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Colour changing gin kit with blue pea flowers turning a gin and tonic from blue to pink
Colour Changing Gin: How the Magic Works and How to Make Your Own
What colour changing gin is, the natural science behind the blue to pink change, how to make five bottles with our kit, and the mixers that trigger the magic.
Make your own kit range with cheese, gin, chilli sauce and kintsugi kits laid out on a kitchen table
Make Your Own Kits: What Can You Actually Make at Home?
Everything you can make at home from a box: fresh cheeses, sauces, cured meats, gin, rum, wine and golden repairs, plus how kits work and where to start.
Gin infusion kit with juniper berries and botanicals steeping in a jar of spirit
Gin Infusion Kits: How Infusing Your Own Gin at Home Actually Works
How gin infusion really works: compound gin vs distilled, what each botanical does, steeping times, taste-as-you-go control and the mistakes to avoid.
Hedgerow wine making kit with demijohn, airlock and foraged blackberries for homemade fruit wine
Making Fruit Wine at Home: The Hedgerow Wine Tradition
What hedgerow wine is, the fruits that make the best country wine, what the kit supplies versus what you add, and the four stages in plain English.
Spiced rum kit with two spice blends, cotton filter and tasting pipette beside a bottle of homemade spiced rum
Spiced Rum Kits: Turn a Cheap Bottle into Something Special in 72 Hours
What's inside a spiced rum kit, which rum to buy, the full 72 hour method step by step, and how to fix cloudy or over-spiced batches.

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