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Hey Brewbirds, this stuff is way out there. Did you do too much LDS in the 60s?

Brewbirds wrote:Okay here's how I'm seeing this:

You ask for a large Yeti ice chest for a wedding present, and get it early, make the wort and put it in the stone crock and refrigerate it, when its time to leave you put it and the yeast starter in the ice chest with frozen water bottles, the crock should stay cool.
On wedding day Father of the bride walks down the aisle and places the barrel before you, Bridesmaid presents you with the crock of wort and Bridegroom presents hubby the yeast starter, you fill the barrel from the crock he pitches the yeast and seals the bung, the cask goes into the Yeti for the ride home and VIOLA.
I can't find a pretty amphora like vessel to put the yeast starter in so you'd have to do some shopping.


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Oh and someone will have to be in charge of the thermometer and pitching temps.

BEER WEDDING!!!

This is way too complicated! Plus, with no groomsmen or bridesmaids, and my dad not walking down the aisle, it would end up being me and my fiance carrying a big barrel down the aisle (not exactly an elegant entrance). I'd really prefer to carry flowers.

I am about the part about him "sealing the bung". Not everyone is into that sort of thing...

Looks like I'll have to move this thread to the adult area. Then Kealia can right the vows and that would be priceless.

And people think homebrewers can only brew good beer.

BlackDuck wrote:

Brewbirds wrote:he pitches the yeast and seals the bung

Never mind.

I just cannot stop laughing. I'm sorry and sophomoric ( or moron) but I missed the bung line the first time around and then saw the "never mind" and just lost it.

There's no hope for me.

As for a wedding suggestion....first let me say, congrats! and then I'd say, great way to start a life together.

Well darn!! My visualizations were so poignant, dramatic and romantic.

It was a tiny cask, you can always use a good ice chest, and the fermenter would come in handy down the road; couldn't you just drag three people in off the street and dress them up??

Oh and BB2 corrected me on a point of history: the groom brings the wort and the bride pitches the yeast and drives home the bung it is a Celtic tradition because the wise woman from the tribe is handed down the Yeast Stick through maternal lineage. Course they didn't know what yeast was back then they just thought the women in that family had magic powers. But I digress...

Now about this wedding planning thing... I was thinking a nice Barleywine for the wort, I'm sure Ruski would be happy to supply a recipe, the symbolism continues here because it will age in the cask until your first anniversary and you open it to toast the memories of your first year together and how some chick on the BeerBorg made your wedding a once in a lifetime experience.

Now there's a yeast stick involved in driving home the bung?

Best. Wedding. EVER!!

gwcr wrote:Now there's a yeast stick involved in driving home the bung?

Best. Wedding. EVER!!

Really, PLEASE STOP! I can't take it anymore. Besides, losing beer thru my nose is just plain wasteful.

I don't mean to demean the wedding nor the great suggestions....but the side comments are hilarious. I'm supposed to be an adult. maybe tomorrow

gwcr wrote:Now there's a yeast stick involved in driving home the bung?

Best. Wedding. EVER!!

Jeez gwcr your not following along here... the men of the tribe brought this sweet sticky liquid they invented to the wisewoman because they hated it and she stirred it with her magic stick, put it in a cask in her hut for a several weeks where magic got performed on it and then brought the cask out to the campfire, served it to the men who now LOVED the wisewoman's brew and worshiped her as the great tribal wisewoman for a hole other generation.

Driving the bung home is a symbol of power now.

Men will never learn.

This is getting more and more complicated.

Just take my advice, experiment with a couple of different styles that will go well together (and still have the symbolism, as I outlined before), and go with that.

Simple, yet eloquent.

Driving the bung home is a symbol of power now.

You don't say! Been there, done that.

OMG.

Now I have to drive home the bung with a powerful magical yeast stick?



I'm dying. Is anyone else thinking...

RickBeer wrote:Hey Brewbirds, this stuff is way out there. Did you do too much LDS in the 60s?

Alas I was deprived of that opportunity as I was still in diapers at the time (can I say diapers on a forum?) but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express once.


Okay Evily if you insist on Dave's boring ole route look into the history of a Porter... you could one the old fashioned way and it would be a blended beer.

YAWN

BB where were you two years ago when I got married? If I threw this out as my first plan, I could have brought out my much tamer plan of a beer tent and a monkey. Needless to say, without an extreme first plan, I didnt get no monkey.

Beer-lord wrote:Looks like I'll have to move this thread to the adult area. Then Kealia can right the vows and that would be priceless.

And people think homebrewers can only brew good beer.

We have an adult area?

DaYooper wrote:BB where were you two years ago when I got married? If I threw this out as my first plan, I could have brought out my much tamer plan of a beer tent and a monkey. Needless to say, without an extreme first plan, I didnt get no monkey.

evily wrote:OMG.

Now I have to drive home the bung with a powerful magical yeast stick?



I'm dying. Is anyone else thinking...

Here the Yeast Stick that has been in my family for generations:

I'll let Y'All work out the Bung amongst yourselves.