Home Distiller

So, out of those out there, that are married, how does your wife feel, or think, about the time you spend on the process of doing the distilling process? Such as
the time cooking up and filling your fermentation containers, the time you spend checking them, watching them, ect? As well as the time it takes to cook up a run?
Does any of your wives give you issues or are the cool with it, OR even enjoy watching and even helping with different ingredients ideas?
Just wondering, cause my wife loves to help with recipies, and really likes to drink a some of the new batch to "test it" as it is coming out. But I have a
great wife.

Mine only complains when we run out!

Lucky you two, don't get me wrong, my missus is great and couldn't ask for better.SShe supports what I do but when I spend time in the shed she always says I spend alot of time out there!!. Says I drink to much (only drink on weekends and not to much) she hardly drinks, might have one or two. Says I stink from the distilling smell and smell of copper when I build. I just wish she had more interest in it, would make it so much more enjoyable for me. Wouldn't feel like I got to make me feel like I have to choose between her and the hobby I love more than anything in the world!!. So yeah, your lucky!!! Lol.

my wife and i work together. in our off time, she does what she wants, when she wants. buys what she desires without consultation. makes dinner if she wants or tells me to do it..if she wants. we take separate vacations.
she don't drink anymore, but she had a few in her day. she'll drive me anywhere if i had a few, and could give a damn if i spend some time in the shop doin what we do.
really don't like if i let slip into "pissed as a newt" territory though... and will let me know.... not that theres enough left of the old liver to do that much often anyway.
no jealousies, no agendas, no needy-ness. just trust.
parnter in business, partner in life. if it makes me happy, she's happy... and vice versa.
and while you are eating your hearts out...yeah, she's a stunning beauty too.
sorry about your luck...she's mine!

oh yeah, she'll wash mason jars and grind grain too!

My hangs out with me, I do my distilling in my garage. I have a nice couch and a big flat panel tv, we watch a little Sons of Anarchy while I run the still. Her favorite part is when I am mashing. She says that the smell of cooking corn, wheat and rye reminds her of her childhood, when her mom made oat meal or cream of wheat for breakfast.

Mine helps out a lot. She has made the cider for my apple brandy, made cider for Apple pie, helps with the ferments by punching down the cap on the grappa I got going, and likes that I have a hobby. I'm with bearriver as well: the only time she complains is when we run out!

Mine doesn't like it at all. And hates anything alchohol related. Always a struggle to find time to do anything stillin related. Had my still a few months and only done one run.

She's happy when I'm happy. 'Nuff said.

tp

my wonderful SOH hates the time, money and effort I put in to producing any alcohol. not interested in learning or helping. she would rather we went to the pub. wouldn't say no to drinking some though. boads well for my plan of owning a brewery

Mine is not interested in what I do or how I do it. Don't give me too much grief as long as I don't take too much time away from 'us'. She don't drink much but won't touch what I make. Her entire family loves and appreciates it tho.

When my day job gets slow in the Fall/Winter my wife is very supportive of my hobby. If we had a bigger place - there might be another hobby I would be spending more time doing... but the kids require time and space to grow and I can't take over a room at this point.

I don't like the effects of alcohol - it's a depressant. I have had my share of binge drinking at a kid too. Ooofah!

I DO like a nice hand crafted drink though... the smell and taste of a good glass of wine or good liquor but the buzz is not my favorite. I enjoy a good project based hobby.

With that said - my wife likes the result of this hobby.
She is impressed with the quality of the liquor and she loves to drink with her friends socially so it works for us both.

Wifey did the math and figured that I had spent just over 14 hundred dollars,
getting this thing figured out. Once she did the calculating, the math went like this:

$ 1,400 dollars divided by 50 bucks a half gallon at the liquor store = 28

We tend to run through a 1/2 gallon a week between us and a lot of friends
so in 28 weeks I have made the investment back - less the 6 bucks a gallon
that it cost to make.
Now she figures I am earning an extra $200 a month by not spending it at the liquor store.

For a long time she wasn't sure about what I was making, now when we join friends for
dinner she mostly won't have a drink - can't even stand the smell of Crown Royal anymore
Says she can wait until we get home and she can have the good stuff!!!

We tend to drink a bit more than we used to but not by much - just hard to not have the
next drink when yo know there is no hangover waiting in the morning.

She will join me in the man cave once in a while but generally she calls it "my" time

I got a great wife and a better friend in this one boys

Coyote

Coyote wrote:Wifey did the math and figured that I had spent just over 14 hundred dollars,
getting this thing figured out. Once she did the calculating, the math went like this:

$ 1,400 dollars divided by 50 bucks a half gallon at the liquor store = 28

We tend to run through a 1/2 gallon a week between us and a lot of friends
so in 28 weeks I have made the investment back - less the 6 bucks a gallon
that it cost to make.
Now she figures I am earning an extra $200 a month by not spending it at the liquor store.

For a long time she wasn't sure about what I was making, now when we join friends for
dinner she mostly won't have a drink - can't even stand the smell of Crown Royal anymore
Says she can wait until we get home and she can have the good stuff!!!

We tend to drink a bit more than we used to but not by much - just hard to not have the
next drink when yo know there is no hangover waiting in the morning.

She will join me in the man cave once in a while but generally she calls it "my" time

I got a great wife and a better friend in this one boys

Coyote

Sounds like you have a keeper.

My wife started out interested, but thought I might blow us up!

As we got some better drink from it she got more interested. Took about six months before she realized she could no longer stand commercial booze.

Started macerating things of all sorts. Hmmm...good and bad. She makes great bitters, limoncello, grapefruit vodka,...uses a bit much stock now and then.

This year I took her to ADI conference. She saw I wasn't the only idiot in the country doing this and her interest grew. She has helped with AG now and sees some science to it.

Besides that she feeds me and brings drinks to still...all good.

I have a feeling this is gonna be a good and long topic. I am a little off topic on this but if wifeee is not eating your shorts to bad then you need to thank her you are a lucky man (person). I have said this to a few people, but count your blessings and remember if momma is happy everyone is happy. If momma is pissed there ain't no one gonna have a good day. Thank her for putting up with what you do and get her that dress or pair of shoes. If your queen turns to B**** you are not gonna have a good day.

Mine puts up with this hobby, but she's not a fan. She doesn't drink ( if she has 2 drinks of wine in a week she's bingeing)
She is sure that I'm going to be busted and our good name is going to be spread all over the paper. That being said I think she's looking forward to our trip to wood sheds.

I've got a winner/am a winner . SOH has learned every step in the prosess .Says she might need to know if anything ever happened to me . Helps with clean up and quality control . And she is the first one to tell me when I have had too many

bearriver wrote:Mine only complains when we run out!

+1 on that... In her opinion, I don't make enough often enough so we spend too much running to the liquor store when stock is depleted...

Holly is the best. Can do anything in the distillery but dislikes cleaning out the grains. She is my right hand here, often enough my left as well.
Woodshed would not work without her involvement. She rules at tastings.
Recipe development is the only facet that is not shared. She has no interest so far. She doesn't drink much likker but knows quality. Has been known to put down a Shiny Mary or two.
The one thing I am certain of having done right in my life is finding Holly.

I honestly don't know what my wife thinks about my home distillation.
Guess she thinks it's just another thing I do in the shop.
She has her female hobbies and I have my caveman hobbies.
We have both learned to not argue about small things.
And I've learned to research, built or buy the things needed for her hobbies.

This made me laugh! I work out of town for week or two at a time... first thing wifey says to me when i get home is... "Im out of rootbeer schnapps"...lol i better get to brewing!. Seriously though she doesnt mind the corn mashing in the garage but the oats got me kicked to the shed.. hopefully rads all- bran will get her to help with the stillin part again...no problems with sampling or mixing though!

Mine doesn't mind at all!

corene1 wrote:Mine doesn't mind at all!

Go on...

corene1 wrote:Mine doesn't mind at all!

bearriver wrote:

corene1 wrote:Mine doesn't mind at all!

Go on...

hmm. up on a skodie mountaintop, warm fire on the hearth...

I'm lobbying for a thread title change for the novella to "pulling tails" compliments of sltm1 in another thread.

You guys are too easy! I am the wife! Plus I don't have a hubby to help with washing the pot or cleaning out the grains. But you never can tell what will happen next.

DAD300 wrote: She saw I wasn't the only idiot in the country doing this and her interest grew.

have you not showed her HD? my SOH almost classes this as a separate hobby altogether... apparently if there's a comp. near by im on HD .
not saying i disagree

corene1 wrote:You guys are too easy! I am the wife! Plus I don't have a hubby to help with washing the pot or cleaning out the grains. But you never can tell what will happen next.

how many wonderful woman do we have in the community?

Not near enough.

tp

anyone have any theorys as to why?

Because women are from Venus and men are from Mars - we be different in many ways.

On a different note - my wife thinks she'll go blind if she drinks what I make. THAT pretty much sums up her acceptance of what I do.