Catering Equipment and cooling

[Kevin Prince]

Hey,

We need to arrange some catering equipment for the weekend. 

We need a large tea urn for hot water, and some large water boxes the kind you use camping to put large amounts of squash in.

We also need a way of cooling a large amount of beer (400 bottles) on Saturday so either large buckets with ice or maybe bring in fridges?

Basically I need someone to research, cost and arrange the above! If you can help let me know,

Kevin 

[Carin_C]

Hi,

I'll research the above, and come back to you with best options
(early) next week, so we can finalise rentals.

Let me know if anybody comes up with anything meantime.

Carin Campanario

[Kevin Prince]

Thanks!

One the options we have is to get kegs of beer, but we need someone who knows how to tap them etc!

Kevin

[Chris Foote (Spike)]

Do you mean "Kegs" Kevin?

Kegs are the aluminium containers that connect to CO2 (or nitrogen) that
use gas pressure to push the booze out - they have one outlet in the
centre of one of the ends. Or do you mean "barrels"? These may well also
be made of aluminium but have a tapping hole (er, for the tap) in one
corner (?) and a spile hole along the opposite long side.

I have some experience in this line ;-)

Spike

[Alistair MacDonald]

CO2! You are one of these fizzy larger drinkers I bet.

[Alistair MacDonald]

.....oops. That was the send button and not the return wasn't it.

If you can borrow a cradle I can do it but it might be better to look and see if they have any boxes. These are cardboard boxes lined with a bag and filled with real ale. Ummmm :-) . They came with a tap connected and don't need to settle.

Alistair

On 29 Oct 2010, at 07:35, "Chris Foote (Spike)" <sp...@tenbus.co.uk> wrote:

[Chris Foote (Spike)]

How very dare you! ;-)

I've been a member of http://www.camra.org.uk/ for over 35 years.

This is a picture of my brother at a beer fest that we helped to run in 1975
http://www.fotolibra.com/gallery/443409/camra-beer-festival-london-1975/

Spike

[Alistair MacDonald]

It appears Spike has accidentally volunteered to be the barman. :-)

Alistair

[Sara Farmer]

Can I volunteer to be the beer tester then?  We'll have to check that all the barrels/ boxen/ whatever are good...   *wonders if we might be able to beg some from the Hogsback Brewery*       Sj. --- On Fri, 29/10/10, Alistair MacDonald <alistair....@gmail.com> wrote:

[Alistair MacDonald]

Yes, we defiantly need a quality control team. I also volunteer for this job. :-)

  Alistair

[Billy Abbott]

Most bag-in-box beers don't need settling but if we do beg/buy some make
sure to ask for "bright" beer just in case. Bright is filtered and can
be thrown around with less hassle.

--billy (who also volunteers for bar duty if he hasn't been beaten to it
by everyone else)

--
http://billyabbott.co.uk
You say tomato, I say EMACS

[Kevin Prince]

Any update on this?

Kevin

On 28 Oct 2010, at 12:16, Carin_C wrote:

[Carin_C]

Yes, I will post what I found today.

I’m a bit disappointed about the prices I found, and wonder about
price/convenience balance (how cheap do we need to go)...

Carin

[Carin_C]

I emailed my catering research to Kevin directly and didn’t post it
here, because it was boringly long.

We found plastic jerry cans for the squash on ebay, hot water boilers
for the tea at ‘Just Hire’ (- if a car-owner can help out -), and will
use baskets with ice cubes from ‘eskimo-ice’ to cool the bottled
drinks.

Carin.