So I need some advice...i have a stag do coming up in the end of may, in which we are going camping and walking for 2 nights. In a dilemma as to what I should do; either bottle and priming resulting in sediment, or buying. Keg and force carbing (not done before). Would I be better taking the 40 odd bottles and having the sediment (telling people not to drink) or taking a keg (and do you still get the sediment?)
I'll have to drive for a couple of hours have to think about keeping both options cool, but a couple of polystyrene sheets in boxes should do the trick.
I want to impress as I don't know a few of the guys going (and don't want to take 40 pints of average beer)
Also can anyone recommend any decent hoppy ale kits? Hoppy and golden should please everyone, but I normally go for the brown/stout kits. I also plan on labelling up the lot, so will share the pics, if anyone cares.
I also feel I should clarify the group is mostly 40s early 50s, so not (I hope) your stereotypical "lads on tour" stag weekend.
Thanks for any advice, suggestions 2 cents or thoughts.
bottle or keg...and what kit?
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Re: bottle or keg...and what kit?
Matt; This sounds easy, to me 
Ye check out my thread, toward the top of this board. Ye have time to read, inwardly digest All of it. And Still have plenty of time before May!
Brew as much of that as ye think they might consume. Meanwhile, asking them for their own contributions of one gallon, plastic bottles. They supply them. You fill them. They carry them, as they feel they'll require, on ye walks away from camp.
As it says; Four gallons, in an 'open' FV, can be trusted for three weeks. Syphoned into a screw top plastic? God knows. But, that's how I took mine to Dean O's.
It's dark. F**k sediment. Can't see shit through opaque plastic and dark beer. Anyway, most settles out in days, in the FV.
It tastes Great. Because it really just does. Different to the slops they're probably used to? Sure. It's better. Day or two with f**k all else available? They'll tune in to the taste
Oh, and, living in the country; The last thing I'd Ever want to envisage is a bunch of comfortably burbling men, craftily side slinging their f**king bottles, plastic or glass, into My wayside!
Gallon bottle can be threaded onto the belt. Anyway, they're less likely to be randomly slung away than 'bottles'.
What ever more can I say? I've just sorted your problem, at a stroke!
Ye check out my thread, toward the top of this board. Ye have time to read, inwardly digest All of it. And Still have plenty of time before May!
Brew as much of that as ye think they might consume. Meanwhile, asking them for their own contributions of one gallon, plastic bottles. They supply them. You fill them. They carry them, as they feel they'll require, on ye walks away from camp.
As it says; Four gallons, in an 'open' FV, can be trusted for three weeks. Syphoned into a screw top plastic? God knows. But, that's how I took mine to Dean O's.
It's dark. F**k sediment. Can't see shit through opaque plastic and dark beer. Anyway, most settles out in days, in the FV.
It tastes Great. Because it really just does. Different to the slops they're probably used to? Sure. It's better. Day or two with f**k all else available? They'll tune in to the taste
Oh, and, living in the country; The last thing I'd Ever want to envisage is a bunch of comfortably burbling men, craftily side slinging their f**king bottles, plastic or glass, into My wayside!
Gallon bottle can be threaded onto the belt. Anyway, they're less likely to be randomly slung away than 'bottles'.
What ever more can I say? I've just sorted your problem, at a stroke!
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mattwilson
Re: bottle or keg...and what kit?
Thanks for the input ditch, and the inevitable stout reccomendation. I'm he's you know a thing or two about the black stuff?
As I said I'm going to go for a lighter beer to please the majority, so if anyone can recommend any good kits it would be great. Good point about people slinging bottles, but not to worry, we won't be drinking away from the campsite, and certainly not on a long walk/hyke...the idea of both carrying and drinking a gallon of beer on a long walk would be suicidal...especially provoking land owners chucking our litter about their site. To cover the litter comment I would just use milk crates to transport, and have people replace each bottle after use.
I really just wonder about the benefits of a keg or boxes of bottles and which would be better. The sediment at the bottom is more a worry for the fact that if they are drinking the nasties at the bottom of the bottle there won't be too many toilets about...and I will swiftly lose friends!
As I said I'm going to go for a lighter beer to please the majority, so if anyone can recommend any good kits it would be great. Good point about people slinging bottles, but not to worry, we won't be drinking away from the campsite, and certainly not on a long walk/hyke...the idea of both carrying and drinking a gallon of beer on a long walk would be suicidal...especially provoking land owners chucking our litter about their site. To cover the litter comment I would just use milk crates to transport, and have people replace each bottle after use.
I really just wonder about the benefits of a keg or boxes of bottles and which would be better. The sediment at the bottom is more a worry for the fact that if they are drinking the nasties at the bottom of the bottle there won't be too many toilets about...and I will swiftly lose friends!