Brewing For The Missus

[kevnlis]

Although she is not a big beer fan and is also breast feeding, my Missus loves any beers with chocolate or roasted malts.
Then again so do I.

What does breastfeeding have to do with it?

 

[paterson2929]

What does breastfeeding have to do with it?

It limits her consumption of alcoholic beverages

 

[glennheinzel]

Wheat beers were my wife's favourite beer, although she has since been diagnosed with a wheat intolerance. (Why is it you always want what you can't have?) . Still, at least she can have Silly Yaks and O'Briens...

:icon_offtopic: As per Warra (and others), my wife has a good nose for aromas and can pick up nuances in my beers that I am unable to detect.

 

[Katherine]

Are there any girl brewers on here? I started brewing early this year then followed by my male partner. So far my partner likes my dark ale, and my favourite is IPA... Im a girl and love love lovvvvvvve hoppy beer. Though out of the beer that he has brewed I like his Dark Lager and Chocolate Dark Ale.

 

[amita]

miy partner love a bitter, she doesnt drink much and is not to fussy, if she likes it I dont change the brew till she lets me know .
and yes she has a very good nose for different smell and tastes, she is my help in detecting flavours.
we have sort of the unspoken rule that I drive us there and she drives us back but sometimes I drive back just to let her know that realy appreciate her being the driver at other times.
cheers amita

 

[Dave86]

I'm pretty lucky in the fact that my girlfriend lived in belgium for a few years growing up and her old mans a bit of a wine buff and that interest carries over to beer to some degree, so she learnt on the belgian stuff. This means that when we met she was quite keen to show me what a belgian tripel tasted like, and how a beer with coriander and orange peel could taste so bloody good! Where they lived in Brussels actually used to have a Chimay delivery service to their door! Suffice to say there is always some grande reserve in their cellar, nestled away with the penfolds, etc

The only problem with this is she is always pestering me to make belgian wits, hefes and the like and my level of brewing is only just getting there. I'm going out on a limb and promising a keg of wit and a keg of hefe for her 21st party in a month, needless to say my first attempt a wit will be this saturday (fingers crossed)

Beers

 

[user 1153]

All you blokes sound very lucky to have partners that enjoy the beer you make.

I'm glad my missus doesn't like drinking beer. Then I'd have to brew even more. As it is it suits me perfectly

 

[Thethirstywench]

Are there any girl brewers on here? I started brewing early this year then followed by my male partner. So far my partner likes my dark ale, and my favourite is IPA... Im a girl and love love lovvvvvvve hoppy beer. Though out of the beer that he has brewed I like his Dark Lager and Chocolate Dark Ale.

I'm a girl and I brew so yup that makes me a girl brewer. A very new one and I'm learning fast, so new in fact that brew number 2 is going into the HAG case swap. (you've all been warned! :icon_cheers: )

I'm a fan of the malty dark beers and your partners "Chocolate Dark Ale" sounds delicious.

Over the past 2 weekends I've tasted so many good beers, some of them a bit on the hoppy side for me and I do believe I even called one a "boys beer". Maybe I need to adjust my seemingly sexist view and refer to those hoppy beers as "hopoholics" beer instead.

It's good to know what other girls/women/chicks are brewing and what they like drinking. Keep on posting...

Slainte

Ms ThirstyWench

 

[chovain]

It limits her consumption of alcoholic beverages

It sounds like a perfect opportunity to get the little one started early!

 

[Katherine]

Out of the commerical beers I really like Little Creatures Pale ale and always thought it was a girls beer. (must be the hop FLOWER)... Helps living in Fremantle and Little Creatures is pretty much in walking distance... but then is the Sail and Anchor and I love there IPA which is a very hoppy beer. But instead of paying $8.20 a pint I can sit down to one of my IPA's which is pretty bloody good for a noobie!

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.

I will stick to the kits but also experiment with extract, grain and HOPS of cause. I have 4 carboys and a shed full of GREEN beer... :angry: ...

 

[enoch]

Mine is coeliac (Gluten) which means no beer as she doesn't like the taste of the GF options.
Have brewed a two dogs clone, known as one and a half dogs as it was pretty close. Goes down very easily and has avoided the need to try malting sorghum for a GF beer.
3kg of mixed lemons and limes sliced, 2kg of dextrose. Mix with some water and boil for 10ish minutes (pith and all). Strain into fermenter with water to make 20 litres. Add dry yeast when cool.
Learning is to add a nutrient as it was a very slow brew. Kegged and added a sugar syrup as it was a bit too pucker. Not a good one for bottling as you don't get to play with the residual sugar level. You could use some of the lemonade lemons which are not as acidic. Also could juice half the lemons and disgard their pith and only boil the juice plus the other half of the lemons with their pith.

 

[Zizzle]

My SWMBO (who hates the idea of me calling her that), doesn't really drink beer. But if I do a less hoppy, malty or sweet beer, I often find I have a leaky glass when she is around and the keg goes a little quicker than normal.

I was going to generalize and say that on the whole women don't like hoppy beers, but katie just proved me wrong a few posts back.

 

[troydo]

my other half loved my apa and loves the smell of my bright ale (still in fermentaion)..

 

[anc001]

I tried brewing specially for SWMBO and she never really was too crazy about the ciders, meads, honey blonde ales etc, however perhaps its just the years of "here try a sip of this partially fermented wort" but now she likes my beer.
She won't drink commercial, and a big part of her enjoyment is that with my kegging setup my brews are less effervescent. Being delicious AG helps too,

 

[Thirsty Boy]

my swmbo loves resinously hoppy pale ales - like Alpha Pale and Sierra Nevada. I have made "good" hoppy beers for her, but never quite good enough.... I am able to make a pale euro lager that meets her standards and so I do, and recently she decided that she loves Sam Adams Boston lager. My first attempt at a clone is fairly good but needs a little work.

Having a wife with a great beer palate is a mixed blessing... she knows what she's on about, but she's kinda fussy too dammit. God help me if there is diacetyl

 

[quantocks]

every single beer I've ever forced my girlfriend to try she says "tastes like beer - yuk" and that's about it.



then again, i'm kind of glad she doesn't drink beer - means the fridge is always full of beer just for me.

 

[trevc]

I've never caught any flak from my wife for my brewing, so I'm pretty lucky. I do brew a weizen for her as often as I can, sine that's her favourite. Over the years her tastes have grown and she enjoys almost anything that I make. The only beers she doesn't care for are the extremely hoppy ones, like IPA.

Exact same here, not big on the IPA's at all, or anything more bitter. She loves Amarillo though, it's a very girly hop.

 

[Cocko]

Are you me???

Thats what SWMBO says all the time...

I go: " honey, its a wit so different than Carlton on tap.."

Lean over with glass.

Gets to her nose: "Smells like beer!" Head pulls away....

But like you say, Quantocks.... Phew, that was my third last glass of that brew!!!!
h34r:

 

[katzke]

I do not have to, she brews her own. I just help with the recipes.

She likes those hoppy IPA's, you know the ones that are at 80 or more IBUs and taste like you are sucking a grapefruit. Will not touch my stout or a good porter. Can not stand the burnt taste she says.

 

[Muggus]

my swmbo loves resinously hoppy pale ales - like Alpha Pale and Sierra Nevada. I have made "good" hoppy beers for her, but never quite good enough.... I am able to make a pale euro lager that meets her standards and so I do, and recently she decided that she loves Sam Adams Boston lager. My first attempt at a clone is fairly good but needs a little work.

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!