I made one of these in the SD brewers forum to provide quick and easy access to all the need-to-know information for the barrel project. Some of the stuff is only a provisional suggestion so things will change and I will try to keep this thread updated.
Capital Barrel Imperial Stout
13-F Russian Imperial Stout
Author: rossa
Size: 20 L @ 20 °C
Efficiency: 60%
Attenuation: 75.0%
Calories: 315.95 kcal per 12.0 fl oz
Original Gravity: 1.094 (1.075 - 1.115)
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Terminal Gravity: 1.023 (1.018 - 1.030)
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Color: 87.77 (59.1 - 78.8)
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Alcohol: 9.35% (8.0% - 12.0%)
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Bitterness: 155.5 (50.0 - 90.0)
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Ingredients:
8 kg (74.8%) Pale Ale Malt - added during mash
1 kg (9.3%) Amber Malt - added during mash
.7 kg (6.5%) Roasted Barley - added during mash
.300 kg (2.8%) Black Malt - added during mash
.500 kg (4.7%) Chocolate Malt - added during mash
.200 kg (1.9%) Crystal 55 - added during mash
30 g (9.1%) Magnum (14.1%) - added during boil, boiled 90 m
150 g (45.5%) East Kent Goldings (7.2%) - added during boil, boiled 20 m
150 g (45.5%) East Kent Goldings (7.2%) - added during boil, boiled 5 m
3.0 ea WLP004 Irish Ale (200ml of slurry after starter(s) have finished)
Recipe Targets Rough guidelines, suggest corrections where appropriate
Mash temp 150oF/oC66 for 90 Minutes
Pre Boil gravity 1.088
Post Boil gravity 1.094
Terminal Gravity 1.023
Contributors:
01. Shiny - 20L - 20L @ 1.096
02. CARA - 20L
03. Padraic - 20L - Brewday 7th/11th May
04. Cathal O D - 20L
05. Rossa - 20L - Brewday 3rd/4th May
06. Rossa - 20L
07. Thomas - 20l
08. JoeyD - 20L - Brewday 6th May
09. TOG - 20L Brewday 12th May (Padraic's Equipment)
10. TOG - 20L Brewday 12th May (Rossa's Equipment??)
Total: 20L (In fermenters)
The Schedule
Fill Barrel - 25th May
Sample 1 - 1st July
Sample 2 - 1st August
Sample 3 - 1st September
Sample 4 - 1st October
Sample 5 - 1st November
Bottling - 1st December
Competition - Club Entry to Brewing Competition March 2014
I'm brewing the bank holiday weekend too.
Ill be brewing the following weekend!
Can I suggest that samples are taken to bring along to our tasting evening on the last Tuesday of the month?
Slots 9&10 could be brewed at tog maybe?
yup Im brewing bank hol monday.
Getting excited about this now! Who's going to brew the second batch at Tog? Rossa?
01. Shiny - 20L - Brewday 3rd/4th May
02. CARA - 20L
03. Padraic - 20L - Brewday 7th/11th May
04. Cathal O D - 20L
05. Rossa - 20L - Brewday 3rd/4th May
06. Rossa - 20L
07. Thomas - 20L
08. JoeyD - 20L - Brewday 6th May
09. TOG - 20L Brewday 12th May (Padraic's Equipment)
10. Brew in TOG? - 20L
I think a joint brew would be cool. What is that date ?
Everyone happy enough on the bittering?
Happy enough with bittering, you eased my fears about it last night.
Quote from: shiny on May 02, 2013, 02:30:28 PM
Happy enough with bittering, you eased my fears about it last night.
Cool. Getting excited now. ???
Quote from: Rossa on May 02, 2013, 02:13:18 PM
I think a joint brew would be cool. What is that date ?
12th May
well lads, Im transferring to a secondary this week as I guess we will have to store it for a bit to get organised. Has everyone brewed? Just wondering what the status is as its gone a bit quiet and Im looking at this stout like a ticking time bomb for infection.....
Bacteria are scared of Imperial Stouts
And so am I!
Ah Im just wondering if we have a rough plan and if everyone got the brew on. Ill put it into a plastic keg I don't use and leave it in the closet till we have an idea.
Just putting it into secondary, 1.031.....hmmm
Added half a teaspoon of yeast nutrient to encourage it the rest of the way.
Tastes absolutely fantastic though I think the bitterness is perfectly balancing the sweetness at the moment, normally the bitterness at this stage of any of my imperial stouts is nearly burning the back off my throat.
uh-oh, have you done that before 3rd paragraph from bottom? others have a read of this.
http://www.byo.com/aeration/item/1882-fermenting-high-gravity-beers-techniques
My wicklow one is stuck at 1030 and I am going to have to drag it to the finish line kicking and screaming!
I have never finished this high before but I have obtained that level of attenuation with this yeast before. The last time I used WLP004 I got an attenuation of 68% and sure enough I have got 68% again this time. The spec's (http://www.whitelabs.com/yeast/wlp004-irish-ale-yeast) for the yeast give an attenuation range of 69% to 74% so its not that far off?
I didn't take any steps to get the batch lower the first time it happened so I'm hopeful I will be able to get it to drop a few more points before it goes into the barrel.
As a precaution I'm going to grow up some San Diego yeast (Kindly donated by Dr. Jacoby) and pitch that to get it down further.
When are we hoping to fill the barrel? ?
I jsut sent out a feeler for storage, we still haven't a place to put it nailed down!
I saw the picture of the liffey brewers barrel and it looked lonely in a big empty shed all on it's own...
But on a serious note, does anyone have a place we can store it?
Rent a storage unit for 4 or 5 months?
I tried pricing them but they all require you to contact them for a quote. Minimum looks to be €50/month
Now that I'm officially paid up as a Capital Brewer, I should probably offer my services ;D
I have access to a large bricks and mortar shed in Naas. It's within the Pale so not too much of a psychological stretch for the inner city crowd. I used it before for the barrel project I was involved in a few years back. It's stays nice and cool in the summer months and there's plenty of spare space.
I know it'll be a bit of a journey for most of you but if you're interested let me know and we can sort something out.
Thanks for the offer!
We'll take you up on it if nothing closer to o'connell street turns up!
Cheers Peter. Certainly something to consider.
All,
The publishing team are currently look at the best ways of documenting the NHC's fantastic "Barrel Project". We've decided to create and publish a series of articles on the project over the next 6 months or so.
The series will cover technical aspects of aging beer in barrels, purchase and delivery of the said items as well as a report from each individual club barrel at various stages of the process.
To achieve this aim, we will need a nominated representative from each barrel project who is willing to supply us with the necessary information like recipe, barrel siting, filling, tasting notes, competition success etc. Photos would be great too, if you have any. If you're interested in being your project's rep, can you attach your name to the thread below?
http://nationalhomebrewclub.com/forum/index.php/topic,2611.0.html
Many thanks,
Conor.
So no storage available closer to town?
@ Declan - What diameter are the barrels at their widest?
The votes are in from the Loreto Brewery jury.
Batch 1 : 1018
Batch 2: 1017
It is looking likely that we will be able to store the Barrel in TOG.
So I guess we need to start thinking of a filling day! Would we like to do it on a week day or during the weekend?
I will nail down definite confirmation of this but we're most likely getting a spot in the server room which was about 10-15 degree's yesterday in the heat so is ideal for barrel storage!
Sooner the better really.
I've got about 46l.
When are we looking at filling this lady?
Quote from: Padraic on June 10, 2013, 01:00:52 PMIwe're most likely getting a spot in the server room
Ye jammy feckers! You're storing your barrel in a temperature controlled room! Cool.
Im keen to fill it too. Im going to need my equipment soon. How about this weekend?
Quote from: Bubbles on June 14, 2013, 11:46:06 AM
Quote from: Padraic on June 10, 2013, 01:00:52 PMIwe're most likely getting a spot in the server room
Ye jammy feckers! You're storing your barrel in a temperature controlled room! Cool.
Yea, we've already designed various monitoring devices that are available for remote server access, but unfortunately due to various patent applications I cannot divulge any more information.
On the Filling, I will check with Tog when they are available and when we can get the barrel, which is hidden in a top secret location at the moment!
Ok, all set and ready to go now! I just need to coordinate will our cellar man about stillage and moving the barrel!
My car is available for transportation of the barrel.
There is stuff on in tog on Monday and Tuesday this week and Monday next week so we could wander in there one of those evenings if that suits you rossa? We need to get stillage sorted and set a date for the filling!
Stillage is under construction as we speak!!
Great. Just let me know and I can pick up whatever we have.
Dempsey is sorting the stillage-the barrel is sat here beside me. She's been rolled daily and extra spirit added a few weeks ago so there will be no issue of drying out hopefully. The rolling hasn't been as efficient the past couple of weeks but rolled none the less
Hey guys.
Any chance we could fill the barrel this weekend. Sorry for the push but im going to need my keg soon. If you want a hand moving lifting setting up im more than happy to help out.
We need the barrel moving from my house in D9 over to tog
Maybe Padraic could roll it over to tog !!!!
Shanna
Quote from: CARA on July 03, 2013, 01:05:19 AM
We need the barrel moving from my house in D9 over to tog
Ooooooooooo we couldn't have that! Might lose some whiskey haha
Would it fit in the boot of a car if it was sticking out a bit?
nope too big, it would be like an egg in a nest you need an estate, Rossa's would work
Any closer to a date?
Do you wanna just grab the horns and set a date there Rossa?
TOG on the 21st, day after distilling/brewing convention?
Fill the barrel.
Brewday.
Scope out place next door for club house... ;)
Quote from: shiny on July 06, 2013, 07:06:28 PM
TOG on the 21st, day after distilling/brewing convention?
Fill the barrel.
Brewday.
Scope out place next door for club house... ;)
Gotta work that day. some evening next week bar Mon ?
Tuesday? Tog will be open anyway from 19:00-21:00, that should be loads of time for us to fill her up!
Tuesday suits me.
I might pop along if that's ok.
Quote from: Dr Jacoby on July 07, 2013, 12:11:24 PM
I might pop along if that's ok.
Of course you're more than welcome! As are all Capital brewers!
Quote from: Dr Jacoby on July 07, 2013, 12:11:24 PM
I might pop along if that's ok.
Do you mind giving me a hand to carry one 10L keg?
Quote from: shiny on July 07, 2013, 12:24:29 PM
Quote from: Dr Jacoby on July 07, 2013, 12:11:24 PM
I might pop along if that's ok.
do you need some transport?
Do you mind giving me a hand to carry one 10L keg?
Quote from: Rossa on July 07, 2013, 04:07:40 PM
do you need some transport?
If you happened to be passing me that would definitely save me a lot of hassle!
When is the barrel actually going to tog?
I can do Tuesday anyway and do a run around in the car if needs be.
Quote from: shiny on July 07, 2013, 12:24:29 PM
Quote from: Dr Jacoby on July 07, 2013, 12:11:24 PM
I might pop along if that's ok.
Do you mind giving me a hand to carry one 10L keg?
Yea, no worries. Let me know if I'm needed
Quote from: Rossa on July 07, 2013, 09:30:22 PM
I can do Tuesday anyway and do a run around in the car if needs be.
Quote from: Dr Jacoby on July 07, 2013, 09:58:11 PM
Yea, no worries. Let me know if I'm needed
Thanks Lads. Tuesday is also fine for me. Rossa would this be an opportunity to sort out that grain and any outstanding stuff?
Quote from: shiny on July 08, 2013, 12:18:41 AM
Quote from: Rossa on July 07, 2013, 09:30:22 PM
I can do Tuesday anyway and do a run around in the car if needs be.
Quote from: Dr Jacoby on July 07, 2013, 09:58:11 PM
Yea, no worries. Let me know if I'm needed
Thanks Lads. Tuesday is also fine for me. Rossa would this be an opportunity to sort out that grain and any outstanding stuff?
Good call.
Tuesday should be ok for me, but i won't know till later in the week.
Tomorrow?
Tuesday is grand so-what time suits Rossa
Not too late basically. What time would everyone be available? I'll be free from 4 I'd say.
I can leave work early if necessary to suit your movements Rossa.
i'll join the cap brewers support team :D
I have my beer in a plastic bucket just. Will it be ok to move like that or will I need a lend of a corny?
A corny would make your life WAY easier, but remember that standard cornies can only fit 19 litres
Quote from: shiny on July 08, 2013, 11:12:39 AM
Tomorrow?
Yes if it suits everyone? We could do it Sunday instead if tomorrow doesn't suit the troops!
Quote from: irish_goat on July 08, 2013, 12:49:10 PM
I have my beer in a plastic bucket just. Will it be ok to move like that or will I need a lend of a corny?
Mine is also in a plastic bucket!
I have cornies but no connectors etc to be able to pump co2 into the top!
Sorry I thought that was next Tuesday.
Im not free at all this week and Sunday is no good either. Ill have to get it into the barrel next week sometime.
Just kegged mine there this afternoon. Tastes great!
(http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/4053/e1og.jpg)
Where did you get the midget rasta cornies?
uck me is that sugru on that bucket ;D your flat must a mosaic of sugru.
I am going to order some now :D
My beer and wine. Note the Sugru on the handles! ;D
can you pm me a discount code thanks
Quote from: Ciderhead on July 08, 2013, 05:07:47 PM
can you pm me a discount code thanks
Linkage (http://nationalhomebrewclub.com/forum/index.php/topic,2550.0.html).
all done thanks, I think I am going to show it to the kids and let them have a play, they have far more expansive minds than mine:-)
Back on topic, whats with the selfless promo of Capital Brewers and green lice in the pics anyway?
Come on! You know it is a hop cone. >:(
So what time is tog open tomorrow?
It said 19:00 earlier in the thread but you guys are on about leaving work early.
Quote from: shiny on July 08, 2013, 07:02:56 PM
Come on! You know it is a hop cone. >:(
Oh dear, did you draw it? now that you say it if I squint my eyes, I don't see the antennae anymore ;)
I assume Rossa is collecting the barrel and stave from CARA at some stage. Not everyone is confirmed as brining their brew over today but I assume that is ok, i.e. we could fill it with the remaining beer at the next TOG brewday or something.
Other than that, Cathal, I don't really know what is happening yet.
Quote from: shiny on July 09, 2013, 11:50:09 AM
I assume Rossa is collecting the barrel and stave from CARA at some stage. Not everyone is confirmed as brining their brew over today but I assume that is ok, i.e. we could fill it with the remaining beer at the next TOG brewday or something.
Other than that, Cathal, I don't really know what is happening yet.
Tog is open from 19:00 to 21:00 this evening, they might be there a little earlier or a little later but that's all i know for sure! I'll tweet at them to see if anyone is about earlier. www.tog.ie (http://www.tog.ie) has a little open/closed icon on the left hand side of the page so we can check later.
I will also tweet the girl running tonights event, so keep an eye on the twitter!
TOG 7pm Tuesday 9th July
Please confirm time
01) Rossa 7pm
02) Shiny
03) CARA 7pm
04) Cathal O D
05) Thomas
06) Joey D
07) Padraic
I was going to head to the Bull & Castle beforehand to try the new mountain man beer. Anyone else up for it?
01) Rossa 7pm
02) Shiny 7pm (Coming with Rossa)
03) CARA 7pm
04) Cathal O D
05) Thomas
06) Joey D
07) Padraic
im off work at 16:30 so was going to wander around for a bit. what time you thinking you would be at the b&c at
Probably at about 6
01) Rossa 7pm
02) Shiny 7pm (Coming with Rossa)
03) CARA 7pm
04) Cathal O D 7pm
05) Thomas
06) Joey D
07) Padraic
Will I bring my CO2 cylinder for emptying corneys or are we going to syphon the beer?
I'll also bring gas, two sets of disconnects don't line and splitters, star san and a reg. I'm am a bit short on beer line. I've one length. We could do with at least two as we can push two cornies at a time.
Anyone else with beer need a lift? Not sure I'll fit the person in the car but we might.
01) Rossa 7pm
02) Shiny 7pm (Coming with Rossa)
03) CARA 7pm
04) Cathal O D 7pm
05) Thomas
06) Joey D 7:30 - dropping off
07) Padraic
Im gonna swing by and drop my brew off, I wont be able to hang about though. Hope thats alright with everyone? Shiny will take my fermenter for me. Im a good bit shy of 20L as well im afraid.
I'm sorry I couldn't make it lads! It looks like ye had a fun evening anyway! Glad that the job is mostly done!
Couple of pics from last night.
(http://imageshack.us/a/img837/4060/b0eu.jpg)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img534/7267/s1r2.jpg)
Item of note after filling two barrels at this point, kegs are the way to go, much faster process!
Sorry I couldn't stay till the end lads-how far off the mark are we do ya reckon?
I would say between 40 and 60L off, the beer was still with a good bit down after putting in Joey's beer.
Quote from: shiny on July 10, 2013, 11:13:32 AM
Item of note after filling two barrels at this point, kegs are the way to go, much faster process!
But not half the fun!
Quote from: CARA on July 10, 2013, 11:23:18 AM
Sorry I couldn't stay till the end lads-how far off the mark are we do ya reckon?
is that you rolling a barrel with a broken arm ya doirty egit ???
Quote from: Ciderhead on July 10, 2013, 11:39:28 AM
is that you rolling a barrel with a broken arm ya doirty egit ???
Ssssshhhhh
I'll get my pics up in the next few days
So whats the story with the extra brews? Shane was saying that there might be one done at the TOG? Will that cover it? I might be able to get one on in a few weeks if it needs a top up or something?
Padraic, when suits to add yours? I'm free from Sunday til Wednesday hopefully.
Quote from: irish_goat on July 10, 2013, 10:57:17 PM
Padraic, when suits to add yours? I'm free from Sunday til Wednesday hopefully.
Someday between Sunday and Wednesday sounds good! Ill know better on Saturday, we may even have a brewday on Sunday... Can't seem to catch jules to confirm!
@Tube, a few pics went out during the filling yeah
Quote from: Padraic on July 11, 2013, 08:05:59 AM
Quote from: irish_goat on July 10, 2013, 10:57:17 PM
Padraic, when suits to add yours? I'm free from Sunday til Wednesday hopefully.
Someday between Sunday and Wednesday sounds good! Ill know better on Saturday, we may even have a brewday on Sunday... Can't seem to catch jules to confirm!
Did Jules not move to Athlone?
Quote from: irish_goat on July 11, 2013, 09:51:31 AM
Quote from: Padraic on July 11, 2013, 08:05:59 AM
Quote from: irish_goat on July 10, 2013, 10:57:17 PM
Padraic, when suits to add yours? I'm free from Sunday til Wednesday hopefully.
Someday between Sunday and Wednesday sounds good! Ill know better on Saturday, we may even have a brewday on Sunday... Can't seem to catch jules to confirm!
Did Jules not move to Athlone?
Jules has moved to athlone but will be back to host us on brewdays!
I'll probably add my entry to the barrel as well on Sunday during the brewday, if you can make it along with yours?
Hey, I was just wondering when we should bottle this big boy?
Do we want to be drinking it for xmas?
Would it need a few months to bottle condition as its such a big beer?
Also I think we should refill it with the next beer as soon as we empty it so it doesn't dry out. If so we would want to be thinking of recipes.
Has anyone had a sample yet?
That would be a starting point alright.
Will we just aim to have a sample obtained for the next meet?
If there is a TOG brewday in the meantime, it shouldn't be hard to get one.
Tom I can post up a sample to you when its taken if you want.
Ah don't worry about that, I'll trust the rest of you'se to make a good judgement on it.
Got a sample of the beer today. Will bring it along to the next capital brewers meet.
Initial comments:
Lots of oak (This factor alone will be the motivating factor to empty the barrel)
Whiskey is there but subtle (thank christ)
Quite roasty but this has mellowed significantly over the last 4 months
Gravity is 1.012 but it seems higher as the body is chewy/velvety and smooth, carbonation will offset this
Not much aroma but then again there was no carbonation to encourage that
(http://img547.imageshack.us/img547/601/sumk.jpg)
Sounds promising!
I had a taste on Sunday also. I would highly recommend that this comes out asap as I wouldnt say any more oak would be favourable-we could run the risk of it turning out quite "charcoaly" like some previous commercial examples.
Should we try and get this out of the barrel this week? I can bring down my syphon, steriliser etc. Any particular day....
Quote from: Cathal O D on October 22, 2013, 12:53:21 PM
Should we try and get this out of the barrel this week? I can bring down my syphon, steriliser etc. Any particular day....
As we don't have a key we will be relying on when someone is there, http://www.tog.ie/ (http://www.tog.ie/) has a calendar and the following things are on:
Tonight - Lockpicking
Friday - Book Club
Monday - Electronics
Or we could wait until the brewday on November 10th?
Where will we be transferring to? Will we all be bottling on the day or will we transfer to cornies?
I think we will need a pump too...
@Padraic. I imagine we would all just fill into our cornies and bottle ourselves later. Nov 10 should be ok
@Shiny
Your right about the pump, a syphon wont work unless we raise the barrel which would be impossible. We could keep pumping the syphon but that would be a pain.
What kinda pump?
Lads I might need to ask a big favour as I dunno when I'll next be down in Dublin. :-\
Wouldn't pumping the siphon oxygenate the beer? No idea what pump to use. :(
irish_goat, if someone filled a spare keg for you, that would probably be easiest?
Yeah that would work. If it suits Cara I could maybe see about giving him an empty corny to take down when he's back up next week.
But when you empty the cask what are your plans for the empty??
Hmm. :-\
Unless it's paid for it's coming home with me :p
Quote from: CARA on October 23, 2013, 09:40:54 PM
Unless it's paid for it's coming home with me :p
How much do we owe you? Or would you prefer to keep the barrel?
Will we need more yeast as well?
You could probably repitch yeast when you bottle, unless you are leaving it in the keg.
Quote from: Cathal O D on September 25, 2013, 11:51:11 AM
Also I think we should refill it with the next beer as soon as we empty it so it doesn't dry out. If so we would want to be thinking of recipes.
Probably a bit late now. Could we put water in it for the time being so it doesnt dry out?
Reckon it would it need to be the same yeast or would any ale yeast do the job?
I was going to put in either San Diego yeast or US05. I'm leaning towards the US05 in case the SD yeast causes bottle bombs.
Quote from: shiny on October 24, 2013, 02:14:19 PM
I was going to put in either San Diego yeast or US05. I'm leaning towards the US05 in case the SD yeast causes bottle bombs.
I hear Notty is good, in that it floc's to the bottom very well, but I have no idea if it's better than other yeasts or not! I'll probably use US05 as there is some in my fridge!
Oh, I might use that either. It doesn't make much of a difference to me, I'm going to have to buy some sort of yeast.
Notty is the one I believe. If it's good enough for the pros...
Rossa, can we use your chugger pump to empty the barrel?
Quote from: shiny on October 25, 2013, 12:02:01 AM
Rossa, can we use your chugger pump to empty the barrel?
We could try. It does chug about 22l+ a minute though. How could we hook it up?
If we put the pump on the ground which would be lower than the lowest point in the barrel, run a tube into the barrel from the intake and another from the outflow to the kegs/buckets/etc.. Just leave the pump going and have all the empty vessels lined up ready to take the beer.
I assume the pump needs to be primed?
The flow in would need to be epic. I have the small solar jobbie too.
Quote from: Will_D on October 23, 2013, 08:35:37 PM
But when you empty the cask what are your plans for the empty??
We were talking about this last night. Perhaps making a much lower ABV beer (~6%) to ease the strain on people's mash tuns. Any interest in filling the barrel again?
Defo. An IPA or belgian brown ale....
Yeah it would be great if they are all different.
+1 for a Belgian brown
Also vote that Cathal and Emma propose a recipe? :)
TT
Ill second that Belgian brown baby!!
Well the NCBers have grabbed the American Barley Wine recipe. Ingredients dished out yesterday, brewing is about to start.
I would love to see: Fruit Lambic, Geuze, Imperial IPA to name but 3
Quote from: shiny on October 30, 2013, 06:56:47 PM
Also vote that Cathal and Emma propose a recipe? :)
Its actually something we've been thinking about. But Im no good under Pressure ???
Go for it! Can't get better than 8-10 test batches. Make a slight modification for each participant to get a nicely complex blend.
TT
Belgian Brown - we're not talking about some type of sour, are we? :o
Probably more of a Dubble. We were looking at something like Brooklyn 2.
Immediate thought was "that sounds like a Sandra Bullock movie". But then checked it out
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/45/47678 Looks good to me! And Sandra Bullock does too ;)
Can we set a firm date for the emptying please
TOG brewday Sunday 10th?
Can we pay then too?
We definitely have to give them something for taking up that much space for months. Something like a tenner each? I have their account details for transferring my membership every month, I could easily transfer money on behalf of the barrel participants.
Also we really should be giving them a few quid every brew day, we haven't done this the last two months.
Took a good bit out of the barrel this morning. This is how things stand at the moment in terms of what is still in there:
01. Shiny - 20L
02. CARA - 20L
03. Padraic - 20L
04. Cathal O D - 20L
05. Rossa - 20L
06. Rossa - 20L
07. Thomas - 20l
08. JoeyD - 20L
We all took around 17L each so Padraic and Joey will probably have a full 20L each. We can get the last two shares out at the next brewday and then fill it up with water until the new beer is done. I expect that we wouldn't be filling it until January.
I was speaking to Cathal and Emma yesterday and they have a recipe done up on beersmith for the new barrel. The club has grown quite a bit since we filled the barrel initially so there would be enough interest to bring the number of contributors to ten and fill it to the brim this time. Whatever yeast is chosen I will do up a slant for each contributor as its probably going to be an unusual yeast that no one would have already.
(http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/791/v1vl.jpg)
There's a chance I might be down in Dublin next week so could pick up my portion, have an empty corny to swap. Where is it just? :P
it's sitting in my shed
Barrel has been completely emptied, Padraic even got a couple of litres of yeast. ;D We didn't rinse out the barrel so just topped it up to the brim with water so its not going dry out.
I have mentioned it a few times that we should TOG a few quid as their back is up against the wall with the 1200/month rent and bills on top of that. I already have a direct debit set up with TOG for my membership so I can transfer the money to them without any of it being leached by paypal. Also I think some people still have to give CARA their share of money for paying for the barrel. Send me a PM if you want my details and I can pay both.
Shiny - 20L (10€ for TOG, 5€ for CARA)
CARA - 20L
Padraic - 20L
Cathal O D - 20L
Rossa - 20L
Thomas - 20l
JoeyD - 20L (10€ to TOG, 5€ for CARA)
I'll try and throw CARA the money for both over Christmas, sick of paying paypal fees. :P
you could leave the money for TOG or both when your collecting the keg either