Machine generated contents note: Mead, Cider, Perry, Beer and Country Wine -- How to Use This Book -- 1.The History of Brewing -- Cider -- Mead or Honey Wine -- Perry -- 2.Apple Varieties -- Apples According to Type -- 3.Types of Honey -- Manuka -- Mexican Yucatan -- Canadian White Clover -- Date Honey -- Tasmanian Leatherwood -- Australian Eucalyptus -- 4.Making Cider --- Hawky's Way -- Collecting Apples for Free -- Availability of Ingredients -- Brewing Cider -- Further Preparation -- Crushing the Fruit -- Pressing your Pulp -- Checking the pH -- Checking the Sugar Level -- The Fermentation Process -- How Long to Wait? -- The Racking Process -- Bottling your Booty -- 5.Making Scrumpy -- Basic Scrumpy Recipe -- Turbo or Booster Cider -- 6.Making Your Own Infusions -- Vodka Infusions -- Lavender-infused Vodka -- Garlic Vodka -- Mint Vodka -- Gin Infusions -- Lemon Verbena Gin -- Sloe Gin/Vodka -- Brandy Infusions -- Sake Infusions -- For the Teetotal -- Traditional Lemonade --

Contents note continued: 7.A Taste of the Middle East -- This Desert Life -- 8.Making Perry -- Pear Types -- Golden Perry -- 9.Making Mead -- The Basic Recipe -- The Basic Method -- Braggot (It's Mead, Jim, but not as we know it) -- Black Mead -- Melomel -- Cyser -- Oxymel -- Pyment -- Rhodomel -- Sack Mead -- Short Mead -- Show Mead -- Oak Leaf Melomel Mead -- Nettle Mead -- Fruit Mead -- 10.Making Beer -- Brewing your own: Reasons to be Cheerful -- A Cautionary Tale -- What's it going to be, then: Kit or Mash? -- Brewing from a Kit -- Using a Malt Extract -- Brewing with a Half or Partial Mash -- Brewing with Full Mash: Keep calm and carry on -- Keeping Everything Clean -- Cleanliness for Bottling or Kegging -- What Sort of Equipment will I need? -- The Bare Minimum for a Brewing Kit -- Kettle or Water Boiler? -- Sparge Bag and Sparger -- Insulated Chest -- (Fermenting) Vessel -- Demijohns/Carboys -- Using an Airlock -- Using a Hydrometer -- Bottling your Brew --

Contents note continued: Winter Special Brew -- Dark Beer -- Basic Pilsner -- Basic Bitter -- 11.Ireland on my Mind, and my Liver -- 12.Making Country Wines -- First Things Thirst -- My Fish was T H I S Big -- Apple Wine -- Beetroot Wine -- Sap Wines -- Red Clover Wine -- Cherry Wine -- Gorse Flower Wine -- Coltsfoot Wine -- Dandelion Wine -- Elderflower Wine (sparkling) -- Elderflower Wine (still) -- Green Tomato Wine -- Potato Wine -- Rowan Wine -- Honeysuckle Wine -- Lavender Wine -- Haw Wine -- Nettle Wine -- Pea Pod Wine -- Sloe Wine -- Rhubarb Wine -- Wassail Wine.