Christchurch Quake Take Two.

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Permalink Reply by Sparky on February 25, 2011 at 10:47pm

Sincere thoughts go out to you all in ChCh from us here in Napier.

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Permalink Reply by Dougal on February 27, 2011 at 12:25pm

Safe and well, and really gratified at the kindness coming in form the rest of the country. I'm also taking refuge out of town at my brother-in-law's place. The house was damaged in September and isn't much worse, but there's no water in my street, and my dog hates the aftershocks.

I lost very little beer, but was gutted to find that the airlock had been knocked out of a finished batch of Dark Mild I made after finally trying (and loving) Kid Chocolate. It was sitting in a very dusty garage having all kinds of crap rained down on from the bricks and ceiling.

What do you think? It's against my better judgement, but should I just bottle it in plastic anyway and hope that it's okay? I was really looking forward to this beer :( 

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Permalink Reply by jt on February 27, 2011 at 12:41pm

Bottle it !

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Permalink Reply by Dave W on February 27, 2011 at 1:51pm

Yeah bottle it, it's worth trying to save the brew.

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Permalink Reply by JoKing on February 27, 2011 at 1:55pm

Bottle it - it'll be fine. I've found all sorts of shit in the bottom of my fermenters thanks to my 18 month old girl who loves taking the top of my carboys and putting things like pegs, nail clippers, tooth brushes, cotton tips etc in them. They've all turned out fine.

 

Bottle it.

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Permalink Reply by Dougal on February 27, 2011 at 2:01pm

Thanks guys, I will then. Chch needs all the beer it can get at the moment :)

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Permalink Reply by Greig McGill on February 27, 2011 at 8:37pm

Legendary! Any debris in the beer can be counted as "local character". :)

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Permalink Reply by Dougal on February 27, 2011 at 8:45pm

Maybe even "terroir"?

Thanks to the September quake, this won't be the first of my beers to contain a sprinkling of masonry dust. :)

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Permalink Reply by Stu McKinlay on February 28, 2011 at 7:55am

It'll need two years to taste like Kid Chocolate!!

 

You could get it into jerry can and serve it through a handpump.  I'm sure the student volunteer army would knock it off in 5min (or my father-in-law is down there shovelling for the Federated Farmers group).

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Permalink Reply by Barry on February 28, 2011 at 8:55pm

Glad to hear all you boys are OK. Chin up for the big recovery, take care of yourselves and your families and neighbours. Let us know if there's anything we can do from up north.

Cheers.

 

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Permalink Reply by David Upex on March 1, 2011 at 1:38pm

So does anyone know if Pomeroys or the Twisted Hop are still alive?

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Permalink Reply by Barry on March 1, 2011 at 2:29pm

http://soba.org.nz/Home/tabid/39/vw/1/ItemID/42/Default.aspx

 

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