**_Slow Drinks_ teaches home cooks, industry pros, homebrewers, and foragers how to transform botanical ingredientswhether foraged or purchased from the storeinto incredibly unique beverages and cocktails.** **Organized by season**, _Slow Drinks_ demonstrates how to make drinks that tell a story of botany, history, culture, and terroir, while honoring beverage traditions both old and new. Each season will highlight eight new ingredients with recipes that build on a basics chapter and teach readers how to interchangeably use **master recipes** to make their own meads, country wines, beers, sodas, tinctures, shrubs, and more. Beautifully photographed by the authors wife, Katie Childs, and **illustrated by Molly Reader**, _Slow Drinks_ will be the definitive **botanists guide to mixology** that can live in your basket on a foraging trip, or on the coffee table as a conversation piece. This book is for bartenders, do-it-yourselfers, foodies, homesteaders, homebrewers, food activists