Friday meet in May

[sub82]

Nice one stan - should be good!

Pity you can't make it Andy, did you get your extract brew on the go?

[Bill_00]

Finally got myself registered after meeting a few of you at the open day! Looking forward to the 24th now

[sub82]

Cool man - see you there!

[iain_todd]

Alight lads, 24th at 20:00 is grand for me - got a nice porter to bring and some more wheat beer. Might also hit you all with some more wine - got about 50 bottles I need to get through!

[Bazza]

50 bottles Iain?

You making up for all that abstinence last Good Friday?


-Barry

[iain_todd]

I spent about two years going mental and making wine out of everything I could find! So now it needs to get drunk and I rarely would crack open a bottle. So I'm afraid you lads'll have to give me a hand!

Bottled some lemon wine there last week and I have to say I'm pretty impressed with it...

[sub82]

It'll be good to get to taste some of them and encourage some non-beer drinkers!

[iain_todd]

Yeah, perhaps! The ginger wine is nice and sweet, and I've got some dandelion and apple wine aswell. So I'll bring a wee selection.

I've got a wedding the next day though, which will be very heavy and boozy, so I can't get too hammered.

Chris and I live in a world of perpetual frustration whereby real ale events are inevitably ruined by weddings and stags! Notable ruinings over the past year or two include the Hilden Ale Festival and the GB Beer Festival in Belfast.

Sometimes I wish I had no friends and could be left to become an alcoholic in peace.

[Bazza]

I feel your pain lads. I used to get that a lot. Thankfully I'm at the age now where most of my mates are married off, so weddings are down from 8 or 9 a year to 1 or 2 a year. I have, however, recently done best man for one of my mates for the second time  So you're never totally out of the woods.

On the Saturday after the next Friday meet we're supposed to be heading out for dinner with friends of the wife. It only dawned on me today that that's the night of the Champions' League final    Then again, as a Liverpool fan it means feck all to me these days anyway

-Barry

[stanwellback]

I feel your pain lads. I used to get that a lot. Thankfully I'm at the age now where most of my mates are married off, so weddings are down from 8 or 9 a year to 1 or 2 a year. I have, however, recently done best man for one of my mates for the second time  So you're never totally out of the woods.

On the Saturday after the next Friday meet we're supposed to be heading out for dinner with friends of the wife. It only dawned on me today that that's the night of the Champions' League final    Then again, as a Liverpool fan it means feck all to me these days anyway

-Barry

another Liverpool fan to drown the sorrows with

[sub82]

Chris and I live in a world of perpetual frustration whereby real ale events are inevitably ruined by weddings and stags! Notable ruinings over the past year or two include the Hilden Ale Festival and the GB Beer Festival in Belfast.

But we're not bitter! 

[matthewdick23]

guys, just an fyi.  we'll be upstairs on the top floor (not the middle)at the hudson. out back was booked for a bday party

matthew

[BrewBilly]

Hey folks

I am a bit bummed I will be missing out on the 24th, hopefully next get together I will be available. Sounds like it going to be a blast.

Cheers
BrewBilly - AKA Andy

[sub82]

Ah shame Andy - I could send you some bottles from the demo brew if you'd like.

[BrewBilly]

Ah shame Andy - I could send you some bottles from the demo brew if you'd like.

Thanks that would be great, I'm in the process of moving to Jordanstown so will be a lot closer than Ballymena.

Has a quality control sample of the brew been taken

Cheers
Andy