Dark Lord Day

[Ryan Pierce]

http://www.crowdsurge.com/darklordday/

The site is queuing up people as we speak. Official sale time is noon today.

[Ryan Pierce]

The cake is a lie.

Crowdsurge.com needs to die a slow, painful death.

They started queueing people up at 10 mins before sale time. I didn't check until 5 mins before which put me at a disadvantage. Then they said I could buy tickets, but the only timeslot available couldn't be added to my cart, it timed out, and I was dumped back to the beginning of the queue.

Grrr. Arrrrrgh. Elizabeth and I managed to miss out on an opportunity to buy 8 bottles of beer for $180 plus usurious parking. Well maybe that's not so bad....

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[Eric Stein]

Yikes, that's unreasonably highly priced.

[John Stoner]

Cheaper than a lot of good wine. 

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[Skunkmere Abel]

Has anyone tried the clone recipes out there?

[Ryan Pierce]

OK, I am hooked. A bottle of Dark Lord 2013 made its way to the TOOOL meeting, and I had a chance to sample some. Oh my....

I've rinsed the empty bottle and placed it on the fermenter. I figure, as Eastern Orthodox Beer Pope, we need a religious icon for veneration. ;-)

I've researched recipes. You either need a lot of grain (like 35+ lbs!), or do a partial mash and use malt extract. I have a second 10 gallon mash tun that I can bring in. We'd probably need to run both at once for this. Or convert one of the brewery kegs with a false bottom.

I'm not sure what to do for yeast. It seems Wyeast had some super high gravity beer yeasts, but these appear to be limited edition and are gone. I'd considered talking to Bioguy about culturing from a bottle of Dark Lord, but it is hit or miss on whether the yeast, if any, in the bottle is the same yeast originally used to ferment.

I'd like to get back into brewing, but I think we first need to figure out what we are doing with the kegerator and bar. We need a proper Beer Altar to celebrate the Holy Eucharist.

On May 11, 2014, at 10:19 PM, Skunkmere Abel <skun...@gmail.com> wrote:

Has anyone tried the clone recipes out there?

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[Justin T. Conroy]

With regards to the bar/kegerator. I think both Toba and Bioguy tried calling a place that said they would call them back and never did. So we're still on the lookout for purchasing a chest freezer that will fit the kegs standing upright.

Details copied from Toba in case anyone wants to JFDI. Make sure to email the list if you find something so we don't end up buying 2 on accident.

> Ask for chest freezer fit within dimensions (exterior) 58w x 36h x 24d.

> would be nice if a 16.5" cylinder 29.5" tall fit inside with the lid closed

> (full size keg). corny kegs need 27" internal height in the freezer, this

> is important..

>
> We want to put it under the bar. That's the dimensions we need to fit

> kegs in it and have it fit under the bar.

[Skunkmere Abel]

Living sea aquarium was giving a 6ft chest freezer away a couple weeks ago.

[Skunkmere Abel]

also how about doing less than a  5 gallons batch to fit in your mash tun.