You know you're married to a homebrewer if....

[Stihler]

The other day my wife and I were driving home from a shopping expedition.

As we passed a church my wife started laughing.

The was a sign in front of the church said Join us for Reformation Sunday.

She thought is said Join us for Fermentation Sunday!

Yeah she is definitely married to a homebrewer.

- Scott

 

[BigYin]

Ha ha!

My Mrs must know she's married to a homebrewer because she moans constantly about all the space it takes up.....

And let's not mention the whingeing about the glorious smells of a brewday :evil:

 

[brizleciderarmy]

My missus now refers to the sieve as the hop strainer. Shes learning :)

 

[Dronfieldbrewer]

Walking around IKEA looking at stainless steel plates wondering if you could make a false bottom out of them

 

[Moley]

Walking around IKEA looking at stainless steel plates wondering if you could make a false bottom out of them

What, you or your partner?

If you are being dragged around IKEA and looking for alternative uses for their products, then I would think that's perfectly normal behaviour for a home brewer.

If your wife/girlfriend picked up an SS plate and asked if you could drill that to use as a false bottom, that would indeed be worthy of comment.

If I've got my head inside a stainless steel laundry bin, Mrs. Mole knows full well I'm inspecting the joints, is it welded or just folded tight? Could I use it as a boiler or FV? The answer is no, they have folded seams which the nasties would love to inhabit.

Credit where it's due, mine won't look for alternative produce use but will always ask if I need any fruit juices, sugar, etc. if she spots any price offers.

 

[Baldbrewer]

Ha ha!

My Mrs must know she's married to a homebrewer because she moans constantly about all the space it takes up.....

And let's not mention the whingeing about the glorious smells of a brewday :evil:

+1 to that ! Doesn't seem to matter what hobby it is either!

 

[hedgerow pete]

i get phone calls from mine when she is shopping, " so and so juice is on special offer can you ferment it and how many do you want??"

mine also knew what she was getting into when we started courting and going for long romantic walks along hedgerows with ten carrier bags in my pocket and then started to promtly fill them when ever i came across a load of fruit or herbs ect, it was the boss who named me hedgerow pete in the first place

 

[TRXnMe]

My wife made me buy a brew shed :)

OK, it does mean she now has the spare room back, but, it's still a brew shed

I also get the odd phone call about fruit juices, usually because she wants me to make her a wine or cider from them "love, I've seen some cherry / pear / blueberry juice on offer, what can you make me with that? How many should I get?". Considerign she drinks, on average, one bottle of cider a month she is building up a very impressive stash

 

[BigYin]

My wife made me buy a brew shed :)

RESULT!! :party: :party: :party:

I've been offering to build a brewshed to keep the brewing out of the house - hell, I even offered to build one big enough to take fermentation fridges, so NO brewing had to happen in the house (without something to keep the fermenters warm it'd be useless in anything other than summer up here for fermenting.. and then maybe not even warm enough in summer :lol: ) ... She's not biting though :evil: :evil: :evil:

 

[TRXnMe]

My wife made me buy a brew shed :)

RESULT!! :party: :party: :party:

I've been offering to build a brewshed to keep the brewing out of the house - hell, I even offered to build one big enough to take fermentation fridges, so NO brewing had to happen in the house (without something to keep the fermenters warm it'd be useless in anything other than summer up here for fermenting.. and then maybe not even warm enough in summer :lol: ) ... She's not biting though :evil: :evil: :evil:

I think my rather 'full on' pursuit of the hobby, from zero to the aquisition of AG kit, in around 6 months scared her :)

Going from nothing cluttering the back bedroom to having 5 fermenters, a 50 litre stockpot, a 40 litre coolbox, a few dozen wine and beer bottles in there got her worried where it would end. Having half the hall floor covered with demi johns with various wines and ciders in might have helped, as did filling my workshop with king kegs

The promise of removing my motorbike from the original garden shed and putting that into the brew shed helped as well, that means she has somewhere to store the garden furniture wen it's raining, which this being Wales is most of the time :)

 

[RokDok]

Mrs Rokdok :

'Look I'm not keen on you having all those FVs in the sitting room, they look really out of place. Why on earth don't you build yourself a decent fermentation fridge or whatever it's called, and at the same time get one of those conical fermentors from Blichmann that your'e always going in about, that way you don't have to syphon from the FV into a bottling vessel and can bottle straight from the fermentor having dumped the trub.
By the way I went up to Kew gardens with the girls at the weekend and have brought you cuttings of Goldings, Fuggles, Cascade,Challenger,Target, Chinnook, Northdown, and a couple of dozen others which I've labelled and planted in the garden.
Would you like me to polish your shiney ??'

At that point I was awoken by the dog licking my face and I was busting for a pee.

Cheers

RD

 

[brizleciderarmy]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[PD]

nice one..............I think we all have dreams like that.

 

[jodape]

From the gf:

"Have to make a grain bag out of a net curtain"

In my defence it was the cheapest way to get voile

 

[Dronfieldbrewer]

Walking around IKEA looking at stainless steel plates wondering if you could make a false bottom out of them

What, you or your partner?

If you are being dragged around IKEA and looking for alternative uses for their products, then I would think that's perfectly normal behaviour for a home brewer.

Yup...I'm normal then

If your wife/girlfriend picked up an SS plate and asked if you could drill that to use as a false bottom, that would indeed be worthy of comment.

Nope so no comment

If I've got my head inside a stainless steel laundry bin, Mrs. Mole knows full well I'm inspecting the joints, is it welded or just folded tight? Could I use it as a boiler or FV? The answer is no, they have folded seams which the nasties would love to inhabit.

Guilty as charged Moley, even asked the local fabricator if he could weld up the seam!! Answer...Nope he said that the welding rod would "**** through it"...some sort of technical speak I presume

Credit where it's due, mine won't look for alternative produce use but will always ask if I need any fruit juices, sugar, etc. if she spots any price offers.

 

[wherespete]

Mrs Rokdok :'Look I'm not keen on you having all those FVs in the sitting room, they look really out of place.

I've got my Rotokeg in the sitting room. I covered it with a towel so that SWMBO wouldn't see it but she's too smart for that. She spotted it within 24 hours... :hmm:

 

[caerleon]

I moved all my brewing kit to the bathroom, its a small bathroom and the closest place in the flat - turned the heating off, but now the temperature is getting lower im getting evicted to the kitchen. The Braumeister is now in the bedroom under a cover I still have all of my 50ltr setup in the cupboard under the stairs, which of course i was supposed to sell when i got the cornies and braumeister, but i cannot give up on my shiney!

Whenever she complains about the space i just remind her that she drinks it so i need to brew more to keep up

A brewshed is a fantastic idea! Sadly, i rent so it might be difficult.

 

[TRXnMe]

I moved all my brewing kit to the bathroom, its a small bathroom and the closest place in the flat - turned the heating off, but now the temperature is getting lower im getting evicted to the kitchen. The Braumeister is now in the bedroom under a cover I still have all of my 50ltr setup in the cupboard under the stairs, which of course i was supposed to sell when i got the cornies and braumeister, but i cannot give up on my shiney!

Whenever she complains about the space i just remind her that she drinks it so i need to brew more to keep up

A brewshed is a fantastic idea! Sadly, i rent so it might be difficult.

As long as you can get a flat base, fasten it together with coach bolts, not the supplied screws, and youu'll be able to take it apart when you move.

Supplying power may be more challenging, but nothing a few extension cables can't sort out :)

 

[oldstout]

Mrs oldstout loves the wines I make - 'get out to that shed and bring me a bottle'

Let's face it, if she could be bothered to clean up the result of 'Oldstouts KingKeg Disaster' she knows she's married to a homebrewer :thumb:

:lol:

 

[zgoda]

Asking if you could store your new bicycle in a cellar for the winter you get the answer "go to garage, it will not fit in cellar". Hardcore version: but in a garage you realize it's full of cornies.
You want to put some cherries in freezer but it's already full of hops.
There is special cupboard for special glassware.
The kitchen worktop is sometimes sterile and you have to ask where is safe to put your things.
You have bottle drier on balcony. Handy if you want to dry your swimming goggles.