Barrel Project - Summary Thread

[Shanna]

Hi there

Rossa has been in touch and confirmed he will plan to attend on Sunday night. If for whatever reason he can't attend he will get his beer delivered before Sunday

Shanna

Updated McGraths contribution to 19 litres, just Rossa left now

1) Ciderhead - 22L
2) AndrewL46 - 19L
3) Bubbles - 26L
4) Beerfly - 19L
5) Shiny - 43L +
6) Shanna - 45L
7) McGrath -19L
Running Total - 193L

[Shanna]

Hi there

Looks like Rossa will show up tonight as he has not delivered his keg yet.  To everybody attending please try and be here for around 9 as these things invariably take longer than expected and it would be nice to have a beer or two after "the work" is done.

Shanna

[beerfly]

still need extra sipons or are we good with the pump?

[Bubbles]

See you all around 9 chaps.

Shanna, do you need me to bring StarSan, or do you have enough already made up?

[Shanna]

Hi Paddy bubbles

Please bring the star San as mine is a bit old now. Will try and make a bit of grub later nothing fancy some wedges and a bit of pizza.  Looking forward to getting this done & claim back the garage.

Shanna

See you all around 9 chaps.

Shanna, do you need me to bring StarSan, or do you have enough already made up?

[Shanna]

If you have a Siphon being it along as it will increase the speed at all which we can do the transfer.  Remember that it will need to be about two metres long to reach from the bottom of a bucket or keg into the barrel. ,  Please make sure it is sanitised first so we don't have to do anything other than sterilise it with Star san this evening.

Shanna

Shanna

still need extra sipons or are we good with the pump?

[Rossa]

1) Ciderhead - 22L
2) AndrewL46 - 19L
3) Bubbles - 26L
4) Beerfly - 19L
5) Shiny - 43L +
6) Shanna - 45L
7) McGrath -19L
Rossa - 22+

Mine came in at 1021

[Shanna]

1) Ciderhead - 22L
2) AndrewL46 - 19L
3) Bubbles - 26L
4) Beerfly - 19L
5) Shiny - 43L +
6) Shanna - 45L
7) McGrath -19L
Rossa - 22+

Mine came in at 1021

Total of 215. If I can count and it all adds up. I reckon 10 ltrs for topping up the barrel,  5 litres split in to 10 * 500ml bottles plus 200 litres for the barrel. If the barrel is smaller then just add it to the 10 litres kept to one side.

[mcgrath]

darts arrive at 20:15 + 20:45 from city center
and if any are coming from the bray side 20:10 + 20:25

so i would imagine some time between 20:30 and 20:45 would be good

ok will be parked outside the station for 20:45 and wearing pink carnation, shiny are you out on Dart as well?

Myself and girlfriend getting bray dart. If you have space we'll grab a lift. If not we don't mind the walk...

[Ciderhead]

Do you want lift from bray?

[Shanna]

Hi McGrath

Shed is rough and ready. Hope your girlffriend is not  arachnophobic 

Shanna

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darts arrive at 20:15 + 20:45 from city center
and if any are coming from the bray side 20:10 + 20:25

so i would imagine some time between 20:30 and 20:45 would be good

ok will be parked outside the station for 20:45 and wearing pink carnation, shiny are you out on Dart as well?

Myself and girlfriend getting bray dart. If you have space we'll grab a lift. If not we don't mind the walk...
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[mcgrath]

Do you want lift from bray?

Hi. Actually coming from glenageary... Gonna get a bus... Missed dart...

[Shane Phelan]

She is full. 





217Litres in total (maybe a little more)

[Ciderhead]

Well done to Conor for Organising, Declan and Edyta, for their hospitality and all the contributors.
How could 10 brews with the same recipe taste so different!
My auto-siphon is now tainted black, 217 litres is a lot of beer through a little orifice
A really funny moment, 9 buckets used, on the last "filler" bucket and I was saying not enough, not enough and with 1.5litres to go she topped out
Seriously folks massive achievement well done, now the hard part.

Is SCD first to fill? and to think it nearly never made it off the ground :

[Bubbles]

Great evening lads! Nice to have all that porter safely tucked up in the barrel. The moment when the barrel blew it's top was great. The cheers must have been heard from miles around. Thanks everyone for such heroic brewing efforts. I hope we all get the expected results from this project. I'm sure we will - the samples were great.

Special thanks have to go to Ciderhead for all the work he's put into this - delivering the barrels, rallying the troops when needed, and being so organised for the filling last night. The samples of whiskey he brought nearly knocked me over!

Big thanks to Edyta for being such a sport and laying on some lovely grub for the brewers.

The head is a little sore this morning as myself and Shanna were toasting the barrel until late. I can testify that there's nothing worse than having to clean trub-coated brewing equipment when you have a hangover.

Lots of tweeting and photo-taking going on (thanks Ronan), so expect a few more reports from the night.