slim chillingsworth
Well-Known Member
Beer is truly one of man's most important and greatest accomplishments. It surpasses wine, coffee, tea, chocolate, and a good chunk of fine cuisine in complexity and artfulness. It is healthful, delicious, and at the core of some of the best parts of human society.
But I don't have to tell you that. If you're here, reading this, you know. So why do so many of you choose mates who don't agree?
I just spent a few hours drinking at a buddy's house, and his lady couldn't stop putting beer down. I happen to be a pretty argumentative person, and kept pushing her to give me any valid reason for her hatred of beer. She tried to tell me that it's unhealthy, and following her logic I forced her to admit that, under her definition, fiber can't be considered healthy. I waxed philosophically about the integral part beer has played in human history, and she merely brushed it off. She even went so far as to criticize people who would pursue brewing as a hobby, minutes after my proclamation that such was my intention. She was obviously provoking me, and yet got offended at my adherence to my own beliefs.
I understand that people don't like beer, but why do people who like beer choose to form such an intimate bond with people who don't? So many of you on this board adopt this "SWMBO" label for your significant others, and constantly portray them as being in opposition to your brewing and passion for beer. Why do you do this to yourselves? Why would someone who loves you hate something you love?
I jokingly refer to my lady as SWMOB, which is in my signature, as an opposition to the general attitudes your women seem to have toward your brewing, i.e. controlling, manipulative, and dissatisfied. My girlfriend loves beer, and I couldn't date anyone who didn't. She drains my kegs faster than I can brew them, porter to pale ale, stout to hefeweizen. We split all the beers that go into our cellar and drink them and converse about them when we pull them out. I know it is rare to find someone like this, but love isn't anything other than rare.
Mostly, I'm venting because of my interaction with someone who is sincerely hindering a person who has great potential in brewing. Someone who has criticized me because of her ignorance. However, I'm also posing this: why do so many of you choose to live with someone who hates something you love?
But I don't have to tell you that. If you're here, reading this, you know. So why do so many of you choose mates who don't agree?
I just spent a few hours drinking at a buddy's house, and his lady couldn't stop putting beer down. I happen to be a pretty argumentative person, and kept pushing her to give me any valid reason for her hatred of beer. She tried to tell me that it's unhealthy, and following her logic I forced her to admit that, under her definition, fiber can't be considered healthy. I waxed philosophically about the integral part beer has played in human history, and she merely brushed it off. She even went so far as to criticize people who would pursue brewing as a hobby, minutes after my proclamation that such was my intention. She was obviously provoking me, and yet got offended at my adherence to my own beliefs.
I understand that people don't like beer, but why do people who like beer choose to form such an intimate bond with people who don't? So many of you on this board adopt this "SWMBO" label for your significant others, and constantly portray them as being in opposition to your brewing and passion for beer. Why do you do this to yourselves? Why would someone who loves you hate something you love?
I jokingly refer to my lady as SWMOB, which is in my signature, as an opposition to the general attitudes your women seem to have toward your brewing, i.e. controlling, manipulative, and dissatisfied. My girlfriend loves beer, and I couldn't date anyone who didn't. She drains my kegs faster than I can brew them, porter to pale ale, stout to hefeweizen. We split all the beers that go into our cellar and drink them and converse about them when we pull them out. I know it is rare to find someone like this, but love isn't anything other than rare.
Mostly, I'm venting because of my interaction with someone who is sincerely hindering a person who has great potential in brewing. Someone who has criticized me because of her ignorance. However, I'm also posing this: why do so many of you choose to live with someone who hates something you love?