Brewing and relocating/moving

[permo]

Well, it appears as if the big guy was looking out for me, and I will be accepting a new job, a once in a lifetime type of opportunity. This will afford me the luxury of not only moving to a town with great walleye fishing right in it (missouri river), but a nice, big, new house. A brew room with a drain, water, vent, etc..etc...is in my future.

Regardless, I am worried about what to do about this impending 200 mile move. I have a fridge with roughly 50 washed samples of yeast and I don't want to lose those. I have 3 beers in secondary aging, 200-300 bottles of beer aging and waiting to be drink, 4 pounds of hops, 3 full 5 gallon kegs, 2 beers currently in primary and enough grain for 2 more batches.

As you can see I have a ALOT of beer...... I am not sure what to do with all this beer and the ingredients. I have come up with a few options.

-RDWHAHB - let her ride, bring the beer/yeast and so on with me and hope it all goes well, keep on brewing and pack it all up when the time comes

- Use up all my grains, bottle up all my beers from primary and secondary for transport and resume brewing as life permits, drain the kegs and pack up all the gear?


Funny, that I am worrying about my beer and brewing equipment more than some other things :rockin::rockin:

 

[Walker]

i have no real advice for you, but I have just decided to go thaw out the walleye I have in the freezer.

 

[Keim]

Throw a going away party for yourself. That will lighten the load.

 

[jkreuze]

I would get empty beer cases for transporting the bottled beer. I'd try to keg as much of the beer as I could before the trip (kegs don't break or leak). Plastic bucket primaries probably can travel fine. Grain travels fine. Yeast should be fine in a couple of coolers for the five-hour trip. Pack to move, put in U-Haul, no worries.

Any beer you drink is one less beer to move.

Oh I almost forgot the important part --

Congratulations on the new job and house!

 

[eulipion2]

I second throwing a party. Beer is heavy, takes up a ton of space, and you have to pack it carefully to avoid breaking bottles.

The raw ingredients will travel easily in coolers (hops and yeast) or a clean trash bag/can (grains). Keg up the fermenting beers if you can, clear out some of the bottles waiting to be consume (though I completely understand keeping the bottles you want to mature).

I moved a mead I was bulk conditioning in a glass carboy, six cases of homebrew, and a beer fridge full of commercial examples (~30 bottles), plus empty bottles, carboys, and kegs, and that was ridiculous. Moving all that you have is gonna be tough. Downsize!