Archive for April, 2009

Choosing Your Next Coffee Maker

A coffee maker is an electric appliance that produces brewed coffee automatically, consisting of a hotplate, coffee pot, filter basket, and water reservoir. When it comes to coffee makers there are many, many to choose from. But if you are a coffee lover, you are probably very discriminating in your preferences so it’s worth your [...]

How can I dry my own hops for beer making. I make my own beer and a friend gave me a large bag of hops?

You need to dry them as quickly as possible after they are picked to preserve the oils in them.
Air dry:
Put them in a paper bag and leave them in a warm, dry place with good circulation…like an attic in late summer. Only put a small amount in each bag or they won't dry. [...]

How to Choose Your Specialty Gift Baskets for a Gift Basket Business, Gift Shop, or Sideline

If you have an existing gift basket business, or are planning to start up a gift basket business or home based gift basket business or just add a sideline to a business you have now, one of the most important things to consider is the type of gift baskets you’ll offer.
You can offer a [...]

Ways to Preserve and Use Garden Sage

I can feel Fall in the air, so I’ve been trimming back the herbs and harvesting their goodness before they die back for the winter. The last couple of days I’ve been working on the sage. I have tons of it. I don’t want any of it to go to waste, so here are some [...]

When making a beer or wine does the pressure in the tanks effect the turnout of the alcohol?

would the pressure help keep the product carbonated, or would it ruin the batch, I am making hard cider and I have 4 1/2 gallons in two seperate 5 gallon tanks, and I want to know wether to release the pressure or not.
Yes yes yes. the pressure will build up and whatever cap you [...]

Exotic Coffee Flavors for Single Cup Coffee Makers

Bored with your regular coffee or tea? If you’re the owner of a single cup coffee maker from Keurig, a wide world of flavor possibilities awaits you. Here is an overview of a few of the most exotic Keurig coffee and tea varieties:
• Island Coconut Coffee from Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
Try this seasonal flavor for [...]

Living the Essiac Tea-natures Alternative Remedy-life

Are you in doubt about natural alternative remedies? You are not alone. I too was a non believer. Raised from the time I was born to believe that the only way to cure any type of illness was through Doctor prescribed medicinal drugs. Anything else was just old ladies folklore nonsense. I am here to [...]

Which is easier to do? Brew your own beer or making your own wine?

I've never done either, but would like to get into both. Also which would be cheaper?
Wine is technically easier to make, but harder to make good. It takes a long time to age wine, and there are a lot of minor things that you have to keep an eye on to make it [...]

Learn About the Do’s and Don’ts of Drinking Tea

Drinking tea can be an art, but for those of us who don’t feel the urgency to have everything precisely like it should be, there still are rules to follow. Such as what you should put in your tea, what you should not put in your tea, etc.
The don’ts of drinking tea:
• Do not [...]

Organizing Your Kitchens

It is really a pleasure to cook in a kitchen that is well organized and has nice pots and pans in the cabinets. Some people prefer to hang their pots and pans from the ceiling so that they can grab them and go with the flow of their fast paced kitchen environment. There [...]