My wife doesn’t get it. I guess it is time for a change.
What have you done to make it some what easy?
I met my wife at the '96 NHC in NOLA. She totally gets it.
My wife bought me my first kit back in 1992 and has been very supportive ever since.
Meeting with the lawyer next week.
I been thinking the same thing…I’m damn old to be back in the market
I was a homebrewer long before I met my wife, If she wasn’t supportive, I wouldn’t have married her.
Then again, her go-to beer when she turned 21 was Black Butte Porter . . .
I think the main thing to do is make something that she likes, whether that’s beer, wine, cider, or sake. And stroke her ego by naming it after her. And no, I don’t mean “Raving B!tch IPA” or “Psycho Wife Barelywine - I’ll keep this beer longer than I’ll keep her”. “Bachelor Bitter” is taken, and is not advisable anyway 
Mead, Tom… Mead is the answer!
When I started brewing I was overwhelmed with the possibilities… One of my primary goals was to make a beverage that women love, and when they drink it they fall over backwards and …
It worked 14+ years ago. It still works today… Mead!
(says the beekeeper)
Whoops, I should have looked at my list more closely! Yes of course, mead too. Whatever it takes.
My wife, while very supportive, isn’t a fan of most brews. She can tolerate meads, but she doesn’t LOVE them. However…a simple cider…just juice and yeast…aged a couple months and then force carbonated, she drank that cornelius keg dry!
My wife was a beer drinker when we first met. She wasn’t as into craft brew as she is today, but she always liked beer. She was at least somewhat geeked up about my initial interest in brewing, and now looks forward to brew day almost as much as me. The only downer for her right now is that she’s pregnant with our second, so no beer for awhile. :( Oh well, I guess I was always willing and able to drink for two. 
;D
My wife, though not a fan of beer, is very supportive of me brewing. I’m not sure why our wives would have to understand why we do it, to support us. Seems to me, if they don’t get the whole idea of us enjoying it, and it being our hobby,well…I dunno. Hollly crochets baby booties by the dozens. We have no children, and want no children. Do I get it? No. But hey, she likes it, and enjoys doing it, so more power to her.
Maybe buy a boat next summer. Aftershe see what goes into that, she’ll be begging you to brew! ;D
I was giving this some thought this morning, and he’s what I came up with. I mean no disrespect, you know I think of you likea big brother. I know you’re WAY nito your beer and brewing. Your homebrew club, going to GABF, and events, not to mention brewing like a madman every weekend. Well, it occured to me, maybe if you eaae up on the throttle a little bit, for just a time, she’ll feel a little better about it. Maybe she feels that your beer is getting some attention she deserves and wants? I know Holly starts getting a little snippy with me if I start pulling off double brews to many weekends in a row. That being the last thing I’ve done for a long time, and actually not haven gotten to brew since last February, she actaully keeps asking me when I going to, and how long till I have a brewery set up in Idaho.
Maybe I’m wrong in your case, but just a thought.
I can offer some advice in this area.
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Dont do it.
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If you have to, make sure you have expended all other routes. (take some time and step back).
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Think of the kids.
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In thsee days you have no use for anger, get rid of it.
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And most important, for god sakes eat a peach.
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You really are good at expanding my culinary horizons
My wife isn’t crazy about my homebrewing but she recognizes that it’s my hobby and I enjoy it. It’s her fault anyway since she bought me the Mr. Beer kit.
My wife let me rob our savings account and open a brewery. And she was the one who encouraged me to do it - it was her suggestion, I had never even contemplated it. And she works full time and brings home the paycheck now while I work at the brewery and make $0. And she doesn’t regret it at all and is almost as excited as me. I couldn’t have found a better woman.
My wife has also encouraged me to quit my real job and open a brewpub, alas there isn’t enough in the savings account to rob. She’s also encouraged me to plant a barley crop in our old horse pen so I’m not sure how well she thinks these things out.
But on an every day homebrewing note my wife is happy that because I keep so much beer on hand I haven’t been to a bar in years and she doesn’t have to worry about me driving drunk or chasing wild women. I may be spending a lot of time and energy in my garage brewery, but I’m at home, not off wasting money or doing something stupid(like her old hobby flying).
My wife has become my brewing partner. She enjoys beer travel as much as I do (maybe more). She is also active in out club, and is a member of the AHA. The NHC has become a high point of the year for us. Should I say that we are both looking forward to San Diego in 2011?
I am a lucky guy.
My wife has supported my homebrewing hobby from the very beginning. She enjoys most of the beer I brew.
In fact she has helped promote my 2010 NHC Silver medal win by contacting our local media sources.
She also likes wine so I make wine as well eventhough I’m not a big wine drinker.
When she makes plans, I try to schedule my homebrewing around her plans to keep her happy to.
I think there has to be at minimum an acceptance of our craft by the significant other.
Otherwise there will only be resistance.
While we’re off homebrewing, I think it’s the perfect opportunity for the wife to have some time
for her own interests as Weaz had mentioned.
Amen to that!