Drink the Harvest: Making and Preserving Juices, Wines, Meads, Teas, and Ciders

Shares recipes for making homemade fruit and vegetable drinks, wines, meads, teas, and syrups, and offers advice on creating and maintaining a backyard beverage garden and harvesting ingredients for maximum flavor.
Preserving the harvest doesn't have to stop with jam and pickles. Many fruits, vegetables, and herbs can be made into delicious beverages to drink fresh or preserve for later -- a healthy and inexpensive alternative to store-bought drinks. Drink the Harvest shows you how to create juices, ciders, wines, meads, teas, and syrups to savor any time of year. From strawberry juice to pear cider, dandelion wine to spiced apple mead, citrus peel tea to kombucha, you'll love these delicious recipes. You'll even discover how to create your own backyard beverage garden and how to harvest ingredients for maximum flavor and quantity.