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Andy Hamilton is an award-winning non-fiction author and all-round nice chap.

Andy's books reflect his joy of life. They include the best-selling The First Time Forager, Booze for Free; Fermenting Everything, The Perfect Pint, The Selfsufficientish Bible and his brave and thoroughly researched unique nature memoir meets popular science and self-help - New Wild Order. A book that profoundly and utterly changed his life (for the better).

Andy is currently writing acid house tunes, poetry, and he is collecting experiences in the natural world for a new book non-fiction book. He is also tinkering with a novel.

He also finds time to be a hands-on Dad to two young children and to potter about his hilltop area of Bristol drinking tea. He's also tu
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Nothing brings me joy – Living with M.E./Long Covid

Towards the end of 2024 I started to get ill, a lot. Flu, covid and every single cough and cold that was going around. Then
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“The perfect pint is always going to be the one you are enjoying right now.”
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“You might think it is very easy to find beer - you've no doubt been finding it for a few years.”
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“Dry-hopping normally occurs during the last five days in the fermentation vessel. Not to be confused with teabagging, which is something altogether different.”
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“The whole of life can flow from drink. Marriages and friendships can be forged over a glass or two of wine or beer; babies can be conceived after a glass or two more.”
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“A prison sentence need not signal the end of your brewing career...”
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