Gong camping!

[kenoglass]

Gonna go camp and was gonna take some homebrew. Problem is there will be limited cooler storage. It looks like it will be in the mid 80's should I be ok without putting it on ice? Or should I expect some bottle bombs?? Thanks for any advise.

 

[r2eng]

I was trying to figure out what "gong camping" was... figured it was worth reading about

Ice it.

 

[kenoglass]

Yea realized gong was typed too late....

 

[joeyjojojr]

Camping for Chinese people I guess. I am Chinese and was interested in this, lol

 

[Hello]

Why would you worry about bottle bombs when putting beer on ice? It's like chilling them in the fridge. I put HB on ice for 2 days. If cooler space is limited grab another cooler. ;-)

 

[brewprint]

It'll be fine at 80 until you can put it on ice. I did the same thing with some home brews a few weeks ago but I drove 8 hours with them in the trunk. When I arrived at the cabin I put them in the fridge.

 

[masskrug]

They will be fine, but cloudy. Ice them for a day and let the yeast settle back down.

 

[cheezydemon3]

Yeah, you are going to have to put ice on your gong.

 

[kenoglass]

My concern was I won't be able to chill all the beer when we get to the tent site as our cooler will have food and little space for beer to chill. So it will be out side near my tent until I can get some room in cooler for it. I most likely will chill a six pack or so at a time but the rest will be in 80 temps. Should they be ok like that for a day or two or am I overthinking it too much? Also due to traveling to the place I don't have room for another cooler unfortunately.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

If you're near a creek or river, put a few bottles of homebrew in a keeper basket (or something similar) and toss them in the water. Make sure you have them tied off securely though, you don't want them washing away. Let 'em sink down into the cooler deep water, weigh 'em down with a couple rocks if you have to. They won't be as cold as they would be on ice, but depending on how deep & the water temp/flow rate, they might get down into the low 60's. I do this in the back country all the time.
Regards, GF.

 

[Clarke]

if you have room for beer, surly you have room for another cooler?

 

[cheezydemon3]

Rule #1 of CAMING:

No bottles.

Rule #44,321 of CAMPING:

No Gongs.

 

[j1n]

lol what is this nonsense. when i go camping i bring a dedicated beer cooler.

 

[cheezydemon3]

lol what is this nonsense. when i go camping i bring a dedicated beer cooler.

Right. If you are car camping, you take cans and plenty of coolers and ice.

If you are Backpacking, or even just hiking in more than a mile, you bring a bottle of hard alcohol.

You NEVER take beer bottles. Sorry! They get BROKEN. They can break in transit.....then you have glass in your ice. Just BAD.

See below:

Rule #1 of CAMING:

No bottles.

Rule #44,321 of CAMPING:

No Gongs.

 

[ArkotRamathorn]

Rule #1 of CAMING:

No bottles.

Rule #44,321 of CAMPING:

No Gongs.

Not to get preachy, but, this, this, this, this.

NO BOTTLES please. I live on a river in the middle of a college town and its a well known thing, DO NOT WALK IN THE RIVER WITHOUT SHOES. Glass will never bio-degrade, ever, it will mechanically degrade into sand after a few million years. But for the time frame that affects other people, a shard of glass is a quick way to end a camping trip(on top of how it can affect fish and other wildlife).

I will grant that pretty much all home brewers will treat the bottles like newborn babies so they have good empties for rebottling later. I'll usually pour my beer into 1liter water skins and let them degas a little so they don't blow up the water skin, contemplating some aluminum growlers potentially as well.

 

[Trox]

Rule #1 of CAMING:

No bottles.

Rule #44,321 of CAMPING:

No Gongs.

Found me a sig. for these forums. :rockin:

 

[brewprint]

We go camping a lot.

I have always drank good beer in bottles.

Never broke a bottle.

Now I homebrew and go camping.

Still never broke a bottle.

Don't be scared, have a homebrew in a bottle while you camp.

 

[kenoglass]

I decided that I will try to get another cooler in the car. We are camping at a resort type place no river nearby just beers at the campsite. We do raft but I never carry glass then just when I get back to the car or home I consume then.

 

[kenoglass]

Rule #1 of CAMING:

No bottles.

Rule #44,321 of CAMPING:

No Gongs.

Well I know I can't fit my gong but I will fit my ukulele!!

 

[j1n]

i always bring bottles and have never broken one before. i fill the cooler up then pack it with ice so there is little movement when being transported.

 

[ArkotRamathorn]

We go camping a lot.

I have always drank good beer in bottles.

Never broke a bottle.

Now I homebrew and go camping.

Still never broke a bottle.

Don't be scared, have a homebrew in a bottle while you camp.

While this may be true for you, its not true for everyone. I myself know* I could handle the responsibility of not breaking a bottle.

By this same logic you could say "I've never been pulled over for a DUI and never got in an accident while drinking and driving so I'm a good drunk driver".

*knowing I won't, and extrodinary circumstances that cause a bottle to break don't always match up though

If you are willing to spend a couple hours when and if a bottle breaks to pick up every, little, tiny, piece of glass, thats cool, make sure you pack it out with you. What if you miss one? Someone later on down the road goes to pick up a stick on the ground, accidentally grabs the broken glass.

Pretty much every single camp ground, state park, national park, every where will say "NO GLASS BOTTLES" for a reason. It doesn't take much to ruin a camping trip for someone, or ruin a pristine natural resource with a piece of broken glass you maybe missed.

There are multiple other options to bring beer out into the wilderness camping with you. There are plastic brown PET bottles you could fill and cap. Aluminum growlers are another option. There are also quite a few force carbonation option like Fizz Gizz or those carbonation caps as well. All of these option are lighter, aluminum and plastic options will save you a lot of weight when camping.

I will grant you, yes, you are probably responsible and smart enough to not break a bottle. But why take the chance? When I was in Yellowstone about 10 years ago my brother cut his foot on a piece of glass and got a nasty infection, didn't lose his foot or anything but, its a simple thing to just utilize other options.

 

[cheezydemon3]

While this may be true for you, its not true for everyone. I myself know* I could handle the responsibility of not breaking a.................................. 10 years ago my brother cut his foot on a piece of glass and got a nasty infection, didn't lose his foot or anything but, its a simple thing to just utilize other options.

Well said!

Transporting bottles any distance is a BAD idea!

Lets ask Safety TROLL!!!!!!

ME: "Safety Troll!! Should we take beer bottles camping?????

SAFETY TROLL:

"WUT IF.....you are AWESOME DRIVER, BUT, BAD DRIVER hits you head on!!!!


BOTTLESBOTTLESBOTTLES!!!!!!


WUT IF.....you are AWESOME CARRIER, BUT, yer buddy drops his side of cooler!!!!!!

BOTTLESBOTTLESBOTTLES!!!!

WUT IF.....Der is EARFQUAKE?????????

You guessed it!!!!

Me guess you like glass carboys and Austin Powers!!!!!

Me ALSO like to live DANGEROUSLY!!! But ME NOT use bottles when ME gong camping!!"

 

[ArkotRamathorn]

Well said!

Transporting bottles any distance is a BAD idea!

There's quite a big difference between transporting your glass bottles from location A to location B. Or transporting your bottles to a camp ground or other locations where broken bottles could destroy natural resources. I resorted to hyperbole to demonstrate the kind of logic involved.

You can pack your bottles perfect in a cooler really nice and tight and they wont break in the cooler... But, what if you drop the bottle while drinking it at the camp ground? It's disrespectful to blatantly flaunt a rule stated on signs when entering a camp ground or any other place we would go to view and enjoy. I also, since you ignored that part, stated multiple options available to anyone, that are not that expensive. Aluminum growlers are expensive, but brown plastic PET bottles are cheap, easy to get, and you can prime your beer just fine in one of these. There really is no excuse to bring glass bottles onto a camp ground or any park. Not to mention theres a lot of delicious beer available in cans.

Please leave the glass bottles at home.

Edit: 24 500ml brown PET bottles on northern brewer are 22 dollars without shipping. Theres really no excuse to use glass, you can fit more in the plastic bottles, they weigh FAR less, AND you reduce your risk of leaving broken glass litter at the camp site. I don't see how this is unreasonable or trolling. Why risk hurting yourself, hurting other campers potentially, and hurting the enviroment?

Lets sum that up into some bullet points then

1. More beer in each bottle
2. Lighter so you are not carrying as much weight into the woods
3. Greatly reducing the risk of leaving litter in the woods

How is this "safety trolling"?

I do have 1 5-gallon glass carboy that I baby, I *know* one day itll break, and I hope it doesn't result in a hospital trip. I like to keep stuff in there that will need longer time in secondary, but I have no illusions about it breaking eventually no matter how careful I am.

 

[j1n]

I don't think he was calling you the safety troll.

In all my years of camping i have never broken a glass bottle and i have had park rangers come by while i had a beer in hand (bottled) and didn't say a word to me. Also i've never seen no glass bottles signs at any of the camp grounds i go to. I think you are making it a bigger deal than it actually is. IF something were to happen and i broke a bottle, im not going to just leave it there or do a half ass job of cleaning it up. just saying.

 

[CBelli]

personally, I would buy good craft beer in cans and call it a day!

The idea of bringing homebrew in bottles just sounds like it is way too much do deal with.... not to mention after all that work, it will not taste as good as it does at home all shaken up and such.


my 2¢

 

[cheezydemon3]

NO Amkratramathorn, YOU are NOT Saftey TROLL. I liked your post and just quoted a little so as to NOT take up tons of page.

You said it well, I said it HUMOROUSLY as SAFETY TROLL.

Safety TROLL LIKE YOU!!!!

 

[bob1852]

lol what is this nonsense. when i go camping i bring a dedicated beer cooler.

THIS!!

When I camp, I'm trying to decide what food will be okay in 80* weather, becasue there's no room for food in the beer cooler!

 

[LandoLincoln]

My concern was I won't be able to chill all the beer when we get to the tent site as our cooler will have food and little space for beer to chill. So it will be out side near my tent until I can get some room in cooler for it. I most likely will chill a six pack or so at a time but the rest will be in 80 temps. Should they be ok like that for a day or two or am I overthinking it too much? Also due to traveling to the place I don't have room for another cooler unfortunately.

I'm a big-time lover of alcoholic beverages, but my camping experiences have been ruined so many times by other people that like to drink and camp that I'm firmly against alcohol being imbibed while camping. Just enjoy nature completely sober. I guarantee you that the nature experience is not enhanced by imbibing alcoholic beverages. Unless you're an alkie that can't allow your system to be without alcohol for more than 24 hours.

Let the negative comments commence! It won't change my mind at all, but if it makes you feel better, then go right ahead.

 

[cjonesga]

Use a stainless steel growler or two or three!

 

[cheezydemon3]

Or Hell, take a keg!

That I can get behind.