Hello from Cleveland

[JamesGarcia]

Hello,

My name is James and I am just outside of Cleveland Ohio, USA. I was a home brewer for many years and about 4 years ago I am switched to making wine as I don’t drink as much beer. I have mostly made kits, but I have also purchased grapes and I do have a press.

I am also a bee keeper and have made mead once, but this isn’t my favorite so I may not make again.

We drink mostly reds, but enjoy a good dry white in the summer as well.

I found this website as I was researching the difference between the more and less expensive kits. I am not on any kind of social media anymore so I don’t belong to any wine making groups so thought this might be a good place for me to look for answers.

 

[Ohio Bob]

Welcome to WMT! You’re just 20 minutes from me.

 

[heatherd]

Welcome!

 

[BigDaveK]

Welcome to WMT!
Born and raised in Parma. Life brought me to southern Ohio.
This is a great place for information.

 

[ChuckD]

Welcome. This is a great place for winemaking info and support.

 

[sour_grapes]

Welcome aboard!

 

[Jovimaple]

Welcome to WMT!

 

[buzi]

Welcome to WMT! I grew up on the west side with a concord vineyard. I got into wine making in my 20s and have been slowly getting better. This is a great place to hone the craft and meet kindred spirits! (As is cleveland!) I still head back to Collinwood every year for my grapes. There are alot of great resources in Cleveland to connect with other winemaking: grapes n granary, peelers, luva Bella and of course all the wineries on the lake - Eastside and Westside...

 

[David Violante]

Welcome to WMT!

 

[Mcjeff]

Welcome from a fellow NEO resident. Great place to learn and share. If you safe looking for good kits. Label Peelers with Finer Wine Kits is not that far away from you if you want to save on shipping. I’m real close to them so it makes it easy.
Also. Go Crew!

 

[Rice_Guy]

Welcome to WMT

I can see not being excited about straight meads. It is interesting if honey is mixed in to juice for cyser or methglen.

 

[JamesGarcia]

Welcome from a fellow NEO resident. Great place to learn and share. If you safe looking for good kits. Label Peelers with Finer Wine Kits is not that far away from you if you want to save on shipping. I’m real close to them so it makes it easy.
Also. Go Crew!

Awesome, I will check them out if I am in that area, there is another wine shop about the same distance from me in Medina that I have go to as well.

Go Crew! I’ll be down there this weekend cheering them on!

 

[Mekpdue]

Welcome to the forum. Along with the local home brew shops for supplies, there is a wine club in Solon: North Coast Wine Club which is a nice spot to go and learn some of the process or ask questions. Or, sit back and enjoy some Club made wines.

 

[mikewatkins727]

Welcome to the WMT forum, @JamesGarcia . Seems you have some good hobbies for when the SHTF event happens