How i feel sometimes with the wife...
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My wife is not a big beer fan. She does like Blue Moon but that is about it. She is willing to try some my home brews but she can really pick out the good stuff at the store for me try. She would make a good beer sommelier. 
My wife loved most of the ales I brewed when she could still drink. And that was before all the PM biab ancient ale stuff. Just my luck, I'm the only one in the house left to drink my beers. I even taught her to brew some ales she liked a couple times. Quick study! This aging crap is definitely starting to suck. Like when Tigger used to bring her the hind quarters of a rabbit, & line up some freshly killed mice & rats for me...
brrman
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I have turned my wife into a raging freaking hop-head. When we met, and for years afterward, she was a porter and stout girl. Then all of a sudden something clicked and - boom - its all IPAs all the time.
She routinely brings home a couple 6 packs of some dipa she has never tried. It's kinda scary, now... lol
She routinely brings home a couple 6 packs of some dipa she has never tried. It's kinda scary, now... lol
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drainbamage
The Poop Bag Guy
I did the same thing with my wife. I'm kinda proud, but at the same time sad because now my hoppy beer stash is no longer safe.
That's how I feel when my husband cracks into a new keg for the first time. Speaking of kegging...
Brewernaut51
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Haven't been able to convert mine to liking hops yet. I did get her over the "dark beer hurdle" though. Just had to get her a few that showcased the coffee and chocolate flavors.
Got her to sip a little Arrogant Bastard the other day. She said it tasted like hand soap...
When she drinks a beer it's always corona lite, otherwise it's wine or margarita. I have to give her credit, if I hand her a beer to try she will taste it, hoping one day she will like it, but it's always, ugh, with too this or too that. Oh well, more for me...
iijakii
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My wife drinks about half a beer. So I constantly buy her one and then get to steal half of hers too. Bonus calories and alcohol doesn't count, right?
brew703
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My wife is a beer drinker, but it's Ultra. The rest of her family are bud light drinkers, which I am good with cause I don't have to share. She will try my brew's but she is not that info the craft scene. However my daughters like my beers, especially ones with a citrus tone and I don't mind sharing with them.
When I first started this hobby (6 mths ago) she would try each beer I made. But the last couple months she will not touch one. It's all because we went to a local brewery and she got chit-faced drinking their beer and now she will not even smell one. Oh well, more for me.
When I first started this hobby (6 mths ago) she would try each beer I made. But the last couple months she will not touch one. It's all because we went to a local brewery and she got chit-faced drinking their beer and now she will not even smell one. Oh well, more for me.
GHBWNY
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My wife is all about my homebrewing, except for sampling the product itself. She can't *stand* even the smell of beer much less the taste. Tragically, like unionrdr, I am left to fend strictly for myself when it comes to the consumption of said product. The routine has been if I brew in the kitchen on my day off while she's at work (even if it is 30F out) I've had to open every window in the house and air it out before she gets home from work. Two brews ago she said the smell "wasn't that bad". And the IPA I did last week, she didn't even know I had brewed when she walked in the door. 
Either my fumigation techniques are improving, or she is slowly becoming accustomed to the smell. I wonder... is it possible to develop a liking for beer via the nose first?
Either my fumigation techniques are improving, or she is slowly becoming accustomed to the smell. I wonder... is it possible to develop a liking for beer via the nose first?
Brewernaut51
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My wife is all about my homebrewing, except for sampling the product itself. She can't *stand* even the smell of beer much less the taste. Tragically, like unionrdr, I am left to fend strictly for myself when it comes to the consumption of said product. The routine has been if I brew in the kitchen on my day off while she's at work (even if it is 30F out) I've had to open every window in the house and air it out before she gets home from work. Two brews ago she said the smell "wasn't that bad". And the IPA I did last week, she didn't even know I had brewed when she walked in the door.
Sounds exactly like mine. She likes the fact that I have a hobby I'm enthused about. She even talks about it with her coworkers and occasionally takes bottles to them to try.
She hates the smell of the boil though and I got booted out to the garage. She tries most of my brews but only rarely likes them.
The OP reminds me of the times when I brew something specifically with her in mind. Made a coconut Porter for her because she likes 5th Voyage and I attempted a hard root beer but that kind of failed. Hopefully the next one is better.
I think I have the exact opposite problem - my entire family is into craft brew, and refuses to drink anything except my home brew when at home. I knew my wife had arrived when I handed her a freshly poured pint of my Hop Harvest ale with homegrown hops picked while the boil pot was heating up. It had 2 fruit flies in it. When I asked her to hand me the glass so I could pour it out she says "OH NO, I'm not wasting beer", plucked the critters out, and drank up! Former Coors light drinker fully reformed!
