funny things your better half says about brewing?

When I had my hefeweizen in the primary in the front closet a couple months ago (maybe the 1st or 2nd day of fermentation when its vigorous and powerful as heck), SWMBO opened it up to get a trash bag for the kitchen trash can and went "WTF it smells like a monkey is using this closet for his banana hoard" e.g. there was tons of yeasty banana aroma all concentrated in the small closet space. It was awesome.

 

Mine doesn't care. Seriously. Until she was pregnant, I would make her taste all the hydro samples.

Other than her texting me at work saying the RIS in the bathtub had blown out and shot shit up the side of the tub and on the ceiling, she never mentioned a word about it.

 

Pretty much the same here. I try to start brewing stupid early in the AM (start at 4:00) on weekends so I don't miss out on kid time/saddle her with kid time all morning. Early on I did get a frowning or two at a couple of big equipment purchases, but I'm over that and the only grief it causes is the amount of freezer space taken up by pounds of hops.

 

I have twins coming in Sept, and she knows that I'll cut back on going out to play golf and "man time" with my friends to stay at home.

Naturally, I'll want to anyways- but spending time at time, and managing a brew day is a plus. You are a trooper for a 4AM brew day, I will take note of that and try it. That way I'd be well done before she gets up for breakfast!

 

I've never gotten up that early. I generally brew at night on the weekends. I turn on my burner for my HLT, go put the kids to bed, come back down and brew until about midnight.

 

I'm kind of a night owl, but I couldn't imagine having to clean up after brew day at around 01:00. It's just not the last thing I want to do in a day. I get three hours early when I brew.

 

Sometime ago my wife said to me : ´sweetheart, please take out of the house those spent grains,please don´t forget it, if you let them sit for a while they will smell like a deep putrid elephant vagina,ah and don´t forget to take them out using the backyard door´.Of course I forgot to take them out ,so 2-3 days later I started to smell this shit ,therefore I decided to do what my lovely wife wanted but... I chose our front house door.When I was passing through our living room the bag containing that putrid thing broke up over my wife´s beloved carpet.My punishment was 30 days without...you know.LOL

 

The only time I get up that early for is Deep Sea Fishing... which, thanks to your thread, gave me a great idea to brew a clone batch of Sculpin India Pale Ale and go fishin' with the guys in 3 months or so.

As for my fiancee and a funny thing she did was from this past weekend while I was bottling... It was getting really late, we needed to go somewhere, and I ran out of bottles (cleaned and sanitized from dishwasher's hot cycle). I went into the garage to grab some that were previously drank, but not cleaned. Of course, not having been rinsed prior, they grew some mold on the bottom. I quickly shook them with luke-warm soapy water, rinsed once or twice, and poured in a Star San solution for about a minute a piece, rinsed again and proceeded to bottle.

I knew that those bottles would not be given away, but I would set them aside for myself. My fiancee, after bottling, grabbed black and red permanent Sharpie markers and drew Skull and Bones on those beer caps. Cracked me up as she threw in a couple emoticons with x's for eyes and their tongue sticking out.

 

My wife says your not really brewing till you start droping "F" bombs!

 

Kind of beyond petty if she actually held on you for 30 days for that

Im sure that carpet really tied the room together though.

 

In my case is not a punishment, perhaps a relief. lol

 

Hey man - congratulations! You're in for some great, sleepy times!

 

Really only ever brew on Sundays and I do it at a friends house where we keep everything, so the only thing she complains about is that I'm gone all day.

Though the other small gripe is that she sometimes groans about waiting another 2 weeks when I walk through the door with a corney (I carbonate at my place). She hasn't the homebrewers patience, but she certainly has the taste.

 

Hey ! That is a very nice new!!!!. I hope you enjoy your life with your kids, I have raised my daughter already and I can tell you time flies!!!!!!!!. Hope any of them could learn and help his/her papa to brew!!!!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!

 

Life as you know it is over for a few years... but you won't mind.. Congrats!

 

My wife likes the aromas of brewing and fermentation, and the final product (except sours and over the top IPA's - my favorites, naturally). She did call me at work in a panic one day when foam was pouring out of my fermentation closet in the basement... I told her to keep the door closed and I'd clean up when I got home - no problem. She is supportive of my brewing, unless I neglect to make a big stout for too long, and stewards at competitions where I judge. If stewards were ranked she would be a grand master.