Wild drinks and cocktails : handcrafted squashes, shrubs, switchels, tonics, and infusions to mix at home

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 water kefir 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 pros needed!" - Warren Bobrow, author of Apothecary Cocktails, Whiskey Cocktails, and Bitters and Shrub Syrup Cocktails "Beverages are undergoing a renaissance. Before the days of sugary, pre-made mixers and sodas, drinks were carefully crafted from fresh, natural ingredients to be flavorful tonics that quenched thirst and healed the body. Today craft cocktailers, foragers, and fermenters alike are finding modern inspiration in the beverages of yesterday, creating handcrafted syrups, squashes, shrubs, switchels, oxymels, bitters, and influsions. It's garden (and forest and farmers' market) to glass. Using ingredients you can find in your own backyard, foraging expedition, or local market, you can create artisan drinks that are sophisticated but still easy to make in your own kitchen."--Backcover. Introduction -- Crafting wild drinks -- Teas, juices, and lemonades -- Syrups, squashes, and cordials -- Oxymels, shrubs, and switchels -- Infusions, bitters, and liqueurs -- Wines and punches -- Fizzy fermentations -- Resources;Create your own handcrafted drinks and cocktails using local, fresh, or foraged ingredients Beverages are undergoing a renaissance. Before the days of sugary, pre-made mixers and sodas, drinks were carefully crafted from fresh, natural ingredients to be flavorful tonics that quenched thirst and healed the body. Find new inspiration in the beverages of yesterday