QLD Christmas case swap - Dec 5th, 2015

[menoetes]

Sorry Gents, I won't be able to make this one as I'm planning to be out of the country in December (don't ask questions or answer any that federal officers may ask you). h34r:

Enjoy your time guys, I'll be wishing I was there...

 

[NickB]

I'm still in, just copy and pasted the other list that said something about not swapping. Oops.


***SWAP BEERS ARE TO BE IN 740ml PET PLASTIC BOTTLES ONLY***

Swapping
1. Benken25
2. Fattox - Changed to Gose. Lagering fridge shit the bed
3. Liam_Snorkel - somethings smoked or bretty, either way it'll be dank
4. Earle - beer
5. Robv - TBA
6. Lukiferj
7. luggy
8. kegs- galaxy/maris otter smash pale ale (bottle conditioned) will be ready to drink
9. Fitzlp:; TBD
10. Winkle - Sumthin' Stupid
11. Angus - tripel, or dunkelweizen
12. Taylor - lager, or bright ale - haven't decided
13. Nick B - beer. Yep. Should brew something soonish.
14. Brew kid - TBA
15. Ciderman - Ordinary bitter
16. Parks - Belgian Pale Ale
17. Tazman1967 - TBA
18. Dan Barrington - something good!
19. antiphile - ESB and/or Bohemian Pilsner
20. BPH87 -Hefeweizen
21. Seehuusen - TBA
22. Aydos - something
23. Ballantyne - something smoked

Attending:

 

[luggy]

***SWAP BEERS ARE TO BE IN 740ml PET PLASTIC BOTTLES ONLY***

Swapping
1. Benken25
2. Fattox - Changed to Gose. Lagering fridge shit the bed
3. Liam_Snorkel - somethings smoked or bretty, either way it'll be dank
4. Earle - beer
5. Robv - TBA
6. Lukiferj
7. luggy: saison
8. kegs- galaxy/maris otter smash pale ale (bottle conditioned) will be ready to drink
9. Fitzlp:; TBD
10. Winkle - Sumthin' Stupid
11. Angus - tripel, or dunkelweizen
12. Taylor - lager, or bright ale - haven't decided
13. Nick B - beer. Yep. Should brew something soonish.
14. Brew kid - TBA
15. Ciderman - Ordinary bitter
16. Parks - Belgian Pale Ale
17. Tazman1967 - TBA
18. Dan Barrington - something good!
19. antiphile - ESB and/or Bohemian Pilsner
20. BPH87 -Hefeweizen
21. Seehuusen - TBA
22. Aydos - something
23. Ballantyne - something smoked

Attending:


Updating swap beer, sitting at 1.004 at the moment will bottle next week if gravity is stable

 

[angus_grant]

***SWAP BEERS ARE TO BE IN 740ml PET PLASTIC BOTTLES ONLY***

Swapping
1. Benken25
2. Fattox - Changed to Gose. Lagering fridge shit the bed
3. Liam_Snorkel - somethings smoked or bretty, either way it'll be dank
4. Earle - beer
5. Robv - TBA
6. Lukiferj
7. luggy: saison
8. kegs- galaxy/maris otter smash pale ale (bottle conditioned) will be ready to drink
9. Fitzlp:; TBD
10. Winkle - Sumthin' Stupid
11. Angus - berlinner weisse
12. Taylor - lager, or bright ale - haven't decided
13. Nick B - beer. Yep. Should brew something soonish.
14. Brew kid - TBA
15. Ciderman - Ordinary bitter
16. Parks - Belgian Pale Ale
17. Tazman1967 - TBA
18. Dan Barrington - something good!
19. antiphile - ESB and/or Bohemian Pilsner
20. BPH87 -Hefeweizen
21. Seehuusen - TBA
22. Aydos - something
23. Ballantyne - something smoked

Attending:


Updating swap beer. In continuing my tradition of brewing beers for swap I have never brewed before, I thought I'd ramp it up by brewing a completely new style of beer.
I hope it's infected!!

 

[antiphile]

***SWAP BEERS ARE TO BE IN 740ml PET PLASTIC BOTTLES ONLY***

Swapping

1. Benken25

2. Fattox - Changed to Gose. Lagering fridge shit the bed

3. Liam_Snorkel - somethings smoked or bretty, either way it'll be dank

4. Earle - beer

5. Robv - TBA

6. Lukiferj

7. luggy: saison

8. kegs- galaxy/maris otter smash pale ale (bottle conditioned) will be ready to drink

9. Fitzlp:; TBD

10. Winkle - Sumthin' Stupid

11. Angus - berlinner weisse

12. Taylor - lager, or bright ale - haven't decided

13. Nick B - beer. Yep. Should brew something soonish.

14. Brew kid - TBA

15. Ciderman - Ordinary bitter

16. Parks - Belgian Pale Ale

17. Tazman1967 - TBA

18. Dan Barrington - something good!

19. antiphile - Edited 30/10/15: American Pale Ale or American IPA

20. BPH87 -Hefeweizen

21. Seehuusen - TBA

22. Aydos - something

23. Ballantyne - something smoked



I had to change the swap beer, unfortunately. The Bohemian Pilsener may not clear up enough in the time left judging by the samples. The backup Pale ESB tastes lovely, but while I only wanted it lightly carbonated, it looks as though I was too light with the dextrose.


So the options now are either one of two American Pale Ales (Tropical Cyclone Ella or Mosaic Mayhem), or a rather hoppy Americal IPA along the lines of Hop Hog. All of these will have 5 weeks of bottle conditioning by the 5th Dec, but should still be quite fresh drinking for Xmas.


Angus: Do we get to choose what sort of infection or is it just going to be pot luck?

Cheers

 

[angus_grant]

Well hopefully there should be no infection in the final beer as I am kettle souring with lacto and then a quick 15 minute boil to kill everything.

 

[earle]

***SWAP BEERS ARE TO BE IN 740ml PET PLASTIC BOTTLES ONLY***

Swapping
1. Benken25
2. Fattox - Changed to Gose. Lagering fridge shit the bed
3. Liam_Snorkel - somethings smoked or bretty, either way it'll be dank
4. Earle - cascade amber ale
5. Robv - TBA
6. Lukiferj
7. luggy: saison
8. kegs- galaxy/maris otter smash pale ale (bottle conditioned) will be ready to drink
9. Fitzlp:; TBD
10. Winkle - Sumthin' Stupid
11. Angus - berlinner weisse
12. Taylor - lager, or bright ale - haven't decided
13. Nick B - beer. Yep. Should brew something soonish.
14. Brew kid - TBA
15. Ciderman - Ordinary bitter
16. Parks - Belgian Pale Ale
17. Tazman1967 - TBA
18. Dan Barrington - something good!
19. antiphile - Edited 30/10/15: American Pale Ale or American IPA
20. BPH87 -Hefeweizen
21. Seehuusen - TBA
22. Aydos - something
23. Ballantyne - something smoked

Updated swap beer

 

[madpierre06]

***SWAP BEERS ARE TO BE IN 740ml PET PLASTIC BOTTLES ONLY***

Swapping
1. Benken25
2. Fattox - Changed to Gose. Lagering fridge shit the bed
3. Liam_Snorkel - somethings smoked or bretty, either way it'll be dank
4. Earle - cascade amber ale
5. Robv - TBA
6. Lukiferj
7. luggy: saison
8. kegs- galaxy/maris otter smash pale ale (bottle conditioned) will be ready to drink
9. Fitzlp:; TBD
10. Winkle - Sumthin' Stupid
11. Angus - berlinner weisse
12. Taylor - lager, or bright ale - haven't decided
13. Nick B - beer. Yep. Should brew something soonish.
14. Brew kid - TBA
15. Ciderman - Ordinary bitter
16. Parks - Belgian Pale Ale
17. Tazman1967 - TBA
18. Dan Barrington - something good!
19. antiphile - Edited 30/10/15: American Pale Ale or American IPA
20. BPH87 -Hefeweizen
21. Seehuusen - TBA
22. Aydos - something
23. Ballantyne - something smoked
24. madpierre06 - Longus Dongus Gladfields Cream Ale

Updated swap beer -- and put my name back on the list, it seemed to go MIA.

 

[madpierre06]

Mine's bun un the buttle fur about nearly a week nouw...thought u'd truy a quuck wun, jist to gut un udea. Thunk ut's gunna be reasonable drop. The rust can wait untul a week out.

 

[Taylor]

Mine's bun un the buttle fur about nearly a week nouw...thought u'd truy a quuck wun, jist to gut un udea. Thunk ut's gunna be reasonable drop. The rust can wait untul a week out.

Translated from New Zealand English to Australian English

Mine has been in the bottle for approximately a week now. I thought I would try one, just to get an idea. I think it is going to be reasonable a drop. The rest can wait until later juncture.

 

[Beersuit]

***SWAP BEERS ARE TO BE IN 740ml PET PLASTIC BOTTLES ONLY***

Swapping
1. Benken25
2. Fattox - Changed to Gose. Lagering fridge shit the bed
3. Liam_Snorkel - somethings smoked or bretty, either way it'll be dank
4. Earle - cascade amber ale
5. Robv - TBA
6. Lukiferj
7. luggy: saison
8. kegs- galaxy/maris otter smash pale ale (bottle conditioned) will be ready to drink
9. Fitzlp:; TBD
10. Winkle - Sumthin' Stupid
11. Angus - berlinner weisse
12. Taylor - lager, or bright ale - haven't decided
13. Nick B - beer. Yep. Should brew something soonish.
14. Brew kid - TBA
15. Ciderman - Ordinary bitter
16. Parks - Belgian Pale Ale
17. Tazman1967 - TBA
18. Dan Barrington - something good!
19. antiphile - Edited 30/10/15: American Pale Ale or American IPA
20. BPH87 -Hefeweizen
21. Seehuusen - TBA
22. Aydos - something
23. Ballantyne - something smoked
24. madpierre06 - Longus Dongus Gladfields Cream Ale

Attending not swapping.
Beersuit will bring a keg of soured mullberry saison and a couch.

 

[madpierre06]

Translated from New Zealand English to Australian English

Pissed meself laughing!!! Fine effort, I reckon there's a job in the field for ya, eh.

 

[Liam_snorkel]

spose I should start thinking about brewing something

 

[madpierre06]

Thinking won't get it done - speaking from experience [emoji41]

 

[TidalPete]

When I was fortunate enough to be able to attend these things back in the day, it was instilled in everybody's memory to make the time to give the VERY BEST of your brews to the very best of your ability to the case swap & there were no excuses such as 'I have very little time', my dog died or whatever, whatever.

Minimum time to ferment & bottle your Swap Beer was four weeks absolute if you wanted to give your mates a decent beer.

You just did your best for your fellow brewers to the best of your ability.

How things have changed. h34r:

Just saying & waiting for the inevitable response. ---- :beer:

 

[Liam_snorkel]

hey Pete, I was joking, got a farmhouse dark ale going in the carboy near on 2 months now

 

[lukiferj]

G'day Pete!

 

[Parks]

And yet Pete, from all reports, we have the highest quality swap beers ever.

I personally think it's a huge risk not having your beer ready such that you can ensure it's not (unintentionally) infected prior to swapping but we've had a pretty great run.

 

[Ciderman]

Unfortunately I'm no longer able to make the event. I bottled my case swap beer about a week ago so it will be ready to go once we hit December. I bottle fermented this one (counter pressure last time was a bit under carbed) so there will be no issue with carbonation this time.

I will organise to drop my beer off to someone between now and then.

***SWAP BEERS ARE TO BE IN 740ml PET PLASTIC BOTTLES ONLY***

Swapping
1. Benken25
2. Fattox - Changed to Gose. Lagering fridge shit the bed
3. Liam_Snorkel - somethings smoked or bretty, either way it'll be dank
4. Earle - cascade amber ale
5. Robv - TBA
6. Lukiferj
7. luggy: saison
8. kegs- galaxy/maris otter smash pale ale (bottle conditioned) will be ready to drink
9. Fitzlp:; TBD
10. Winkle - Sumthin' Stupid
11. Angus - berlinner weisse
12. Taylor - lager, or bright ale - haven't decided
13. Nick B - beer. Yep. Should brew something soonish.
14. Brew kid - TBA
15. Ciderman - Best Bitter 4.4% 29ibu. Ready to drink.
16. Parks - Belgian Pale Ale
17. Tazman1967 - TBA
18. Dan Barrington - something good!
19. antiphile - Edited 30/10/15: American Pale Ale or American IPA
20. BPH87 -Hefeweizen
21. Seehuusen - TBA
22. Aydos - something
23. Ballantyne - something smoked
24. madpierre06 - Longus Dongus Gladfields Cream Ale

Attending not swapping.

Beersuit will bring a keg of soured mullberry saison and a couch.

 

[antiphile]

TidalPete is being very harsh not allowing any latitude or excuse for a less than perfect beer.

there were no excuses such as 'I have very little time', my dog died or whatever

What he doesn't cover is the situation where the dog was the brewer in the house. You really are a tough taskmaster, TP.