with an understanding of the finer points of brewing, serving, and food pairing. Discover the ingredients and brewing methods that make each variety unique and learn to identify the scents, colors, flavors, and mouthfeel of all the major beer styles. Recommendations for more than 50 types of beer from around the world encourage you to expand your horizons. Uncap the secrets in every bottle of the world’s greatest drink!

Everybody knows how to drink beer, but few know how to really taste it. Tasting Beer is a lively exploration of the culture, chemistry, and creativity that make craft beers so wonderfully complex. Heighten your enjoyment of every glass with an understanding of the finer points of brewing, serving, tasting, and food pairing.

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"A radical passion for brews." —Bob Townsend

"This foolproof beginner's guide to brewing great beer at home includes everything you need to know to make your very first batch. Authors Joe and Dennis Fisher strip away the mysteries and ensure success with simple, step-by-step instructions, and they offer 25 great recipes for a variety of beer styles. This revised edition covers the latest techniques and equipment, as well as new varieties of hops and other ingredients."-- Publisher description

This foolproof beginner’s guide to brewing great beer at home includes everything you need to know to make your very first batch. Authors Joe and Dennis Fisher strip away the mysteries and ensure success with simple, step-by-step instructions, and they offer 25 great recipes for a variety of beer styles. This revised edition covers the latest techniques and equipment, as well as new varieties of hops and other ingredients.

The story of beer Sensory evaluation Brewing and the vocabulary of beer flavor The qualities of beer Tasting, judging, and evaluation Presenting beer Beer and food Anatomy of a style British ales The lager family Europe: continental ales, Weissbiers, and ale-lager hybrids The beers of Belgium Craft beer A sip beyond Further reading on beer styles, flavors, history, and more A glossary of beer and brewing terms. Sweet, cold & bubbling Getting started. Ingredients ; Equipment ; Soda storage ; Problem solving Recipes for soda drinks. Sparkling waters ; Fruit sodas ; Root beers & cola brews ; Herbal sodas & healing waters ; Fizzy juices ; Sparkling teas, coffees & chocolates ; Cream sodas, egg creams & floats ; Shrubs, switchels & other vinegar drinks Recipes for soda food. Savory mains and sides ; Sweet desserts. Hot sauce is good for you and is a tasty way to add flavour to reduced-salt foods. Capsaicin, the chemical that makes chilli peppers hot, is a potent anti-inflammatory agent. This title contains everything hot-sauce fans need to know to make their own signature hot sauces and then cook with them. This foolproof beginner's guide to brewing great beer at home includes everything readers need to know to make their very first batch. The Fishers strip away the mysteries and ensure success with simple, step-by-step instructions, and they offer 25 great recipes for a variety of beer styles A fool proof beginner's guide to brewing great beer at home that includes what you need to know to make your very first batch. It strips away the mysteries and ensures success with simple, step-by-step instructions. It offers 25 recipes for a variety of beer styles. Presents a guide to beer tasting and production around the world, covering topics such as recipe formulation, brewhouse procedures, filtration, packaging, and how to identify hundreds of distinct flavors, and includes a compendium of the major types of beers In this guide, Mosher steers readers to a better understanding of how every batch of beer is affected by each of the brewmaster's choices - recipe formulation, brewhouse procedures, yeasts, fermentations, carbonation, filtration, packaging and much more Offers bubbly recipes and simple instructions for easy-to-learn techniques. This title clearly explains the three basic methods of carbonation: yeast brewing, carbonating in a siphon, and infusing a flavour base with a seltzer. Discusses the history of root beers and the equipment needed to make them, and includes recipes for sarsaparilla, birch beer, ginger beer, cherry vanilla soda, and cream soda Provides recipes for sauces featuring hot peppers, including poblano, chipotle, jalapeño, and habanero