South Dublin Brewers - January Meet - Thursday 16th January

[Bubbles]

The "South Dublin Brewers" will be conducting their next tasting meet on Thursday 16th January in the Dark Horse, Blackrock. Details below...

Location
The Dark Horse, Blackrock, Co. Dublin

Date
Thursday 16th January

Time
8pm

Protocol

• You don't have to have any beer to bring in order to participate! Inexperienced brewers are more than welcome. Even if you're only thinking about brewing your own, come along  - our friendly crowd will answer any questions you might have.
• If you have some brews for tasting, please bring along 500ml of each.
• To show some thanks to our hosts for allowing us to drink homebrewed beers in their pub, it is customary to buy some drinks from the house. The Dark Horse boasts an extensive range of craft beers and also has an excellent off-license.
• Please sign-up below if you'd like to attend - that way you will be notified of any cancellations or other changes.

Cost
Free

Organiser/Contact
Bubbles
Shanna

[Bubbles]

1. Bubbles (English Brown Ale, something Belgian-ish)

[Shanna]

1. Bubbles (English Brown Ale, something Belgian-ish)
2. Shanna (Weiss/Blonde bier, Maroon Irish Ale)

[Bubbles]

"Maroon"?? 

Jesus.. what did you put in it??

[Shanna]

Maroon colour is cause first time grinding roasted barley with the new mill and it pretty much ended up as dust. I used 100grs of 1350 EBC roasted barley. Beer smith said it was fine colour wise but as always I put it down to a mistake. I used a manual scales to measure out the barley and it was probably not calibrated properly. My digital scales keeps going on the blink.

Shanna 

[Bubbles]

Hmm, yeah you have to watch roasted barley, or you end up with a brown porter.

I've learned to take BeerSmith's colour predictions with a pinch of salt - especially the graphic up in the top right corner. It's next to useless.

I'm open to correction on this, but I think the roasted barley just comes out like that when it's ground. It's pretty brittle stuff, though I'm not sure how it compares to other specialty malts in terms of moisture content. So I don't think the crush is the problem there. Especially if your other grains were fine. 100g is a fair amount of RB to put in an Irish Red. I use 60g in mine (along with a fair portion of crystal) and it comes out as red as anything. The only thing is to chalk it down to experience and adjust the RB in your next attempt. It's great to dial in recipes like this. Most of the beers I've done in 2013 have been re-brews, and it's been a great learning experience - learning about the ingredients themselves and how they affect a beer.

In any case, I'm sure it will taste just fine. My first attempt at an Irish Red came out too dark also, so I just called it a "Ruby Porter", like Whitewater's Clotworthy Dobbin.

[Shanna]

Checked the gravity of the irish ale today and its fine. I could also see that the colour while dark is at least still red. Know what you mean about re brews have two planned for stout and IPA

Shanna

[Shanna]

1. Bubbles (English Brown Ale, something Belgian-ish)
2. Shanna (Weiss/Blonde bier, Maroon Irish Ale, Giddyup English IPA)

[John_C]

1. Bubbles (English Brown Ale, something Belgian-ish)
2. Shanna (Weiss/Blonde bier, Maroon Irish Ale)
3. John_C (APA)

[Shanna]

1. Bubbles (English Brown Ale, something Belgian-ish)
2. Shanna (Weiss/Blonde bier, Maroon Irish Ale, Giddyup English IPA)
3. John_C (APA)

[cno1]

1. Bubbles (English Brown Ale, something Belgian-ish)
2. Shanna (Weiss/Blonde bier, Maroon Irish Ale, Giddyup English IPA)
3. John_C (APA)
4. Cathal (Questionable Hefe Weizen)

[beerfly]

might drop out, if so will have an irish red

1. Bubbles (English Brown Ale, something Belgian-ish)
2. Shanna (Weiss/Blonde bier, Maroon Irish Ale, Giddyup English IPA)
3. John_C (APA)
4. Cathal (Questionable Hefe Weizen)
5. beerfly (irish red)

[Shanna]

might drop out, if so will have an irish red

1. Bubbles (English Brown Ale, something Belgian-ish)
2. Shanna (Weiss/Blonde bier, Maroon Irish Ale, Giddyup English IPA & SD Barrel Aged RIS)
3. John_C (APA)
4. Cathal (Questionable Hefe Weizen)
5. beerfly (irish red)

[Brewtus]

Should be able to make this...

1. Bubbles (English Brown Ale, something Belgian-ish)
2. Shanna (Weiss/Blonde bier, Maroon Irish Ale, Giddyup English IPA)
3. John_C (APA)
4. Cathal (Questionable Hefe Weizen)
5. beerfly (irish red)
6. Brewtus (Brown Porter and Märzen/Oktoberfest)

[Shanna]

1. Bubbles (English Brown Ale, something Belgian-ish)
2. Shanna (Weiss/Blonde bier, Maroon Irish Ale, Giddyup English IPA & SD Barrel Aged RIS)
3. John_C (APA)
4. Cathal (Questionable Hefe Weizen)
5. beerfly (irish red)
6. Brewtus (Brown Porter and Märzen/Oktoberfest)