I couldnt believe my ears!

[Xpertskir]

My girlfriend is interested and loves having good beer around, but ultimately she views brewing as hard work. Sometimes she helps, but most of the time shed rather me schedule a brew day when she has something else to do. Shes a trooper though, I recently had a shoulder surgery and couldnt lift anything >20 lbs, so she did all my lifting for about a dozen brew sessions.

 

[GrogNerd]

but I think what he really likes most is bragging rights with his work buddies, " oh ya well my wife brews beer "
too funny !

brings tears to my eyes... would LOVE to be able to say this

 

[captaincoffee]

Wife...help...me... Sorry, I'm not familiar with this phrase. Are you sure you are spelling it correctly? Perhaps it a translation from a foreign language? If you are using google translate, sometimes they come up with some funny translations for things that make sense in your native tongue.

 

[unionrdr]

At first,I'd just have her help me when an extra hand or two would make things easier. She liked every beer I made,& it became part of our quiet time. Cigs,home brew,& videos was our time. She'd be excited when the new batch was finally ready. She said a few times that she preferred mine to commercial. Then,come tax time a year or two ago,she said she wanted to go into the beer supply with me. Floored me right quick. She was looking at some newly stocked BB kits & I told her to pick any one she wanted to brew. I also at that point decided we needed the BB ale pail,the plastic paddle,more hop socks...everything needed for two to brew at once. She got pretty good at the whole process of extract with steeping grains. Bottling day she learned filling ,capping,etc. Made it go pretty fast.
Flash forward to a few months ago. Gestational diabeties from our last child some 14 years ago came back & bit her hard. So much for smoking & drinking. Says it makes her sick as a type 1. Now I'm all alone. No brew partner,no buddie,no us time save for upstairs with a couple movies before zonk out.
But at least partial mash is working out steadilly,got a new style to play with thanks to a fellow member & Cooper's user. I'm glad for that. sharing recipes,thoughts & the like as we go. I just wish they had a cure for my wife. She could match beers & shots with any man,maybe better than many.

 

[BrewinHooligan]

My wife is not much of a fan of beer and wishes that I wouldn't talk about, brew, or drink as much as I do (which isn't all that much if you ask me). In the end, she only has herself to blame since she is the one that bought me my starter kit. I've gotten real good at the whole process and have won medals for every beer I have entered into comp. The wife even drinks and enjoys a few of mine occaisonally, but she will never be interested in the process and like lots of others, I'm glad I have my "me" time.

 

[brewsnthelou]

At first,I'd just have her help me when an extra hand or two would make things easier. She liked every beer I made,& it became part of our quiet time. Cigs,home brew,& videos was our time. She'd be excited when the new batch was finally ready. She said a few times that she preferred mine to commercial. Then,come tax time a year or two ago,she said she wanted to go into the beer supply with me. Floored me right quick. She was looking at some newly stocked BB kits & I told her to pick any one she wanted to brew. I also at that point decided we needed the BB ale pail,the plastic paddle,more hop socks...everything needed for two to brew at once. She got pretty good at the whole process of extract with steeping grains. Bottling day she learned filling ,capping,etc. Made it go pretty fast.
Flash forward to a few months ago. Gestational diabeties from our last child some 14 years ago came back & bit her hard. So much for smoking & drinking. Says it makes her sick as a type 1. Now I'm all alone. No brew partner,no buddie,no us time save for upstairs with a couple movies before zonk out.
But at least partial mash is working out steadilly,got a new style to play with thanks to a fellow member & Cooper's user. I'm glad for that. sharing recipes,thoughts & the like as we go. I just wish they had a cure for my wife. She could match beers & shots with any man,maybe better than many.

Best wishes for your wife, my hubby was diagnosed with diabetes also, so now he'll have one beer and he's good. Reminds me of the old George Thoroughgood song, " I drink alone, yah with nobody else.... You know when I drink alone, I prefer to be by myself " lol
Cheers!

 

[mikeysab]

My brew days are like my sex life....i do them both myself.

Actually, my wife helps out a lot on brew days. She takes the kids and leaves.

 

[abatsch]

My wife will make fun of me when I talk about beer or brewing because I will get really into it. She'll walk up to the pot and make funny sarcastic remarks like "ohh so hoppy you're brewing" or look into the beer and talk kind of dirty to it by saying "I wanna dry hop the sh!t out of you". It amuses me so I don't mind. But it's also nice she don't complain.

 

[mgortel]

My wife has no interest....although my 8 year old son likes to help me bottle.....when I can pull him away from Xbox!

 

[flars]

My wife had loved to help with the bottling. On brew day she always comments how good the kitchen smells after the hop additions. Also comments on how the different hops have noticeably different aromas. Her nose sense is much better than mine. After hurting my shoulder a month ago; she now pours, stirs, carries, and caps. It is great having such a loving partner.

 

[WileECoyote]

My Wife is involved quite a bit in our brewing, she always helps or just takes over with the clean up, she also helps figure out what is needed or quantities need to be changed in a recipe, we taste a brew and discuss what to do on the next batch.

She also purchased a new brew bot for me, she even wanted to try it out first, I thought how cool is that, until she started calling me stew.
Cheers

 

[Haputanlas]

My wife is definitely interested, but doesn't typically help. However, she saved my a$$ once and I was blown away by her ability to retain the knowledge she got just from overhearing my brew podcasts.

Check out this thread and see how amazingly lucky I got:

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/saved-swmbo-261714/

 

[Anelda]

Brewing is what hubby and I do together every other Saturday. He likes to say that I'm the whole brains behind the operation. We'd been passing around the idea of homebrewing for a couple of months and then, after I finished How to Brew and The Joy of Homebrewing, I told him, "Let's do it."

When we give away our homebrew people always assume it's him but he always comes back with, "Nah, my wife brews the beer, I just like to help out."

 

[brewsnthelou]

Brewing is what hubby and I do together every other Saturday. He likes to say that I'm the whole brains behind the operation. We'd been passing around the idea of homebrewing for a couple of months and then, after I finished How to Brew and The Joy of Homebrewing, I told him, "Let's do it."

When we give away our homebrew people always assume it's him but he always comes back with, "Nah, my wife brews the beer, I just like to help out."

That's awesome! Yeah for us female brewers
Nothing against the boys, just like to see us women who enjoy it too

 

[JohnnyO]

It's now 14.5 hours since he posted this. I wonder how the brewday is going.

 

[gizmodog51]

she loves the smell of hops and has considered using some in a bath! i have read that hops was stuffed into pillow cases in ancient times to assist with sleeping. also she enjoys the smell of the mash.

she helps whenever i ask her to do gofer chores but usually as with most of my hobbies her support is allowing me the time & money for the hobby without recompense.

she neither drinks beer, wine or mead so all my feedback is from those whom i share a brew with.

GD

 

[Monster Mash]

I've been brewing 19 years and my wife never showed an interest. She does support my obsession and loves hanging out with the people in my club but thankfully she stays out of the brewing process,

 

[QuaffableQuips]

I'm really lucky. My fiancee loves beer, especially hoppy American ales. We go to beer bars together and geek out with Untappd, and she nearly always orders an IPA or double IPA. Every month or two, she stops at the liquor store on her way home from work and surprises me with a couple bottles of Pliny. She doesn't get involved with the actual brewing process (which is fine because I enjoy having my hobby all for myself), but she always helps me judge and drink the final product.

The only thing we've made together is soda. We filled 5 cornies last weekend to taste test various kinds. I'm brewing all the beer for the wedding, but we wanted to have some homemade alternatives for the inevitable teetotalers and kids (although I always thought that's what Radler was for...).

 

[Darwin18]

My wife is very supportive, drinks my beer, designs the labels for the taps, and tells her friends about my brewing, but she respects me enough to stay out of the brewery.

 

[Trizzle]

Haha just checked this! Everything went amazing. She was great understanding everything. She was super into it and asked questions and didn't get in the way. I let her pitch the yeast and she did it the way I would have! She wants to pick the next beer, and she picked up beer smith like a champ!! All in all it went very well and she's super exited to try it!

 

[PhelanKA7]

My wife occasionally comes out to talk while I'm brewing. Mostly she tells me either how bad the process smells or what a mess I'm making in the garage. She will also ask questions that can be fun to answer. The important thing is she loves my beer and because of that is all for my hobby.

That is my wife almost to a tee except that sometimes she likes the smell. Particularly if I have just tossed in a bag of spices.

 

[QuaffableQuips]

Everything went amazing. She was great understanding everything. She was super into it and asked questions and didn't get in the way. ... All in all it went very well and she's super exited to try it!

Sounds like a fantastic evening, my friend.

 

[Hophunter]

The wife was the driving force behind our start. I proposed it as a new hobby but I already have too many. She gets bummed if i do a brew day without her. With all the hobbies that are just for me, it is nice to have a joint one. Although she doesn't read up on it or design recipes, she does request certain styles. If only I could get her to mow the lawn. Then of course she would say the same about me and laundry.