FIRE CIDER BRIGADE

HotLanta Fire Cider Brigade

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About Fire Cider

Fire Cider is a vinegar-based wellness shot that is easy to make with a spicy-sour kick to make your tastebuds soar. Herbalista Lorna first learned to make Fire Cider from the teachings of Rosemary Gladstar, who popularized it through her many books and classes. 

Here’s what Rosemary says about this wonderful elixir:

“Fire Cider is a popular traditional herbal remedy freely shared, made, produced and sold by hundreds of herbalists across the world. The remedy has taken on many different amendments over time, somewhat like chicken soup. Many people have their favorite version, but the base consists of fresh garlic, onions, ginger, horseradish and chili peppers that sit in vinegar for the desired amount of time, are strained, and then a bit of something sweet is usually added at the end. The remedy is used to help warm up the body, and generally acts a stimulant and antimicrobial used during cold and flu season.”

Learn more about the story of Fire Cider and its role in the fight to protect herbal medicine and herbal knowledge, keeping it in the hands of the people. www.freefirecider.com

Safe, effective, easy to make and use, Fire Cider is kitchen medicine at its finest. One this page we offer the tools for you to begin to make spicy batches of your own!

Making Fire Cider

Fire Cider Making Video

Fire Cider is an easy to make kitchen remedy. Spicy herbs, such as garlic and ginger, are steeped in Apple Cider Vinegar for a few weeks and presto, you have a deliciously healing, alcohol-free remedy that the whole family can enjoy.

In this video, Lorna demonstrates making a batch of the Elderberry Fire Cider. Please use the recipe worksheet below to follow along.

Then give our Heart Tonic version of Fire Cider a try, made with delicious pomegranate, hibiscus, and hawthorne berries. This is the version we serve in the summertime. It’s still got a kick but also protects the heart, so important in that Atlanta heat.

Elderberry Fire Cider Recipe

ELDERBERRY FIRE CIDER WORKSHEET

Elderberry Fire Cider Recipe

Elderberry Fire Cider Worksheet

Heart Tonic Fire Cider Recipe

Heart Tonic Fire Cider Worksheet

Start A Brigade

Looking to start a Brigade of your own? Fire Cider is such a wonderful thing to come together as a community, making a simple kitchen medicine together, putting all that love into every batch. Having an active Brigade in your town also means that when challenging times are upon us, we are ready to meet them.

Though Herbalistsa had been offering Fire Cider Making Workshops for many years, it was under the duress of the pandemic when the Hotlanta Fire Cider Brigade officially came together. We were looking for ways to provide some extra support for those living on the streets and began producing hundreds of HerbCare Packs for distribution. That meant we needed A LOT more fire cider than we could produce on our own.

At the start, Herbalista crew was joined by community members who had previously attended our Solidarity Medicine Making Workshops and knew how to make batches of Fire Cider. They would prepare the fire cider in their homes, using our solidarity medicine making worksheet and then drop their batches off to us at HQ. After they had steeped, we could send them out to other crew members who would press, bottle and label them for distribution around Atlanta. You can see our Brigade Manual for examples of how we did all of that.

But finally, in 2022, when we felt comfortable gathering together in larger groups, we were able to once again work together as a community to make the Fire Cider. And this is the best way to make and bottle the medicine – together.

We can’t wait to hear the story of your Brigade. Here are some tools to get you started, including recipes, a Fire Cider Making Workshop Outline, and the original Brigade Manual.