Homebrewing
I'm a professional amateur homebrewer. To be honest, I didn't even drink wine before I decided to start making it. It just seemed like a good idea at the time, and a great way to put to use a ton of the sugary foods I was generating on our hobby farm. What started as an experiment with one or two different varieties suddenly turned into a semi-serious undertaking, with over 300 bottles of wine (and 150+ bottles of mead) aging away in our basement at last count and plenty more on the way. Nearly all of my wines feature ingredients or things that I grew or picked myself. This keeps my wines rooted in the Keweenaw, or at the very least rooted in my manual labor.
Here's a list of what I've finished so far, in order of when I bottled or started each batch. Some wines I've made more than one version of and those are all included on the same page. Click on each to learn more and see my fun labels.
Homebrew List
The Sugar Shack Special I-III (maple wine)
Rhubarb Uprising I-II (rhubarb wine)
Berry Meditation (strawberry wine)
Bulletproof Blues (blueberry wine)
Adult Chokecherry (chokecherry wine)
Invasionary Force (autumn olive wine)
Tropikeweenaw (mango papaya wine)
Down the Rabbit Hole (strawberry rhubarb wine)
Blue Monday (blueberry rhubarb wine)
Cherry Twist I-II (cherry mead)
RAS 9000 (raspberry wine)
Ice Gold (ice apple wine)
Bookends I-II (maple apple wine)
Grade B (maple blueberry wine)
Lake Effect Snowberry (strawberry raspberry wine)
The Shadow Harvest (Dolgo crabapple wine)
The Cinnamon Shack Special (cinnamon maple wine)
Red For Blood (cherry wine)
The Shadow Harvest - Pitted Edition (nectarine wine)
Electric Nectar (mead)
Battle Gourd (pumpkin wine)
Parrot (pear and carrot wine)
Electric Nectar: Lilac Futurism (lilac mead)
Electric Nectar: Raw Power (pumpkin mead)
Future Proof (strawberry blueberry wine)
Electric Nectar: Ravishing Hyperrealism (plum nectarine mead)
Raspberry Cyser
Shapu (cherry rhubarb wine)
Blueprint (blueberry raspberry wine)
PG2B, AKA Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster (gatorade powder nightmare)
Glitch (pear, strawberry, blueberry, raspberry, banana, maple syrup, & honey "wine")
Sundiver (Strawberry Mead)
Still in the hopper (typically unnamed until bottled)
Red Wine
Lilac Rhubarb Wine
Red For Blood II (cherry wine)
Mango Rhubarb Mead
Blueberry Raspberry Mead
