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About a year ago, during OnMilwaukee.com's 2008 Bar Month, I brewed beer for the first time. My husband and I made four batches last year, all of which turned out pretty potable.
This year, I plan to continue brewing beer at home, but I would also like to make my own wine. I visited The Purple Foot, 3167 S. 92nd St., so I know where to go when the time comes to make my own vino, but my backyard grapes have not been fruitful enough to warrant winemaking.
A friend makes wine, and she orders her grapes from California and doesn't mess around with trying to grow the right grapes here in Wisconsin, but I still have high hopes that our grapes will flourish this year.
I know there are gentler ways to squash the grapes, but there's something appealing about the thought of squishing grapes with your bare feet that sticks with a person. Ever since I was a kid, I have wanted to try this. Maybe it's my Italian roots.
Molly Snyder started writing and publishing her work at the age 10, when her community newspaper printed her poem, "The Unicorn.” Since then, she's expanded beyond the subject of mythical creatures and written in many different mediums but, nearest and dearest to her heart, thousands of articles for OnMilwaukee.
Molly is a regular contributor to FOX6 News and numerous radio stations as well as the co-host of "Dandelions: A Podcast For Women.” She's received five Milwaukee Press Club Awards, served as the Pfister Narrator and is the Wisconsin State Fair’s Celebrity Cream Puff Eating Champion of 2019.
