Hi Irish Goat,
If you mean do we need bottles as in bottles for bottling beer then I would say definitely yes. I know I got bottles from you before from the Bull & Castle and they were much appreciated. If you have any others available they would come in real handy.
If you mean do we need bottles as in bottles of beer to drink on the day then I will leave others answer that. I will be driving too and from the event so no booze for me ;-(
Declan
QuoteI'm a "maybe"...
What's the craic with buying ingredients etc? And do we need bottles? ;)
QuoteHi Irish Goat,
If you mean do we need bottles as in bottles for bottling beer then I would say definitely yes. I know I got bottles from you before from the Bull & Castle and they were much appreciated. If you have any others available they would come in real handy.
If you mean do we need bottles as in bottles of beer to drink on the day then I will leave others answer that. I will be driving too and from the event so no booze for me ;-(
Declan
QuoteI'm a "maybe"...
What's the craic with buying ingredients etc? And do we need bottles? ;)
Ha, I wasn't planning on buying you all booze for the day I meant empties. Is it gonna be three 20lt brews? I.e 120 bottles worth. I could sort that out and have them ready for collection.since it's only a few kind walk I'd say I'd need only 2 or 3 people to help carry them.
Hi Irish Goat,
Thanks for the confirmation about the bottles, empties that is ;-) One of the brews will be a kit with 23ltrs. I only asked as you had left it hanging when you said bottles. Given that its a brewing demonstration I was half wondering whether you were referring to bottles of home brew and not empties. At least one other person had floated the idea of bringing in some samples ;-)
On the day I will try and drive in to Dublin and park in my companies car park on Pearse Street so I intend to come in early. Rather than killing yourself hauling bottles from the b & c to Tog I can park and drive the bottles down to Tog for you. We will need to either do this before everything kicks off or towards the end of proceedings so that I can have enough time to get back from Pearse Street.
On a personal note if you have any additional bottles that I can take for myself I would appreciate it.
Declan
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Ha, I wasn't planning on buying you all booze for the day I meant empties. Is it gonna be three 20lt brews? I.e 120 bottles worth. I could sort that out and have them ready for collection.since it's only a few kind walk I'd say I'd need only 2 or 3 people to help carry them.
I thought the idea was to do 3 brews. Starting from ingredients and ending up with chilled wort in a fermenter.
A few empty bottles could be needed to talk about the bottling process or is someone going to bring finished beer?
Will
I think bottles wont be needed on the day, whether we ferment on site or not. Can we take up your kind offer the following week irish_goat?
The alternative is kegging most of the beer and just bottling a few litres from each batch, I have the spare kegs and it would be good for people to see both processes!
QuoteQuoteI think bottles wont be needed on the day, whether we ferment on site or not. Can we take up your kind offer the following week irish_goat?
If he's coming down to TOG anyway on the 8th, it'd be a good idea to bring bottles then in case he's not coming the following week?
I'm just thinking of the storage space, I don't want to be too much of a burden the first time we brew there!
Hi there
Consensus seems to be to ferment on site so no hassle. Hope the fg works out as expected. Irish goat if ur reading this offer to take bottles on the day is still good. Tube would u mind bringing a fermenter so I don't have to be collecting a few weeks l8tr?
Declan
I think I'll bring the three fermenters as I'm just across the river and its handy for me to collect! I best check to ensure I have spare fermenters now :)
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I'll get a few boxes filled with empties anyway sure, it's only a few minutes walk so should be no hassle transporting them.they'll probably be mainly non-flip tops so we'll need a capper and caps too.
Hi there,
I posted details of the forthcoming brewday in Tog on my Facebook page and surprise the alcoholics among my friends were all interested in attending with the expectation of getting some free home brew ;-)
Got me thinking should we bring something for any guests that might appear on the day? Will be driving myself so won't be drinking.
Declan
Re: drinking on the day
I hadn't discussed drinking with tog on the day so, as their guests I think it would be best for us not to be drinking. Also the plan for the day was to get brewing and for us to do a tasting night in January, this may or may not be at tog I hope to discuss this with them next Saturday and hopefully make it a regular thing for us.
I agree it would be nice for people to be able to sample the results but I think an important part of homebrewing is the patience between when you brew and when you can drink that brew.
QuoteI think an important part of homebrewing is the patience between when you brew and when you can drink that brew.
:o :o
How many bottles will we need then? We're starting to have an awful lot of flip tops amounting up in the B&C but I'll fill a few boxes of 500ml ones as well. I'm not familiar with capping bottles, other than Wychwood are there any that don't cap well?
The Witchwood ones are fine if you have a bench top capper, mine seems to work on all bottles.
I reckon we'll need around 140 500ml bottles or we could just keg it up! (Which has the added benefit of forcing me to get my keg system set up!) As my idea is to be able to drink the beers together socially as a club, kegging would work.
What do we all think? bottles or kegs? We'll need a few bottles anyway for the surplus above 19 litres that will fit into a keg!
Cheers Irish_Goat I have some bottles for you but I'm still waiting on them to carb (It appears it's too cold for them to carb in a reasonable amount of time!)
kegging looks and sounds better but a small bottle run could be good for demo purposes.
Quote.. I think an important part of homebrewing is the patience between when you brew and when you can drink that brew.
Absolutely Padraic. I think if the kit brew is to stand any chance of a favourable comparison against the extract and all-grain beers, then adequate conditioning time is really important.
Kit beers (in fact, any beers made with LME) really benefit from an extended period of conditioning which smooths out a lot of the "twang".
Conor.
Is there a schedule for the day? are we starting with kit/extract/all grain in any order? I might not be able to make it until around 1 so I wonder is there even much point in me coming!
Right so I'll get us a few boxes of empty bottles sorted, I'll need a few volunteers willing to meet me outside the B&C at 10.20am to help carry. 3 or 4 people should be plenty.
The schedule is pretty much a moving target at the but should be finalised before the day itself. I'd say we should be onto the boil at that stage so it's really up to you if you'd like to attend. There will probably be a couple of talks still to go at that stage but as I said not fully finalised yet!
I'd say it should be worth coming in for the last couple of hours of the brewday! There should still be a few heads about and it's always good to catch up in person.
The plan at the moment is to run the three brews concurrently so that as one thing is done with one brew it's time to move on and do something with the next brew, so there should be something happening all through the day!
QuoteRight so I'll get us a few boxes of empty bottles sorted, I'll need a few volunteers willing to meet me outside the B&C at 10.20am to help carry. 3 or 4 people should be plenty.
Cheers Thomas, I'll be snowed under at the time but will enlist some slaves if no one volunteers!
Glad to hear you got the day off!
Hi Thomas,
Hope to make it bull and castle with a mate by 10:20. We will be ditching Dublin bikes and should be able to help with boxes of bottles.
Declan
QuoteRight so I'll get us a few boxes of empty bottles sorted, I'll need a few volunteers willing to meet me outside the B&C at 10.20am to help carry. 3 or 4 people should be plenty.
QuoteRight so I'll get us a few boxes of empty bottles sorted, I'll need a few volunteers willing to meet me outside the B&C at 10.20am to help carry. 3 or 4 people should be plenty.
Hey Thomas,
I can also give you a hand with the boxes. Can you PM me your number?
QuoteHi Thomas,
Hope to make it bull and castle with a mate by 10:20. We will be ditching Dublin bikes and should be able to help with boxes of bottles.
Declan
QuoteRight so I'll get us a few boxes of empty bottles sorted, I'll need a few volunteers willing to meet me outside the B&C at 10.20am to help carry. 3 or 4 people should be plenty.
Ill be on the dublin bikes as well so can give a hand with bottles. Maybe we can ferry them with the bikes backet???
That should be plenty of hands.
On another note, since Padraic and Declan seem to be buying the not ingredients, might I suggest we all throw in a few euro to cover the cost. Not really fair if they go to all the hassle of organising this and end up out of pocket.
QuoteThat should be plenty of hands.
On another note, since Padraic and Declan seem to be buying the not ingredients, might I suggest we all throw in a few euro to cover the cost. Not really fair if they go to all the hassle of organising this and end up out of pocket.
Agreed
Thanks guys but it's not necessary, but going forward we do need to look into how to finance the clubs activities but we can talk about that on the day.
To be honest most of the stuff is being brought by different people, I reckon Declan will be most out of pocket so I know I'll be buying him a pint next time I see him when he isn't driving!
Cheers Declan!
And Thomas for sorting us out with a load of bottles! And everyone else working away in the background to help make this happen! I'll save all of the thank you's until saturday!