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Hello all, I'm Simon and it's nice to meet you all. I'm 39 from Ohio and I've been around this style of home making since I was 7 (or before but I have no memory of that haha). I started helping grandpa when I was 8. we would load up 5 gallon buckets of grape juice and take them to his house. The detached garage simply called "The building" because it had a welding area, tractor repair area machine and wood shop and in the back with 5 oak barrels and gallon jugs on the shelves. I loved helping him!! Then his grandkids free labor would bottle it all for him, we loved it, and so did he
He loved doing it, he gave it away as long as you returned the bottles and it was fun for us. When I got older he would boil a gallon at a time in a medical glass still on the stove and keep it in the freezer. That's how I started making, I guess that would be brandy? I made it that way for myself for years. He died a while ago and my older brother went down and scooped everything up, barrels, stands, bottles jugs and crocks. I ended up with the glass still set because I knew where he kept it and a crock with a 3 on it, which as I recall is a 3 gallon crock, and one airlock Tom left behind. I'd kind of like to get started again trying it for myself. last year mom got me a beer making kit oddly the same as grandpa had, and he made good beer, haven't opened it yet. I remember grandpa using the 20 gallon crocks for mash with corn and the wonderful smells and foam that was in them. I am currently trying to get my brother to let me have one of the barrels, a stand, or at least one of his jugs. I've been around this my whole life, but I'm still a novice.
