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Usage examples of "home-brew".

The home-brewing of wine and beer for personal consumption was legal under the provisions of the Volstead Act.

While dozens of military and civilian employees scrambled to find someone else with expertise in defusing a nonstandard home-brew nuclear device, the reality had sunk in that their best chance for defusing the Medusa Weapon had probably been lost in the wreckage of the Grumman.

The home-brew whiskey burned his gullet like flaming battery acid, but he managed not to gag.

Army pals had told Longarm some of the more recent hostiles had learned to reload their brass cartridges with home-brew black powder and fashion fresh slugs from hammered telegraph wire.

He was extra-polite, Little Sunshine, and had brought gifts to all the family: a bucket of swamp honey, two gallons of home-brew, and a wreath of pine needles and tiger lilies which Randolph stuck on his head and galavanted around in the whole evening.