GIFTS : Little Bottler & Country Wines by Mary Aylett (1953)

Received two lovely gifts from my Amazon Wish List this week, Thank you so much Emily.

Little Bottler : Product Description (Youngs)

The Little Bottler is designed to swiftly and efficiently fill your bottles from your fermenter. The Little Bottler consists of a dispensing tap which can be used as usual, plus a detachable filling tube. When the filling tube is fitted, inserting it into a bottle will result in the brew flowing and filling the bottle. Taking the bottle away will result in the flow automatically stopping. Ideally this should be used over a drip tray as, inevitably with this sort of product, small drips will occur.

I have one of these on my 25 liter fermenting bucket and they are great, really does make things nice and easy when it comes to filling up your beer bottles. This new one has been fitted to my smaller bucket (15 liters) for when I make my BIAB beers.

COUNTRY WINES MARY AYLETT

Product Description

This a fascinating and informative book on the age-old and delightful rural art of wine-making includes a very extensive collection of recipes for traditional country wines and many absorbing stories about wine-making and wine drinking through the ages. Full of wine making recipes, which include country wines, beer, cider and mead making. A useful book for the amateur wine maker.

London, Odhams Press, 1953 . First edition illustrated by line drawings throughout. Chapters on Raisin and Dried fruit wine, Currant wine, Elderflower and elderberry wine, plum port and beetroot wine, several fruit wines, parsnip and vegetable wines, flower wines, wines from grains, herb wines mead and metheglin, cider and perry and so on. Mrs Aylett hopes that "the book will bring afresh to many the joys of "a simple valuable and once widely practised art, which can be a source of pleasure to all, a wholesome addition to a woefully depleted diet and a new stimulus to a sadly waning hospitality" possibly just as true today as in 1953. 8vo., pp192 

I have already read through this whole book, it reads just like a novel, Even if you don't make home brew it's a great read. There are quite a few things I might make from this old book, but maybe not the wine the Manchus made from the flesh of sheep!!!