Pic(k) of the Week: Beer Barrel Bushing

From the 1930s, a Peerless Manufacturing metal bushing for a tap, installed in a wooden beer barrel manufactured by Frank J. Hess & Sons Cooperage, which was in operation from 1933 through 1966, in Madison, Wisconsin.



Below is a photo of Gary Hess, grandson of the owner, displaying various of the company's tools and products.



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• These photos were taken at the Great Taste of the Midwest, in Madison, Wisconsin, on 8 August 2009.
  
• More information on Hess & Sons is available from the Wisconsin Historical Society.
  
• Pic(k) of the Week: one in a weekly series of personal photos, usually posted on Saturdays, and often of a 'good fermentable' as subject.