My Fiance and I want to serve only our homebrew at our wedding this fall.
Esp. because whatever we would have budgeted for beer otherwise can go towards whatever ingredients and equipment we need to make it happen.
But we're struggling with how best to transport/serve it.
We're looking at maybe 3-4 batches. We keg at home, and can also bottle, but i'm not sure what will work best. I'm particularly concerned with stirring up sediment during transport to the location, since we cannot store anything there ahead of time.
So here are some options I've thought of. Perhaps y'all can help me figure out the pro's and con's or maybe just what makes sense.
1) Bottle everything - (need a lot more empties than we have)
2) Keg beers, serve on ice like the 'olden days' (college)
3) keg beers and rent/borrow/steal jockey box(s)
4) keg beers, 'keg parka'
In reality we may still bottle some even if we're kegging, but it seems like kegging would be better except i'm worried about yeast/sediment, as we often keg right out of primary and there is a good amount of crud ( but that settles nicely and never comes out of an undisturbed keg once its going)
Our facility doesn't have any serving equipment at all, it's just an event hall. Luckily it's not very far away, but we'd still have to go down one elevator, into a car/truck, drive about 2 miles on city streets, and back up another elevator. We get the event hall 4 hrs before the reception, which may or may not be enough time for re-settling. (when I force carb, I really have to wait overnight, but hopefully we won't be shaking them THAT much)
Esp. because whatever we would have budgeted for beer otherwise can go towards whatever ingredients and equipment we need to make it happen.
But we're struggling with how best to transport/serve it.
We're looking at maybe 3-4 batches. We keg at home, and can also bottle, but i'm not sure what will work best. I'm particularly concerned with stirring up sediment during transport to the location, since we cannot store anything there ahead of time.
So here are some options I've thought of. Perhaps y'all can help me figure out the pro's and con's or maybe just what makes sense.
1) Bottle everything - (need a lot more empties than we have)
2) Keg beers, serve on ice like the 'olden days' (college)
3) keg beers and rent/borrow/steal jockey box(s)
4) keg beers, 'keg parka'
In reality we may still bottle some even if we're kegging, but it seems like kegging would be better except i'm worried about yeast/sediment, as we often keg right out of primary and there is a good amount of crud ( but that settles nicely and never comes out of an undisturbed keg once its going)
Our facility doesn't have any serving equipment at all, it's just an event hall. Luckily it's not very far away, but we'd still have to go down one elevator, into a car/truck, drive about 2 miles on city streets, and back up another elevator. We get the event hall 4 hrs before the reception, which may or may not be enough time for re-settling. (when I force carb, I really have to wait overnight, but hopefully we won't be shaking them THAT much)