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	Beer and Beer-Making
		Ever since my college days in the early '80s I have been a fan of beer.  My tastes have not been for the mass-market varieties like Budweiser or Coors but for dark beers and the imports which have more flavor and character.  In college my favorite beer was Pryor Double Dark, a domestic dark beer brewed by Schmidts.  I also had a taste for Guiness and Fosters lager, although my interest in the latter probably had more to do with the Monty Python tie-in (Australian philosopher's sketch.) In the early 1990's I got interested into beer-making and began making many of the styles of beer that I liked so much.  My favorite style is an English brown ale, which is easy to make and flavorful.  I have also brewed pilsners, german darks, bocks, porters, wheat beers, and honey lagers. During that past ten years that has been a proliferation of micro-brewery beers and brew pubs that make some excellent beers that are readily available to the public.  Consequently, I have been less inclined to make my own beers, when similar ones are readily available at beer distributors and bars.
			My favorite beers: Young's Double Chocolate Stout Magic Hat Number 9 Dogfish Head - Burton Baton Imperial IPA Magic Hat Circus Boy Bell's Oberon Sara Buckwheat ale Boddington's pub ale Mackeson's XXX Stout Guiness Stout Yeungling Porter or Black and Tan Penn Dark - from the Penn Brewery in Pittsburgh St. Nicholas Bock - another from th Penn Brewery Molson Brador New Castle Brown ale Pete's Wicked ale Pryor Double Dark - no longer available Bell Tower Brown Ale - No longer available from the Church Brew Works