February Meetup - 24th

[Shane Phelan]

Going to have to Mooch this month, beers are still too green for 2moro.

1. Beerfly - not sure, maybe my irish red
2. Ciaran - Hazelnut Brown Ale, maybe Zombie Equinox IPA
3. Shiny - English Bitter, English Porter Mooching (T-Shirt for:  Dunkel x 2,Fergus)
4. Tube - not a lot ready atm, so depends
5. Dunkel - Hefeweisse, Headless Stout
6. pdb - Black Rye IPA
7. Parky (Paul) - Cascade/pale malt SMaSH; Fuggles/Maris otter SMaSH
8. Fionn - Blueberry 8.9%vol, Black/brown 9.5%vol, Grapefruit Honey Oatmeal 5%vol., Pale Coffee Oatmeal 5%vol.
9. DCBrewing - rauchbier
10. Fergal - Dubbel
11. Sebastian - Cream Ale
12. Hingo - Nada.

[cruiscinlan]

1. Beerfly - not sure, maybe my irish red
2. Ciaran - Hazelnut Brown Ale, maybe Zombie Equinox IPA
3. Shiny - English Bitter, English Porter Mooching (T-Shirt for:  Dunkel x 2,Fergus, Tomasz)
4. Tube - not a lot ready atm, so depends
5. Dunkel - Hefeweisse, Headless Stout
6. pdb - Black Rye IPA
7. Parky (Paul) - Cascade/pale malt SMaSH; Fuggles/Maris otter SMaSH
8. Fionn - Blueberry 8.9%vol, Black/brown 9.5%vol, Grapefruit Honey Oatmeal 5%vol., Pale Coffee Oatmeal 5%vol.
9. DCBrewing - rauchbier
10. Fergal - Dubbel
11. Sebastian - Cream Ale
12. Hingo - Nada.
13. Cruiscinlan - Coconut porter

[Hingo]

Don't think I can make it tonight after all.    have an early start in the morning and need a clear head.



1. Beerfly - not sure, maybe my irish red
2. Ciaran - Hazelnut Brown Ale, maybe Zombie Equinox IPA
3. Shiny - English Bitter, English Porter Mooching (T-Shirt for:  Dunkel x 2,Fergus, Tomasz)
4. Tube - not a lot ready atm, so depends
5. Dunkel - Hefeweisse, Headless Stout
6. pdb - Black Rye IPA
7. Parky (Paul) - Cascade/pale malt SMaSH; Fuggles/Maris otter SMaSH
8. Fionn - Blueberry 8.9%vol, Black/brown 9.5%vol, Grapefruit Honey Oatmeal 5%vol., Pale Coffee Oatmeal 5%vol.
9. DCBrewing - rauchbier
10. Fergal - Dubbel
11. Sebastian - Cream Ale
12. Hingo - Nada.
13. Cruiscinlan - Coconut porter

[Adrian]

I'm hoping to make it.  If I do I'll have a saison.

[Hingo]

Don't think I can make it tonight after all.    have an early start in the morning and need a clear head.



1. Beerfly - not sure, maybe my irish red
2. Ciaran - Hazelnut Brown Ale, maybe Zombie Equinox IPA
3. Shiny - English Bitter, English Porter Mooching (T-Shirt for:  Dunkel x 2,Fergus, Tomasz)
4. Tube - not a lot ready atm, so depends
5. Dunkel - Hefeweisse, Headless Stout
6. pdb - Black Rye IPA
7. Parky (Paul) - Cascade/pale malt SMaSH; Fuggles/Maris otter SMaSH
8. Fionn - Blueberry 8.9%vol, Black/brown 9.5%vol, Grapefruit Honey Oatmeal 5%vol., Pale Coffee Oatmeal 5%vol.
9. DCBrewing - rauchbier
10. Fergal - Dubbel
11. Sebastian - Cream Ale
12. Hingo - Nada.
13. Cruiscinlan - Coconut porter

meeting cancelled (in work) so i'm back in! 

[GlasbrewInc]

1. Beerfly - not sure, maybe my irish red
2. Ciaran - Hazelnut Brown Ale, maybe Zombie Equinox IPA
3. Shiny - Mooching (T-Shirt for:  Dunkel x 2,Fergus, Tomasz)
4. Tube - not a lot ready atm, so depends
5. Dunkel - Hefeweisse, Headless Stout
6. pdb - Black Rye IPA
7. Parky (Paul) - Cascade/pale malt SMaSH; Fuggles/Maris otter SMaSH
8. Fionn - Blueberry 8.9%vol, Black/brown 9.5%vol, Grapefruit Honey Oatmeal 5%vol., Pale Coffee Oatmeal 5%vol.
9. DCBrewing - rauchbier
10. Fergal - Dubbel
11. Sebastian - Cream Ale
12. Hingo - Nada.
13. Cruiscinlan - Coconut porter
14. GlasBrewInc - Dunkelweizen

all depending if I get home from work in time.

[SlugTrap]

Wanted to come but trying to beat a chest cold. Next time!

[Boycott]

The saison was the beer of the night for me. Followed by the cream and hazelnut ones.

[Paul B]

Good turnout! Fav was the hazelnut also followed by the cream ale. Dunkels stout and ronans red also very tasty.

[phoenix]

+1 for Adrians Saison and Sebastians Cream Ale, also enjoyed Pauls Cascade SMaSH (love to see a recipe for this btw)

Cheers for the positive feedback on the Hazelnut Brown, I was thinking of entering it into the Garden County American Ale comp under the American Brown Ale subcategory. Only problem is I never bottle conditioned any, its all in the keg. Could I fill a couple of bottles and add a little sugar at this point to carb them up and protect them do you think? Or is my only option a counter-pressure bottle filler?

[ferg]

Yep the saison, the hazelnut and the cream ale were really really great. Good job lads!

I saw designs for a DIY beer gun ciaran I'll try to find it.

[Parky]

@ Ciaran - I've posted the Cascade SMaSH recipe in the link below, also added a follow-up posting to show the method of adding hop extract at bottling time, in case you were interested. If it wasn't a strict SMaSH recipe I probably would have added some carapils to give it a bit more body, but it was really the hopping I was interested in with this one, and was happy enough with the way it came out. Someone at the meet (didn't catch his name, sorry) recommended adding the later hop additions while the wort is cooling, and I'll be giving that a go next time, as I felt some of aroma was lost during chilling. http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/forum/index.php/topic,8884.0.html

Great night, and some great beers, well done to everyone! Highlight of the night for me was the Hazelnut Brown, very smooth and a lovely balanced hazelnut flavour, with none of the harshness that sometimes comes with using dark malts in a brown ale. I also thought the rauchbier was lovely, and was certainly interested in how Dunkel's beers turned out with the Mangrove Jacks yeast. I'm trialling Mangrove Jacks yeasts at the moment myself, so great to see how they're performing (or not!) for others.

BTW: If anyone left a blue umbrella behind last night - I've got it 

[beerfly]

Hard to pick a favourite out they were all good., that cascade smash was so drinkable

[Sebastian616]

Total agreement that the hazelnut was really interesting and tasty. I also really liked how the cascade smash turned out. I must try a late hop schedule using cascade myself some time. There was a lot of great beers out, was struggling to find out what bottle was what by then end!

Cheers for the positive feedback on the cream ale, I'll take the advice and try submit it to competition sometime!

[phoenix]

Nice one Paul, I'll put that in my queue of upcoming brews