How does SWMBO feel about your hobby/obsession?

[Bills Brew]

What's the general feeling?

1. Supports it. Enjoys helping to brew, and makes suggestion on brew stuff to buy.

2. Is OK with it, as long as it doesn't interfere with her side. Likes some brews. Wonders why you need all of that "stuff".

4. Tolerates it. But figures it's a better obsession than internet porn. Has never been inside your local brew store, and doesn't care to.

5. Busts your balls at every opportunity. Makes you consider switching to Internet porn or another SWMBO.

 

[rod]

definitely supports it
she bought me the first kit and fermenters
also grabbed me 3 glass carboys at a garage sale last year

 

[Dude]

I get numerous rolled eyes looks, but she has been very supportive of it. Moreso than I could imagine. When I won that BoS last summer, she was more excited than I was!

With this hobby, I've met so many great people, and hopefully lifelong friends.

 

[dibby33]

Option 5. I think I have bleeding. (she is 6 months pregnant and can't drink which does not help)


...or option 3. She hates it. I love it. I don't care what she thinks.

 

[Orfy]

It helps that she loves the wine I do.

I don't do Soccer or spend too much time in the pub or play golf or go fishing.
At present my only real passions are Brewing and travelling. I also have an allotment.

 

[Erbium:YAG]

My wife's not big beer drinker. That just means more for me. She's very supportive though and genuinely likes to see me enjoying the hobby. When I received my conical, it was the one time where she actually seemed a bit fascinated. I even though I might be able to turn her on to helping me out once and a while...didn't happen.

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

Supportive and enjoys drinking the results (not as much as me). Doesn't have any intention of actually participating in the brewing process, though, which is kind of the way I like it. It's my garage time.

 

[Fish]

She is sort of supportive. She bought me the kit but she doesn't ever get passionate about anything so she thinks I am nuts about anything I do. Actually she may be less supportive now that I actually like it.

Really the "internets" have porn you say? Interesting...

 

[Cheesefood]

She thinks I'm a dork, but she's supportive. We both need to meet new friends, and she likes that I'm not just looking at porn when I'm online.

 

[the_bird]

My SWMBO bought me my first kit and has been wholly supportive. She loves tagging along to the HBS with me, and has even volunteered to stop in and pick me up items if she's in the area. As with Baron, she doesn't want to brew herself, and that's probably for the best - but she's started making bread with the spent grains.

Since she used to be an even bigger post-whore than I at HER board, she's even understanding of my participation here.

 

[Cheesefood]

Since she used to be an even bigger post-whore than I at HER board, she's even understanding of my participation here.

And you found time to have a kid?

 

[the_bird]

It was tough, good thing I have uber-sperm. Maybe I left some on the seat before she sat down and started chatting with her mommies.

 

[Fish]

Maybe I left some on the seat before she sat down and started chatting with her mommies.

Let me know when its your b-day and I will get you some seat cushions. MANY seat cushions.

 

[Evets]

#4; No better No worse

 

[Flyin' Lion]

My SWMBO is completely supportive, especially considering I make wine and beer she likes. She also appreciates how the "obsession" and this forum keep me from the porn.


EDIT: My wife also helps with bottling, even though I now keg some brews there are those I still want to bottle, such as stouts or beers I may want to take places.

 

[Walker]

1. Supports it. Enjoys helping to brew, and makes suggestion on brew stuff to buy.

She likes beer almost as much as I do. She suggests beers to make, and is the reason I created my IPA. That recipe was created to suite her tastes.

Hell, for a long time, she would even clean up the gear for me when I was done. Our arrangement was (a) she cooks dinner and I wash dishes and (b) I brew beer and she washes 'dishes'.

That worked out great.

But, since I switched to AG, she stopped helping with the clean-up.

 

[Yooper]

My husband is pretty supportive- but he's realizing that there is no end to what I "need". After swearing upon my life that all I needed was an MLT, we bought that. Now I need a new thermometer, a new brewpot, a turkey fryer, a wort chiller, etc. Alemonkey gave me a corona mill, so that helps! :rockin:

Now he just rolls his eyes when I lust after the beer, beer, and more beer catologue. Although, when we're with friends, he brags about "our" good beer. He's asked me not to brew when he's home because I'm in the kitchen with coolers, brewpots, grains, scales, buckets, etc and it makes him nuts. There is condensation on all the windows and the whole house is steamed up. I'll move outside in the summer, if I can get a few more items. Then, back inside for winter.

He helped me cap once or twice so he thinks he's "involved" with the projects. He does drink alot of beer, though, so I'm thinking that's a compliment. We're going to Rhinelander, WI tomorrow for some shopping, and I said I'd like to stop at the nice grocery store and buy a few good beers (only place within about 100 miles!), and he said, "Well, I don't really like commercial beers" in the most beer-snobbish voice you can imagine.

Edit- and you guys taught me where to look for porn!

 

[Toilet Rocker]

It aids our sex life...though i hate using aids and sex in the same sentence.

 

[Brewsmith]

She thinks I'm a dork

My wife thought I was a dork long before I started brewing. Every time I say something like "The OG is ___" or "Wow, I got good efficiency on that brew" or something like that, I get a blank stare in return. She's not a beer drinker, but I try to make her taste a sample on each brew. Occasionally she'll say, "I might actually be able to drink a glass of that." Usually the Hefeweizens or the Wit I just did.

 

[EdWort]

Mine thinks I'm a mad scientist cooking in the kitchen, but she really enjoys the fruits of my labor. She can't wait till the day of the Brew Hut.....

 

[trinitone]

Somewhere between 1 and 2. She's the one that suggested I start brewing. She loves the beer I brew. She also loves to say "Are you sure you need to buy that?"

 

[RichBrewer]

All in all I think my wife has been pretty good about the whole brewing thing. I don't think she likes it very much but I really don't get to do much so she lets me brew when I want to. Going outside helped a lot because she hates the smell. The other thing that helps is that the kitchen gets a good cleaning when I'm done. I always return it in better shape than when I took it over.
All in all it could be worse.

 

[Snakebone]

My wife doesn't mind. With this hobby she knows where I'm at. The best part is she won't even open the door to check on me because she hates the smell. I could have pole dancers in my my garage and she wouldn't even know it. Life is good.

 

[Kaboom]

She's ok with it becaues it's not internet porn and it's not guns. But, she's not into beer at all. It's my hobby and alone time. I think she gets annoyed with how obsessed I get, and sometimes with how drunk I get.

 

[ColoradoXJ13]

My girlfriend thought it was stupid...she isn't my girlfriend anymore...






that wasn't the only reason though.

 

[MriswitH]

Fully supports it, encourages it and helps me brew!

When we were doing bottles, she was my bottle-filling-compadre. Since she got me the kegging system for Christmas, she insists that I pour her 'our samples.' Go figure..

Shes going to help my Dad and I brew CCA on Saturday too.

 

[SwAMi75]

She tolerates it. Unfortunately she does not like beer at all, so she has little to no interest in the process. I need to try my hand at wine.

 

[Pabst Blue Robot]

I'm quite fortunate in that, although she doesn't have much of a taste for beer, she is still very supportive. I think it keeps me out of her hair. :fro: Plus, now that I brew in the garage instead of the house, she has no qualms at all. I actually made the wine for our wedding, which probably endeared her to the hobby at least a bit.

 

[knewshound]

Mrs Knewshound used to brew with me back in the day, but sort of let it slide the last 10 years or so. She conciders it my "Guy Time"now, which of course it is. We have a budget item for brewing supplies which she thinks is money well spent when she sees my beer bill when I run out of homebrew.

I usually end up snockered by the end of the brew day and she sort of puts me to bed when its all done, so she still has her part in the process

So what is this porn of which you speak? Is it like ice cream? I hear ice cream is good .

Cheers,

knewshound

 

[JnJ]

She doesn't like beer, but she supports my hobby because it's a lot cheaper than my old hobby......so far.....

 

[ayrton]

Mine is somewhere between 1 and 2. She likes that I brew, but is kind of disconnected from it. She helps me out when I ask for it, but then goes right back to whatever she was doing. She also hates how messy it is, so I am going outside with my AG.

Edit: Oh, and she *loves* beer, especially stouts.

 

[rdwj]

My SWMBO thinks I'm a geek too, but she thought that before I started brewing.

I don't know if I'd call her "supportive", but she doesn't complain about it. I get the rolling eyes whenever a package arrives or when she's going through visa bill.

She doesn't drink much these days because she gets really bad headaches, but she's yet to like anything I've made anyway. She's more of a Miller Lite person.

But, she does like sports and hates chick movies, so I can't complain.

 

[Desert_Sky]

She loves it. Of course she has and always will be a beer lover. And she understands that when I brew, well thats my time. And she keeps the kids out of my hair until Im done.

 

[cweston]

A little less than supportive, but a little more than tolerant, I guess.

My wife is a little more independent person than I am. She has absolutely nothing to do with the brewing process. I wouldn't mind if she wanted to be more involved, but I think she actually likes that it gets me out of her hair.

She doesn't drink beer much at all, so that probably has something to do with her indifference.

I have two hobbies, brewing and backpacking, that she's not really into at all. So everytime I spend money on gear for either, I get a whiff of disapproval: possibly real or possibly imagined.

 

[Bills Brew]

When I started a year ago, she was first glad I had a new thing to do. She kind of liked some beer in the summer, which I have made for her. Something about beer only tastes good when it's hot outside. Haven't quite figured that out. I enjoy beer when shoveling snow. At least you don't have to worry about it getting warm.

Then I started to use the our basement bathroon (which nobody uses, except when our boys visit, but is decorated with stuff) as my "fermenting room" because I could ontrol the temperature with a small heater. She didn't like that. I ignored that whole thing and kept on going.

Then there was the piles of beer cases (Maybe 20), some with empty bottles, some with brew that I had in "MY SIDE OF THE BASEMENT"! I ignored that too.

She did help me bottle once, and joined me and our boys in the garage for a couple of brew sessions.

Anyway, I think she is in the acceptance mode now, and I haven't gotten any grief for a while.

I think I won.

 

[Cheesefood]

Mine likes to drink, but she's transitioned from being a Miller Lite drinker into full-on wine drinker mode. She likes Vodka, but it doesn't like her. She's not interested in the beers I make, although she tried some of my mead last night and thought it was OK.

She does roll her eyes at the money I'm spending on equipment and such, but it's not like it's putting us in the poor house. Her thing is saving money, my thing is spending it.

She likes that I try to get my son involved, but he always falls asleep during the brew session. You'd think an assistant brewmaster would know better than to take a nap 25 minutes into the session.

I guess that overall, it's not the most productive hobby, but it's also not the most destructive, expensive, or time-consuming.

 

[Reverend JC]

My wife has been convinced that this hobby is saving money on something she considers not nessasary (buying beer eveytime we go to the store). It is not that she is against beer, she drinks it every now and then, just not at home.

When we were buying 2 cases of BMC a month, as friends and family would come over and we would easy drink that crap, she was always making comments.

Now I can spend the same amount and make twice as much beer. She thinks that is great.

I get the standard eye rolling when i mention OG, Eff., or any other brewing term. She politely listens and acts like she cares, but has zero intrest in helping.

That is fine.

She will watch internet porn though.


life is good.

 

[ill.literate]

Ask her... she hangs around here as much as I do

I'm extremely lucky. My g/f is my brewing partner. She loves to brew, she loves good beer and she loves me.

How lucky can a guy get?

 

[Buford]

My fiancee doesn't particularly like beer (if anything, she'll have some of a very malty beer like a stout or a pseudo-beer alcopop occasionally - never a full pint or even 12 oz bottle though), but she doesn't get in the way of my brewing. She knits and spins yarn herself, so she has her own kind of equipment and lingo in her craft hobby of choice so it's kinda similar.

Occasionally she'll complain about the cases sitting on the sink in the spare bathroom and the fermenter in the bathtub because she needs them to wash some yarn, but that's more of a hobby getting in the way of a hobby because they want to use the same space. I know she doesn't like the boxes, pots, and whatnot stacked on top of the kitchen cabinets ("my kitchen looks cluttered!"), but there's nowhere else to put them. And, hey, I do most of the cooking anyway, so it's kind of my kitchen

 

[rdwj]

Ask her... she hangs around here as much as I do

I'm extremely lucky. My g/f is my brewing partner. She loves to brew, she loves good beer and she loves me.

How lucky can a guy get?

Well, she could be a Bear fan

...or rich!