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Just attempted to send directions and contact details to everyone i know is coming, if you didn't receive let me know and i will attempt again :P

More than happy for you to join us! Just kegged my house amber, should be ready for some tastings on the night :) Look forward to the bacon showdown!

My Mrs likes cider :p Tried a bottle of my swap beer last night, not really happy with how it turned out, the last American wheat I did was nicer. Hopefully improves once fully carbed.

Yep get here whenever you like, good to get all set up and plan when stuff needs to go in the oven/smoker etc. My kids are 7 and 3, range of all of em will be 9 - 3. Most of them also farm kids, i was planning to fill them all up with homemade pizza in the arvo, fruit also an excellent idea.

Thread spam.... So ive spoken to my family and a couple of friends that want to come, if everyone turns up we will have 16 adults and 9 kids. Told everyone to come around 3pm, aiming to have dinner at 6pm (bit early but helps out friends with young kids). Then hopefully it won't be raining...

I've a big gas oven (800 wide) and a smaller wood oven for cooking if needed too.

Caught some kingfish and trevally today, might save some to go in the smoker, yummy.

Reply and edit as needed: Coming (non swappers in brackets) Argho (Plus wife, 2x kids, and 5 or so friends + family...possibly more :P) sp0rk (plus wife?) Shaunous Stu Eungai Food: Duck (stu) Mutton + sausages (Shaunuos) Sweet Potato (Shaunous) Pork (sp0rk) Potato (sp0rk) Pizza (Argho) Bacon...

Got one of the 150L pots, pretty happy with it especially considering the price, welds all look decent, will do a water test in the next week sometime. Couple of scratches on it and a small ding but very shiny otherwise. Nice upgrade from my 38L ally pot :P Need to build a wider stand for my...

Thats what i have to do for half my mates that come up from Sydney, they get lost too easy :P Hmm Might get some pork too, can't do Xmas in July without pork!

Duck is good, one of my kids has a mammalian meat allergy, having something in there he can try will keep him happy. I 'll put a few pizzas in the wood oven in the arvo to keep us going till dinner time. When i get a chance i'll write up some directions and my contact details and pm them to...

The more minions for fetching beer the better :P

I've got to drop my brother in law at the airport the day before the swap, could pick up the smoker then. How big is it?

So what time can you guys get here to kick things off? Eungai needs to leave at 5, want to try and kick things off at 3? Get in an arvo sesh, get the smoker going and meats cooking for a later dinner. I'll be here all day so happy for people to arrive any time. Are you guys bringing a +1 or...

Haha. What did you get all up spark? I'll swap you some hops and/or some of the dark caramel malt i got (which is actually more of a medium, 60-120 EBC) for a kg or so of light crystal and half a kg of choc.

Yeah, ill see what they have in at Country Brewer, i probably have enough loyalty credit to cover it. Ordered a 150 litre pot for my birthday....... wonder if my nasa burner can handle quad batches, might even get its maiden run on the swap weekend. Probably need to beef up the stand for it...

Summit late in the boil....... garlic filth, only batch that i haven't been able to finish, even after letting it age. Love it as a bittering hop though.

I was thinking the same, don't want to give away my swing tops. Plus it means i can put it off till after I'm in Coffs next :P You'd just be saving the old man some hassle, our house cows are next door and he has to bring them over every morning to milk them :P

There will be plenty of room inside at this point unless there is a rapid increase in numbers :) My swap beer is getting an extended crash chill at the moment because i fkn hate bottling and can't motivate myself to get around to it :P

Scored a stack of ingredients from the occasional parrot yesterday. Amongst other things: 3kg Tettnang, 2.5kg Cluster, 2.5kg Hallertau, 2.2kg Northern brewer, 1.5kg Nelson Sauvin, 2kg PoR, 2.2kg Willamette and 2.7kg of a mystery hop labelled "K". ​Also a 25kg sack of Best malz dark caramel...