Qld Brewers Get Togethers

[monkale]

Hey Jeff, send me an email to [email protected] and I'll send them to you.

Sean
HTFU

Thanks Mate done :super:

 

[bonj]

If anyone wants a copy of my pictures, just send me a PM with your email address. Note that the zipfile is 10MB.

 

[sqyre]

oh yes i have photos...

to have them "lost" send your $$$ to Sqyre @ Blackmail.com


i will atempt to shrink them down for emailing purposes..

most of the pics at the mo, are at about 4meg each. so i will get on it for those who want them.

*If you have pics of me with Sean in compromising positions i will happily offer $100,000 for the originals.

No offence Sean but........ Butt!!! haha!! oops... . . . . . . . . .



Sqyre :huh:

P.S. Harden the Fc*k Up !!!

I was :wub:

 

[Franko]

Hey Hey Hey,
just got back Lads from the drive here about 9:00pm (sydney time) 8:00pm for you qld folk.
what an absolutely great time we have had .
A big thankyou to Batz and Julie It was great to finally meet you and see Batz put my artwork to very good use.
To the boys at the cave,so many fond memories it was fantastic to put faces to the names on this forum.and a pleasure tasting your beers.

Ross,mate your inspiration for me to pull my finger out and finish my brewery after sampling your fantastic beers mate truly worl class all the way
A Big big thankyou again to you and the family for taking us in in such short notice cant wait to have you down this way and repay the favour.

P.S. for the lads at the batcave Harden the Fc*k Up !!!

LOL

Franko

 

[PistolPatch]

Blah blah blah, waffle waffle waffle..... Burp!

Andrew, you were the most intelligible of the lot. The above quote though, is a pretty accurate description of your wife when I spoke to her. Defintely going to try my best to be at the Xmas one but only if everyone brings their wives - I put a lot of good ground-work in there on Saturday :unsure: You and Mrs AndrewQLD better be there! If you're not, I'm not coming :angry:

Sqyre: I must say your avatar is quite becoming :mellow: and I'll explain about Renae later on when I work out how.

Bonj and Sqyre: I'd love the pics but better wait until broadband arrives - it's been any day now for a month - grrrr.

InCider: I had another exploding bottle. Will post details in the consumption thread one of these days. And I thought it was just the mods trying to blow me up. (Just joking Hoops)

Batz: Really sorry if this is OT as I know how strict you are on this but I'd just like to say that I'm bloody glad that you were hosting a brilliant brewers get-together rather than being in a blow-away donga doing some shutdown in cyclone WA. Check your moorings on the next one.

And, if any of you have a problem with the wife thing, you know what to do...

HTFU!

P.S. Just saw Franko's post which will be below. Glad to hear you made it home with no worries. Donya!

 

[Pumpy]

Yep thanks Batz & Julie for a great nite fantastic place to wake up early morning although the Cockerel needs to be adjusted for daylight saving .

And all those who did not pelt us with empty XXXX beer cans when we arrived ,
but made us feel really welcome.

Incider, Chillie sauce sadist
Zizzle, A legend in the making
Winkle. a look alike on Nintendo WII Golf game.
Sqyre, get 'The stairway to heaven' playing a tune
Bonj, photographer Extraordinaire
Andrew QLD, Cumberland sausage specialist
Fixa, next time can you pick us up in your plane
Browndog, thanks for saving the breakfast as it was nearly incinerated by me
Still Scottish, at night and Still Scottish in the morning
BradG do all surfers have blond hair
Pistol patch, great to talk on the phone, sure we will catch up with you one day

Sorry I missed one other but hell it was late

Browndog yeah you are right about my billiards ,but at the end of the day we won


Pumpy

 

[Pumpy]

Had to get out of bed for this one and if it was not for Ross I would not have had to sit for fourteen hours with Hogan singing word for word the Meat loaf CD 'Bat out off Hell' and Frankos 'Bush mechanics impressions' .

thanks Ross and family for the hospitality , sorry I broke your pump trying to fix it .

Pumpy

 

[Hogan]

What a top weekend.

It all started off Friday night with Franko calling about 8pm.

Him - What are you doing for the weekend Hoges?

Me - Nothing much

Him - You me and Pumpy are going to drive to Kin Kin and have a beer with the Queenslanders

Me Where the f**k is Kin Kin. !!!!

At eight bells Saturday morning we were on the way and at 10pm. (yep 14 hours) after having worked our way through Frankos CD collection twice, with Pumpy doing his best to drive as far and as he could on the lane separation ripple strips of the Brisbane Gateway Motorway and then emulating a rally driver around the Kin Kin bends we arrived at the Bat Cave.

It took a few minutes to convince all present (except Ross) that we were not a raiding party from the Joint Alcohol and Licensing Task Force and there were handshakes all around as we put human faces to avitars and posts. Considering that you guys had been going all day you were surprisingly vertical except for two whose eyes were spinning. Many beers were had and much mirth was generated. Pistol Patch rang and sounded like he was about to break down and cry. Great to talk with you Pat.

Pumpys pool prowess proved his misspent youth and Franko gave a great demonstration of the firemans carry. After Pumpy had dispensed all his prescription nurofen to InCider we hit the deck (literally) about 3 or 4 (depending on where your watch started the day NSW or QLD). What a vista to wake to about 6am lumps in blankets all over the place. Pumpy and BrownDog cooked a great brekkie and Andrews snags went down a treat.

After the Kin Kin bush fire brigade put out the hot plate and reset Mrs Batz smoke alarm we found some cement mix and filled in the depression in the concrete floor behind Batz bar.

Then headed off with Ross, Tony and Bonj to the Carbrook Brewery. Sunday was spent sampling Rosss sixteen excellent beers and chilling. We headed off home yesterday having immensely enjoyed our flying trip to the Queensland Brew Pack.

Thanks to Batz and Julie, Ross and Jackie for their hospitality and to all the brewers who made us so welcome. You guys rock.

The Three Amigos.

Hoges.

 

[bonj]

Great report Hogan!

Sounds like Pumpy could give Ross a run for his money around those Kin Kin bends.

Here are a few pictures to accompany your report.

Ross, Franko and Hogan watching a game of pool at the batcave. Taken about midnight.

Here's Browndog and Pumpy cooking up a storm on the Batz barby.

This is a shot taken after Pumpy demonstrated his fireman skills and rescued some snags from the inferno.

-Bonj

 

[TidalPete]

Great piccies Bonj. Just downloaded you full collection. Great stuff. :beerbang:
You can just see our esteemed host resting his eyes behind Franko in the top piccie above.

:beer:

 

[winkle]

The Sunday BBQ as seen from Brisbane airport.
View attachment 11736

 

[winkle]

I should have thanked jimmyjack as well for the selection of good commercial beers, top work particularly the sassy red and the knappstein special reserve. :super:

 

[TidalPete]

I should have thanked jimmyjack as well for the selection of good commercial beers

As we all should have. A belated thank you jimmyjack. Much appreciated. :super:

:beer:

 

[bonj]

I should have thanked jimmyjack as well for the selection of good commercial beers.

Or as I prefer to think of him... The beer fairy*. Not sure if he really exists, but top quality commercial beer is definitely something to believe in!

Much appreciated jimmyjack. I particularly enjoyed the Sassy Red.

*In the ethereal sense, as opposed to the HTFU sense.

-Bonj

 

[fixa]

Concur. Thanks Jimmy Jack. Awesome beers!

 

[InCider]

JimmyJack is the Parton Saint of the Brewerhood.

Or is he?

Or is he the Stig?

He bleeds James Squires.
His breath smells like hops.
His favourite food is US56
He was born in a HLT.
His face is digital.
He spits whirfloc tablets.
He sweats iodphour.
He doesn't age, he ferments.
His voice can only be heard by yeast.
His fingernails are NASA burners.

Thanks JimmyJack. You rock.

 

[Linz]

So,

Are any of you Qlder's going to match Franko and Co and come to Sydney for the Pub crawl on the 14th of April???

 

[winkle]

Sorry can't make the pub crawl this time

So - too early to start the Christmas in July thread??

 

[stillscottish]

Just been looking over the video from last weekend. Once I've figur3d out how to get it on Youtube, the world can marvel at the Franko Fireman Lift.

Who was it said a bat never drops off its perch?

Cam

pbell

 

[Franko]

Sorry can't make the pub crawl this time

So - too early to start the Christmas in July thread??

HTFU