Mine has the perfect pedigree… Father-in-law’s life motto is “beer goes with everything” …and she’s a chip off the old block.
I only remember one girl being at that conference. 
Maybe that’s why you met her.
The '96 NHC was also our 20th wedding anniversary and my first conference. My lovely wife was totally disappointed that I actually wanted to go to the seminars and not be with her. “Nobody goes to the seminars!” We almost didn’t make it to our next anniversary.
She does not drink beer except for the samples I shove at her to get her sensory analysis.
btw one of her pet peeves is that whenever anyone wants to give a female non-beer-drinker a beer that she will love, they hand her a fruit beer or something overly sweet. Why is that? My wife drinks single malt, gin and tonics, vodka and bubbly water, and chardonnay. No real reason for her to like beer. Besides all the more for me!
Yeah. Yeah, I know.
Spent the past year doing just that.
There’s a motivation here related to just that. Not much more I can say on the matter publicly.
Gone.
Once the ring comes off, I just might.
So then ya gonna move back to PA? Maybe Jim Thorpe? Its nice and it is cheap.
Not for another 15 years or so. Have to stay close to the girls, otherwise I’d probably head to south central PA.
Every 3 or 4 batches I ask what she would like me to brew and brew that and try to work her into the name (in a flattering way) whenever possible.
We bought our first kit together just after we got married, so she’s on board. She just doesn’t like when every conversation revolves around beer. :
Been there…done that…it sucks.
Hang in there. There is light at the end of the tunnel.
I have no one… 
Gets lonely and I’m having a difficult time meeting women.
I’m not a psychologist, but it seems like some women get married with the idea that they’re going to change their husband in some major way. Later on, they either figure out that idea was wrong and deal with it, or they leave. One of my friends who got divorced said women get married hoping to change a man and men get married hoping a woman never changes.
I hate to generalize, but in people I know that have problems, this too often seems true. I guess I’m lucky that my wife has dealt with it. I wish she was a beer geek too, but I don’t want to change her any more than I want to be changed. At least she likes and drinks good craft beer.
Jeff Rankert is indeed a lucky guy; I can vouch for that first hand.
Not to analyze this too much, but if a relationship is breaking up over a hobby, it’s not breaking up over a hobby it’s finding an excuse.
My wife wasn’t sure about the whole brewing thing but she supported me starting the hobby. She was ready to kick me in the tush while I was it the “there’s nothing more interesting than beer” phase. I told it would pass and it did. Now she has told I never get to quit brewing because I’ve made a beer snob.
I’ve also cut way back on the amount of time I spend brewing and try not to talk it about it too much. We have 4 kids that keep us running constantly (never thought I’d be so happy to have a 16 year old driver in the house). The times that we have the most trouble as a couple are when we don’t get any time to be a couple. If haven’t, make room in your schedule for her and find other topics that interest you both. Beer is great but every house needs more than one topic to talk about. It doesn’t matter if it’s golf or critter killing, almost nobody else cares about it. 8^)
Paul
+1
Replace “brewing” with “fishing” and head over to a fishing forum. You will see the same stuff “she says i fish too much”. This is about more than brewing. Maybe you two should see a counselor.
I dont think the problem is that he brews. I think the problem is that she does not like his brew.
I think the main problem is coming here to ask for advice about a marriage.
Thanks for that, Gordon.
She has learned to deal with me in the best possible way!
None of them asked for advice, everyone offered it up unsolicited… knowing their just trying to help/be supportive. I agree this is not the place to bring up marital/dating issues…
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Better stop calling it ‘The Pub’ then…
Better stop calling it ‘The Pub’ then…
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This is incredibly ironic even if most of you probably don’t get why. I’m literally busting at the seams. LMAO!! ;D
THat maked two of us, Major. Buthey, this is “the Pub”. And what do guys do at the pub, but drink, and complain about life. We’re guys. It’s what we do. A lot of us on here have been around each other for a while, and though never having met, there is some type of bond. So, while I myself would not ask for advice, I would sure as heck head to the pub, get a beer, and let some stuff off my chest.
I love how “literally” has come to mean “very much so” instead of “literally”. Like when people say “I’m literally freezing to death”! Really? You’re actually, literally, non-metaphorically enduring the final phases of death by freezing?
Not to jump to conclusions…if you are literally busting at the seams, you should probably get yourself to a medical facility!
This is FAR from any pub I go to.
LMAO. Is it really possible to laugh that hard? 