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Want to be a great writer? The secret is other people (and practice)

Have you heard of the 10,000 hours hypothesis? It was first proposed by music theorist Anders Ericsson in the 1980s; the simplified and…

Dec 3, 2021

Someone writing surrounded by people

Dec 3, 2021

Andy Hamilton

A simple cheat to making great liqueurs

If you make sloe gin or elderflower liqueur you may sit back and have a sip and think this is good, but I know I can do better. You may…

Jun 27, 2018

A simple cheat to making great liqueurs

Jun 27, 2018

Andy Hamilton

How to improve your sloe gin

By far the best sloe gin I have tasted was during a talk I gave at the country’s largest branch of the WI. The maker had not added sugar…

Jun 27, 2018

How to improve your sloe gin

Jun 27, 2018

Andy Hamilton

Hedgerow Booze — Elder & Blackberry wine and Hazelnut Manhattan

The smell of the autumn starts wafting in around early August; you can almost feel a shift in the momentum of the undergrowth. The heady…

Jun 27, 2018

Hedgerow Booze — Elder & Blackberry wine and Hazelnut Manhattan

Jun 27, 2018

Andy Hamilton

How do you like them seven thousand apples?

Apples are more genetically diverse than humans and if you planted every apple pip from one apple they would grow genetically different…

Jun 27, 2018

How do you like them seven thousand apples?

Jun 27, 2018

Andy Hamilton

Seaweed — The first food

Lying face up on a rocky Hebridean island coast as the Atlantic crashed at my feet I realised that wearing a pair of brown leather brogues…

Jun 27, 2018

Seaweed — The first food

Jun 27, 2018

Andy Hamilton

Andy Hamilton

Best selling author of Booze for Free (Eden Project) and The First Time Forager (National Trust). I like plants and people.

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