2008 Sa Christmas In July Case Swap

[GMK]

Actually people could be constructive about this.

If K&K people would like to put up their hands for an AG buddy, and vice versa,
that buddy could volunteer to "host" a brew day,
where K&K brewer comes along with his ingredients for the case swap (grain, hops etc.) and his fermenter and brews on his AG "host's" equipment and takes the fermenter (or cube) of fermenting wort home at the end.

Great Idea - happy for people to come upto the BrewInn and use my AG Gear....

 

[drsmurto]

Any hills people want to use my gear am more than happy to play host. PM me for details.

 

[BenH]

I'm happy for anyone in the Inner Southern area to come and use my gear.

(Any excuse to brew - even if it's not mine! )

Great idea Braufrau.

 

[domonsura]

The brewboy is sitting there hardly being used....... Someone/'s is welcome to come & fire it up.

 

[Tim F]

Mine will be all grain but I can't see any reason to restrict it, I'm sure there are plenty of drinkable kit+ or partial brews waiting to be drunk!

 

[Jazman]

if some does a patial thats fine by me some great beers can be made with partials as some brewers are limited by equipment

 

[domonsura]

Don't forget that one of the best beers in the Christmas case was a partial!

Wayne said I could quote him on that! :lol:

One of the BETTER beers Braufrau...........I did enjoy it however it was a partial not a 'kit' & doesn't mean that I want to drive all the way up to the Barossa to swap my AG beer for kit beer.......

If no-one else wants to say this - I will..........(and I'm not trying to start a fight so those who want to argue this point can argue with someone else.....because my opinion on this will not change..)

With all due respect to those who enjoy kit brewing for whatever reason, I'm in this swap for the learning about AG brewing and how the AG beer was achieved by the person who took the time and made the effort to make it ........& while I can handle a couple of well made kit beers in the case I'm not really all that interested in them & I would feel ripped off if I got a pile of kit beers in return for my AG effort.....

partials absolutely, no issues there ...but ...........kits?

How about a show of hands to see what proportion of what we will have in the case?

 

[drsmurto]

BREWER AND STYLE:
1. KHB-Khocaholic Porter
2. Domonsura
3. Adam - Hybrid Belgian Strong Ale
4. wee stu
5. peas_and_corn- Foreign Extra Stout(?)
6. Backyard Brewer - Some Type of Porter
7. GMK - Belgian Dark Strong Ale
8. Homekegger1 - Robust Porter
9. Jazman smoked porter or dopplebock
10. choppadoo - Russian Imperial Stout
11. Rustyc - Scottish Ale
12. BenH - Northern English Brown Ale
13. MickOz
14. Tim F
15. DrSmurto - AG - Dark Mild
16. Ryan - Stout
17. RussTaylor

I will agree with Wayne that i would prefer AGs and partials but this is also an opportunity for kit brewers to come along and meet AG/partial brewers and talk about the craft. Dont want a kit brewer to contribute and then not show up, thats not what this is about. So if someone wants to put a kit in and then come along and taste the AG beers we bring along the day i am fine with that. My best kit beers were the darker ones......

BUt with all the offers of AG equipment to use there isnt really much of an excuse! As Ben said, any excuse to brew!

Cheers
DrSmurto

 

[domonsura]

Has to be said too, if you are kit brewer and want to come along - DO IT! You'll be very welcome, and then we can tie you to a chair and begin the exorcism of the kit demon within :lol:
I can see it now...... (spoken in monotone voice) "HELLO....MY NAME IS PETER, AND I AM AN ALL GRAIN BREWER. I RENOUNCE KIT BREWING AND RELINQUISH MY CAN OPENER"

 

[drsmurto]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[BenH]

:lol: I thought that AG brewing was a revelation - now you tell me that it's an exorcism!

 

[domonsura]

***digging through old boxes to find the leather tie down straps & holy water...where the hell is my copy of John Palmers bible? ***........

BYB, know anyone up there who has a pool we can use? We may need to subject some freshly exorcised kit brewers to the 'sink or float' test just to make sure they are safe to be around :lol:

 

[Back Yard Brewer]

***digging through old boxes to find the leather tie down straps & holy water...where the hell is my copy of John Palmers bible? ***........

BYB, know anyone up there who has a pool we can use? We may need to subject some freshly exorcised kit brewers to the 'sink or float' test just to make sure they are safe to be around :lol:

The local olympic size pool is only a hop skip and a stagger from my abode.The closest thing I have to exorcism music would be the XFILES theme :lol:

On the subject of what type of beer I do agree partially with Dom, AG would be nice or a partial. I still do K&K for the ones who drop around here and arent intersted in what it tastes like. But again like Dom I'm not here to s**t can kit brewers but to hopefully promote and learn more about AG. Twelve months ago when I decided to build my draconian brewing system I would never of thought I would become that addicted. The best advice I can give anyone wanting to brew AG is to take advice and ask questions. Take the oppurtunity to use some ones AG set-up.

BYB

 

[GMK]

OK - updating my beer.

BREWER AND STYLE:
1. KHB-Khocaholic Porter
2. Domonsura
3. Adam - Hybrid Belgian Strong Ale
4. wee stu
5. peas_and_corn- Foreign Extra Stout(?)
6. Backyard Brewer - Some Type of Porter
7. GMK - AG Belgian Dark Strong Ale - Trios Pistoles with new 3864 Canadian Belgian Yeast (in stubbies now) + AG BYO Chrismas in a Bottle - spiced Ale brewed this weekend.
8. Homekegger1 - Robust Porter
9. Jazman smoked porter or dopplebock
10. choppadoo - Russian Imperial Stout
11. Rustyc - Scottish Ale
12. BenH - Northern English Brown Ale
13. MickOz
14. Tim F
15. DrSmurto - AG - Dark Mild
16. Ryan - Stout
17. RussTaylor

So with 17 people so far - i will need 16 stubbies of each.

 

[homekegger1]

Well my porter has now been bottled. I will try it in a few weeks to see if it is all good. For those wanting to know, it is an AG brew. But I will say, that I am glad I keg, and went straight to kegging when I started out. Because I actually hated the time consuming efforts of bottling. God I feel sorry for those that do that all the time.

Cheers and looking forward to the swap.

HK :beer:

 

[Back Yard Brewer]

Sounds good to me, or the next best thing is when daylight saving finishes. April 6th.

BYB

So the cut off date has passed? Do we all agree? That will make 17 brewers involved in the swap making it 16 longys or 32 stubbies needed for the swap or 12.75ltrs of beer. Or Or Or

BYB

 

[RussTaylor]

BREWER AND STYLE:
1. KHB-Khocaholic Porter
2. Domonsura
3. Adam - Hybrid Belgian Strong Ale
4. wee stu
5. peas_and_corn- Foreign Extra Stout(?)
6. Backyard Brewer - Some Type of Porter
7. GMK - AG Belgian Dark Strong Ale - Trios Pistoles with new 3864 Canadian Belgian Yeast (in stubbies now) + AG BYO Chrismas in a Bottle - spiced Ale brewed this weekend.
8. Homekegger1 - Robust Porter
9. Jazman smoked porter or dopplebock
10. choppadoo - Russian Imperial Stout
11. Rustyc - Scottish Ale
12. BenH - Northern English Brown Ale
13. MickOz
14. Tim F
15. DrSmurto - AG - Dark Mild
16. Ryan - Stout
17. RussTaylor - AG - Oktoberfest or ESB

 

[Tim F]

Looks like the list got broke somewhere, correct this if I have anyone wrong! If all good we can update the wiki too. Should we add the yeast we're using in case anyone wants to culture from the bottle?

1. KHB-Chocolate Porter
2. Domonsura - Chocolate Soldier 'Porter type Dark'
3. Adam - Hybrid Belgian Strong Ale
4. wee stu
5. peas_and_corn- Foreign Extra Stout(?)
6. Backyard Brewer - Some Type of Porter
7. GMK -AG- Belgian Dark Strong Ale - Trios Pistoles with new 3864 Canadian Belgian Yeast (in stubbies now) + AG BYO Chrismas in a Bottle - spiced Ale brewed this weekend.
8. Homekegger1
9. Jazman (to confirm)
10. choppadoo
11. Rustyc
12. BenH
13. MickOz
14. Tim F -AG- Roggenbier - 3068
15. DrSmurto -AG- Dark Mild
16. Ryan - Stout
17. RussTaylor - AG - Oktoberfest or ESB

 

[Rustyc30]

Looks like the list got broke somewhere, correct this if I have anyone wrong! If all good we can update the wiki too. Should we add the yeast we're using in case anyone wants to culture from the bottle?

1. KHB-Chocolate Porter
2. Domonsura - Chocolate Soldier 'Porter type Dark'
3. Adam - Hybrid Belgian Strong Ale
4. wee stu
5. peas_and_corn- Foreign Extra Stout(?)
6. Backyard Brewer - Some Type of Porter
7. GMK -AG- Belgian Dark Strong Ale - Trios Pistoles with new 3864 Canadian Belgian Yeast (in stubbies now) + AG BYO Chrismas in a Bottle - spiced Ale brewed this weekend.
8. Homekegger1
9. Jazman (to confirm)
10. choppadoo
11. Rustyc - Scottish Ale 80 - 1728 Scottish Ale yeast
12. BenH
13. MickOz
14. Tim F -AG- Roggenbier - 3068
15. DrSmurto -AG- Dark Mild
16. Ryan - Stout
17. RussTaylor - AG - Oktoberfest or ESB

 

[mickoz]

Looks like the list got broke somewhere, correct this if I have anyone wrong! If all good we can update the wiki too. Should we add the yeast we're using in case anyone wants to culture from the bottle?

1. KHB-Chocolate Porter
2. Domonsura - Chocolate Soldier 'Porter type Dark'
3. Adam - Hybrid Belgian Strong Ale
4. wee stu
5. peas_and_corn- Foreign Extra Stout(?)
6. Backyard Brewer - Some Type of Porter
7. GMK -AG- Belgian Dark Strong Ale - Trios Pistoles with new 3864 Canadian Belgian Yeast (in stubbies now) + AG BYO Chrismas in a Bottle - spiced Ale brewed this weekend.
8. Homekegger1
9. Jazman (to confirm)
10. choppadoo
11. Rustyc
12. BenH
13. MickOz - Belgian Specialty
14. Tim F -AG- Roggenbier - 3068
15. DrSmurto -AG- Dark Mild
16. Ryan - Stout
17. RussTaylor - AG - Oktoberfest or ESB