January Meet - Tullamore

[Saruman (Reuben Gray)]

5 of us made the November meet. It was a great experience.

The next one is January 31st at 1pm at the Wolftrap. Plenty of advanced notice on this one.

[LiamTutty]

In like some lunatic called Flynn.

Checked the trains and they're spot on. Possible after-party in Athlone so!

[Dodge]

You know I never thought of the train!

[Saruman (Reuben Gray)]

Now there's an idea. Never thought about the train from Tullamore to Athlone. If I missed my bus to Rochfortbridge, I could get the train to Athlone and then the bus home.

[LiamTutty]

Sounds like the after-party might be on the train so!

[Andrew Brogan]

I'm going to try make this! Brewing on a very micro scale here in Athlone!
1 gallon batches! Only 2 batches in. I'll make sure to have something worth bringing by the end of January!

[rje66]

Hey athlone lads,
I'm from town but live in Dublin now, but am down on a fairly regular basis at weekends,if ye are brewing any weekend keep me posted. Doing kit hacking, but moving on to all grain when I get my arse in gear. Have most of the kit ,just need to get the last few bits. Talk soon
Richie

[Padraich]

Hi all,

I'm able to make this meet after all so I'm a well happy camper this Monday morning 

What's the usual story? Do people bring along brews to share, or do they just get the pubs offerings?  I was in on Friday night and they've got some great stuff on offer - 4 taps and loads of bottles.

Hopefully, see you all Saturday.
Padraic

[Saruman (Reuben Gray)]

Bring homebrew if you have some yes.

[Padraich]

Willdo...

I have a few I like left in the "cellar" aka box in the spare room 

[benji]

Hi Reuban, what style of beer is the Beoir#2 samples you'll be bringing

[Saruman (Reuben Gray)]

They are supposed to be imperial red ales. Neither of which are as they should be due to brewday disasters and grain/efficiency issues.

[benji]

Mmm interesting, that style is on my next brew list after a Barley wine I'm doing this weekend and a black IPA after that.
The only one I've had was the Sierra Nevada beer camp one http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/140/83925/ and that was lovely.

[Saruman (Reuben Gray)]

Just an update on this. There were 9 of us including Dave from Bo Bristle. The Woltrap had taken my advice and got 3 rotation taps from Vanguard so we had Sheep Stealer, Big Hop Red and Stony Grey IPA along with a load of homebrew.
Dave brought in a bottle of the Bo Bristle chocolate milk stout for us to compare to Roger's as well as a fantastic Tokyo* clone he got from Ian Bergin.

[benji]

"Wolftrap" even