My Night

[bwomp313]

So here's my story. So my new wife and I are temporarily moved in with her family to save up some money. I've been using the very cramped laundry room area with slop sink for all my cleaning and chilling for my brewing operations. I've used it several times now without issue. So here I am tonight; I had just kegged up a nice batch of IPA. I have a bucket with quite a large amount of yeast in it. Not really giving any thought to it, I dump all of the yeast into the sink and go about rinsing the bucket and rinsing the sink really well to make sure all of the trub gets down the drain. As I'm almost finished I start to notice that my foot feels wet through my slipper. I look down and to my surprise there is yeast water EVERYWHERE. This laundry room is quite cramped and the mess made its way under, behind and every possible thing in the laundry room. Now that was not fun to clean. Ended up going through quite a few towels in the process. Wish I had taken a picture so you all could share in my pain. I'm expecting that laundry room to smell like beer for quite a while. I've decided that the moral to this story is that I should never dump yeast. I should always wash and reuse. I guess the beer gods were punishing me for wasting their precious gift of billions and billions of yeast cells.

 

[bwomp313]

Oh and I forgot to mention the whole reason that there was a mess was because the pipe under the sink detached at the bend, plastic pipes, blegh.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

P-Trap.

Sorry you live with MIL.

 

[bwomp313]

Yes, not fun. Can't wait til next summer when I'm all done with school and will be able to move back out.

 

[SPR-GRN]

Wow that blows; you'll catch some crap for that one.... Good thing you have a keg full to help quiet the MIL's voice =^)

 

[Hoodweisen]

last time i put trub down my drain it clogged the entire houses drain system may have been a coincedence but ive decided to stick with dumping outside

 

[Airborneguy]

You're lucky! During my first marraige we did the same thing (my wife worked for her mother and made CRAP but her mother "needed" her), and they wouldn't let me brew in the house.

 

[binkman]

You're lucky! During my first marraige we did the same thing (my wife worked for her mother and made CRAP but her mother "needed" her), and they wouldn't let me brew in the house.

Wow. Mutiny isn't just a word for the navy.

 

[SPR-GRN]

No way in hell ill move in with the in laws - they are great to hang out with, I help them out with househould and automotive stuff and they help me out when I manage to get my ass stranded with a flat on my motorcycle; we have a great relationship; however, living under their roof would drive me absolutely insane - it's her mother, she just knows how to get under peoples skins, and enjoys doing it.

 

[Airborneguy]

Oh, I took care of it. Once I had enough money to move out on my own, I went and got an apartment. She was going to stay with them, but when she realized I was really gonna go, she came with me. We lasted about 8 months after that

But I was brewing in my apartment kitchen and that's all that mattered!

 

[ChandlerBang]

F that.

I would murder my wife's entire family with a spork before living with them.

 

[rhoadsrage]

How do they feel about you putting a Yurt in their back yard?
http://www.yurts.com/

 

[bwomp313]

How do they feel about you putting a Yurt in their back yard?
http://www.yurts.com/

HA! If I had that kind of money, I wouldn't be living here in the first place!

 

[bwomp313]

But really, her mom doesn't drive me nuts so much because she works a lot. It's her dad. He's been on disability and he has nothing better to do than insinuate himself into everybody's business. I'm just glad this whole debacle was in the laundry room which was already not so fresh. As of yet, I have not told them about it and if I can avoid the subject then I will be happy. I'll be waiting for the, "Why does the laundry room smell like beer?"

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

I had my MIL living in MY house ofr two years across two separate occasions. That was bad enough, and it was MY house. I could not fathom having to live under HER roof. But, fortunately, she lives 5 stories up so - I could jump. If I survived the fall at least the majority of my time would be spent in hospital traction.

 

[bwomp313]

See, we're in the basement so I could always just run out into traffic if need be.

 

[Airborneguy]

Go to Keegan's and get loaded everytime he annoys you

 

[bwomp313]

Go to Keegan's and get loaded everytime he annoys you

Fo reals!

 

[SPR-GRN]

That yurt thing was pretty cool - I would just take over the shed in the backyard and make it a brewing/lounging area and hang the obligatory "no girls allowed" sign outside. (remembering that your wife is a Lady, not just some girl, allows her into the shed.)
It's not hard to run power to it, insulate it, and install a window AC unit; if you wanted to get really crazy you could even add a basement utilizing cinderblocks, rebar and quickcrete 5000 from the home depot without anyone being the wiser....

 

[frydogbrews]

That yurt thing was pretty cool - I would just take over the shed in the backyard and make it a brewing/lounging area and hang the obligatory "no girls allowed" sign outside. (remembering that your wife is a Lady, not just some girl, allows her into the shed.)
It's not hard to run power to it, insulate it, and install a window AC unit; if you wanted to get really crazy you could even add a basement utilizing cinderblocks, rebar and quickcrete 5000 from the home depot without anyone being the wiser....

now see, this is the kind of thinking that we need more of in this country!
behind you 100%

 

[bwomp313]

I am also very behind that idea! However, not being technically savvy or motivated and also cheap/poor I put a 12x12 tent thingy outside with screen walls which is our new brew haus. I just brew in that bad boy. And for an extra $14 Gander Mt said that they will insure it and replace it no matter what happens to it, no questions asked. Our first night brewing in it, it downpoured and we didn't get wet at all.

 

[bwomp313]

I'm trying to figure out whether this was worse than the time I had two cases of Vanilla Bourbon Stout explode all over my spare room in my old apartment. That definitely taught me the value of oxyclean. And oh yes, that room was carpeted.

 

[Caucasian]

Not brewing related but i lived with in-laws year before i was married. Same deal basement with utility sink. Fil accused me of stealing his socks all the time. My sister in laws ex boyfriend lived in the basement before me and was accused of crapping in utility sink. So your sink even with leak is far more sanitary than our old one.

 

[bwomp313]

Why would he poop in the sink...??? Did they have toilets??

 

[Caucasian]

Couldn't make it upstairs i guess. Never found out the whole
story.