The wife started it all and here is my story.
A while back the wife started telling me about craft beer. She had been to a few places like World of Beer with her friends. I was never much of a beer drinker, usually only a pint when we went out for wings.
One day she talked me into going to a local craft beer bar and had me try a wide range until I found something I liked. It was a stout.So time went by and checking out the local craft beer bars and breweries became our favorite thing to do together.
So one day sitting at a local brewery, looking at all the brewing equipment she pops out with "We should start brewing beer" and it all started.
The next day we went down to a LHBS and looked at one of the $100 starter kits. after that we went home and I started checking out youtube videos and reading all the info I could find on home brewing. Now that I had some more insight on how to brew, I went back to the wife and asked her. Do you want to make ok beer or great beer. she said she wanted to make great beer, so I told her it was going to cost alot more than a $100 starter kit. Well she said go for it get what we need.
This was september of last year. Now we have 10 gallon mash tun with a false bottom, a 10 gallon boil kettle, a blichman burner, 2 14 cu fermentation chambers with stc-1000 controllers, stirplate and flasks, 7 carboys, 50' 3/8 immersion chiller, refractometer, and a ton of other bits and pieces. The latest purchase was another chest freezer we are making a keezer out of.
So ya, the wife made me do it.
I want to add, she is my brew partner. We only brew together. she is hands on with all aspects of the brew day and preparation. Even when we get grains from the LHBS, I can leave her alone and she will weight out all the grains while I get other stuff.