Wife Getting Excited!!!

I haven't even started my first batch. We are on a trip and plan on starting it as soon as we get home. My wife is getting excited for me to get this started and keeps asking what else I will need for my first batch.. My question is... Should I be scared that she is excited???

Everyone have a Merry Christmas and safe travels to y'all that are traveling!!!

 

Relish the thought that she's as excited as you are!

 

In a couple months or years when you have brewing equipment littering every closet and bedroom in your house, she'll regret it. Enjoy it for now though!

 

It is great to have a supportive wife. Mine is great. She bought me the equipment to get started, later bought me a mash tun so I could go all grain. Then since I brew a lot of Belgians she bought me a floor corker so I could cork and cage my Belgians.

She even found me a free fridge for a kegerator. She even encouraged me to get a nitro tap because she loves a good stout on nitro. Got to love a supportive wife for this hobby.

She does like my brews and always enjoys that I love brewing so much. She has a good plalate and gives honest feedback on my brews.

 

Beer, we're talking beer,
Beer is awesome, the wife want's beer, the wife wants to make beer, she want's to buy beer making equipment, damn I'm getting excited!
I'm cutting it off here, happy wife, happy life.
Merry Christmas to you and yours!

 

You're lucky. My wife hates beer (although she did push me to pick up my initial equipment from a thrift store). If your wife is on board, you're golden.

 

Calm down and focus man ...Its a trick......Its the Trip to Europe your currently on..she figures that keeping you excited and drunk will lead to yet another trip.

 

Wait until your first boil over on the stove or exploding bottle. She may not be so excited then.

 

Be afraid...

 

This wife was also excited about beer

 

Yikes! Cut her off!

 

You are lucky. My wife hates the entire brewing process even with me being an extremely clean brewer. She dislikes beer and thinks it is a huge waste of time and makes comments every time I do ANYTHING beer wise. Strangely enough, she will be the first person to tell guests that I brew my own beer and she offers them some....go figure. If she is supportive, go give her a kiss, as you are a lucky man.

 

My wife is the same, very supportive and tries not to fall asleep when I talk to her about all the beer stuff I did that day or read or want to do or build....BUT when the equipment starts to pile up and there are fermenters in the shoe closet and shoes in the hallway she does kinda give me that look.
I make sure to always have something on tap that she enjoys and a 6 pack of Ultra (her go to name beer) in the fridge for her.

 

This too, shall pass...

 

Every time I see this thread title I keep thinking it's about something else....

 

Brown chicken brown cow.

I wonder if she might like to make her own brew. Maybe after you have some successes she will join you. Maybe she'll even be your brew buddy now if she's excited enough.

 

She wants to try the chocolate peanut butter.. I tell her let's start out simple and work towards that and she agrees..

 

I would say for the most part my wife doesn't mind the hobby as a whole, seems pretty supportive of the space it takes especially when you are brewing closer to 10-15 gallons a shot and need space for 3 carboys. BUT...a big BUT... she HATES my kegerator. I told her its that or the equivalent of 17 twelve packs of beer bottles in the kitchen being sanitized, air dried, and filled.

You are lucky.... for now.

 

My wife is slowly coming around, or at least tolerating it more. She tolerates the space I take up without any complaints and even got me the book "yeast" for Christmas this year. It's still tough to find time to brew and she complains a little when I do it, but my beer turns out pretty good and she likes everything I make.

 

What else do you need for a first batch?

Well honey, I can think of lots of things:

About 7-8 fermenter buckets
A Keezer
about 6 ball lock kegs
a 30 gallon kettle
2 Blichmann Burners
A brewing stand
A Stir plate
a fermentation chamber
a beer gun just in case you want to take this first batch on the road...
A motorized grain mill
Conical fermenter
100 foot 1 inch diameter wort chiller

etc., etc.,

****, I'd have had the list in pocket ready if she was going to ask a question like that!

 

...& be prepared for retaliation!

 

That's cool, I wish my wife liked beer more. Although I can't complain she's very supportive of my hobby. She even goes out of her way to make sure I get time on the weekends to brew.

The only problem I see with this is if she drinks all your beer before you can drink it and isn't willing to pitch in and help here and there. I don't mind the actual brew process and doing that alone, but it would be awesome for some clean up help.

 

Mine can't drink anymore for medical reasons. But she still helps me here & there when I need an extra hand.

 

My wife is a very enthusiastic brew partner and assistant beer drinker. Plus she really likes cooking with beer and paring beer with food. Best of all worlds for me...

 

My partner brews with me sometimes. It's nice. I keep acquiring new fermenters that just seem to fill themselves with tasty beer.