2011 Funky Beer Swap

[manticle]

i just polished off the last of my orval bottles from you last night, manticle, it was a unique beer that one, lovely citrus flavours and warming maltiness.

unfortunately i havent had time to brew my brettpils and it really needs 6 months at least before bottling. so you will all be getting a brett C spiked jw lees harvest ale clone (SMASH maris otter and EKG, 12.5% ABV). may even blend some bottles with a little bit of kriek.

Glad it's stood the test of time. Wish I'd hung onto one or two myself but I'm bad at doing that. If it's in a bottle, it screams 'drink me'.

Just sampled the brews I have in the shed - one is lovely and clear and has nice complex flavours going on. It looks like it's probably the oaked vanilla smoked porter I made although there's no smoke and I might throw more oak and vanilla at it.

The other, I have no idea what it is supposed to be - very cloudy pale brown and just tasted odd so that will get a lot more time.

I also happened to taste a Belgian golden ale that conked out at 1030 despite everything I tried (bad brew day that one). I chucked the dregs of one orval bottle at it and it is now bright as a button, malty and sweet and yet gravity measured 1002. Brett. Is there anything he can't do?

Porter is probably my beer for the swap.

 

[Quintrex]

At this stage I'll probably enter either my oud bruin (bottled 5 months) or my cranberry/rasberry flanders red (depending on how this one develops when i bottle it).



Regarding swap location.


Either someone in NSW puts their hand up or else it's you Raven.... If we get stuck I'm happy to do it again, but happy to share the love around australia.

Cheers,

Q

 

[raven19]

Either someone in NSW puts their hand up or else it's you Raven.... If we get stuck I'm happy to do it again, but happy to share the love around australia.

Well we are hosting Nationals in a few months - however it would be more prudent to get them to NSW yeah?

 

[brendanos]

Is anyone gonna pull out? I'm still keen - but at the moment too far down the list! Can we start confirming participation?

At this point I'm leaning towards Flanders Brown, but might submit another two varieties and give an option of three - Brown, Red & a recently bottled qLambic (blend of 6 mth old sour mashed pLambic, 4 year old pLambic & a quinoa biere de garde... if it hasn't blown up by then)

 

[barls]

ok im going to put my hand up to run this one. ill send out a pm to all in a little while with details of postage.
btw my dark wheat cherry sour is tasting great.

 

[barls]

1. raven19
2. Quintrex - Lambic (if it's ready) or Oud Bruin
3. barls- sour cherry dark wheat
4.stuster
5. Manticle
6. neonmeate - might make my brett brux-pils for this one
7. Kabooby
8. goatherder
9. beers
10. jonw
11. Josh
12. BrenosBrews - Probably something involving Brettanomyces. Maybe a Black Belgian IPA with some Brett Lambicus.
13. Florian - Berliner Roggenweisse
14. brendanos

is this the final list???

 

[Quintrex]

Yep, just set a date for the swap and get people to confirm

1. raven19
2. Quintrex - Cranberry/rasberry flander red or Oud Bruin - Confirmed
3. barls- sour cherry dark wheat
4.stuster
5. Manticle
6. neonmeate - might make my brett brux-pils for this one
7. Kabooby
8. goatherder
9. beers
10. jonw
11. Josh
12. BrenosBrews - Probably something involving Brettanomyces. Maybe a Black Belgian IPA with some Brett Lambicus.
13. Florian - Berliner Roggenweisse
14. brendanos

 

[barls]

is everyone happy with mid november then???

 

[Josh]

1. raven19
2. Quintrex - Cranberry/rasberry flander red or Oud Bruin - Confirmed
3. barls- sour cherry dark wheat
4. stuster
5. Manticle
6. neonmeate - might make my brett brux-pils for this one
7. Kabooby
8. goatherder
9. beers
10. jonw
11. Josh - Spontaneously femented Framboise
12. BrenosBrews - Probably something involving Brettanomyces. Maybe a Black Belgian IPA with some Brett Lambicus.
13. Florian - Berliner Roggenweisse
14. brendanos

Edit: Happy with mid-November

 

[raven19]

Thanks for hosting this Barls!

Keen to swap still. Lambic Schwarzbier for one half of my my stubbies planned. Blended lambic planned for the second half of the stubbies.

1. raven19 - Lambic Schwarzbier and a Blended lambic (one stubbie of each)
2. Quintrex - Cranberry/rasberry flander red or Oud Bruin - Confirmed
3. barls- sour cherry dark wheat
4. stuster
5. Manticle
6. neonmeate - might make my brett brux-pils for this one
7. Kabooby
8. goatherder
9. beers
10. jonw
11. Josh - Spontaneously femented Framboise
12. BrenosBrews - Probably something involving Brettanomyces. Maybe a Black Belgian IPA with some Brett Lambicus.
13. Florian - Berliner Roggenweisse
14. brendanos

 

[Stuster]

1. raven19 - Lambic Schwarzbier and a Blended lambic (one stubbie of each)
2. Quintrex - Cranberry/rasberry flander red or Oud Bruin - Confirmed
3. barls- sour cherry dark wheat
4. stuster - lambic (might have to make some up with gueuze off the tap)
5. Manticle
6. neonmeate - might make my brett brux-pils for this one
7. Kabooby
8. goatherder
9. beers
10. jonw
11. Josh - Spontaneously femented Framboise
12. BrenosBrews - Probably something involving Brettanomyces. Maybe a Black Belgian IPA with some Brett Lambicus.
13. Florian - Berliner Roggenweisse
14. brendanos

 

[manticle]

I'm in with my vanilla bourbon bruiny bretty thingy.

Better bottle in the next couple of weeks.

 

[Florian]

I'm in with my single decocted mash hopped sour mashed no boiled Berliner Roggenweisse, pending a last taste test.
It's been aging for 8 month now, so should have developed some more funkiness. Scored 40 points in the BABBs annual comp three month ago and something a little lower (can't remember exactly) in the QABC about 6 weeks ago.

It's kegged at the moment, kept at ambient temp, am just waiting on a washer from Batz to CPBF it into glass stubbies.

Are we still going for two stubbies each?


Edit: weeks not month

 

[kabooby]

1. raven19 - Lambic Schwarzbier and a Blended lambic (one stubbie of each)
2. Quintrex - Cranberry/rasberry flander red or Oud Bruin - Confirmed
3. barls- sour cherry dark wheat
4. stuster - lambic (might have to make some up with gueuze off the tap)
5. Manticle
6. neonmeate - might make my brett brux-pils for this one
7. Kabooby - Sour Saison. If that runs out I will make it up with some stuff!!!!
8. goatherder
9. beers
10. jonw
11. Josh - Spontaneously femented Framboise
12. BrenosBrews - Probably something involving Brettanomyces. Maybe a Black Belgian IPA with some Brett Lambicus.
13. Florian - Berliner Roggenweisse
14. brendanos

 

[jonw]

1. raven19 - Lambic Schwarzbier and a Blended lambic (one stubbie of each)
2. Quintrex - Cranberry/rasberry flander red or Oud Bruin - Confirmed
3. barls- sour cherry dark wheat
4. stuster - lambic (might have to make some up with gueuze off the tap)
5. Manticle
6. neonmeate - might make my brett brux-pils for this one
7. Kabooby - Sour Saison. If that runs out I will make it up with some stuff!!!!
8. goatherder
9. beers
10. jonw - Orval style again.
11. Josh - Spontaneously femented Framboise
12. BrenosBrews - Probably something involving Brettanomyces. Maybe a Black Belgian IPA with some Brett Lambicus.
13. Florian - Berliner Roggenweisse
14. brendanos

 

[neonmeate]

1. raven19 - Lambic Schwarzbier and a Blended lambic (one stubbie of each)
2. Quintrex - Cranberry/rasberry flander red or Oud Bruin - Confirmed
3. barls- sour cherry dark wheat
4. stuster - lambic (might have to make some up with gueuze off the tap)
5. Manticle
6. neonmeate - clauseniied JW lees harvest ale clone
7. Kabooby - Sour Saison. If that runs out I will make it up with some stuff!!!!
8. goatherder
9. beers
10. jonw - Orval style again.
11. Josh - Spontaneously femented Framboise
12. BrenosBrews - Probably something involving Brettanomyces. Maybe a Black Belgian IPA with some Brett Lambicus.
13. Florian - Berliner Roggenweisse
14. brendanos

 

[Quintrex]

Are we still going for two stubbies each?


Edit: weeks not month

Speaking for myself and what a lot of the other previous swap punters said, getting 2 stubbies is good as you can track the changes over time, otherwise 1 longneck is fine.

 

[raven19]

1. raven19 - Blended Lambic Schwarzbier
2. Quintrex - Cranberry/rasberry flander red or Oud Bruin - Confirmed
3. barls- sour cherry dark wheat
4. stuster - lambic (might have to make some up with gueuze off the tap)
5. Manticle
6. neonmeate - clauseniied JW lees harvest ale clone
7. Kabooby - Sour Saison. If that runs out I will make it up with some stuff!!!!
8. goatherder
9. beers
10. jonw - Orval style again.
11. Josh - Spontaneously femented Framboise
12. BrenosBrews - Probably something involving Brettanomyces. Maybe a Black Belgian IPA with some Brett Lambicus.
13. Florian - Berliner Roggenweisse
14. brendanos

Updated my planned blended lambic. Now to wash more bottles...! <_<

 

[manticle]

So we are confirmed at 14 swappers?

28 stubbies? I only ask because I'm about to bottle but need another 4 orval bottles. Looks like I know what I'm drinking tomorrow.

1. raven19 - Blended Lambic Schwarzbier
2. Quintrex - Cranberry/rasberry flander red or Oud Bruin - Confirmed
3. barls- sour cherry dark wheat
4. stuster - lambic (might have to make some up with gueuze off the tap)
5. Manticle - Vanilla Bourbon bruiny bretty thingy
6. neonmeate - clauseniied JW lees harvest ale clone
7. Kabooby - Sour Saison. If that runs out I will make it up with some stuff!!!!
8. goatherder
9. beers
10. jonw - Orval style again.
11. Josh - Spontaneously femented Framboise
12. BrenosBrews - Probably something involving Brettanomyces. Maybe a Black Belgian IPA with some Brett Lambicus.
13. Florian - Berliner Roggenweisse
14. brendanos

 

[barls]

ive heard from all but 3 at this stage.
aim for 14 swappers till further notice, if there are less ill send them back to you.