DH wants to start a microbrewery in our garden shed

[FulhamHetty]

DH has decided that over the Easter break (he has taken one week annual leave), it is an opportune moment to start his microbrewery project in our back garden. This is despite the three-day break at Center Parcs we have booked for next weekend.

DH has bought all the equipment he needs, which is currently piled up on the immaculate Victorian tiles in our hallway, and we have a large shed in the garden where he is going to assemble it. He tells me he is going to disassemble his "Hornby" and start the brewery.

I am not adverse to starting a micro brewery per se. After all, DH and I met at university (Oxford) over a pint of Carlsberg in the college bar, which I think at the time was about £1.00 a pint. I quite like a beer every now and then.

I am fully supportive of my DH "entrepreneurial" activities.

What I am not so keen on is what my DH has decided to call his beer. He has bought bottles already (brownies) and has had some labels made. I think this is a little pre-emptive, given that he has never actually brewed anything at all yet, nor in his life.

The labels that DH has made call his beer "Old Speckled Hetty". A play on "Old Speckled Hen" of course. Except, who is Hetty? I am. What is old and speckled? Well, I will leave that to your imagination, but I do acknowledge that my derrière does not quite look the same as it used to, especially after my two pregnancies.

AIBU to say that DH cannot call his beer "Old Speckled Hetty" and that he should choose another name? I have tried suggesting other names to him such as:
"Fulham Pull'em" or "Oxbridge Cox" etc.
Do you have any other suggestions?

Yup . My husband made it a couple of times, usually when we were having a big party. He didn’t bottle,it though, kept it in some big container, not the Demi john, the issue was keeping it cold as was too big for the fridge.

cant imagine flogging it though, unless you’ve hang with the sort of crowd who want to buy cheapo home brew beer.

🤣🤣🤣
Surely the OP is a bot?

My sister sends me overly verbose and slightly pretentious in an undergrad sort of way update emails like this. I forgive her because I love her really

Sounds like this Hetty would be a bit bitter for my taste.

Love it!

Hints of prune and disapproval

🤣🤣 at home brewing being a "micro brewery"

I'm going to start serving mini portions of food and call my kitchen an avant-garde restaurant...

I worked in a micro brewery (a real one with staff and a delivery van and piles of casks everywhere) and I used to run interference for the brewers when the home brewers came in because otherwise they would corner the brewer to talk at them intensely about their latest brew and force the brewer to try it...

I could never imagine going into a Mr Kipling factory to force the staff to try my latest home made cake

Dh got a fire lit in him for wine making just prior to lockdown. Bought all the kit and read all the books.

Dear reader, I am in fact an alcoholic (I’m sober now but wasn’t back then). There was hardly ever a drink I did not drink, certainly not a white wine (my favourite!), definitely not in a pandemic when supplies were scarce. Let’s just say it was a desperate day when I’d stoop to drinking dh’s wine. I’d never discovered something I truly couldn’t drink…until Dh took up home brewing. 😂

So I wouldn’t hold your breath for any Hetty too soon.

Spirits, yes you do, even if it is for your own consumption.

Didn't bother a friend of mine though, but if he thinks I'm going to attempt to drink that lethal-looking bottle of home-made scotch he gave me, he's got another think coming!😂

Op does he even know what a micro brewery is? It’s a brewery that sells up to 15 000 barrels a year. A nano brewery is 2000 barrels. I can’t imagine him doing even that in his shed.

he’s just home brewing, is he going to flog it cheap? 😄

Beer is different to be fair, it’s really a simple process and you can do it in one to two weeks.

You have seemingly failed to note that it is a shed in Fulham
So a superior shed no doubt capable of mass production