Rebel Barrel 2014; Empty Oct beer and Possible Refill

[donnchadhc]

Thanks Gary, will try and get up to you next weekend, just under pressure with a job. Anybody thinking of oaking in secondary?

[LordEoin]

Mine's bottled and all, didn't do anything more to it. I'm hoping that some champagne yeast will get it to carb up but otherwise I didn't see a need for any changes to the beer

[Garry]

I'm going to just bottle mine as is too. I might hold back 3 or 4 litters and add some crushed chicken to a demijohn ala cóck ale. I've seen it on YouTube, looks disgusting but it's supposed to be a good beer ?

[Taf]

Thanks for sorting out the emptying,  and drop off to me.  I will be dry hopping mine for sure.

[johnrm]

Garry, you're mad.
Choking your chicken and what?!
I pulled in down the road after leaving and shoved on an airlock, the lid was swollen and I didn't want to risk it blowing and spilling all over the car

[LordEoin]

yeah, there seemed to be a lot of co2 still in the beer, so there might be hope of the yeasties being revived a bit for carbonation (maybe)

[LordEoin]

I tempted fate out of curiosity and opened a bottle.
the fliptop popped, which is a good sign, but not a bubble to be seen yet
man it's tasty... Our combination of fukc-ups made a fantastic beer!
Lets just hope it carbs up with time.

[johnrm]

Force carb or beer gun if you can.

[LordEoin]

mine's carbing up nicely in the bottle.
tiny bubbles and thin head, but it suits it well.
I used about a gram of champagne yeast

[Dr Horrible]

Things have gone all quiet on this thread - any plans on filling the barrel this side of Christmas?  Trying to decide what to brew next, I'm keen to brew that black lager because I really like the look of the receipe but could hold off for a while and do something else if we are definitely going to be doing this sometime over the next few months.
The temperatures at the moment are still a bit too high to get any proper lagering in the barrel anyway  - I'm trying to lager some batches in my attic at the moment but not getting below 10deg.

[Garry]

It's gone quiet alright. So I doubt anything's going into the barrel this side of Christmas?

I have the ingredients for this brew and was thinking of brewing it myself anyway.

What ye think of filling the barrel around the 2nd or 3rd week of January?

[LordEoin]

Build it and they will come

[johnrm]

My boiler is out of action.

[Dr Horrible]

2nd or 3rd week in Jan would mean brewing over the Christmas holidays which would suit me perfectly, so I'd be up for that. 

[Garry]

My boiler is out of action.

Do you want to borrow my hlt? It will do a boil no bother.