No more AG for me :(

[goose1873]

wow...that is all...

 

[Snowhere]

Mine hates the smell too so I just brew outside. Not brewing is never the option! She also prefers the crappy beers, and hates hoppy or bitter beers, so I win in the fact she will not drink most of my beers!

 

[erockomania]

Partners don't "tell" you "no". This would be something in which you'd compromise; you don't have to go see chick flicks and you'll spend some money and move the operation to the garage.

 

[McMalty]

oh i hear you buddy, my wife tells me when i can breathe. One time she fell asleep before me and i almost suffocated.

seriously man, wtf? are you just accepting this? Next time she's watching some stupid tv show, pick up the tv and throw it through the nearest window, then just say "no more".

When George Washington chopped down that cherry tree, Legend has it that he said "i cannot tell a lie." thats not the whole story, martha was up in his grill asking about that effin tree, so he said, "hell yeah I chopped down the damn tree, what of it!? I'll do whatever the hell i want. i'll be out back in the shed brewing beer. i chopped the $hit out of that tree, and now i'm gonna put some in my stout to condition it. question, where the hell were you, huh? out running the streets? yeah, keep it up!"

 

[Scooby_Brew]

Well while I was in the middle of my boil the wife came home, What's the first thing out of her mouth???? "What the hell is that smell?" Gerald

get yourself a new wife, woosie!

 

[Dwain]

Gotta love this board. These People are SENS-IT-TIVE!

Seriously, I'm not a child (punk) to be told what I will do and will not do. Anyone that lives with a "partner" shouldn't be "Told" what to do. I can't wrap my mind around living with someone that feels OK telling me I won't (insert action here) brew beer again. Amazing...


Edit: I see you're from Canada. Tell her to "Take off, Hoser. Beauty time, eh"?

 

[leviticus]

Partners don't "tell" you "no".

This.

I know you may have been paraphrasing, but for her to just immediately decree that you shall no longer partake in a growing hobby is completely unacceptable. Not just on some 'you're missing your balls' level, but if there was no discussion of the issue, you have bigger problems.

FWIW though, you'll have a better experience outside with a propane burner and a big ass pot. And if she wants to tell you what you can and can not do in the garage or in the driveway, just tell her if she wants a mowed lawn, she can STFU.

 

[bryanjints]

Seriously you need to go see a counselor if this is how your relationship works. Things can't last long when ultimatums are thrown down like that.

My wife hated the smell of the first batch, second batch, and third batch. The 4th batch was brewed on the propane burner she bought me for Christmas. The 6th and 7th batches she helped brew. Now she loves the smell.

 

[Yankeehillbrewer]

one two ten

 

[reim0027]

Boy, who woulda thought this topic would get so many posts in 3 hours? /sarcasm.

But, yeah, I agree with Yankee here. Well, the last sentence anyway. From what you told us, she crossed a line, IMO. Walks in, doesn't like the smell, and BAM! you are banned from doing it again? That's bollocks, IMO.

 

[mattd2]

They should smell exactly the same?????????? Does not make sense.

...my wife pretty much said the same thing, but I could understand her position - she was in the first trimester of pregnacy and her sense of smell was crazy...

Just had a thought on what others and I just said, check your wife is not pregnant, that is the only thing that I could think of that might of change between brewing extract and AG. Only constructive thing I can say.

 

[Yooper]

Man, you guys are harsh! I can see that some people might not like the odor of boiling wort in their house.

When my kids were teens and still living at home, I usually brewed on Wednesdays when I had the day off and no one was home. I'd be all done and cleaned up by 1 PM or so. (I've always brewed inside- still do!)

Never failed, at 3:15, child number one would come in "Hi mom! OMG, it stinks in here!!! You BREWED today! Ewwwww!" Five minutes later, the routine would be repeated by child number two.

Never mind that their hockey/gym clothes/basketball shoes had enough stench to knock out a small army. I told them that I had a solution- that in my home, they just didn't have to breathe on Wednesdays. When they had their own home, they could breath every day if they wanted, since they would then be paying for their own air.

Now, my son's apartment stinks like jock straps and cigarettes. My daughter still hates the smell and doesn't care much for beer. But she asked me to brew for her wedding, the baby's birthday, her husband's party, etc. Amazing how it doesn't smell when it's for them!

 

[McMalty]

what you need to do here is just be more crazy. history tells us that if you act crazy, people will not eff with you. Go confront her, get in a HUGE argument, tell her she has large thighs, then just start smashing $hit in a Russel Crowesque rage, maybe throw a telephone, cut the sofa in half with a chain saw, you know, real psycho stuff. then i bet she won't say a word to you about your beer ever again...........its worth it, save the beer. go gibson on her, tell her "YOU RUINED ME!!!!, THIS IS MY HOUSE! AND WHAT WAS THE GREEN THING YOU WERE WEARING THE OTHER DAY?!!!! ARRRRHHHHHH!!!!" Then start grunting and snorting with a lot of heavy breathing.

 

[Qhrumphf]

I too brew in a small apartment (outdoors not possible), and a few brews ago a few friends came over to help out, showing up after I'd just finished my mini-mash and started my boil. They said they could "smell it all the way down the hall". My wife hates the smell. She's learned to just deal. She's calmed down about it though, after experiencing the potent rhino farts that came streaming out of the primary when I made her some hard cider. Boiling wort is quite pleasant when compared to sulphury death

Point is, she'll get over it. Or just open a few windows and set up a few fans.

 

[Stefano]

lame

 

[erockomania]

what you need to do here is just be more crazy. history tells us that if you act crazy, people will not eff with you. Go confront her, get in a HUGE argument, tell her she has large thighs, then just start smashing $hit in a Russel Crowesque rage, maybe throw a telephone, cut the sofa in half with a chain saw, you know, real psycho stuff. then i bet she won't say a word to you about your beer ever again...........its worth it, save the beer. go gibson on her, tell her "YOU RUINED ME!!!!, THIS IS MY HOUSE! AND WHAT WAS THE GREEN THING YOU WERE WEARING THE OTHER DAY?!!!! ARRRRHHHHHH!!!!" Then start grunting and snorting with a lot of heavy breathing.

Bwahahahahaha!

 

[dallasdb]

after she threw down the verdict, did she take your balls out of her purse?

burn!!!

 

[Montanaandy]

Well I must just be a lucky SOB because my family loves the smell after I brew. I have never had anyone complain - quite the contrary, they love the smell.

 

[jafo28]

My wife hates the smell too. After first batch I get to buy a turkey fryer to brew in the garage:rockin: She still was getting the smell seeping into the house so she would go to her mothers. Now,after I suggested it i'm in the process of building a brew shed I love the fact she hates the smell, it's only helped my brewing facilities.

 

[JMaslar]

Get better ventilation. Or a new wife. There are many reasons that homebrewing sometimes can't work where you live. But the smell being the reason? Lame

 

[kicknbrew]

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Buy her one of these and tell her you are going to brew all grain.
Then tell her to go and make you a sandwich NOW !

I believe in this context it is spelled "SAMMICH".

 

[northernlad]

I don't understand these words "the only way I can get away with it" like she is your parent.
Your best bet is thus:
"Honey, I am sorry that the smell of my last brew day was offensive to you. In order to make sure that your deilcate senses are no longer disrupted, I have purchased these burners, these pots, etc so that I may brew outside".
Done and done. Oh, and politely explain to her that you do what you want.

 

[specsman]

that sucks, my wife just the other day demanded I make another stout and follow it up with a belgian rye.

 

[mountainman13]

Unacceptable.

This

Seriously though, are you brewing outside or in? She won't let you brew outdoors?

THIS!

After she threw down the verdict, did she take your balls out of her purse?

THIS!!!!

 

[ryandlf]

Wow...no offense but i'd be the one handing over the divorce papers if I were you. Trust me, not all women are like that. Maybe I just got lucky...

 

[mcaple1]

WHa WHa WHAAAAATTTT! Seriously dude....get a bigger mash tun and tell her to go buy some damn shoes...no offense Yooper. Dammit man...stand up for yourself.....first they take our motorcycles, and now they take our all-grain. Unacceptable.

 

[Boy]

The Girl loves beer, but she noticed the smell gets strong. She found that some of her candles really compliment the smell from mashing. Now she just lights a candle and helps be brew. House smells like Girl Scout Samoa cookies within an hour. It's Awesome.

 

[mcaple1]

The Girl loves beer, but she noticed the smell gets strong. She found that some of her candles really compliment the smell from mashing. Now she just lights a candle and helps be brew. House smells like Girl Scout Samoa cookies within an hour. It's Awesome.

 

[northernlad]

Seriously, who doesn't like the smell of Grape Nuts?

 

[mcaple1]

Just throw a little yogurt on there...that always helped me when I needed to cover up grape nuts. That's why they call me capenuts/swiss caple, because I have so many damn uses!