Case Swap 10 - Expressions of interest

[Peter Smith]

I had a chat to tilt and he suggested perhaps we aim at a swap around Sat 16th Nov to slot in between the NHB competition and xmas.   Expressions of interest please to get an idea of numbers.. Hopefully a full swap given the new number of case swap members recently!!

The process goes something like this:

1. Brew a beer you're proud of and want other brewers to try and give feedback on.
2. Post your recipe as a separate thread in the NZ case swap group - feedback from others'll be posted under your own recipe thread.
3. Bottle it up in 750s - plastic bottles are best as they have to be shipped around the country using "smash and stomp" courier service.  Plastic being lighter also keeps the costs down a bit too. 
4. How many you send in will depend on the interest we get ----> total number to contribute = number of brewers in the swap minus 1
5. Get your beers to a central point under your own steam.
6. The organisers then make up a bundle of mixed cases and send them out. 
7. Receive your case, chill, drink and enjoy while giving feedback on the beer to the brewer via their CS recipe thread.

I'm happy to be the Auckland depot again this time around. 

If we get a few interested from Wgtn/ ChCh or elsewhere it might be good to have local "hubs" and organisers there too.  Shipping with NZ post to Auckland (assuming this is the only depot as it was last time, that we've got 13 brewers and everyone is using PET bottles not glass) is about $20 from the North Island and $35 from the South.  

Redistribution costs split over the lot of us came to about $10 each. 

So to summarise costs, if Auckland is the central point, are:

$10 for Auckland brewers who drop off and pick up in person

$30 for other North Island brewers

$45 for South Island brewers

How does that all sound? 

[Peter Smith]

ok all who have dropped off have done 12

hopefully and i think we sit at 10 or 11    

[Raffe]

Hi Peter,

I will be dropping off Richard's (we brewed as a collab) - will send you a DM for the address.

Cheers

Raffe

[Peter Smith]

dropping to me or dropping off at hallatau

[Raffe]

To you - I can't make it to WBC sadly.

[Matt Lory]

Huge apology for the no show yesterday, I got my days mixed up and was greeted with a very confused barman at hallertau when I showed up this afternoon. Downside now it i have a dozen IPAs bottled that I don't need to bother with, upside - I guess - they are pretty tasty, so no great hardship.
Hopefully get my ducks in a row better for CS11. Cheers

[Michael_H]

Oh, um, so I posted a recipe but didn't express interest in the thread. So here it is - my expression of interest.

[Stu H]

Weird, so I posted up my recipe, but it got "marked as spam", and won't show up until a "moderator approves it".

[G S]

Any news folks?

I haven't fallen for the brewers equivalent of sending my bank account details to a recently bereaved Nigerian have I !?!?

[Peter Smith]

don't know try reformatting your post and resubmit the SW behind the board might not like something in the post???  if that fails pm me and I will post up your swap recipe etc