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

[1977Brewer]

She bought the kit for me. That is the extent of her approval.

 

[RichBenn]

I'm not certain my wife got me into homebrewing or not. The year was 1981, we had gone to Europe to bicycle and then attend the Octoberfest in Germany. Shortly after arriving first in England, we stopped to get supplies somewhere and found a brew book by "Boots the Chemist", a drug store that sold homebrewing supplies thoughout the U.K.

So we bought the book. (She did? I did?) It was many years before homebrew shops and Microbreweries took off in the United States, so for a while, homebrewing was the only way to have good ales and interesting beers.

Years later, there are many good Microbreweries. But even now, many years later and I get nagged a wee bit when I don't have one of my better IPAs up, so I gotta credit SWMBO for the habit.

 

[GHBWNY]

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.

You get a wife, she gets your beer! Now THAT'S a good deal for both of you!

 

[GHBWNY]

She bought the kit for me. That is the extent of her approval.

oops?

 

[LI_Matt]

I did a hard cider a couple of months ago,the wife stated that she would rather I made beer. Hence my first brewday this past Sunday.

 

[Sammy86]

Hand raised...wife and BIL got me into it with a book and gift certificate

 

[Rcbandl]

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.

 

[MindenMan]

Three plus years ago my wife bought me a starter kit, and it's all her fault now. I have two 50k btu burners, two 30qt pots, a 40 qt pot, a converted chest freezer five or six fermenting buckets, etc, etc. A few weeks ago, our pipeline went dry and we had to resort to store bought beer; my wife commented, "Your beer is so much better, I didn't know I was spoiled..."
I thought,"I wonder how long I should wait to talk about kegging?" A man can dream can't he?

 

[yohoe]

We couldn't get Bells Oberon in San Diego and the wife really wanted it so I thought I'd look make my own...in a bit lol

 

[RM-MN]

Can I raise my hand if it wasn't my wife that got me started brewing but instead it was my son? He had been brewing extract kits for a few years before I got to see how easy it was to make my own beer. He still brews extract kits while I moved on to brewing all grain and make up my own recipes.

 

[Melana]

We started brewing together (that was before our daughter was born....) Now I'm the brewer in my house and he helps when I let him....

He IS the main consumer... does that count?

 

[MyCarHasAbs]

Close enough, my fiance's parents bought me a Craft A Brew kit last year for Xmas. My basement is now completely dedicated to brewing. They created a monster.

 

[1977Brewer]

oops?

I think she's okay. Beer has been my "hobby" for a long time. This is a natural extension of that, and once I get to higher volumes (soon) it will be much, much cheaper.

 

[ImNoExpert]

Yep. She got me my starter kit for our first anniversary. Almost eight years later, I still use the capper and the Ale Pail; though not for fermenting.

 

[wambizzle]

the wife got me a starter kit and homebrew kegging setup for christmas 2012 and its been my obsession ever since. This past christmas she got me a nitrogen setup and commisioned me a bar for the mancave.

 

[geoffm33]

Yep.

Like many others, Mr. Beer was my gateway drug.

I'm sure when she was picking it out at Bed Bath and Beyond she didn't think that one day (today) I would stay home from work to take delivery of a chest freezer from Home Depot to control fermentation temps.

:fro:

 

[schmittychris]

Found a kit under the tree for Christmas this year from the wife. It was a surprise since it had been months since I had stopped asking to get one My first batch isn't even done and she was complaining that there wasn't any beer in the house the other day. "Why isn't there any beer in the fridge? Don't you brew now?"

I think she had ulterior motives...

 

[JimRausch]

Yep, SWMBO got me a starter kit and a 'Truebrew' mocktoberfest Christmas 2011. December 26th was the 1st brew, and her 1st complaint- "How much longer are you going to be? We were supposed to be at the kids 1/2 hour ago."
I think she regrets ever getting me that Christmas gift.........

 

[VApatriot]

Me too. It was all SWMBO's idea. She said that if your brother could do it and our friend Peter could make good beer, you could too. So she gave me the go ahead and I bought the gear and it was all down hill from there.

 

[BierGut]

Yep Christmas of 2012 my wife bought me a starter kit and an extract kit to brew. The following year for my birthday she bought me a kit of the month club. She loves watching me brew and I love that she doesn't drink beer.

 

[GHBWNY]

My wife got me an equip kit from BSG Christmas 2013. She doesn't drink beer, but she thought "it would be fun" for me on the premise that the best beer I had had since living in Germany many years ago was from her co-worker's hubby who is a HBer.

A year later her tune has changed --- now it is, "why does EVERYTHING have to be about beer?!"

 

[KWright_VT]

Yep, me too. I had been looking into the possibility, talked to a homebrew shop while on vacation and started reading The Complete Joy of Homebrewing. Those people make it look so fun with their glasses of beer raised for every picture! So the wife bought me the starter kit for Christmas, along with an extract kit. I brewed that one, but had already started plans to go AG.

Now I've built my mash tun, and bought lots of extra equipment. I think once it warms up, I will have a brewing assistant, she says it's too cold in the garage now, but she helped me bottle. She loved the vinator.