Corrupting our daughter

[ChshreCat]

I've been instilling the concept of "quality over quantity" to my daughter. She'll be the only girl at the college kegger sipping a snifter of something Belgian while everyone else is playing beer pong.

 

[brewingkitty]

not to mention, you have a brewer in the works!! i wish i had a kid i could train to brew for me.

 

[ChshreCat]

Oh, she's learning how to brew and I'm teaching her to play poker. Her plan is to draw 'em in with the homebrew, then pull out a deck of cards and skin 'em for rent money.

 

[Mongrel]

Oh, she's learning how to brew and I'm teaching her to play poker. Her plan is to draw 'em in with the homebrew, then pull out a deck of cards and skin 'em for rent money.

My nephew isn't even 3 yet, but this is my plan

 

[osagedr]

Being 7 1/2 months pregnant...

Ah, SWMBO has some hormonal stuff going on. That explains it.

 

[LVBen]

My 2.5 year old daughter poured me a beer form the kegorator last Saturday at like 10 am. I walked in and she had a pint glass full of stout sitting there and said "Daddy want beer?"

Sounds like in your case... your daughter is the one corrupting you!

 

[Special Hops]

Sounds like in your case... your daughter is the one corrupting you!

maybe - she was totally proud of herself too. It was filled to the rim. A little bit overflowed into the drip tray but overall not a bad pour. I took a few sips of it to humor her and then stuck it in the fridge for later. I don't generally drink before noon.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Maybe your swmbo should stop worrying, relax & have a homebrew.
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Being 7 1/2 months pregnant the SWMBO isn't doing much drinking. She isn't the biggest beer fan, but since she has been pregnant she likes some the beers I have her taste. She told me this morning that she isn't going to tell me not to let her help me brew, but she thought it might be a little too early. After letting her read some of the posts she agrees with most of them about not putting a big taboo on alcohol. My daughter helping me wasn't a MAJOR issue for her; she just wanted me to consider that our daughter might be a little young. Thank you for all your comments on the issue.

Just re-read my last post to your thread & realized it sounded a lot worse to me now than it did when I wrote it. Sorry, I didn't intend to come across like an ass, hope you didn't take it that way. Regards, GF.

 

[billf2112]

My 16 year old daughter helps me. I am doing a lager and have to change out the frozen water bottles 3 times a day, she texted me at work after she got home from school asking if she needed to swap out the bottles cause it got warm out. She also takes a taste of new brews. She sample the red ale and said it was a little hoppy.

I also agree with several of the people here, teaching your kids that beer and stuff is not evil if drank in moderation. Besides there is a lot of medical proof that a beer or glass of wine daily is good for you.

Besides doing something with your kids is what we need to be doing as parents. My 18 year old and I watch The Cape each week together, it is our time. It is not about the show it is about us.

 

[Homercidal]

My 11 yo loves to help (until she remembers that there is a lot of "down" time). But my 16 yo only helps if I need her to hold something or pour something that I can't do myself. She has no interest in brewing at all. I highly doubt she will even try beer when she gets older.

 

[WTF_Brewing]

My parents owned a small winery in CA from the time I was little. By the time I was 7, I was slave labor in the wine making business. For a long time, for me, alcohol equaled work. I would have little tastes as part of the process here and there, but I didn't start drinking heavily until I joined the service

 

[Oldyote]

I've been taking my daughter to "say hello" to the beer since she was 2 1/2. She loves to go down into the basement workshop/brewshop and say hello to the beer and watch it bubble. She then runs up and tells Mommy that she said hello to the beer.

I posted this in the label forums but just recently took one of her drawings (she is now 4) and made it into my next label. She loves it. I hope someday she remembers that I not only played with her and took her places but that I included her in my interests.

 

[mr_goodwrench]

My 11 yo loves to help (until she remembers that there is a lot of "down" time).

Yeah, my daughter loses interest during the less exciting bits of brewing and goes off to watch iCarly. Currently her favorite part is mashing in and the last time I made a hop addition without her, I got yelled at.