[dbeechum]

Did something unusual yesterday - went from having all of my fermenters full to all of them empty.

Racked over to kegs the following:
10 gallons of Mild (5 American / 5 British)
10 gallons of IPA+ (one getting a keg addition of Cascade and the other Centennial)
5 gallons of Spring Saison with Citra
5 gallons of Belgian Amber with Cinnamon and Vanilla (homemade extracts and the same intial wort as the Saison)
5 gallons of Tupelo Mead (2 gallons getting infused with sour cherry concentrate)
5 gallons of Dark Belgian Strong Wild Ale infused with Pinot Noir soaked French Oak

My brewery is now a confused mess (more so than usual) with everything not a keg waiting for a good scrubbing. Good news is this lets me get started on a new project that I'm going to be spending the better part of a year working on. Bad news is that's a metric ton of fermenters.

[tygo]

Well, further good news is you shouldn't go thirsty for awhile.

[denny]

So, what's the big project?

[dbeechum]

Have you met my friends?

or the Southern California Homebrewer's Festival?

I almost guarantee I'm going to have to pull the Wild Dark early to keep some for myself. I may be generous, but I'm generous enough to feel like completely blowing through a keg of beer that took ~2 years of work in 4 hours. My record last year was for the "Audacity of Aretha Franklin's Hat" - pouring through a randall - we tanked all 5 gallons at the SCHF in under 2 hours from the fest open. (and that's with people taking small samples.)

And Denny - I could tell ya, but then I'd have to kill you and that would be kinda kin to stepping on the last member of squishy endangered species.

[denny]

And Denny - I could tell ya, but then I'd have to kill you and that would be kinda kin to stepping on the last member of squishy endangered species.

Man, that just made my day!  Don't worry, I'll get it out of you when you're drunk at NHC! 

[tygo]

completely blowing through a keg of beer that took ~2 years of work in 4 hours.

Yeah, that would be pretty disheartening.  If it were me I'd probably hide that in my basement with barbed wire and guard dogs around it