South Dublin Brewers - Next Meet - Thur 28th August

Bubbles · August 19, 2014, 07:27:38 PM

Apologies for the somewhat late notice. Next meet is on the last Thursday of the month as usual, but as there's a table quiz going on in the lounge, we have a table reserved in the bar. Just on the left as you come in the door.

Table quiz might be a bit high-brow for us...

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Bubbles · August 19, 2014, 07:28:44 PM

1. Bubbles - dunno yet, probably an oaked porter

Shanna · August 19, 2014, 08:02:56 PM

1. Bubbles - dunno yet, probably an oaked porter
2. Shanna - Spiced wit beer (assuming it's carbonated

), Control Sample of English Barley Wine, Barrel Sample of English Barley wine

dn218 · August 20, 2014, 07:31:09 AM

1. Bubbles - dunno yet, probably an oaked porter
2. Shanna - Spiced wit beer (assuming it's carbonated

), Control Sample of English Barley Wine, Barrel Sample of English Barley wine
3. Dn218 - Lazarus Frankenkaner Weissbeir

ronnieb · August 20, 2014, 07:44:44 PM

Would have loved to have gone to this one, alas I have to go to a wedding back in Germany. Will get to the next one with hopefully a drinkable first AG effort.

Shanna · August 20, 2014, 07:50:42 PM

Quote from: ronnieb on August 20, 2014, 07:44:44 PM
Would have loved to have gone to this one, alas I have to go to a wedding back in Germany. Will get to the next one with hopefully a drinkable first AG effort.

Sounds good look forward to it.

Shanna

Brewtus · August 24, 2014, 02:11:16 PM

1. Bubbles - dunno yet, probably an oaked porter
2. Shanna - Spiced wit beer (assuming it's carbonated

), Control Sample of English Barley Wine, Barrel Sample of English Barley wine
3. Dn218 - Lazarus Frankenkaner Weissbeir
4. Brewtus - Belgian Blonde and Dubbel

Shanna · August 24, 2014, 05:00:13 PM

Hope our newest competition winner John (winner of the Garden County Brewers Irish Red Ale Competition) can attend and bring us a sample of his winning beer with him for us to taste.

Shanna

Bubbles · August 24, 2014, 07:36:14 PM

I do believe "The Champ" brought his winning bevvie to last month's meet! But hopefully he can spare us another bottle!!

Well done John lad.

Bubbles · August 24, 2014, 07:39:01 PM

Looks like the next meet is going to a bit of a Belgian/German affair, but unfortunately I don't have anything that fits the theme. I've got a dubbel in the bottle, but although promising, it's still a little green.

Shanna · August 24, 2014, 07:52:26 PM

Quote from: Bubbles on August 24, 2014, 07:36:14 PM
I do believe "The Champ" brought his winning bevvie to last month's meet! But hopefully he can spare us another bottle!!

Well done John lad.

Was that not a saison? anyway looking forward to trying as my own effort was pants & not well received

Shanna

Rossa · August 24, 2014, 08:30:42 PM

1. Bubbles - dunno yet, probably an oaked porter
2. Shanna - Spiced wit beer (assuming it's carbonated

), Control Sample of English Barley Wine, Barrel Sample of English Barley wine
3. Dn218 - Lazarus Frankenkaner Weissbeir
4. Brewtus - Belgian Blonde and Dubbel
5. Rossa - ESB, red

Bubbles · August 24, 2014, 08:43:43 PM

Ehh... True, he did bring a saison. He might have brought the irish red the month before??

Ah well, you have plenty of time to work on your recipe before the nationals. We'll hold john down and get the recipe out of him.

I find irish red a difficult style to do well in competition. We were discussing this last month in the DH. I've always been really pleased with my own efforts, but the judges don't seem to agree. Scored 38 in 2013 and 35 in 2014. I like more hops in my reds than is recommended for style.

Rossa · August 24, 2014, 08:47:57 PM

Quote from: Bubbles on August 24, 2014, 08:43:43 PM
Ehh... True, he did bring a saison. He might have brought the irish red the month before??

Ah well, you have plenty of time to work on your recipe before the nationals. We'll hold john down and get the recipe out of him.

I find irish red a difficult style to do well in competition. We were discussing this last month in the DH. I've always been really pleased with my own efforts, but the judges don't seem to agree. Scored 38 in 2013 and 35 in 2014. I like more hops in my reds than is recommended for style.

Me too. We had some cracking beers yesterday but some just weren't to style. The judges should be telling entrants with great beers that they are fantastic but may not be to style. A 35 pointer could be deemed not to style but still a cracker of a beer.

Bubbles · August 24, 2014, 09:12:56 PM

True. I think brewing for competitions and matching beers to an appropriate category is a big skill in itself. Too often home brewers will blindly follow a recipe and enter a beer in a competition category just because that was the category specified in the recipe they followed. Brewers need to use their own judgement and tastebuds in order to match their beer to the best category in the style guidelines.

I don't think it helps that all of the commercial irish reds are pretty different. The new (draft) BJCP guidelines lists o'haras and franciscan well as the best two commercial examples of the style, and they couldn't be more different. As nice as the FW beer is, i think it would actually score poorly in a BJCP competition. It's got none of the roasted barley dryness that is deemed an integral part of the style.

Rossa, any specifics on why some of yesterday's beers weren't to style?

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