Conversations between brewers and spouses

[Yooper]

I brewed 10 gallons of Janet's Brown Ale today, and kegged 5 gallons of IPA. I'm sitting here, feet up, and Bob and I are chatting about the beers we're drinking. I said something like "I'm going to miss this oatmeal stout when it's gone. I don't have another one in the pipeline".

Bob says, "Yes, I like it, too. But I told you to concentrate on pale ales and IPAs and that's what we need most anyway."

I reply, "You TOLD me to concentrate on hoppy beers? As in, 'hey, wife, go into the kitchen and fix me a sammich?' You're going to get an attitude of 'hey, wife, go into the brewery and make me an IPA'?"

Bob, thinking for a moment, "Well............yes."

Me: "Harrumph. Then could you go fix me a sammich?"

Bob: "STFU."

Hahahahahahaha!

 

[mikeysab]

Me: I think i'm gonna brew saturday.
Wife: geez, again?
Me: I haven't brewed in three months.
Wife: whatever, go ahead

Or this one

Me: i'm thinking of brewing saturday
Wife: geez, again? Don't you still have beer from last time?
Me: yeah, but it gets boring drinking the,same beer every night.
Wife: whatever, go ahead

 

[Airborneguy]

Wife: When are you brewing the black IPA again?
Me: I don't like IPAs, I'll brew it a few weeks from now.
Wife: Well I want it.
Me (thinking): Why can't she just get pregnant again so I don't have to do it?

 

[Hammy71]

Wife: When are you brewing the black IPA again?
Me: I don't like IPAs, I'll brew it a few weeks from now.
Wife: Well I want it.
Me (thinking): Why can't she just get pregnant again so I don't have to do it?

Why can't she just get pregnant again....lmao!!!

 

[Yooper]

Why can't she just get pregnant again....lmao!!!

Times are tough when THAT seems a viable option!

 

[kh54s10]

Sometimes I am reminded that I don't mind being single.

I brew when I want and what I want and if it takes me 3-4 days to clean up the mess......

 

[beninan]

Me: I'm brewing today.
Her: Ok.

That's usually the extent of it. She doesn't drink, but usally taste test everything with "eh" as the only reply.
Sometimes I wish she would argue with me, so it would be more fun to try to put her into her place.

 

[iaefebs]

She: Anything happening tomorrow?, I was planning on taking the car and going to do.... whatever.
Me: I plan on brewing a batch
She: What are you making?
Me: I tell her what I'm brewing
She: OK if you need anything while I'm out call me.

 

[JoeyChopps]

My wife also doesn't drink much but loves when I do because I don't have much time to do things I want this is my favorites conversation
Me (making a starter) I'm brewing this weekend
Her cool
Me yeah I'm doing a x
Her did u get a couple of bombers for brew day?
God I love this women

 

[Pappers_]

Nancy has begun to go with me to our brewing club meetings, which has really been fun. Tomorrow, we're going to the club's Christmas dinner together.

 

[mikeysab]

Wife: When are you brewing the black IPA again?
Me: I don't like IPAs, I'll brew it a few weeks from now.
Wife: Well I want it.
Me (thinking): Why can't she just get pregnant again so I don't have to do it?

So you took the proactive approach and knocked her up again? Haha, nice move

 

[mikeysab]

Wife: When are you brewing the black IPA again?
Me: I don't like IPAs, I'll brew it a few weeks from now.
Wife: Well I want it.
Me (thinking): Why can't she just get pregnant again so I don't have to do it?

So you took the proactive approach and knocked her up again? Haha, nice move

 

[nukinfuts29]

Me: saying something about need anything to do with brewing

Her: omg you and this damn stupid brewing I swear I'm going to throw it all out. Its enough already. No, no, no.

Who said pregnant was easier? Lol

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[drainbamage]

My wife also doesn't drink much but loves when I do because I don't have much time to do things I want this is my favorites conversation
Me (making a starter) I'm brewing this weekend
Her cool
Me yeah I'm doing a x
Her did u get a couple of bombers for brew day?
God I love this women

Sounds like a keeper!

My wife is supportive of my brewing, but every brew day, I get a, "God, it smells like **** in here!" whenever I add the hops to the boil.

 

[mr_goodwrench]

Sounds like a keeper!

My wife is supportive of my brewing, but every brew day, I get a, "God, it smells like **** in here!" whenever I add the hops to the boil.

That was one o the things that made moving to all grain and full boils outside so easy... Well, Honey, it moves the stink outside!

 

[year2beer]

Me: I'm gonna dry hop this double ipa...

Wife: OK... whatever that means...

10min later...

Wife: (walks into kitchen) It smells like heaven in here!

Now that's love! I'm a LuckY man... even if she hates my beers...haha

 

[aiptasia]

Nancy has begun to go with me to our brewing club meetings, which has really been fun. Tomorrow, we're going to the club's Christmas dinner together.

I wish my DW would tag along to our local club meetings. It really is a fun crowd and there's plenty of brewing women there. Right now, she mainly regards my brewing as another obsession.

On my last brew day two weeks ago, my Wife scared the crap out of me just at that moment when I was moving the wort to the ice bath. So, there I am, stove-side with my hands around the 10 gallon pot like quai chang kane getting his burn tattoos on Kung Fu, when she bursts into the kitchen behind me like Kramer from Seinfeld with a, "HEY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!!"

I almost launched the whole pot across the kitchen floor.

To be fair, she couldn't see what I was doing and when she saw the look on my face as i'm shakily seating the pot into the ice bath in the kitchen sink, she offered up some hugs and sugar kisses and stuck around to help me transfer it into my primary. She even held the handle on the funnel/strainer I use to get the hops and trub out of the wort.

I had to give her a Gulden Draak of her own. I reminded her, If she's brewing, it's a cardinal sin not to drink a cold one on brew day.

 

[Airborneguy]

A few of the wives come to our club meetings. Mine used to, but with my daughter now she rarely comes because they are in a horrible neighborhood.

 

[Bernie Brewer]

Me: Gonna brew a Nut Brown this weekend, I think.

Dog: Woof!


Me: You and I can hang out in the garage, I will have a few homebrews, and toss a ball for you a few times.

Dog: *wags tail* Woof! Woof!

There is something to be said for the divorced life......

 

[mikeysab]

You are my hero.

 

[bengerman]

Me: Gonna brew a Nut Brown this weekend, I think.

Dog: Woof!


Me: You and I can hang out in the garage, I will have a few homebrews, and toss a ball for you a few times.

Dog: *wags tail* Woof! Woof!

There is something to be said for the divorced life......

sounds like my brew day.
still have the roommate to deal with, but she's never here during brews.

 

[nukinfuts29]

My dog (husky) has a water obsession so he's not allowed anywhere near brew day. Any liquid is water to him and i can't keep him out of my buckets.

 

[Reno_eNVy]

Typical conversations with SWMBO --

Me: "Hey hon, I was thinking of brewing up a [insert beer style]"
Her: "Sweet!"

or

Her: "We should make a [insert beer style]"
Me: "Sweet!"



She'll also say other things that really irk me, such as:

"The boil makes the house smell soooo good!"
"Why don't you stir the mash while I go pour you another pint"
"Should I tell my mom you want a LHBS gift certificate for Christmas?"

Man, I just wish she would embrace my hobby

 

[amc22]

She's a keeper. Does she happen to have a sister?

 

[Homercidal]

Recent conversation:

Me: What are we doing this weekend?
Wife: Nothing.
Me: Really? I thought we had something going on at some point... (I have CRS, so this is a common topic.)
Wife: Nope.

Later...

Wife: So this weekend I want to pick up and put away ANYTHING in the house that does not belong there so we are ready for the holidays.
Me: SOAB!

Because we both know she is talking about my brewing stuff.

 

[nukinfuts29]

Lmfao, I have been hiding all my stuff in the "not yet the nursery but needs to be worked on" room, and I got busted last night.

 

[stratslinger]

True story, had this conversation a couple nights ago:

Her: "So, my best friend is coming to spend the day on Saturday doing girl stuff... And she's bringing her husuband with her, so you have to entertain him for the day"
Me: [caught off-guard, I was planning on spending the day chilling on the couch to be honest] "Really, it'll be good to see him, I'll think of something for us to do..."
Her: "Why don't you brew something with him?"
Me: "OK, I'll start looking for some ideas!"

 

[mikeysab]

I had a good one with my wife yesterday.

Her: why is this beer sculpture still in the kitchen?
Me: its not a sculpture, its a bottle drying tree
Her: well why is it here?
Me: I need to bottle a beer when I get a chance
Her: again? you just bottled your cider the other day
Me: i'll just put it away

 

[mikeysab]

Our brewing related conversations are starting to remind me of another are of our life.

Me: Wanna fool around?
her: geez, again, we just did it.
Me: That was 6 weeks ago.
Her: whatever, i'm tired, good night.

 

[Reno_eNVy]

She's a keeper. Does she happen to have a sister?

Saldy, no