Wedding Beers

[merlin032]

Well, I'm getting married in January, and I decided to brew some beer to give to our guests as a small leaving gift. It was a good exercise as it motivated me to get back into brewing, and I think it's a nice personal touch.

I settled on 4 beers, the first 3 are old favourites, the Marzen is an experiment (may or may not make the cut). Here is the line-up.

Significant Other - Brown Ale
Just Marzen - Marzen
Something Brewed - Golden Ale (something pretty similar to Dr Smurto's recipe I do believe)
Hoppily Ever After - IPA (can't help myself).

 

[thedragon]

Brilliant idea. And great looking labels too.

Congratulations on the pending marriage

 

[dent]

Leaving gift? Usually the beer is to get them to show up!

Nice bottle arrangement.

For my wedding I provided 6 kegs, with the special addition of bottles of the "Imperial Wedding Stout", which was a 14%ABV russian imperial stout with brett C. added in secondary. A few "guests" are still bugging me to produce something equivalent nowadays, but I won't tell them I just got it lucky that it came out as well as it did h34r:

 

[merlin032]

dent - I did that a couple of years ago for a house warming - 5 kegs gone in as many hours.

We've booked a venue at a winery and the grog was part of the package, alas, it will be commercial beer (it's Coopers Pale Ale & James Boags Premium so not all that bad).

 

[Moad]

I'm up on the 11th, have enough trouble keeping myself in stock let alone my wedding.

Awesome idea though

 

[bradsbrew]

Nice, they look great merlin.

 

[Scooby Tha Newbie]

Yes very good mate. Good luck,and many well wishes.



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[Dan Pratt]

Mate they look fantastic!

Attention to details.....the labels are dated 2013?

 

[merlin032]

haha, yes good pickup. Lucky I hadn't printed up 100 of them... :unsure:

 

[Liam_snorkel]

Whoops! They labels look great, shouldn't be too much of a drama to overlay the neck tags.
I really hope your guests appreciate them.

 

[merlin032]

yep, the ones I photographed were the prototypes, the missus has "approved" the design with a few revisions (apparently "a shitload" of hops wasn't appropriate for a wedding label, who would have known...)

 

[TSMill]

Should have started with a metric fuckload and bartered down to a shit load. Marriage is all about compromising back to what you wanted all along

 

[of mice and gods]

Should have started with a metric fuckload and bartered down to a shit load. Marriage is all about compromising back to what you wanted all along

Good advice mate, I;m gonna save that for Ron.