Stories of loved ones taking care of you.

My wife who doesn't really like beer set up a big tasting for my 30th b-day a couple weeks ago. Turned out to be pretty awesome.

 

my fam won't do anything to encourage my beer habit. At best, if I call them a few hours before I get home, they might pop a brew into the fridge. That being said, I have a beer-centric friendship where we definitely scratch each others' backs.

 

I almost accidentally took a sip of a BMC which I thought was a SNPA. She jumped in front of me and smacked the beverage out of my hand. We've been dating ever since.

 

My gf had her brother, who has never shipped beer before but is way into craft, package and ship me a big box of Russian River goodies from up north for my birthday. It was awesome.

 

NOT IN MY HOUSE...HAHAHA

 

My boyfriend brews me whatever beer I want. We homebrew once or twice a week usually, and I always get a say on what we make. We're getting a recipe ready for a Belgian-style Imperial IPA. Fortunately, he's as into craft beer as I am.

 

Thanks for the laugh!

 

I have received The Beer Journal by Chris Wright, Tasting Beer by Randy Mosher, purchased my Duvel tulip that came w/2 bottles of said nectar...and always seems to surprise me @ the holidays or certain times w/mixers from World Market or other places that's MY WIFE taking care of her beer nut.

 

My dad, who no longer drinks, got up way earlier than usual and stood in line for me at total wine with his wife to get me 2 bricks of Westy Xii.

 

My wife went to a Binnys in downtown Chicago (about a 90 minute drive) on Black Friday to stand in line and try to win me a Rare to surprise me with on Christmas. She didn't win me anything, but thats a pretty damn awesome thing to do anyway.

 

My wife is my permanent designated driver for beer events and although she doesn't love beer as much as I do she definitely sacrifices extra by not drinking anything.

And my sister-in-law is currently in line at Upland Brewery in the freezing cold for their lambic release. She makes up for the other in-laws.

 

My wife travels constantly to denver but is not into beer. She always hits up the local bottle shops and even knows some of the beer guys now. In September she drove up to Avery just to get me a few bottles of Rumpkin. While there chatted up a guy who sold her a bottle of CS Oculus from his trunk, first of their beers i ever had, now i am a Reserve Club memeber. Needless to say she usually ends up with atleast $100 worth of beer in her suitcase for the trip home. True Love!

 

Gf found BCBS Coffee for me a couple months ago. We split it on New Years. She also surprises me with new glassware on a frequent basis... All of my favorite glasses are from her.

She also was the one to find hopslam and zombie dust when I had given up hope.

 

My mother in law put a bottle of Fuller's ESB on the table at dinner last night. She looked me in the eye and asked me why I wasn't drinking the beer. "Are you sick?" were her words.

 

My go to guy, owner of my favorite liquor store, went to Central Waters anniversary party and brought me back some fifteen. He held them aside for me, and didn't even charge me more than he paid. thats more than a salesman, hes a good friend.

 

Sitting in growler line at the BOT release last year at Hill Farmstead for 2+ hours, being a DD for my friend and I for The Festival, getting tickets to the Great Taste of the Midwest, bringing back Surly, shipping her brothers end of a trade back because he took forever, and building me shelves in the basement for my cellared beers. That's why I proposed.

 

My wife surprised me with two SN/Dogfish IPA glasses the other night out of nowhere.

 

My daughter always brings me excellent beer whenever she's traveling. My son isn't into beer as much but he'll surprise me with some unique stuff from time to time.

 

My wife stopped asking how much I spent on beer.

 

My girlfriend can't be bothered to pick up beer for me. I didn't even try to ask her to get me some Hopslam when I was out of town.