Vic 2007 X-mas Case Swap

[Fents]

1. Fenton - 2565 Kolsch- Dips and Bicks
2. Peels - Scottish Export Ale 80/ - Sausages and Bread
3. Wardhog - ESB -
4. Spillsmostofit - Belgian Dumb Blonde - Sausages and Bread
5. hairofthedog - spicy pale ale - chips or nuts
6. Maple - Rye IPA - perhaps dimmies
7. Thirsty Boy - Hefeweizen -
8. therook - Alt
9. mark_m - APA/IPA house ale - wasabi dried broad beans
10. apd - Columbus pale ale -
11. DarkFaerytale - hefe or roggenbier - probably pasta salad
12. Quintrex - ??? -
13. Allycat - light summer quencher - Plate O'anti-pasto kinda bits
14. Andreic - Munich Helles (if fit for human consumption) or Hefe (backup)
15. voota - smoked extra stout
16. Citymorgue2 - Hop Ale - ???
17. Hutch - Flying Dog APA - ???
18. lucas - ???
19. Chris Taylor - American Amber Ale
20. driveitlikeyoustoleit - ACA
21.
22.
23.

 

[SpillsMostOfIt]

We should stop accepting entrants soon - or we'll all be brewing night and day between now and the case swap (and my house has a legal occupation limit of 300 people)...

 

[Fents]

3 more spots to fill i reckon...

Dont worry spills my people know people in the know about household legal occupation limits, im sure we can get a extra 200 crew license for the day/night

 

[SpillsMostOfIt]

3 more spots to fill i reckon...

Dont worry spills my people know people in the know about household legal occupation limits, im sure we can get a extra 200 crew license for the day/night

I reckon five more - tops. You take two dozen of yours in and bring home two dozen aliens. You don't need to bring home a bottle of your own. That way, if people like peels ( ) want to go and buy two boxes of VB for their bottles, they have an exact number of boxes full of bottles.

 

[andreic]

I reckon five more - tops. You take two dozen of yours in and bring home two dozen aliens. You don't need to bring home a bottle of your own. That way, if people like peels ( ) want to go and buy two boxes of VB for their bottles, they have an exact number of boxes full of bottles.

I have never attended the bottle sorting at a case swap so I don't speak from experience, but I'm sure I read somewhere that its far easier to get one of your own bottles back and thus make each case the same. Otherwise you have to sort each entrant's case differently (e.g. make sure andreic's case doesn't have one of andreic's beers, etc...). Most of the other case swaps have 28 entrants... but I'd be keen to limit it to 25 or 26 max since my proposed case swap beer is a 20L batch.

cheers,

Andrei

 

[AUHEAMIC]

I reckon five more - tops. You take two dozen of yours in and bring home two dozen aliens. You don't need to bring home a bottle of your own. That way, if people like peels ( ) want to go and buy two boxes of VB for their bottles, they have an exact number of boxes full of bottles.

Any more of that guff and you will be getting unopened VB bottles as a "pleasant gift" for being the host

 

[Wardhog]

I'd be keen to limit it to 25 or 26 max since my proposed case swap beer is a 20L batch.

This sounds like a good idea. I'm currently in the process of scaling up my brewery to produce 50L batches, but I think I'm in the minority.

Also, I doubt whether I'll be able to make it to the swap sort. I've got a wedding anniversary weekend away around the twenties of November, and unless I miss my guess, we'll all be heading to the polling booths around then, too.

 

[SpillsMostOfIt]

I have never attended the bottle sorting at a case swap so I don't speak from experience, but I'm sure I read somewhere that its far easier to get one of your own bottles back and thus make each case the same. Otherwise you have to sort each entrant's case differently (e.g. make sure andreic's case doesn't have one of andreic's beers, etc...). Most of the other case swaps have 28 entrants... but I'd be keen to limit it to 25 or 26 max since my proposed case swap beer is a 20L batch.

cheers,

Andrei

But where's the fun in that? I do agree that we don't want to be brewing double-batches, though!

 

[SpillsMostOfIt]

... unless I miss my guess, we'll all be heading to the polling booths around then, too.

Is it too late to register my house as a polling place? We could all be registered AEC stewards or whatever they call themselves...

 

[Fents]

1. Fenton - 2565 Kolsch- Dips and Bicks
2. Peels - Scottish Export Ale 80/ - Sausages and Bread
3. Wardhog - ESB -
4. Spillsmostofit - Belgian Dumb Blonde - Sausages and Bread
5. hairofthedog - spicy pale ale - chips or nuts
6. Maple - Rye IPA - perhaps dimmies
7. Thirsty Boy - Hefeweizen -
8. therook - Alt
9. mark_m - APA/IPA house ale - wasabi dried broad beans
10. apd - Columbus pale ale -
11. DarkFaerytale - hefe or roggenbier - probably pasta salad
12. Quintrex - ??? -
13. Allycat - light summer quencher - Plate O'anti-pasto kinda bits
14. Andreic - Munich Helles (if fit for human consumption) or Hefe (backup)
15. voota - smoked extra stout
16. Citymorgue2 - Hop Ale - ???
17. Hutch - Flying Dog APA - ???
18. lucas - ???
19. Chris Taylor - American Amber Ale
20. driveitlikeyoustoleit - ACA
21.
22.
23.

Bump...still spots available! sign up yo!

 

[Quintrex]

Hmmmm, I'm think i'll do a belgian IPA or something like it.

Belgian yeast and maybe some hardcore hops !!!

Otherwise I'll try for something chouffe-ish

Q

1. Fenton - 2565 Kolsch- Dips and Bicks
2. Peels - Scottish Export Ale 80/ - Sausages and Bread
3. Wardhog - ESB -
4. Spillsmostofit - Belgian Dumb Blonde - Sausages and Bread
5. hairofthedog - spicy pale ale - chips or nuts
6. Maple - Rye IPA - perhaps dimmies
7. Thirsty Boy - Hefeweizen -
8. therook - Alt
9. mark_m - APA/IPA house ale - wasabi dried broad beans
10. apd - Columbus pale ale -
11. DarkFaerytale - hefe or roggenbier - probably pasta salad
12. Quintrex - belgian IPA? -
13. Allycat - light summer quencher - Plate O'anti-pasto kinda bits
14. Andreic - Munich Helles (if fit for human consumption) or Hefe (backup)
15. voota - smoked extra stout
16. Citymorgue2 - Hop Ale - ???
17. Hutch - Flying Dog APA - ???
18. lucas - ???
19. Chris Taylor - American Amber Ale
20. driveitlikeyoustoleit - ACA
21.
22.
23.

 

[DarkFaerytale]

just an update on mine;

i'v recieved all the ingreadiants for a roggenbier inspired by the jamil show and i'll be brewing monday morning (i love RDO's) for the case swap, but just incase things go pear shaped with that beer as i'v never brewed one befor i have a great tasting foreign extra stout to be bottled this weekend that'll be my backup.

1. Fenton - 2565 Kolsch- Dips and Bicks
2. Peels - Scottish Export Ale 80/ - Sausages and Bread
3. Wardhog - ESB -
4. Spillsmostofit - Belgian Dumb Blonde - Sausages and Bread
5. hairofthedog - spicy pale ale - chips or nuts
6. Maple - Rye IPA - perhaps dimmies
7. Thirsty Boy - Hefeweizen -
8. therook - Alt
9. mark_m - APA/IPA house ale - wasabi dried broad beans
10. apd - Columbus pale ale -
11. DarkFaerytale - roggenbier or back up F.E. Stout - probably pasta salad
12. Quintrex - belgian IPA? -
13. Allycat - light summer quencher - Plate O'anti-pasto kinda bits
14. Andreic - Munich Helles (if fit for human consumption) or Hefe (backup)
15. voota - smoked extra stout
16. Citymorgue2 - Hop Ale - ???
17. Hutch - Flying Dog APA - ???
18. lucas - ???
19. Chris Taylor - American Amber Ale
20. driveitlikeyoustoleit - ACA
21.
22.
23.

 

[SpillsMostOfIt]

If my Belgian Dumb Blonde doesn't turn out as cute as it should, my backup will be either a house Austramerican pale ale or two boxes of Melbourne Bitter!

 

[therook]

Why do we have to use big bottles? I only have stubbies

Are we allowed to say give 2 stubbies per person.

If not i will have to buy 2 dozen bottles of VB

Rook

 

[Maple]

I'm in the same situation, i have 1 750 ml bottle, but heaps of stubbies. Is this an option? 0therwise I'll need to source some PET's.

edit: Sorted with PET's - G&G seem to have em, I'll pick some up on the weekend.

 

[Fents]

Well heres what your all getting...

100ml's of kolsch each...I'll just keep the excess 30litres Is this the smallest ever batch of fermenting kolsch? :lol:

Massive thanks to Quintrex who gave me a kolsch starter that i thought didnt work but it was just playing games with me.

This Wyeast 2565 ferments like a bloody rocket too!

 

[SpillsMostOfIt]

Some people with more CaseSwapping Experience than I reckon stubbies are a pain in the quoit to deal with during the swap proper and for transportation, etc. Watching the last one transpire, I thought that even the difference in bottle types made a difference.

I found that it is pretty easy to scrounge empties if you have the time for it and others have hit reception centres, etc (or at least that is what Peels, et al claim to have done).

If I had my druthers, I'd make it so everyone submitted Coopers PET bottles (or CUB longnecks - but just one kind across the board). That way, everything is the same and you get back pretty much what you put in. If you don't usually use such things, they become your 'Case Swap' bottles.

Having said all that, I am not fussed what people use as long as it is glass or PET pressure vessels. I will be using the bottles I got from the last swap.

 

[Fents]

when we making the cut off date spillsy?

 

[apd]

Please, no stubbies.

Like Spills said, longnecks are easy to scrounge. You could also buy some PET bottles.

 

[SpillsMostOfIt]

when we making the cut off date spillsy?

Well... Working backwards - always a great way to orient one's self.

• The Swapparty is on 24 November.
• We're heading for about two dozen Actively Participating Brewers.
• I'm assuming people will be brewing a batch of 23litres or thereabouts.
• (Therefore) A standard-ish batch will cover the number of bottles required.
• I for one will be acquiring comestibles on the day or the day immediately prior, but I expect others to be doing so as early as the weekend prior.

I figure that we can leave the gate open to accommodate any late-bolting right up until early November.

Thoughts, anyone?