Is the Chief Brewer in your home brew operation male or female?

[MaryB]

Sweet toy! And out of my budget LOL the roof can be remote opened from the house and I can operate the scope from the house but I like going out there for the silence and getting away from the internet. Spring nights sit out there and watch the stars... Not doing anything for the eclipse, will probably catch it online from one of the internet observatories.

 

[LaurieGator]

Female only brewer in the house. Hubby has no interest in it. Says it smells like "wet dog" when I am brewing. He loves drinking it, helps me carry heavy stuff if needed, but does no brewing related tasks at all. Nothing. Nada. I am a chemical engineer, so brewing is in my DNA. My maiden name also destined me to be a brewer, LOL!

As for the cooking question, we both cook.

 

[brhenrio]

About the only involvement my wife has in the process is to open the door every hour or so to tell me I'm making the house stink.

That is exactly where we are in my household too.

 

[brhenrio]

And we split the cooking duties
and I do all the baking.

 

[seatazzz]

My husband's only complaint about my brewing is that I drink the majority of the beer I brew, sometimes before he feels like drinking it. Both of us are bowlers, he does his drinking there while I prefer to drink at home. Same thing happens with store-bought beer. However it's not really a "complaint", per se, just a friendly matrimonial dig. Whenever we're out with friends he almost always manages to brag about his brewing wife, and raves over "our" beers. The last time we went to the LHBS together he was like a kid in a candy store, and insisted I get the new false bottom I'd been needing but hadn't bought due to the price. So he supports what I do and it gives me the warm fuzzies to know how proud of me he is.

 

[Morrey]

My husband's only complaint about my brewing is that I drink the majority of the beer I brew, sometimes before he feels like drinking it. Both of us are bowlers, he does his drinking there while I prefer to drink at home. Same thing happens with store-bought beer. However it's not really a "complaint", per se, just a friendly matrimonial dig. Whenever we're out with friends he almost always manages to brag about his brewing wife, and raves over "our" beers. The last time we went to the LHBS together he was like a kid in a candy store, and insisted I get the new false bottom I'd been needing but hadn't bought due to the price. So he supports what I do and it gives me the warm fuzzies to know how proud of me he is.

I got to tell you, seatazz, there is a world of similarity in a point you made:

My wife is seldom interested in the brewing process. She comes out to the brew cave, feigns some limited degree of interest before wandering off filling bird feeders or similar. However, we recently went to a couples event and I took two kegs of my more standard beers. They bragged over them with the typical comment this is better than any beer you can buy, or you should be selling this. Ok, we know the deal. So wife gets all puffed up and says WE brewed these beers, I helped design the recipe, yeah this one took 2 months to condition...and on. SO she suddenly is way more involved than I have ever noted. Ok good, maybe she will take a more keen interest in the process. Well darn...back to the birdfeeders and such on the next brew day. Of course I am proud of her as always.

I am with ya, seatazz.

 

[Yooper]

I do 100% of the brewing and about 90% of the cooking. Wife likes the smells through the house while I'm brewing, but has zero inclination to get involved in the process (other than drinking it).

I do 100% of the brewing, but less than 50% of the cooking.

I cook for the "special" things or when I"m in the mood to be elaborate. I'd say it's maybe a couple of times per month, but at times (like today) when I'm in the mood to cook, I might be the chef du jour.

 

[Murphys_Law]

My wife took a bottle of my pumpernickel stout to some friends who loved it. She came home with a request from them that I kick up the ABV. A lot!

(It's around 5% and they wanted 2x!)

She was asking how I could do that without fundamentally changing the beer so I was telling her about OG, FG, yeast, temps, sugars, etc.

This is the longest "beer conversation" we've had in two years. Usually she just asks if we have such and such left on tap.