Proven Home Brewing Things that Make SWMBO Really Mad

[kaiser423]

25) While she's out with the girls, removing everything from the bottom half of the second fridge and loading it up with kegs that need to be chilled/carbed, and feeding whatever doesn't fit back in to the dog.

Otherwise she loves my beer and likes having it around :rockin:

On that note...

26) Tell her that you'll have nice blonde ready for her gathering in the summer, but getting delayed and only having partially carbed beer ready for the party.

27) Giving all the "good" beer away, because I'm tired of seeing the fridge full of beers that don't appeal to me too much.

28) Knocking her up, and then stepping up and producing a series of really, really good beers.

 

[bigdug]

29) not noticing that the spigot on the bottling bucket is open when racking to it

Come to think of it that makes me mad too I hate to waste beer

 

[IrregularPulse]

14. Leave a small collection of small brewing related items around the kitchen sink 24/7/365. Items such as stoppers, airlocks, flasks, etc.

There is Always an airlock on my sink!

#20 SWMBO quickly learns that you're not inviting her to homebrew club meetings for the privileged of her company so much as her valid license and low blood alcohol content.

#21 Spending too much time on HBT

#20 is great!
#21 she has gotten used to

29) not noticing that the spigot on the bottling bucket is open when racking to it

Come to think of it that makes me mad too I hate to waste beer

Did this while adding to my boil kettle once.

My most guilty thing USED to be, "after this I won't need any more equipment" we both quickly learned that just simply wasn't true and that there will always be at least 3 decent purchases waiting on the list.

 

[Boerderij_Kabouter]

30) attempting to make beer brewing activities in her best interests. My Wife: 'I don't care if you want to do X, but don't make it about me!'

I have been guilty of these in the past but have learned to balance brewing and family. I do still have a bunch of brewing stuff out ont he counters though...

 

[Jim Karr]

Getting SWMBO out of bed because you started bottling a batch when she went there, proceeded to shatter a bottle with your bench capper, cutting your hand with flying fragments, and asking her if she would help finish bottling while you hold a bandage over the bleeding wound............

 

[xiang]

32) Wake up SWMBO in the middle of the night to announce you have active fermentation 6hrs after pitching the yeast.

I do this every batch

 

[humann_brewing]

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Not mine by the way

 

[AnonyBrew]

I think llama's #10 is the best one so far. I laughed my ass off on that one.

Oh where do i start....

36) sleep in as late as i can every day until she has to wake me up to watch the kids, but on brewdays i'm up at 6am filtering water & measuring grains

37) spend hundreds of dollars on ingredients & wait until you pay the credit card to tell her about it

38) everytime she travels for work buy a new chest freezer and "sneak" it into the garage hoping it goes unnoticed when she returns, then if she asks just tell her it was $20 on craigslist

39) when the toddler pulls the airlock off one of the carboys that sits in the kitchen, ask her in a disgusted voice "why'd you let him near there?"

40) spend countless hours on the PC brew planning & chatting & reading HBT forums and tell her i don't have enough time to fix things around the house

41) when you leave about 20 beer magazines open to the articles & recipes you intend to get to all over the table and she cleans them all up before having company....tell her "don't touch my beer stuff!"

I'm sure I have more.

 

[eljefe]

33)

Not mine by the way

What can be better beers and drums. Is there an SWMBO in that household? If so she is WAYYYYY more patient than the one in my household.

I also love how every piece of brewing equipment and all the beer bottles are strategically out of sight if someone were to look through the window.

 

[LVBen]

4) Freak out when she goes near the bottling bucket by claiming she is unsanitary

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[shelly_belly]

42) Leaving black marks from keg bottoms in the tub and on the floor and carpets.

 

[eljefe]

I am surprised I forgot this and it hasn't been mentioned.
43) Take homebrew to every party you go to in case the hosts are beerdorks and have a cooler full of Miller Lite and Bud. Then insist that you drink it out of a glass instead of a plastic cup.

 

[LVBen]

44) Tell her that your next batch will be a vanilla stout for her, then change your mind and brew an IPA instead.

 

[LVBen]

45) Tell her that she'll start getting more head as soon as you do.

 

[eljefe]

45) Tell her that she'll start getting more head as soon as you do.

Ding ding ding, we have a winner!

 

[Grimster]

45) Tell her that she'll start getting more head as soon as you do.

I believe this thread is over, you have the best answer possible I think.

 

[Zen_Brew]

25) While she's out with the girls, removing everything from the bottom half of the second fridge and loading it up with kegs that need to be chilled/carbed, and feeding whatever doesn't fit back in to the dog.

LMFAO. I got a good laugh from this one. I got great visuals of the dog sitting there happily wagging his tail and bouncing about as all the food kept hitting the floor next to him.

33)

Not mine by the way

That pic is eerily similiar to the condition my living room is in.

 

[lady_brewer]

#46? - drink the homebrew all the time, ask when there will be more, but not clean any bottles (he is getting better)

#47 - go across the street on the weekend to do neighbour renovation projects, leaving SWMBO unable to bottle since she can't lift the buckets or carboys

#48 - drink the beer she likes instead of the stuff she brewed specifically for you that she doesn't like...

I may be going at this from the wrong perspective, or maybe not...

 

[OntarioBeerKegs]

49) When approached with that one last item....SWMBO is the one who uses the sentence "think of all the money we will save" as she rolls her eyes.

 

[eljefe]

I may be going at this from the wrong perspective, or maybe not...

Absolutely not. Love it. This is an equal opportunity XWMBO post.

 

[Wade E]

50) When you buy another fridge telling her we can buy more food in bulk to save money and then fill the freezer with fruit to make wine and 5 kegs of beer in the fridge!
51) Have the basement waterproofed ($4900)to fix the leaks and tel her that it will be finished and become the family room and then build a wine and beer making room on one side and a wine cellar on the other side!

 

[aardvark]

52) Take the shelves out of the bottom half of the fridge to crash cool a keg and fail to put them back in.

 

[humann_brewing]

#53 - Have 2 dozen pint sized mason jars in your kitchen fridge with washed yeast taking up precious space for everyday groceries

 

[OMJ]

#54 - Make her buy 5 oranges. Zest them for a recipe then forget you left them in the fridge and complain that the fridge smells weird when they get all moldy.

 

[johnnyc]

Let's see... I have done these:
#19 Spent grain in the compost pile near the window is a bad idea.

Here Here! She was all about having a compost pile close to the house for food scraps til I started dumping grains in it. Well I turned it last weekend and HOLY $HIT! I've NEVER smelled anything that bad in my life. It smelled so bad for 3-4 days we wouldn't even open the back door.

 

[captianoats]

#55 Get mad because she threw "the wrong beer bottles" in the recycling.

#56 Refusing to go to certain restaurants because they don't sell the beer you want to drink.

 

[twohands]

9) Tell her it will save you money and won't take up any space and be hardly even noticeable. Then next thing she knows it takes up half the basement.

Oh, I *KNOW* that one...

 

[david_42]

51) Have the basement waterproofed ($4900)to fix the leaks and tel her that it will be finished and become the family room and then build a wine and beer making room on one side and a wine cellar on the other side!

If my family had a family room like that, I might still be on speaking terms.

 

[scratchypants]

57) Use her pantyhose as hop bags

 

[RDWHAHB]

58) Fart up a storm after drinking too much homebrew.