The Good Reverend's Guide to Infused Spirits : Alchemical Cocktails, Healing Elixirs, and Cleansing Solutions for the Home and Bar

A complete guide to home uses for neutral spirits, from infusions and tinctures to cocktails and cleaning solutions. A bottle of rectified alcohol, like The Good Reverend’s Universal Spirit from Tamworth Distilling, is a bottle of possibilities. In these pages, you’ll discover over 100 recipes for infusions, tinctures, cocktails, cordials, elixirs, punches, and even household cleaners. This handbook will teach you to replicate famous liqueurs and classic cocktails, and help you prepare perfect garnishes and celebratory toasts. With step-by-step instructions and photos, you’ll learn processes culinary, scientific, and alchemical to improve everything from your parties to your health. You’ll learn the processes of osmosis and dissolution that create the perfect infusions. You’ll be given the secrets to prep for guests lists of 1 or 100. You’ll be guided through pairing your alcoholic creations with the rhythms of nature. Yes, with a bottle of purified spirits, you’ll be able to purify your own human spirit. These recipes explain not just the flavor benefits of their ingredients, but also the spiritual and supernatural. Discover the meanings of herbs, the ratio of the Fibonacci sequence, and the effects of moon phases, among so much more. Come for the drinks, but stay for the magic. A complete guide to home uses for neutral spirits, from infusions and tinctures to cocktails and cleaning solutions. A bottle of rectified alcohol, like The Good Reverend's Universal Spirit from Tamworth Distilling, is a bottle of possibilities. In these pages, you'll discover over 100 recipes for infusions, tinctures, cocktails, cordials, elixirs, punches, and even household cleaners. This handbook will teach you to replicate famous liqueurs and classic cocktails, and help you prepare perfect garnishes and celebratory toasts. With step-by-step instructions and photos, you'll learn processes culinary, scientific, and alchemical to improve everything from your parties to your health. You'll learn the processes of osmosis and dissolution that create the perfect infusions. You'll be given the secrets to prep for guests lists of 1 or 100. You'll be guided through pairing your alcoholic creations with the rhythms of nature. Yes, with a bottle of purified spirits,... Front Cover 2 Half-Title Page 3 Copyright Page 4 Title Page 6 Contents 7 Chapter Zero: Introduction 10 Chapter One: Simplest Solution 37 Chapter Two: Herbal Solutions 44 Chapter Three: Re:Solutions 85 Chapter Four: Intentional Solutions 123 Chapter Five: Cosmic Solutions 165 Conversion Charts 204 Acknowledgments 205 Appendix: Instant Solutions 208 Index 215 A guide to using neutral spirits at home, with step-by-step instructions/recipes for infusions, tinctures, cocktails, household cleaners and more, with scientific and mystical explanations.