AHB Articles: Vic X-mas In July 2010 Case Swap

[brendo]

Im still gobsmacked that we have 27 swappers ACTUALLY swapping! Close to a full house! i wonder if we can rope somone else into joining to make up the full number of 28 before next weekend!

Well mine is still touch and go at this stage... tasted it last night and it is tasting better after a week of cold conditioning. Filtered it last night into kegs and now buslily carbing up - so will be tasting it again shortly.

Down to the wire - but if it isn't tasting good, it won't be going in as I am not in the habit of knowingly swapping sub-standard beers with others.

Fingers crossed it is all good - certainly looking better than I thought it would be though a week or two ago.

Brendo

 

[Fourstar]

Well mine is still touch and go at this stage... tasted it last night and it is tasting better after a week of cold conditioning. Filtered it last night into kegs and now buslily carbing up - so will be tasting it again shortly.
Down to the wire - but if it isn't tasting good, it won't be going in as I am not in the habit of knowingly swapping sub-standard beers with others.
Fingers crossed it is all good - certainly looking better than I thought it would be though a week or two ago.
Brendo

I know what its like with touch and go recently, it had better come good brendo! Either way, you will enjoy the swap bbq as a non-swapper if it doesnt!

 

[brendo]

I know what its like with touch and go recently, it had better come good brendo! Either way, you will enjoy the swap bbq as a non-swapper if it doesnt!

yeah I will be there either way... just a matter of whether I am accompanied by swap bottles or not. The main issue is that the temps got away from me very early in the growth phase - stressing the yeast and creating some off flavours.

Fortunately, some of those off flavours seemed to be actual yeast in suspension, as it was tasting much better having got a lot of it to drop out. However I am still not totally convinced.

Fingers crossed the filtering and added carbonation bring it back to something I am reasonably happy with (especially since I did a double batch), otherwise I am gunna be stuck with a lot of crap beer!!

 

[WarmBeer]

..I will let you in on a little secret Brendo...

.. I will let you on a little secret Warmbeer. if you just pretend that it was supposed to end up as it is 9 times out of 10 no one knows the difference

:lol:

 

[Wolfy]

Well mine is still touch and go at this stage

Same with mine actually, we've had the flu pretty badly here and so I didn't want to bottle with that hanging around, so it's been sitting in secondary for much longer than I'd have liked. Good news is that everyone is well now, and hopefully if I bottle within the next few days should be good for the swap.

 

[brendo]

..I will let you in on a little secret Brendo...


:lol:

very true Warmbeer... but i don't typically push for fusels in my beers... there is a small difference to a slightly unexpected result and neglect...

 

[Fourstar]

Fingers crossed the filtering and added carbonation bring it back to something I am reasonably happy with (especially since I did a double batch), otherwise I am gunna be stuck with a lot of crap beer!!

Same with mine actually, we've had the flu pretty badly here and so I didn't want to bottle with that hanging around, so it's been sitting in secondary for much longer than I'd have liked. Good news is that everyone is well now, and hopefully if I bottle within the next few days should be good for the swap.

Shakes fist!!

 

[brendo]

Shakes fist!!

That looks uncannily like you... minus the sharpie make-up that is... h34r:

 

[zebba]

Yeah I haven't tried mine yet either... Well, straight out of the fermenter I did, but that was 2 weeks ago.

Will try this weekend. I'm fairly confident, but after the chrissy swap performance I'd rather pull out then hand in something I'm not happy with. And yeah, I did a backup brew for safety - it sucks

 

[Wonderwoman]

I'm not sure if the glass issue has been solved yet or not???

If not, I have a box (23) of standard pub style pot glasses I could bring. I got these glasses for only $0.99 each from "the chef's hat" in south melbourne http://chefshat.shopau.info/catalog/ if someone else wants to buy a suplly for themself.

It'll be a bit of a pain in the arse for me to collect them afterwards though, so I'd prefer not to bring mine if someone who lives closer can supply them.

 

[zebba]

Tested. Very happy.

 

[mxd]

I had mine when it was 4 weeks in the bottle, and thought it was fine, then I changed to a bit of a hop head (my swap has no late/dry hop). Then I tried it a couple of weeks ago and thought I'm not sure (I have/had a cold so lots was tasting bland) so I got my wife to taste it and she thought it was fine. So hopefully it's ok and you can let me know what's wrong with it.

 

[Fourstar]

I had mine when it was 4 weeks in the bottle, and thought it was fine, then I changed to a bit of a hop head (my swap has no late/dry hop). Then I tried it a couple of weeks ago and thought I'm not sure (I have/had a cold so lots was tasting bland) so I got my wife to taste it and she thought it was fine. So hopefully it's ok and you can let me know what's wrong with it.

Well i polished off one of the cases last weekend and refilled the bottles with XXXX. :icon_cheers:

Must have been good!

 

[wakkatoo]

Wow, go away for a week and this thread got big..

Fingers are crossed mine is up to the standard. No issues so far and I'm keen for feedback later on. I'm aiming for about a 1.30 -2pm arrival. I tend to take my camera everywhere so if you are hiding from the boss / wife / cops, let me know so I can get your 'best' side
If we get to 28 swappers, someone will get a substitue, but I'll mark it differently so whoever does get it can swap it back with me for my actual swap beer. Make sense? It will after a few beers :wacko:

 

[zebba]

I am now unable to attend on the day. Yes, I'm not happy about it.

Is anyone in the Berwick area able to deliver my swappers?

And warmbeer - hold off on the blouse comments please mate, I'll fill you in later on the reasons.

(well, you can still CALL me a blouse, but just don't think I'm one!)

 

[Leigh]

No problem at all zebba. Drop me a PM and we'll work out a time.

 

[WarmBeer]

I am now unable to attend on the day. Yes, I'm not happy about it.

Is anyone in the Berwick area able to deliver my swappers?

And warmbeer - hold off on the blouse comments please mate, I'll fill you in later on the reasons.

(well, you can still CALL me a blouse, but just don't think I'm one!)

Blouse.

 

[manticle]

Any more thoughts on what will be brewed on the day so we can develop a recipe? There's a few suggestions on the brewday wiki.

 

[Wolfy]

Is anyone in the Berwick area able to deliver my swappers?

No problem at all zebba. Drop me a PM and we'll work out a time.

Wow, 4 of the 27 swappers are from Berwick, maybe someone down this way should host the swap-day in the future.
If you can't catch up with Leigh before the weekend, let me know.

 

[zebba]

Wow, 4 of the 27 swappers are from Berwick, maybe someone down this way should host the swap-day in the future.
If you can't catch up with Leigh before the weekend, let me know.

Thanks. I've pm'd Leigh so if that falls through it's good to know I have a backup that doesn't involve me driving out to warm beers place

I'd be happy to stick my hand up to host some time in the future, although I don't have a swap-level brewery so someone would have to bring something. And I'd need help convincing the missus

I actually thought Leigh was going to stick his hand up. Something about a bonfires worth of wood he needed to dispose of, or something