Raise Your Hand If Your Wife Or Husband Is Responsible For Getting You Into Brewing

[GHBWNY]

I'll start. +1

 

[Fionnbharr]

Hand raised.

I didn't even like beer before SWMBO gave me a book and gift certificate to the LHBS.

I had been making root beer and soft drinks at home since high school, but she told me that since I was in my forties, I should 'grow up and make something real'.

Haven't looked back, since.

 

[JohnnyO]

I was told it was Santa, but I have my suspicions.

 

[solbes]

Wife bought me the first brew equipment kit, so guilty.

 

[unionrdr]

Does wife & son count? If any of you remember my Brew & A interview, you know my middle son started it & my wife was about as curious as myself. Especially with making it cheaper & getting whatever beers we both like besides. She took to brewing like a duck to water. QUAAACK Mutha*****! You forgot the hops again Bia***!

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

Well, she does drive me to drink. Does that count?

 

[clarkpadgett]

If tolerating the time and money I spend makes her responsible for my brewing (and I think it does), then hand raised.

 

[soccerguy83]

Her parents bought me my starter kit for Christmas this year, though I asked for it. Half a hand raise!

 

[Zekk]

Her parents bought me my starter kit for Christmas this year, though I asked for it. Half a hand raise!

+1

My inlaws got me a Mr. Beer several years ago. Only took 1 batch before I ran to the LHBS and got a 5 gallon extract kit

 

[Jphillips13]

Wife. It's all her fault.

 

[Cannae216]

Wife said I needed more hobbies, and bought me my first kit and equipment.

She must think I'm pretty boring...

 

[Brewsncrabs]

Neighbor was always talking about it and wife got me the Mr. Beer kit for Christmas so it is definitely her fault! She's very good about it though. Fully supportive.

 

[Flaviking]

+1

She has no one to blame but herself.

 

[kmind]

Her parents bought me my starter kit for Christmas this year, though I asked for it. Half a hand raise!

This was me Christmas 2013 but I didn't ask for it. It was a Mr. Beer kit. Made one batch and immediately bought a 5 gallon extract kit.

I never even thought about making beer or even thought it'd be possible with such a small startup fee/equipment. Now I'm obsessed.

Oh and I'm also a Richmond,VA-er

 

[Fells_Pint]

Girlfriend got me a starter brewing kit for our first Valentines Day together.

Needless to say, she now has a shiny ring on her hand & all the beer she can drink.

 

[beergolf]

My wife bought me the equipment to start.

Now almost 200 brews later I am still addicted. Good thing she likes beer.

 

[dtgrdn]

+1

Have to blame the wife, I mentioned it once and the next Christmas I had a Mr Beer kit and all of the equipment to do 5 gallon extracts. She said that she wasn't sure which to get so she got both. I made my first beer with the Mr Beer kit and then went straight to extract. I still use the Mr Beer once in a while for smaller batches but I keep the 5 gallon carboy full at all times. Now when I bring more equipment home she just shakes her head and mumbles "what did I get into here". I tell her to just wait until I go all grain if she thinks I've spent money now...lol

 

[BrewerinBR]

Add my hand to the list... yes my wife is to blame for my obsession -er infatuation.. oh no sorry I mean hobby.

 

[soccerguy83]

This was me Christmas 2013 but I didn't ask for it. It was a Mr. Beer kit. Made one batch and immediately bought a 5 gallon extract kit.

I never even thought about making beer or even thought it'd be possible with such a small startup fee/equipment. Now I'm obsessed.

Oh and I'm also a Richmond,VA-er

Mine was a 5gal extract Deluxe kit from NB. Still working on sorting out the bits before my first brew day (yet to be determined but hopefully before the end of the month).

What part of town are you in? Going to James River Homebrewer's next week?

 

[dobes]

Can't remember exactly what I said to my wife but it was something like -I wonder how hard it is to make your own beer-and she told me why don't you try- now I brew quite a bit and she is there most of the time with me.

Hand raised

 

[chickypad]

Hand up.
The hubby started it, now I'm the main brewer in the house. He's still good for the heavy lifting, and also handles more of the consumption.

 

[MarshmallowBlue]

+1 Girlfriend now wife got me a Mr. Beer Kit for my 22nd birthday, now 3 years later I'm all grain BIAB with 8 fermenters. I'm sure not a day goes by she doesn't regret it.

 

[doug293cz]

SWMBO got me a 1 gallon IPA extract kit for Valentines Day 2014. She greatly regrets that now (but I don't)

Brew on

 

[agrazela]

I call BS

If any of you guys were really married, you'd know...EVERYTHING is your fault.

 

[phyllobeddo]

The wife bought me a Mr. Beer kit. Blame it on her. Within a few weeks I had ordered a "real" starter kit from Austin Home Brew.

 

[Auger]

I was brewing long before I met my fiancee...but she did push me real quick to build an all-grain tower and a keezer. She may not be responsible, but she is quite the enabler.

 

[JoshuaW]

My wife saw one of the 1 gallon BIAB kits and thought it looked like something I would be into, so she casually mentioned it. I started reading, stumbled into HBT, and read obsessively. A couple months later she noticed I was still reading, so she asked if it was something she could buy me for Christmas. I told her no, and that she needed to buy me a 5 gallon kit from the LHBS. She gave me like $100 and told me to buy it myself. Havent looked back!

 

[JonM]

Yep. Me too.

We went to a local brewpub. On the way out, there was a display of print-editions of The Onion, some local papers, and Northern Brewer catalogs. (The guys from the Milwaukee retail store would hang out there). Anyway, she grabbed a catalog and, when we got home, she thumbed through it and said "I think you'd be good at this."

Other than the occasional "Again? Didn't you just brew last weekend?" she's been super supportive.

 

[unionrdr]

It is rather uncanny how EVERYTHING is ALWAYS our fault?! I don't even have to be there or have much to do with it...but it's MY fault somehow or other. Seriously though, she does like it when I get a pipeline built up. Less to no $$ spent on store beer.

 

[Rev2010]

Me too. I'd been beer connoisseuring for 11 years prior and 4 years ago on Christmas she bought me the Coopers homebrewing kit. Made the first beer from their hopped LME can and instantly started researching brewing. Bought Palmer's book and moved right into extract brewing. Only ever made that one Cooper's can before going extract. Did extract for a year and been all grain the past three years.

She likes to occasionally remind me or ask me if I've told anyone else on here that "Your wife made you into a brewer" lol. She's awesome


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