Brewing For The Missus

[Thirsty Boy]

Sounds alot like my girlfriend.
When I first met her a bit of 3 years ago, she was a beer drinker, but mostly Carlton Draught,etc. Then she tried a Little Creatures Pale Ale that i was drinking at a party one time and she got hooked on hops (as I did first time i tried it!).
But yeah, now she loves the hoppy style beers, and luckily thats what I brew alot of! And working at a bottle'o she's expanding into dark beer, which is also what i specialise in!

dont even talk about the dark beers.... on about our 4th date my beloved put me under the table with an unremembered but large number of pints of Guinness. Pint for pint, its still no sure thing which one of us is going to fall over first. Stout usually meets with approval. My chocolate chili stout is her favourite beer I have made to date.

 

[matti]

No problems on my side.
She drink very seldom and very little.
If we eat steak or Pizza she'll have a beer with me.

I generally have a lager brewing as 2 out of 3 beers I brew is some sort of lager.
She won't touch my dark ales or APAs.

 

[joshlangmaid]

Here is the missus crushing my roasted barley. I don't know what to do with it yet. She likes a couple beers i like. I made a cider once, but it turned out horrible.

 

[winkle]

Wow, and I thought my Marga was slow...
My finance minister tried one of Mothballs Viennas and now wants a keg, this after many "tastes like beer" comments over the years.
(She has also expressed interest in my Tripple, which at 10.5% is being kept hidden)

 

[Screwtop]

Here is the missus crushing my roasted barley. I don't know what to do with it yet. She likes a couple beers i like. I made a cider once, but it turned out horrible.

You planning a garlic stout there Josh?

 

[tdack]

dont even talk about the dark beers.... on about our 4th date my beloved put me under the table with an unremembered but large number of pints of Guinness. Pint for pint, its still no sure thing which one of us is going to fall over first.

My girlie has a penchant for the dark beers too. I've got an Irish Ale conditioning just for her and she really enjoyed the Cerny Pivo. Our beer of compromise is an Amber Ale, so I've got one of those kegged and waiting too.

We had lunch at RedOak a couple of weeks ago and she was particularly taken by their Irish Red Ale, so now I have to try and produce something similar.

Stout usually meets with approval. My chocolate chili stout is her favourite beer I have made to date.

Any chance of a recipe floating around for the choc chilli stout? It sounds interesting.

 

[joshlangmaid]

You planning a garlic stout there Josh?

Lol, no mate. It was in the way. I like garlic and stout. But proberly not as one.

 

[David Sinclair]

I got my wife hooked on Coopers stout (something she thought she would hate) now she like the stuff more than me!

She's pregent at the moment, so no drinking for her but she want me to perfect a coopers like stout by the time she drops - one glass and she's going to be out like a light.

I'm doing a robust porter at the moment, got a feeling she might like that too.

She doesn't mind me spending up on beer, i just need to find a way to get her more involved, hey maybe make her make her own stout - that might work! Then i might get even more beer money flowing, DIABOLICAL!

 

[MitchDudarko]

Mine is quite fond of the 'blonde' beers, so I put down a k&k of a Pure blonde clone which had a cerveza style wort, safale yeast, and pride of ringwood hops in it.

The best beer I have brewed so far is a Chilli and Kaffir Lime Leaf (Cerveza) Just a KK but everybody that tries it loves it. I only have 2 long necks left. Must put another one on.

Wouldn't mind trying this one if you could tell me where you got it from.
Cheers
Mitch

 

[kook]

Anyone have any recipes that use mugwort and eye of newt?

 

[MitchDudarko]

Anyone have any recipes that use mugwort and eye of newt?

This sounds like a recipe my mother in law might like...

 

[Mrs Beerbelly]

I started off thinking beer was disgusting but that was because i had only tried commercial swill. Hubby started brewing, I chucked him out of the kitchen after one too many boil overs and told him to build himself something in the shed, and now i love beer ( slowly making my way through the SA swap case of stouts and porters) and run a homebrew shop. I've had a wheat beer and a chocalate stout made for me and told if i want something else now i'll have to make it myself, which i'll be doing shortly.

Great to see so many other woman enjoying a traditionally male beverege :icon_cheers:

 

[buttersd70]

Great to see so many other woman enjoying a traditionally male beverege :icon_cheers:

The Hymn to the Sumerian goddess Ninkasi, circa 19th century BC.
final verse.

When you pour out the filtered beer of the collector vat, It is [like] the onrush of Tigris and Euphrates. Ninkasi, you are the one who pours out the filtered beer of the collector vat, It is [like] the onrush of Tigris and Euphrates.

I find it interesting that whilst modern beermaking (and consumption) is male dominated, it wasn't always that way. You are right, though...it is good to see more women getting involved.

 

[newguy]

Anyone have any recipes that use mugwort and eye of newt?

Our club has a yearly fun "comp" and every year has a different twist. A few years ago it was no hops. One of the guys made a mugwort beer. It smelled like an foreign grad student's armpit [anyone who has done several years of grad studies will understand]. It didn't taste any better. :icon_vomit:

 

[Fourstar]

Nothing better than having a hophead SWMBO! Her first quote to me regarding beer was "I dont like bitter beers, VB, YUCK!"

So to coax her into appreciating beer I was trying co coax her with weizens and other low hopped beers (even thou VB is weak as pi$$ when it comes to hops). One summer lunch having a barbie, cracked a 6 pack of Alpha pale, she wanted one and i obliged. Once those hops hit her tongue she has been obsessed ever since. She complains if i dont brew high IBU beers!

Damn lifes tough! :beerbang:

 

[mckenry]

Nothing better than having a hophead SWMBO!.......Alpha pale, she wanted one and i obliged. Once those hops hit her tongue she has been obsessed ever since.

+1 for Alpha Pale Ale. My girl drinks this when we go out - if we can find it - (Anyone from the Tocky in Glebe reading this - GET IT BACK NOW! :angry: )
She always mildly enjoyed beer - She did manage 2 steins per day at Oktoberfest in Munich :icon_chickcheers: - but now really likes my APA - comparing them to Alpha Pale.

 

[Swinging Beef]

My wife always loved a beer, but since we went to the Belgian Beer cafe on our honeymoon she has become very demanding when it comes to beers.
Her favorite are Heffes, Super IPA and Belgian Wit.
She isnt a big fan of the dark ales like Porters and Stouts.

 

[Fourstar]

She isnt a big fan of the dark ales like Porters and Stouts.

Funny you say that, mine doesnt like darks either. But she loves Dark Chocolate and fresh espresso! :blink:

The only dark she has liked is Kozel Dark. So i think she likes the Dunkel style. Stout/porter are almost a no fly zone for her. However she is a fan of my Real Chocolate robust porter (it has a dash of van houten coco)

@ a hefty 6.8% i think it balances the burnt/roast bitterness quite nicely for her.