Feb Meet 11th 7pm

[Jacob]

Nigel, bring it anyway. I'm not happy with mine Azacca but will bring it.

[nigel_c]

I'll have a little sample when I get home and decide then.

[ColmR]

1. Jacob: Cider x2, Azacca PA, something black
2. Will_D: RIS
3. Ratsathome: Milk Stout
4. Pat(buttercups): pumpkin spice ale
5. Nigel : Mosaic Pale Ale.  Hazelnut brown ale
6. richie;  cider
7. ColMack: Special (not very) Bitter & RIS
8. ColmR: Hoppy Porter
9. Magnethead: Trappist 10.5% 2 year old.
10. Cahalbrua   IIPA
11. BrianC  Pale Ale RIS

[ColmR]

Wow!!! What a night. Top beers for me were Nigel's mosaic pale ale and magnethead's Belgian. Possibly two of the best homebrews I've ever tasted.

But then we had the ciders (Richie and Jacob) and all the other beers.... Wow! And all the pristine stouts!

The highest standard NCB meetup yet IMHO.

[DEMPSEY]

Wait till ye get my jaipur clone

[Ciderhead]

How did you do in LB comp Mr D?
I seem to remember some alcohol infused posts from you on your way home on the bus

[Partridge9]

Had a great one last night - great beers - especially impressed with the belgian

Jeasus that RIS had me in a heap !

[magnethead]

Some lovely Beers and Ciders, My favourites, the First Cidar by Jacob was gorgeous and the Brown Ale from Nigel was top notch!

Just going back through the notes, some weird flavourings added to the Belgium....I'd recommend the seeds to paradise to anyone...Looks like standard peppercorns until you crack them open to see the white interior which gives a good citrus flavour, powerfull stuff...better in Weisbiers though.
Recipe below is a bit all over the place(using up some stuff)

Ingredients Amt Name Type # %/IBU
3.00 kg Pilsner (2 Row) UK (2.5 EBC) Grain 1 47.8 %
0.50 kg Abbey Malt (5.0 EBC) Grain 2 8.0 %
0.23 kg Caramunich Malt (110.3 EBC) Grain 3 3.7 %
0.17 kg Aromatic Malt (400.0 EBC) Grain 4 2.7 %
0.07 kg Chocolate Malt (1060.0 EBC) Grain 5 1.1 %
1.00 kg Extra Light Dry Extract (5.9 EBC) Dry Extract 6 15.9 %
0.50 kg Dark Dry Extract (34.5 EBC) Dry Extract 7 8.0 %
25.00 g Magnum [14.00 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 8 34.3 IBUs
30.00 g Hallertauer Mittelfrueh [4.00 %] - Boil 15.0 min Hop 9 5.8 IBUs
0.50 kg Candi Sugar, Clear [Boil for 10 min](1.0 EBC) Sugar 10 8.0 %
0.30 kg Candi Sugar, Dark [Boil for 10 min](541.8 EBC) Sugar 11 4.8 %
2.00 g Seeds of Paradise (Boil 5.0 mins) Spice 12 -
1.0 pkg Trappist Ale (White Labs #WLP500) [35.49 ml] Yeast 13 -