HOMEBREW PAGE
Dave's been making home brew in "legal quantities" for many years. He started with wine, mostly fruit that was available at the time. One of the first was fresh grape juice from the Erie, Pennsylvania area, many thanks to my good friend Lee Dieter. Then came dandelion blooms from the back yard, tasted pretty bad but when it was put aside and tried some three years later, it was like a very fine liquor. Of course, the favorite has always been peaches, my wife, freestone, that is, she can attest to that. She helped tremendously on the first try, did all the cleaning, cutting, and mashing in preparation for fermenting because I had to be at a business meeting right at that critical time. It was the best we've made. Now days, I'm into beer making, so far, using all prepared mixes. Out of the three varieties I've made, the "Irish Stout" has been the best. I can still remember the day I sat down with my son Rick, to try a wee bit of stout, his first, and after the first gulp, he turned up his nose and wouldn't drink another drop. Talk about a letdown, I thought it was going to be a father/son "bonding" and it turned out to be a downer, he's a bud man, yuk...If you think you might have an interest in brewing, check out the how to brew website, authored by John Palmer...
Here's a couple of labels I made on the computer for the last two brews I've produced, weren't hard to do at all, kind of surprised me...(the home is the Fairbanks Homestead, in Dedham, Mass.)
