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I don't know about you, but whenever I want to learn something, I head for the bookstore. I have a number of these books, and others come highly recommended. Some are just here because they're good books. I've even dug up the books on cordials and distilling that I bought when my meadmaking yen spilled over into other areas....

• A Sip Through Time - A Collection of Old Brewing Recipes - An Illustrated Volume, Containing Hundreds of Old Recipes for Ale, Beer, Mead, Metheglin, Cider, Perry, Brandy, Liqueurs, Distilled Waters, Hypocras, Wines, Etc., dating from 1800 B.C. to Modern Times. A Sip Through Time contains over 400 recipes drawn from Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece and Rome, Medieval Europe, and 17th, 18th, and 19th century America and Europe.
  
  
• The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie, Kt. Opened 1669 - Whereby is Discovered Several ways for making of Metheglin, Sider, Cherry-Wine, &c. together with Excellent Directions for Cookery: As also for Preserving, Conserving, Candying, &c.
  
  
• Amateur wine making: an introduction and complete guide to wine, cider, perry, mead and beer making and to the cultivation of the vine
  
  
• Beekeeping At Buckfast Abbey with a section on mead making
  
  
• Brew It Yourself: A Complete Guide to the Brewing of Beer, Ale, Stout & Mead
  
  
• Brew Ware: How to Find, Adapt, & Build Homebrewing Equipment - This is, quite simply, an essential guide. Understandable drawings of pieces, assemblies, and connections abound, and specifications are presented in explicit detail.
  
  
• Brewing Mead: Wassail! In Mazers of Mead - Trace the history and discover the smooth, subtle secrets of mead. Learn how to brew this age-old drink with your basic homebrew equipment and Charlie Papazian's easy-to-follow directions.
  
  
• Cider: Making, Using & Enjoying Sweet & Hard Cider
  
  
• Classic Liqueurs: The Art of Making and Cooking With Liqueurs - The best and most complete work on home liqueur making. This book tells simply and exactly how to make the world's most famous liqueurs as well as exquisite fruit liqueurs in the home kitchen. the authors unlock the secret of liqueur making for the simulation of such classics as Amaretto, Anisette, Calvados, Curacao, Cherry Heering, Creme de Menthe, Drambuie, Forbidden Fruits, Frangelico, Galliano, Irish Cream, Kahlua, and Tia Maria to name a few.
  
  
• Cordials from Your Kitchen - Using these easy instructions, readers can create fruit, nut, herb, spice, and cream-based liqueurs, as well as flavored brandies, rums, and vodkas
  
  
• Discovering Country Winemaking
  
  
• First Steps in Winemaking: A Complete Month-By-Month Guide to Winemaking (Including the Production of Cider, Perry and Mead) - More than three million beginners have been happily launched into the fascinating hobby of winemaking by the previous editions of this practical little book, the phenomenal success of which has made it the accepted introduction to the craft. This new, completely updated edition sets out some 130 detailed recipes, all arranged in the months best for their making, so you can pursue winemaking year round
  
  
• Home Distillation Handbook - The best reference available on how to ferment and distill your own alcohol safely and easily. Although this is still illegal in many countries, knowledge is an easy burden, and amateur distillation is free and legal in many countries.
  
  
• Honey in the Mead
  
  
• How to Make Quality Liquers & Cordials at Home - Learn to make 10 high quality liqueurs & cordials at home with readily available ingredients. Recipes included are: Amaretto, Anisette, Cherry Liqueur, Coconut-Almond Liqueur, Coffee Liqueur, Crme de Banana, Crme de Cacao, Crme de Menthe, Irish Cream and Orange Curaao
  
  
• Lady With a Mead Cup: Ritual Prophecy and Lordship in the European Warband from LA Tene to the Viking Age
  
  
• Mad About Mead!: Nectar of the Gods
  
  
• Making Mead Honey Wine: History, Recipes, Methods and Equipment - Mead is honey wine. It is made when honey is diluted and allowed to ferment. Mead is thought by many to have been the first alcoholic beverage made by humans. Learn about honey, the equipment for making mead, yeasts and fermentation, recipes and formulas, fermentation, racking and aging, bottles, closures, sparkling mead, proples with mead making and home analysis and judging mead.
  
  
• Making Wild Wines & Meads: 125 Unusual Recipes Using Herbs, Fruits, Flowers & More - A comprehensive, inspiring how-to guide for hte growing number of new winemakers or the wine-curious. Simple instructions allow anyone to create luscious honey meads, refreshing coolers and punches, and elegant wines without expensive equipment of elaborate calculations. With one hundred and twenty-five truly exceptional recipes, (more than 40 of which are new to this edition), you'll learn to create honeysuckle wine, clove and ginger wine, hot cranapple punch, lemon-thyme wine, sweet dessert mead, and many more!
  
  
• Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers: The Secrets of Ancient Fermentation - Filled with nourishment for the soul, body, and mind, this book is a unique view of the intersection between herbal medicine and fermentation. It will delight anyone interested in herbs, honey, brewing and folktales. Great Book! This is the first comprehensive book ever written on the sacred aspects of indigenous, historical psychotropic and herbal healing beers of the world.
  
  
• Plants unsafe for winemaking
  
  
• Preserving winemaking ingredients: how to "put down" your flowers. herbs, fruits and vegetables by drying, deep-freezing, bottling or chemical preservation, and how to make a whole range of unusual syrups, jams and jelliesn
  
  
• Recipes for home-made wine, mead and beer
  
  
• The Alaskan Bootlegger's Bible - How to make beer, wine, mead, liqueurs and moonshine whiskey. The author dusts off over 30 years of experience to tell you how it's done. He not only tells how to make darned near any kind of beer, wine, liqueur and whiskey you can imagine, he also tells you how to make the equipment to do it with.
  
  
• A Witch's Beverages and Brews - A Witch's Beverages and Brews shares the wonderful heritage of beverage making and consuming -- how drinks appeared on altars as gift to the gods, where toasts come from, and why we pass wine clockwise around the table. All this lore and superstition combines with modern magickal methods to help you design beverages that quench both physical and spiritual thirst completely while tantalizing your taste buds.
  
  
• The Joy of Home Winemaking - The Joy of Home Winemaking is your comprehensive guide to:the most up-to-date techniques and equipmentreadily available and affordable ingredients and materialsaging, bottling, racking, blending, and experimenting dozens of original recipes for great-tasting fruit wines,spice wines, herb wines, sparkling wines, sherries, liqueurs even homemade soda pop! A sparkling brief history of winemaking helpful illustrations and glossary and extensive mail-order resource section.
  
  
• One Hundred Winemaking Problems Answered
  
  
• The New Complete Joy of Home Brewing - "Relax. Don't Worry. Have a home-brew." It's the mantra of home-brewing, a phrase that nods to the technical aspects of brewing only as it dismisses all stress with a sip and a smile. Home-brewing is fun, after all. Charlie Papazian didn't just coin the term, he virtually spearheaded the home-brewing revival in America. Figurehead for the American Homebrewers Association and its membership magazine, Zymurgy, Papazian is one of the founding fathers of the modern home-brewing scene. Has a section on making mead.
  
  
• Traditional Country Winemaking: Including Mead
  
  
• Wild plants for winemaking
  
  
• Winemaking with Canned & Dried Fruit
  
  
• Winemaking: Recipes, Equipment, and Techniques for Making Wine at Home - Good winemaking need not be complex. The authors draw on their decades of experience to show how the latest ingredients, equipment, recipes and techniques can result in delicious and inexpensive white, red, rose, sparkling, and dessert wines, as well as liqueurs. Illustrated.
  
  
• Wines from the Countryside
• Mead: Making, Exhibiting and Judging by Harry Riches - A charming guide to the theory and practice behind this ancient beverage of fermented honey.

• Confessions of an Alaska Bootlegger
• Moonshine in Pursuit of White Liquor
• Good Booze: Recipe and Cookbook
• Cider, Hard and Sweet: History, Traditions and Making Your Own
• A.47 Making the Best Apple Cider
• More Mountain Spirits: The Continuing Chronicle of Moonshine Life and Corn Whiskey, Wines, Ciders & Beers in America's Appalachians
• Smokehouse Ham, Spoon Bread & Scuppernong Wine
• A Gracious Plenty: Recipes and...
• The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Cookery
• Distillation Design in Practice
• Design of Distillation Column Control Systems