What's Your Favorite Hobby?

I started with the syrups (canned wort extract) back in the late 70's early 80's when Jimmy Carter (gotta give him his props on this issue, anyway) allowed Americans to homebrew and kits became avaialble by mail-order from the back of magazines like Popular Mechanics. A friend, colleague, and fellow homebrewer gave me the goods to do all-grain brewing back at a surprise birthday party. from there I haven't looked back. The wild Mustang grapes that grow along the side of the road are ready for the picking. I use them mostly to make jelly, but I also make a pyment, a kind of mead (honey wine) with the grapes which is just fantastic! But I haven't ever made wine since I helped my Dad dabble in it with a kit when I was just a kid. I'd like to try cider, but I don't have an apple ppress and I think I would like to use a wide variety of apples, not just dessert apples, for sure. It is possible these days to get quite a variety of extracts, but it used to be that if you wanted to make Belgian stule beers or wheat beers or rye beers or oatmeal stouts or fruit beers or smoked beers or even a basic Oktoberfest style beer, it was pretty difficult without going all-grain. I've made ales and lagers across the full spectrum in terms of color, alcohol content, hoppiness, and maltiness andhave dabbled in things like smoked beers, sour beers, fruit beers, and spiced beers, but I always come back to a few favorites... Big Barleywine in winter, Bavarian Hefeweizen in summer, Oktoberfest in the fall, and hoppy American pale ales and English brown ales year around.