BITE current Maclean’s magazine, well, it’s pabreweries and how they pbject strongly to the make-your-own-beer lores One sees every- ne of the things thar icks in the crops of the com- mercial beermakers is that those people who se the U-Brew th don’t pay the f about six dol- te : ely u back. lo my lovely mother - het penchant for brew- ng. Beer, yes, formidable tuff, but she also made dan- iclion wine, and mead as yell; Mead is as old as man, muaffed down when the war- Smor came home to the cave ith thar day’s provender he as dragging behind him, ving a bloody trail. It starts with litde yeasty paffy things called “bees,” which do the fermenting in the crock of water and turn it into a clear pleasant hor-day drink. T think there's fruit involved, too. Mother got her “bees” from a neighbor lady who also kept a crock of some- thing going behind her kitchen stove, as we did. However, I digress. The beer was her first plea- sure. Just the making, mind —— she never did drink the stuff, but she offered it with well-merited pride, it having the reputation amongst my older sister's beaux as having more kick than the proverbial mule. Whenever my sister had a party there would be ovo or three young men who hadn't the head needed to cope with Mother’s brew and who could be found lying en the “ J think back to my lovely mother and her penchant for brewing. Beer, yes, .. but she also make dande- i. lion wine, and mead as well. ” grass in the backyard next morning looking rather paler than when they came. My own involvement was confined to the bottling, pass- ing the almost full bottles to Mother, who capped them with her srurdy capping device. I then had to take an armful of them down into the Past under glass THE Ferry Building’s history was the focus of this Heritage Wee display, viewed by (left to right) izumi Yamamoto, 7, Adrienne Lust, 8, Hilary Lusi, 10, and Mayumi Yamamoto, 9. Since 1913, the building functioned as a ferry terminal and home of the blue buses before its current use as West Van's centre for the arts. cellar, and I don’t mean base- ment —- this storage place had been dug out of the ground and the house built over it. It had no light except the lantern I propped on the shelves on the initial trip, and the shelves were but planks pushed into the earth all around. The sauerkraut bar- rel was down there tao, and guess who had to take the bowl down and fe the slimy lid when pi knuckles were on the menu for dinner. The sauerkraut preparation was another story — oh, you ask,why didn’t we go and buy it? Honey, we never went and bought anything but shocs, I swear. Making the stuff involved yanking the cabbages out of the garden, chopping off the root and the outer (Stop by an your way to the deli.) Ada Leung Pharmacist CAPSULE COMMENTS About half of all men over 50 have enlarged prostate ands, Some of these can levelap into cancer. 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