How to make spruce tip bitters
This recipe for spruce tip bitters is a little bit of a labour of love and it will take frequent outings to the nearest wooded area as the ingredients need to be collected over...
Category: Foraged booze recipes
Ginchi – fermented edible gin flavoured vegetables
Ginchi is the staple of British cuisine, a traditional side dish made from salted botanicals and most commonly cabbage with carrots – it must always have the addition of juniper berries. Ok, so ginchi...
How to make elderflower syrup and a chocolate elderflower cocktail
Elderflower syrup has replaced elderflower cordial in our house as it is so much easier to make. I made a video some time ago and wrote a piece for the Telegraph about making syrups and this really...
How to make rhubarb tequila & rhubarb tequila margaritas
Rhubarb tequila was one of those infusions that I just knew would work before I even tried it. The harsh burn of tequila softened by the sour tang of the rhubarb. When I started...
The Wild Food and Drink Podcast May 2017
This is the first Wild Food and Drink Podcast, a new venture that will start appearing here every month. I’ve been wanting to start some kind of audio project for a few years now...
Before the fall wine
Back in the early 1600’s it proved to be rather popular to move to a city, a trend that continues to this day. It was around this time that people really stopped having such...
Wild cocktails – Bristol Wheelbarrow
When you are starting with your own wild cocktails it is useful to use the the tried and tested cocktails served up by countless bars across our little planet as a blueprint. Take a...
The best tip for perfect sloe gin, elderflower liqueur & other infused drinks
There is one simple mistake that everyone makes when they first get into making infused drinks like elderflower liqueur and sloe gin. I have to admit that for many years I made the same mistake...
Make your own evocative Mediterranean tonic water
There are places that you visit that can vividly paint themselves into your consciousness; weaving into daily life as a semi-subconscious backdrop to the daily mundanity of life. These special places, you have only experienced...
How to make Hazelnut, Walnut &/or Pistachio nut Bourbon or Whisky
There is something really refreshing about the taste of nuts at the back of your throat; it’s a taste that can add a velvet complexity to a cocktail or indeed to whisky based dessert such...
