Richard Hood
Rich and his co-writer Nick Moyle first began drinking together at Coventry University in the early 1990s. As the Two Thirsty Gardeners they now specialise in home brew of all kinds.
Twitter: @ThirstyGardener
Biography
Rich and his co-writer Nick Moyle first began drinking together at Coventry University in the early 1990s where their diet largely consisted of pints of the local mild and scrumpy cider brought in from Nick's native Gloucestershire. After graduating they travelled the globe, discovering a whole new world of alcoholic curiosities before they both ended up working as designers in Somerset.
Here they started making cider in Richard's shed, eventually progressing to brewing anything they could grow on their allotment. Their digging and swigging adventures are chronicled on the hugely popular website www.twothirstygardeners.co.uk, which was listed in 2014 as one of the top 10 gardening blogs. They have appeared on TV and in numerous magazines extolling the virtues of home-grown booze as they attempt to encourage a new brew-it-yourself revolution.
Books
Richard is a member of the British Guild of Beer Writers. His first book, BREW IT YOURSELF, a guide to making your own alcoholic drinks, was published by Nourish. Rights sold in 8 languages and to USA.
An updated edition of BREW IT YOURSELF was released in 2024.
His next book WILD TEA, was published in 2021.
