It is hard to believe that we have been in business now for over 5 years.  After Vern retired in 2003 from commercial banking (Bonnie is still teaching high school here in Parkersburg) we purchased a vacant storefront in downtown Parkersburg, Iowa and converted it into our retail store selling anything needed for home beer brewing including beer brewing equipment, brewing equipment and home brew supplies as well as our own line of beer making kits (and also Brewers Best kits) plus a complete line of supplies for making wine including winemaking ingredients, wine making supplies and winemaking equipment plus wine kits from both Cellar Craft and WinExpert.

 

Our original business plan was to build BlueStem Winery and produce and market our own label wines.  The plan swerved right out of the gate with the wine making and beer brewing supplies business taking precedence and the ordeal of building our own web site going to front and center.  Only after we finished our web site did we begin the process of getting our Federal and Iowa wine licenses and then we started producing our own label wines.  We presently have 9 of our own wines available with one which will be ready in about 6 months.

 

Retirement is not coming easily!

 

BlueStem Winery markets its products from our retail location located at 305 Third Street in downtown Parkersburg, Iowa and at several locations across the state of Iowa (see list below).

From this location we sell our BlueStem label wines and a fairly complete line of home brew and winemaking supplies.

 

You have found our web presence!  We do not (sorry) offer a printed catalog because but our web site is kept up-to-date with products we have available for both home brewing and home wine making.  We are proud of the fact that we have sold our wares to clients in the following locales: Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Georgia, West Virginia, Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, the District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, New York, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland, Arkansas and Delaware.  We have also shipped to Puerto Rico, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan, Germany, Netherlands, Great Britain, France, Canada, Malta, Greece, Italy, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Spain, Norway and Israel.