I think whatever kinds Dad has *usually* made are quicker...'zat the difference between standard beer and ale? I've never understood the terminology...beer, ale, stout and such.
I like to cask age my beer... just me... I could go from boil to drinking in about 10 days (and I have in the past), but you get a much better product when you age it...
you can make cheap Rose very quickly and easily... 9 2-litre bottles of white concord grape juice, one of regular concord, 6 cups of sugar, vintner's yeast, a sterile six gallon bucket with an air lock, two weeks to bottle... (put it right back into the bottles the juice came in), let it set about a week more... surprisingly good, and easy Rose...