Bay Area Mashers (BAM) Barrel Order

Welcome to the Bay Area Mashers Barrel Order Web Page.

BAM is organizing another order of 5 gallon barrels from the Balcones Distillery in Waco Texas. These "personal" sized barrels are small enough that any home brewer should be able to brew enough beer to fill it up. Each barrel comes with a stand and a stopper, and should arrive fairly recently after being emptied at the distillery.

Like last time, the barrel order will be a mix of their Blue Corn Whisky and Rumble (rum made with honey and spices) barrels. A description of the spirits can be found on the Balcones website at http://www.balconesdistilling.com/products. We get whatever mix of barrels the distillery has available at the time, so if you have a strong preference for which kind of barrel you want, please ensure you pick your barrel up quickly when they arrive at Linden St. before the type of barrel you want is all gone. Feel free to indicate what spirit type of barrel you'd like on the off chance we can influence the makeup of the pallet.

The process

This page has everything you need to order a barrel. Fill in the form to the right indicating your barrel type preference, quantity and homebrew club. If you don't have or are unable to create a google account, please contact Daniel Langmaid (daniellangmaid@gmail.com) for an address to where you can mail a check.

• We buy our barrels by the pallet, each pallet contains 27 barrels. This order will be placed when we have a round number of pallets to order.
• Limit of 2 barrels per person.
• We will need an upfront non-refundable payment of $67.20 for each barrel.
• The cost includes an estimated shipping cost which may go up slightly (this is because of the fuel surcharge that trucking companies charge, and gas prices are going up these days). If the barrels are more than the deposit we will request the additional money at the barrel pickup.
• The barrels will arrive at Linden Street Brewing in Oakland. When the order is placed and the barrels are shipped an announcement will be sent out to all who ordered barrels. Two to three dates for picking up the barrels will follow soon after.
• If you have a strong preference for a particular type of barrel, we urge you to show up at the first available pickup date to claim your barrel. If you have someone else pick up your barrel, please send us their name and email before the pickup, we will not give out your barrel without that. We will not be buying back any barrels, but you are free to resell or trade your barrel afterwards. Barrels left unclaimed after 1 month become property of BAM.

We will update this website with more information as it becomes available and we will send out email updates as well. We will also put up a brief section on how to fill and treat your barrels to try to ensure the best and cleanest beers come out. We can also add you to the BAM barrel email list if you wish to participate in discussions on barrel beers and brewing there. Any questions about the order can be emailed to daniellangmaid@gmail.com.

Thanks for our continued interest in these small barrels. We at BAM are happy to contribute this opportunity to learn about making barrel aged beers to the Bay Area homebrewing community. We hope you all enjoy the process of barrel aging our beer, that you learn something about the process from this experience, and hat you make some great beer.

Thanks,
Daniel Langmaid
Lee Shephard
The Bay Area Mashers Homebrew Club