Your Wife And Beer

[imellor]

My partner is extremely supportive of my brewing.

She has bought me 3 Coopers home grew kits all found on special less than 1/2 price and numerous kits of various styles. She has not complained at the kegs I have purchased or drilling holes in the shed fridge door.

I recently started brewing all grain and thought now she wont be able to buy specials for me anymore.
To my surprise today she was out shopping and brought home a 50L European keg very cheap from a second hand shop as I had mentioned I needed another large pot.

For the record she rarely drinks beer mostly wine and we have been together 19 years.

I could not ask for more. Life is good and my beer is getting better.


Cheers,
Ian

 

[InCider]

I went to give her a cuddle last night, and she calmly raised one eyebrow and asked "oh......am I not stinky anymore?"....and ignored me. No sense of humour at all...... <_<

I'm with you on the anniversaries - got them all pegged in lotus notes at work... my safety net.

But as for SWAMBO holding back on 'aerating the wort', I have solved that.

If she ever makes any slightly negative comment on my brewing or drinking, I change moods and head to my Man-Cave and sleep on my Man-lounge. She usually comes in later for a conjugal visit, but I have been strong and held out for days before. Just act like you've got the hump. A real lady-mood.

Once she called me at work and asked when I was going to sleep in our bed again.

Needless to say, she is mighty supportive of brewing in her own way, and rarely passes comment

h34r:

Can't believe I posted that.

 

[schooey]

Wow! you gave her the drought look?

*bows at your feet*

I am not worthy Grasshopper...

 

[sqyre]

I'm with you on the anniversaries - got them all pegged in lotus notes at work... my safety net.

But as for SWAMBO holding back on 'aerating the wort', I have solved that.

If she ever makes any slightly negative comment on my brewing or drinking, I change moods and head to my Man-Cave and sleep on my Man-lounge. She usually comes in later for a conjugal visit, but I have been strong and held out for days before. Just act like you've got the hump. A real lady-mood.

Once she called me at work and asked when I was going to sleep in our bed again.

Needless to say, she is mighty supportive of brewing in her own way, and rarely passes comment

h34r:

Can't believe I posted that.

HAHA!!! YOU...ARE... DEAD... :lol:
I hope you have the bike pump for Baa-bra handy.. you're gunna need it!!!!!

Sqyre...

EDIT: i was going to trim down the quote...but then i thought...No... i better hang on to that one.. B)

 

[milpod]

dont worry Matti,she needs to see or hear the light

SWMBO doesnt exist in my world

 

[Daawl]

I have a reasonably understanding wife.
As long as I am willing to spend the money and then get into trouble
I just keep telling her "Think of the money we are saving!"

SWMBO has not complained once in the last couple of months in the recent expenditures (over $600) into kegging, temp control etc.

I actually get into trouble about the amount of time spent on AHB and get told it would be time better spent making more beer
I then calmly tell her that I will require more finance to get the extra equipment to make more than I currently can. <_<

What helps is that I clean up before brew day and that I have ginger beer for her and currently working on getting her drink on tap (Bundy).

 

[matti]

dont worry Matti,she needs to see or hear the light wink.gif

SWMBO doesnt exist in my world

A good friend said to me.
it is not a question whether you're in the **** or not.
It is how deep you are in the **** and whether you can swim or not.
If you can taste it you lost the battle.

I believe his still married.

 

[monkeybusiness]

My wife is "tolerant" of my beer talk especially as I am allowed to brew on the condition I don't bore her with beer ramble. Which of course I do all the time

As far as the beer production goes my hobby keeps me off the streets and in a good mood so everyone wins. My wife doesn't like beer but tried a golden ale I made recently and admitted it was the first beer she has ever liked. So my beer activities can only get more support from here on. :beerbang:

 

[bugwan]

Does anyone else suffer from the following;

I need to justify everything I buy for the brewery (admittedly, some things cost a bit), but the wife will come home with a $70 bottle of face wash (that seems to last a week) and doesn't bat an eyelid! She even rocked on home with a cat under her arm one day ($200, a bargain apparently, but it's cost a couple of bucks every day since) but I can't seem to get through that my chest freezer idea is a good one!

InCider - I love your use of the reverse 'withholding privileges' technique, it's just been added to my arsenal. "Lady-mood" :lol:

I also employ the other method of "huh, but I'm just a guy...spiders...jars..etc" pretty successfully. Funny how women think they have us all sorted out and manipulated. Muhahahaha! :lol: h34r:

 

[petesbrew]

Things SWMBO gets annoyed with:
Clinking of bottles when cleaning/bottling.
The smell of beer when doing a backyard boil
The constant opening/closing of the garage/brewery door.
Me talking about beer
Me spending any more than a few minutes in the beer aisle at Dan Murphys
Me saying "hey, if it annoys you that much, I could take up an obsession with stamp collecting or trainspotting!"

 

[glennheinzel]

My wife uses my infatuation with beer to good effect. In bed, she gets me to read beer books to her as it helps send her to sleep.

 

[Jazzafish]

My wife is supportive of my brewing, as long as I don't talk to her about brewing, or spend all my spare time brewing.

She doesn't drink at all, so she doesn't get it. And doesn't want to get it. That is cool though, I feel the same way about her doing her nails, makeup, eyebrows, hair, baking etc... Can see you enjoy it, don't care much for it myself, just do it when it suits us both.

 

[HKS]

No probs here either. Mrs HKS has assisted in putting down every batch we have ever brewed. She loves beer and drinks 1 for 1 with me. In fact I have to make sure I don't get distracted otherwise I fall a few beers behind and well that's less beers for me.

However when there is only 1 beer left, we share it.

She is not obsessed with brewing like me. I do earbash her about it especially lately getting back into it again. She's not really interested in all the gadgets and she rolls her eyes sometimes with me getting excited over a piece of stainless. In fact she's kinda worried about my stainless fetish and concerned the only porn I look at these days is brew porn.

I don't get hassled at all with spending hundreds of $$$ on brew gear. In fact she is encouraging me to go AG but only if I brew atleast double batches at a time. She figures, why spend 5/6/7/8 hours brewing a 23L batch when you could spend the same time and brew more. Maybe I can use that excuse to buy a big stainless conical :lol:

I feel sorry for some of you guys with non drinking Mrs who hassle you about brewing and drinking.

It does look like the overwhelming majority though have very good better halves. In fact I'm suprised at how many of them bought the home brew kits, how good is that. An ex-girlfriend bought me my 1st kit 20 years ago but she was soon out of the picture after that and then I met Mrs HKS.

Cheers

 

[geoffi]

Does anyone else suffer from the following;

I need to justify everything I buy for the brewery (admittedly, some things cost a bit), but the wife will come home with a $70 bottle of face wash (that seems to last a week) and doesn't bat an eyelid! She even rocked on home with a cat under her arm one day ($200, a bargain apparently, but it's cost a couple of bucks every day since) but I can't seem to get through that my chest freezer idea is a good one!

A few years ago my wife decided she wanted a horse. With six acres here, this was certainly possible. Whether it was wise or not, was another question, and one that I posed. Forcefully.

But, horse she wanted, so...

First there was the fencing. There were posts, wire, chain strainer, various bits and pieces bought...and I spent weekends putting in posts and stringing wire.

Then we needed an electric hot-tape system so we could move the critter around in temporary enclosures. Zapper, posts, tape, car battery...$$$...

The horse itself was a 'free to a good home' deal. But it needed to be fetched. Hired a float, spent a day fetching horse...

Now the horse is here. It needs special food (and I thought they ate grass...silly me...). Then there was the horse-care gear. Been to an equestrian shop and seen how much the bits and pieces cost? $$$...

Then a bloke has to come every now and then to attend to hooves etc. $$$...

After a few months it turned out the horse wasn't the fulfillment of all life's dreams. It was too small to ride. And it was a grouchy little **** of an animal who wouldn't let you approach it even if you had a handful of sugar-coated carrots.

So. Horse goes to wife's sister's property to live with other horses. More float hire, another day driving horse around.

I've never added it all up. I don't really want to. But I know it cost me a crapload of loot, and wasted a whole lot of my time. All for an unridable horse to spend a few months holiday with us.

The one consolation I have is that the whole episode has given me several lifetimes worth of immunity from any accusations that I spend too much money on my 'hobbies'.

 

[Jazzafish]

A few years ago my wife decided she wanted a horse. With six acres here, this was certainly possible. Whether it was wise or not, was another question, and one that I posed. Forcefully.

But, horse she wanted, so...

First there was the fencing. There were posts, wire, chain strainer, various bits and pieces bought...and I spent weekends putting in posts and stringing wire.

Then we needed an electric hot-tape system so we could move the critter around in temporary enclosures. Zapper, posts, tape, car battery...$$$...

The horse itself was a 'free to a good home' deal. But it needed to be fetched. Hired a float, spent a day fetching horse...

Now the horse is here. It needs special food (and I thought they ate grass...silly me...). Then there was the horse-care gear. Been to an equestrian shop and seen how much the bits and pieces cost? $$$...

Then a bloke has to come every now and then to attend to hooves etc. $$$...

After a few months it turned out the horse wasn't the fulfillment of all life's dreams. It was too small to ride. And it was a grouchy little **** of an animal who wouldn't let you approach it even if you had a handful of sugar-coated carrots.

So. Horse goes to wife's sister's property to live with other horses. More float hire, another day driving horse around.

I've never added it all up. I don't really want to. But I know it cost me a crapload of loot, and wasted a whole lot of my time. All for an unridable horse to spend a few months holiday with us.

The one consolation I have is that the whole episode has given me several lifetimes worth of immunity from any accusations that I spend too much money on my 'hobbies'.

The rewards will be priceless

 

[newguy]

Geoff,

My wife & I are planning to buy an acreage and build a house. It's a tossup at the moment whether we get a smaller acreage close to the city or, for the same money, a larger one farther out. My wife is really pushing for the larger one. And I know why. She wants horses. I hate horses. I grew up on a farm. I'm not shovelling any more **** in this lifetime. I've told her many times she's welcome to get a horse. However, the first time I have to feed, water, clean up after or chase the damn thing, I'm shooting it. Given her previous promise to clean the litter box whilst she was holding a kitten in a pet store, I'll guarantee that I'll have 2,000lbs of horsemeat at some point in the future. Regarding the litter box, I can count on one hand the number of times that she's cleaned it in the past 10 years.

Ah well, at least she likes my beer.

 

[Adamt]

Go for the smaller house and brew some lambics.... that way she can have all the smells of a horse and you can have your beer!

 

[geoffi]

Geoff,

My wife & I are planning to buy an acreage and build a house. It's a tossup at the moment whether we get a smaller acreage close to the city or, for the same money, a larger one farther out. My wife is really pushing for the larger one. And I know why. She wants horses. I hate horses. I grew up on a farm. I'm not shovelling any more **** in this lifetime. I've told her many times she's welcome to get a horse. However, the first time I have to feed, water, clean up after or chase the damn thing, I'm shooting it. Given her previous promise to clean the litter box whilst she was holding a kitten in a pet store, I'll guarantee that I'll have 2,000lbs of horsemeat at some point in the future. Regarding the litter box, I can count on one hand the number of times that she's cleaned it in the past 10 years.

Ah well, at least she likes my beer.

Horse meat is very popular in France. I'm sure there are recipes on line. Maybe you should print a few out and add them to her favourite cookbooks.

 

[BoilerBoy]

Geoff,

My wife & I are planning to buy an acreage and build a house. It's a tossup at the moment whether we get a smaller acreage close to the city or, for the same money, a larger one farther out. My wife is really pushing for the larger one. And I know why. She wants horses. I hate horses. I grew up on a farm. I'm not shovelling any more **** in this lifetime. I've told her many times she's welcome to get a horse. However, the first time I have to feed, water, clean up after or chase the damn thing, I'm shooting it. Given her previous promise to clean the litter box whilst she was holding a kitten in a pet store, I'll guarantee that I'll have 2,000lbs of horsemeat at some point in the future. Regarding the litter box, I can count on one hand the number of times that she's cleaned it in the past 10 years.

Ah well, at least she likes my beer.

Yes, I once had a girlfriend who got into horses and believe me unless its a shared passion it wares very thin real quick.
Unlike your considering she had to rent out a place to keep it, which though only 10 minutes away your whole existence starts revolving around, feeding, buying feed, worming, vets, riding, car boots littered with bits of loose n hay, endless $$$$$ and running around to put his bloodycoat on everytime it got damn cold! <_<
Which always made me wonder if uts so necessary who ran around and put the coats on those poor little horsies running around in the wild! :unsure:

The only positive would be that a horse would completely remove any justifiable criticism of your beer activities and provide you with endless leverage to pursue it further. :beer:

Good luck

 

[mickoz]

My wife is pretty supportive but hit me with something the other day that both worried me and excited me all at once.

She spotted a house that she liked and suggested we buy it - heritage style, nice area, 3 bathrooms, 5 bedrooms and a cellar drool.

I thought I was on a winner until she told me it was 1.2 million. OMG I would be working until I was 150 to pay the place off

It will never happen but at least I know shes thinking about me having somewhere to put my kit and beer

 

[tangent]

She wants horses. I hate horses.

So do I but I dig those riding pants

 

[newguy]

Go for the smaller house and brew some lambics.... that way she can have all the smells of a horse and you can have your beer!

:lol:

The most logical suggestion I've ever heard. :icon_cheers:

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

A few years ago my wife decided she wanted a horse. With six acres here, this was certainly possible. Whether it was wise or not, was another question, and one that I posed. Forcefully.

But, horse she wanted, so...

First there was the fencing. There were posts, wire, chain strainer, various bits and pieces bought...and I spent weekends putting in posts and stringing wire.

Then we needed an electric hot-tape system so we could move the critter around in temporary enclosures. Zapper, posts, tape, car battery...$$$...

The horse itself was a 'free to a good home' deal. But it needed to be fetched. Hired a float, spent a day fetching horse...

Now the horse is here. It needs special food (and I thought they ate grass...silly me...). Then there was the horse-care gear. Been to an equestrian shop and seen how much the bits and pieces cost? $$$...

Then a bloke has to come every now and then to attend to hooves etc. $$$...

After a few months it turned out the horse wasn't the fulfillment of all life's dreams. It was too small to ride. And it was a grouchy little **** of an animal who wouldn't let you approach it even if you had a handful of sugar-coated carrots.

So. Horse goes to wife's sister's property to live with other horses. More float hire, another day driving horse around.

I've never added it all up. I don't really want to. But I know it cost me a crapload of loot, and wasted a whole lot of my time. All for an unridable horse to spend a few months holiday with us.

The one consolation I have is that the whole episode has given me several lifetimes worth of immunity from any accusations that I spend too much money on my 'hobbies'.

There is only one kind of Horse to have................and that is a Steel Horse

Steel Horses ....

Only require feeding when they are ridden
You can turn them off at will
Can be kept in the shed without making noise
Go a lot faster
Dont stink when they die
Dont stink
Wont bite when you wash them
Shorter
You wont need to listen to that sh1te musice or need a stupid hat
Dont need dentist,Farriers and special feed
Only brewers use speciality grains
You can still speak proper Australian and own a Steel Horse

 

[bugwan]

Geoff,

My wife & I are planning to buy an acreage and build a house. It's a tossup at the moment whether we get a smaller acreage close to the city or, for the same money, a larger one farther out. My wife is really pushing for the larger one. And I know why. She wants horses. I hate horses. I grew up on a farm. I'm not shovelling any more **** in this lifetime. I've told her many times she's welcome to get a horse. However, the first time I have to feed, water, clean up after or chase the damn thing, I'm shooting it. Given her previous promise to clean the litter box whilst she was holding a kitten in a pet store, I'll guarantee that I'll have 2,000lbs of horsemeat at some point in the future. Regarding the litter box, I can count on one hand the number of times that she's cleaned it in the past 10 years.

Ah well, at least she likes my beer.

Classic post newguy, that cracked me up :lol:

Let me guess, the cat gives you NOTHING in terms of thanks for your work, but loves your wife? If so, same here. It seems the wife only likes the look of the cat, not the little chocolate loaves it leaves in its ***** box. Looks like a job for a man apparently...

That horse story is huge collateral for future brewery expansions. I wish I could make the cat sound more expensive...I need a March pump...

 

[beernography]

OK so it seems I'm the perfect wife.

Now why the **** am I single?
:beerbang:

 

[chris.taylor.98]

OK so it seems I'm the perfect wife.

Now why the **** am I single?
:beerbang:

Probably the hideously toothy grin if the avatars anything to go by.

There's only so far that the beer goggles will go. h34r:

 

[beernography]

Lol. Touche!

What can I say...maybe I should try rohypnol?

 

[Zizzle]

There is only one kind of Horse to have................and that is a Steel Horse

Steel Horses ....

Only require feeding when they are ridden
You can turn them off at will
Can be kept in the shed without making noise
Go a lot faster
Dont stink when they die
Dont stink
Wont bite when you wash them
Shorter
You wont need to listen to that sh1te musice or need a stupid hat
Dont need dentist,Farriers and special feed
Only brewers use speciality grains
You can still speak proper Australian and own a Steel Horse

I walk these streets, a loaded six string on my back
I play for keeps, 'cause I might not make it back
I been everywhere, and I'm standing tall
I've seen a million faces an I've rocked them all

I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride
I'm wanted dead or alive
I'm a cowboy, I got the night on my side
I'm wanted dead or alive
And I ride, dead or alive
I still drive, dead or alive
Dead or alive

 

[browndog]

I walk these streets, a loaded six string on my back
I play for keeps, 'cause I might not make it back
I been everywhere, and I'm standing tall
I've seen a million faces an I've rocked them all

I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride
I'm wanted dead or alive
I'm a cowboy, I got the night on my side
I'm wanted dead or alive
And I ride, dead or alive
I still drive, dead or alive
Dead or alive

You need another fix of relleno crack Zizzle.


cheers

Browndog

 

[geoffi]

OK so it seems I'm the perfect wife.

Now why the **** am I single?
:beerbang:

Maybe AHB needs a singles section.