Angry wife

[Flimish-viking]

Atm i have a angry wife because all my fermentation bottles just stand there being ugly in the living room. What are your solutions to put the kegs in? A foto or visualisation would be nice

 

[andrewmaixner]

Garage, basement, closet, temperature controlled freezer/fridge...
Are you in an apartment?

 

[GilSwillBasementBrews]

The majority of my beer gear goes under my basement steps (finished basement). The kegs go in the kegerator after filling and full carboy's depending on the style usually reside in my temp controlled chest freezer.

 

[treacheroustexan]

get a new wife.

 

[FloppyKnockers]

My ferm buckets and carboys go next to the bar. They are unsightly at times. The wife knows better than to complain about them as she enjoys the beer too. That would be as ridiculous as me complaining about all the cooking stuff in the kitchen while she's making some delicious food.

 

[agrazela]

Tell her to knit you some festive carboy cosies.

 

[RaHarmakis]

Fill a Carboy with Wine and mix it in with the rest!

 

[popgunandy]

To be fair, how many do you have? In my house SWMBO is cool with a bucket in the closet and one discreetly under a desk in the kitchen. Any more than that and I know I'm pushing the envelope.

I try to keep one keg of her preferred beer on tap at all times and the wine fridge stocked...happy wife happy life!

 

[Rhumbline]

If you can't move them somewhere more out of the way, how about using something like an armoire to put them in?

And if you think she's mad now, wait until you have your first blowoff and hose beer all over the living room.

 

[TeacherBrew]

Mine is the same way. I had ten pounds of honey for this weekends brew and she says "that honey is such an eye sore" it was sitting next to two carboys. I guess those were ok?

 

[DU99]

got a porch/balcony..get a small cupboard and store out of sight

 

[Dixon9717]

Guess I'm lucky. I get tired of looking at my Fermentors in the dining room before my wife does. I've never had more then 3 at a time though.

 

[k1ngl1ves]

I have a 1/4 of the garage and the downstairs bathroom to do whatever the hell I want.



I remember when I used to have the whole garage. And the entire downstairs.





I miss those times...

 

[Rhumbline]

Atm i have a angry wife because all my fermentation bottles just stand there being ugly in the living room. What are your solutions to put the kegs in? A foto or visualisation would be nice

Tell her that your girlfriend doesn't seem to have a problem with it.

 

[slym2none]

Tell her that your girlfriend doesn't seem to have a problem with it.

...and that's how the fight started.

 

[Germanbrewgal]

Tell her that your girlfriend doesn't seem to have a problem with it.

Yea right, then you'll be looking for a place

 

[IslandLizard]

Having the wife angry is not good, so you better find an amicable solution.
Guys in general have lower standards of appearance and don't see things the way many women do.

Unless you keep your living room cool, those fermentors (carboys) are usually better off in a cooler place (60-66°F) anyway. Now lifting and dragging around full glass vessels of that size is dangerous, so perhaps buckets would be better suited? They come with handles.

Basement perhaps? Do you have a brew space? Everyone needs some space of their own.

 

[JonM]

Hey, if she let you keep brewing stuff in the living room for even five minutes, you're way ahead of most of us. Just store it in a closet out of sight.

 

[fuelish]

I either keep stuff in the basement, or (during winter months), in my daughter's former bedroom - she's out of college and living out of town (soon-to-be homeowner)....so the lime green former teenage girl bedroom houses fermentors, and several guitars/amps....it's mine all mine, dahnabbit

 

[GHBWNY]

I agree with the consensus on buckets instead of carboys. At least with buckets, you can drape some nice faux fur over them (making a hole for the airlock of course) and use them as extra seating for guests, or an ottoman. If anyone asks what the airlock is, you can tell them if they have to ask, they don't want to know. While handing them a homebrew, of course.

 

[Maylar]

Plastic buckets on the kitchen floor, fermenting bottle of mead on the table, secondary fermentors under the dining table, cider aging in the spare bedroom, a wire rack cart with brewing equipment in the living room.

Wife doesn't complain... she left me 25 years ago. Guess I'm not much help, eh?

 

[Terek]

mine is mad because i have spent every second of free time i have working on my brew room for the last 9 days. Almost done though thats what i tell here every night

 

[texwake]

Never saw another post from this guy. This guy ever solve his issue or are we solving our own? haha.

 

[HB_in_Subic]

I used "mission creep" on my wife. Took a new job and got a 3 bedroom flat at a very fair price. It's just the two of us, so we have two "empty" bedrooms. So I took over one and it was kept as a cool room (64-65F). Then when I started to make Saisons and Meads with Belgian yeast requiring a warm room, I took over the "guest bedroom" and one of the bathrooms (for cleaning the buckets and such). At first she was surprised that I wanted the "guest room". When I said it was not going to be used for quite a while, she caved in. At present I am making a conciliatory batch of Mango wine (her favorite). At least if I am home brewing, I am at home. Once that wine is done, a chest freezer will appear

This is what the guest bedroom ended up looking like at one point...

 

[churst]

mine is mad because i have spent every second of free time i have working on my brew room for the last 9 days. Almost done though thats what i tell here every night

to be fair, that new brew room is AMAZING!!

 

[Flimish-viking]

I was thinking in creating a cubbort with those boxes they put fish in on ice. To make my racking chamber.

And yeah a happy wife is a brewer without a headache

 

[Deafmeadmaker]

I keep my empty carboys and buckets in the garage. When I brew, they're between my desk and a bookshelf partially hides them and keeps them cool and shady. The wife and kids complain about the yeasty smells and beer when it blows. They don't mind the smell too much when it's honey...
Build a workbench in your garage with enough room to store all your carboys/buckets. Built in shelves to store chemicals, brushes and tools are handy.

 

[MarkKF]

I have a corner of the basement. Carboys, buckets, Rubbermaid containers and a two shelf unit. If I had a forth wall and a sink/counter top I'd be in heaven.

 

[obie]

throw a sweat shirt over them and they look like little people with no legs

 

[Greatbreweh]

I would have to think some jewelry draped over the necks of those carboys may just make them more acceptable looking.