A couple years back, SWMBO would only drink Coors Light and at my request would “try” various craft offerings. Usually coupled with a bitter beer face from a tiny sip and a comment like “Hmmm, thats really strong.” After a while if she was really feeling daring she might finish a whole glass of Fat Tire.
Flash forward… if she brings home a six pack of Coors Light, she might have two or three over the course of a weekend. This weekend she chose Deschutes Red Chair on tap as her go to beer. Drained a pint of Fresh Sqeezed IPA, finished my pint of Crux IPA that was too dank for me. Cheered and immediately confiscated $21 bottle of Logsdon kriek that I scored… as well as dabbled in several other tasters of IPA, pale, Scottish, stouts, and funkys.
My wife would not drink beer until she got cravings for it during her second pregnancy. Don’t freak out, she’d only have one every now and then, but now she only drinks wine with her friends.
What scares me is that now she is starting to get a taste for coffee. And I already have a son who is drinking at least a cup of my $15+ dollar a pound coffee, and a pound of coffee barely makes it through the week.
Yeah we go through the pricey coffee pretty fast in my house,too. Except I’m the main offender. I drink the run of the mill stuff at work, but I do like good stuff at home.
My girlfriend likes barlywines, strong Belgians and wee heavys the best and is the meadmaker of the family. And she’s nuts for Islay scotches. Someone we work with started a bulk coffee buying club with a very good local roaster so we get 5# for the fridge and that lasts about 2 months in our freezer.
My lady likes most any beer that isn’t hoppy. I stopped brewing for her after I realized that two of three kegs in the keezer were “hers.” She really like dry styles, fruit styles, and some sours. Her favorite beer is Lagunitas cappuccino stout. Bought her a case for valentines one year.
My wife only likes cider. She gets the bitter beer face for all beer. Any suggestions for beer for her to try. I’d rather buy her commercial until I find something she likes.
Damn, I try not to be a snob (generally not a big fan), but I read some of my own posts sometimes, too. I guess there’s a fine line between sharing good info and seeming like a wisea$$.
My wife is strictly a Corona drinker. In the past I would make a beer that she thought that she’d like only to find that she really didn’t. Then I was stuck with 5 gal of a beer I didn’t like. So I stopped brewing for her. I make a batch of common cider once a year and she does like that.
You don’t come off as a snob,Jon. I don’t really think I do very often either. I think that in this format the enthusiasm and connection of " oh cool, I’m into that too!" we list everything we do or know about it which comes off differently than the back and forth of ordinary conversation.
Yeah, totally. If everyone were in a room talking about brewing, it would be a totally different dynamic. I don’t really like the emoticons much, but it’s at least an easy way to let people know you’re kidding or whatever.
