Angry wife

[Singletrack]

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.

What now?!? Ah, this is the mead forum. You know you could not get away with that on the beer forum. For example:

1. Faux? It's spelled "fox" for cripe's sake!
2. "Nice" faux fur? Is there a specific hair count that constitutes the "nice" stuff?
3. Sure. You can also keep your garbage cans, old toilets, or dead horses in the living room. Just be sure to drape some nice faux fur over them. (No one will notice.)
4. You had me at "making a hole (in the fur) for the..."
5. What kinda lousy chairs do you have at your place that people might want to sit on some mysterious object covered in faux fur? (Even the "nice" stuff.)
6. Where do you think that airlock might end up when they sit down? (It was a one in a million shot, doc. One in a million.)
7. As long as we're covering all lumpy household objects with fur, why not use the real stuff? (Probably too nice -- dead donors notwithstanding.)

Well, better stop to give some other beer drinkers a chance. Thanks for playing.

 

[GHBWNY]

What now?!? Ah, this is the mead forum. You know you could not get away with that on the beer forum. For example:

1. Faux? It's spelled "fox" for cripe's sake!
2. "Nice" faux fur? Is there a specific hair count that constitutes the "nice" stuff?
3. Sure. You can also keep your garbage cans, old toilets, or dead horses in the living room. Just be sure to drape some nice faux fur over them. (No one will notice.)
4. You had me at "making a hole (in the fur) for the..."
5. What kinda lousy chairs do you have at your place that people might want to sit on some mysterious object covered in faux fur? (Even the "nice" stuff.)
6. Where do you think that airlock might end up when they sit down? (It was a one in a million shot, doc. One in a million.)
7. As long as we're covering all lumpy household objects with fur, why not use the real stuff? (Probably too nice -- dead donors notwithstanding.)

Well, better stop to give some other beer drinkers a chance. Thanks for playing.

My sincerest apologies to the mead brewers (is that how you make mead?) for inadvertently suggesting creative solutions for disguising their fermenting equipment. I simply did not look at the forum source before posting. And since there is apparently such a vast difference in mead vs. beer equipment, instead of (nice) faux fur, I would have suggested covering the buckets with (nice) faux hides of honeybees in honor of, and in deference to, the indomitable effort those little buggers put into mead's most critical ingredient. As far as the airlock goes, your guests will just have to watch where they plant themselves.

 

[MaxStout]

Cover them with old t-shirts.

 

[Jwin]

Stop trying to live in the beering room

 

[Vex3521]

Mine are actually in the kitchen (I'm still dying from the faux fur posts, you guys are a riot!)

So I have a tall table similar to a console table or hostess stand with no front that everything sits on top of while fermenting. I do cover because there's a window so it's just tea towels. Have been tempted to crochet carboy covers but I think if a hobby overlaps into another additional hobby there could be issues!

Extra equipment has stowing space out of the way under my table, smaller pieces have a drawer and pantry shelf and for now that's working. I'm holding out on more expansion until after we move but then with the new build I'll have a room all to myself for this with no need to crossover to other areas unless its moving bottled items out the the cellar.

 

[Matrix4b]

In my living room, I have a spot in a corner that we never could figure out what to put in. It was small but large enough for my 8 brewing vessels. 3 buckets, the rest glass carboys. I even just hung a dry erase board up on the wall over it that in my next set of meads, I plan on keeping notes on.

I am lucky that I have only 10 feet to the kitchen there. I have been thinking on making a heavy duty shelf for it. (8 full vessels is about 40 or so gallons of liquid is very heavy)

Matrix

 

[DungMonster]

If you get rid of the wife you can brew wherever the hell you want, hoorah! I can brew in my washing machine, attic, dishwasher, cabinets, toilet (like prison wine), bathtub, fish tank, and well you get the point. I may just got shoot a deer and try turning it into a fermenter... hmm you could fill from the mouth and have a spout at the button. Lift it's tail to pour a drink.... oh the ideas!

 

[kombat]

I gave my wife full control of all gardens outdoors, in exchange for my full control of the basement. I've set aside 30% for "recreation and exercise," but the rest is "The Brewery."

 

[Kirkwooder]

I find that when my wife gets to bitching and moaning, if I put my head between her legs, the bitching seems to stop and the moaning gets a little loader. I work hard to make sure things cum to a very happy ending. It seems to last for a while before I need to do it again.

Just a suggestion....

 

[MarkKF]

I gave my wife full control of all gardens outdoors, in exchange for my full control of the basement. I've set aside 30% for "recreation and exercise," but the rest is "The Brewery."

Does she mow the lawn, too?

 

[brrman]

I gave my wife full control of all gardens outdoors, in exchange for my full control of the basement. I've set aside 30% for "recreation and exercise," but the rest is "The Brewery."

That's funny because I did the same thing. My wife is a big gardener. I gave her all the outside. I get the basement for my woodshop and my brew area.

Unfortunately I still have to mow the lawn, though we have no grass in the backyard thanks to her.

 

[harleybug88]

"So, are you married or happy?"

Curly Howard- Three stooges

 

[Stillraining]

Or you could do something like this....I built mine her own "brew room" where she can create all manner of her own mold spores she wants too. She pretty much leaves me alone to mess up the house on brew days now and or ignores the occasional misplaced fermentation bucket.

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[brrman]

nicely done. lol

 

[sandyeggoxj]

"I can use the living room or the garage, up to you!"

So now I have a 2 "car" garage filled with brew gear. The cars get parked outside where cars should be. The beer is parked inside where beer should be. Works out well.

 

[Curtis2010]

I find that when my wife gets to bitching and moaning, if I put my head between her legs, the bitching seems to stop and the moaning gets a little loader. I work hard to make sure things cum to a very happy ending. It seems to last for a while before I need to do it again.

Just a suggestion....

Good strategy. Does it work the other way round?

 

[Curtis2010]

I gave my wife full control of all gardens outdoors, in exchange for my full control of the basement. I've set aside 30% for "recreation and exercise," but the rest is "The Brewery."

Separate brew space is good. My GF is a great cook and would not like me interfering with her kitchen. She loves the results though. So, I have a separate brew kitchen back home in Guatemala. Conveniently its an addition to the bodega/workshop in a separate building about 100 yards from the main house...so I can putter around down there in peace.

In the process of relocating to Panama and the first structure going up is the bodega/brew house. The guys just poured the footings today...yeehaa!

 

[Schmoogdaddy]

Throw a T-shirt over the carboy with the logo of her favorite football team or motorcycle. Pittsburgh Steelers and Triumph work well.

 

[Kirkwooder]

Good strategy. Does it work the other way round?

Not as often as it should!

 

[Curtis2010]

Not as often as it should!

Maybe you should bitch and moan more! Works for her.

 

[SerifSansSerif]

Stop trying to live in the beering room

Pfffft... I sleep surrounded by my ciders and meads and such...

MINE!!!! ALL MINE!!!!!



(and thankfully, with my tolerance to colder temps, I have never suffered a single case of the so called rhino farts)

EDIT: Also a gardener of sorts. This is a picture of the living room typically around February-ish... And that picture is basically the entirety of my living room. Those plants grow larger and larger until I hold a sale for a local community garden. Which the other pic (should this work out right) is an idea as to what comes OUT of my living room.

Thankfully no wife or SO to complain.

 

[brew703]

I've only been brewing for 6 months and I have to hear it from the wife every brew day. I clean my bottles and store them on the kitchen counter and that drives her nuts. I wash my tubing etc outside and use the kitchen cabinet to let air dry. That drives her nuts. I do have a closet that is dedicated for my brew equipment and I do store my kettle and carboys in there when not in use. The bottles and other items eventually find there way to my office where my fermentation chamber is located.
To be honest, I do it because I know it drives her crazy. That's her punishment for not taking care of me on a regular basis. LOL. When she is good, my stuff goes in the office. Doesn't happen often.