Food and drink: alcoholic beverages

This fascinating collection of traditional fruit, botanical, and vegetable wine recipes will delight any amateur winemaker or enthusiast, featuring simple instructions that remain of great practical use today.

This vintage text is ideal for brewers and brewing enthusiasts.

This book is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of the home-brewing enthusiast.

Historians will enjoy this insight into the history of alcohol written by an expert in the field.

This practical recipe book is sure to delight any beer and ale enthusiast, amateur winemaker, home-brewer, or beer historian, providing instructions on brewing methods and traditional recipes for a variety of ales, beers and wines.

This vintage glossary explains a broad spectrum of brewing terms in an A-Z format, from 'Attenuation' to 'Underdough'.

This book is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of the home-brewing enthusiast.

This book contains a collection of classic soup recipes from across the globe that use beer or ale as an ingredient.

This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to the functions of the brew-house and brewing in general.

This early work on brewing is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition.

A classic book on making country wines, beer, mead and metheglin.

This antique guide explains the mashing, cooling, fermentation and distillation processes in the manufacturing of whiskey.

"e;Vine Pruning"e; is a comprehensive guide to maintaining grape vines, looking at why, when, and how it is done.

If you love Milly Johnson, Trisha Ashley and Catherine Alliott, you'll love Jane Wenham-Jones's deliciously entertaining tale of love, friendship and secrets!

There are few more quintessentially English experiences than supping a pint of ale in a centuries-old public house, where the walls could tell you stories.

The gin craze seems to have taken over the world in recent times, but how many gin lovers have ever stopped to really wonder about the origins of their favourite tipple?

Newcastle-under-Lyme manages to combine a rich and often dramatic history with a vibrant contemporary feel.

Ever since the days when it was reconstructed as one of King Alfred's burhs (fortified towns), Lewes has experienced a wealth of taverns, inns, alehouses, and public houses.

The county of Kent holds a unique place in the history of brewing in Great Britain.

Seen together for the first time, this fascinating collection of nearly 200 images illustrates Dorset's rich and varied brewing history.

Beer originated in the Middle East about 8000 BC and took another three-and-a-half millennia to arrive across the Channel in Britain.

Guildford manages to combine a rich and often dramatic history with a vibrant contemporary feel.

Cheshire at one time was an important contributor to the brewing industry, with the epicentre being Warrington.

The City of London, the fabled 'Square Mile', is the financial hub of world trade.

'Gloucestershire is a poor county for real ale': that was the sad assessment of the county's brewing heritage in the 1976 Good Beer Guide according to the Campaign For Real Ale.

For centuries, Nottingham had a reputation for brewing good ale.

The Kent coastal towns of Whitstable and Herne Bay are 5 miles apart, but are very different in character.

There's nothing quite like a refreshing drink after a day on the fells and hills of the Yorkshire Dales.

The significant historical and social differences between these two neighbouring towns are vividly brought into focus by the variation in pubs and other hostelries that have existed, or still exist, in each.

The story of beer and brewing in Britain is a diverse tale.

Within Conwy's striking medieval walls is a treasure trove of historic taverns and inns.

Before the late nineteenth century ale and beer, brewed from malt, were widely consumed due to the lack of affordable, safe alternatives.

Blackpool isn't a particularly old town and its rapid development has primarily been fuelled by tourism in the last 150 years or so.

Leicester's pubs have always been more than mere watering holes.

Ipswich is a brewery town.

Winner of Beer Book of the Year at the 2016 British Guild of Beer Writers AwardsThe history of ale and beer is pitted with strange tales.

The drinking establishments of Saxon Chester are a mystery to us.

'As smooth as oil, sweet as milk, clear as amber and strong as brandy.

The teeming nature of life in eighteenth-century Edinburgh elevated the Old Town's taverns to a critical role in the city's social life, and there was 'no superabundance of sobriety in the town'.

The pubs of South Shields are numerous and each has its own fascinating history.

Ind Coope & Samuel Allsopp Breweries: The History Of The Hand charts the fortunes of two Burton upon Trent brewing giants: Samuel Allsopp, founded in the town in 1742 by Benjamin Wilson (Senior) and Ind Coope, who expanded to Burton upon Trent from Romford in 1856.

In Ten Cocktails, The Times drinks columnist Alice Lascelles uses ten of her favourite cocktails to distil the stories, recipes and tips she has amassed in more than a decade in pursuit of the mixed drink.

This vintage book contains a detailed treatise on the use and treatment of brewing water in beer production.

WINNER OF A GOURMAND WORLD COOKBOOK AWARD 2009!

Canada's favourite drink bible is back to help you master shooters-the small but powerful drinks that pack a punch.

Canada's favourite drink bible is back to help you make your holidays something to remember with quintessential holiday cocktails.

Canada's favourite drink bible is back to help you make the most of summer with fresh and light summer cocktails-the perfect pairings for backyard barbeques and lazy days at the cottage.

Canada's favourite drink bible is back to help you master the cocktail basics-the go-to cocktails every great bartender can make in the blink of an eye.

From martinis to margaritas to Manhattans, everyone is mixing it up these days.

Uncork a whole new take on the fascinating story of wine, captivatingly told by everyone's favourite wine expert Oz Clarke.