National Homebrew Club Ireland

Last Thursday of the month and a final check up of Liffey beers entering competition.
1. DEMPSEY English pale ale and Brian's auld bruin ???

I missed the last get together so I'll bring along one of my Xmas beers

1. DEMPSEY English pale ale and Brian's auld bruin
2. Eanna chocolate bourbon vanilla milk stout

Will try to be there: I'll be flying to Brussels the morning after...

1. DEMPSEY English pale ale and Brian's auld bruin
2. Eanna chocolate bourbon vanilla milk stout
3. Giacomo (tentatively) - robust porter, maybe a bottle of the American Wit (surely not fully carbonated)

1. DEMPSEY English pale ale and Brian's auld bruin
2. Eanna chocolate bourbon vanilla milk stout
3. Giacomo (tentatively) - robust porter, maybe a bottle of the American Wit (surely not fully carbonated)
4. Lordstilton - London Porter, red ipa, Irish Red, cream ale, rauchbier,  alt beer

1. DEMPSEY English pale ale and Brian's auld bruin
2. Eanna chocolate bourbon vanilla milk stout
3. Giacomo (tentatively) - robust porter, maybe a bottle of the American Wit (surely not fully carbonated)
4. Lordstilton - London Porter, red ipa, Irish Red, cream ale, rauchbier,  alt beer
5. OzBrewer - helles, APA, rauchbier

Also, can someone add me into the Liffey brewers watsapp group. I was added before but a day later my watsapp had to be deleted but a restore didn't add the group back.🤔

what % smoked malt did you use in you rauchbier? I used 33% and i'm underwhelmed

I used 60%. I think I have a nice balance. Mine is a bit dark, but according to beersmith I'm within the style guidelines though, although at the very edge of the dark side of the range.

Actually - just checked the recipe on beersmith - it was 67.8% smoked malt.

Quote from: Ozbrewer on January 03, 2016, 11:33:45 AM
Also, can someone add me into the Liffey brewers watsapp group. I was added before but a day later my watsapp had to be deleted but a restore didn't add the group back.🤔

Done

I'll be along with a smoked porter

1. DEMPSEY English pale ale and Brian's auld bruin
2. Eanna chocolate bourbon vanilla milk stout
3. Giacomo (tentatively) - robust porter, maybe a bottle of the American Wit (surely not fully carbonated)
4. Lordstilton - London Porter, red ipa, Irish Red, cream ale, rauchbier,  alt beer
5. OzBrewer - helles, APA, rauchbier
6. imark - couple of Belgians, a stout and white IPA

Looking like a very rewarding meet up

And I don't work Fridays for the next 6 months 8)

1. DEMPSEY English pale ale and Brian's auld bruin
2. Eanna chocolate bourbon vanilla milk stout
3. Giacomo (tentatively) - robust porter, maybe a bottle of the American Wit (surely not fully carbonated)
4. Lordstilton - London Porter, red ipa, Irish Red, cream ale, rauchbier,  alt beer
5. OzBrewer - helles, APA, rauchbier
6. imark - couple of Belgians, a stout and white IPA
7. Blueshed - dark lager - stout - red lager

This list pleases me

1. DEMPSEY English pale ale and Brian's auld bruin
2. Eanna chocolate bourbon vanilla milk stout
3. Giacomo (tentatively) - robust porter, maybe a bottle of the American Wit (surely not fully carbonated)
4. Lordstilton - London Porter, red ipa, Irish Red, cream ale, rauchbier,  alt beer
5. OzBrewer - helles, APA, rauchbier
6. imark - couple of Belgians, a stout and white IPA
7. Blueshed - dark lager - stout - red lager
8. Saruman - Dark Stranger stout (if ready)

Updating my bring list for this Thursday:

1. DEMPSEY English pale ale and Brian's auld bruin
2. Eanna chocolate bourbon vanilla milk stout
3. Giacomo (tentatively) - robust porter, maybe a bottle of the American Wit (surely not fully carbonated)
4. Lordstilton - London Porter, red ipa, Irish Red, cream ale, rauchbier,  alt beer
5. OzBrewer - helles, APA, rauchbier
6. imark - couple of Belgians, a sour and white IPA
7. Blueshed - dark lager - stout - red lager
8. Saruman - Dark Stranger stout (if ready)

Jesus that's some list of beers  :o

I'm not able to make the last Thursday of the month until June  :-\

I should also have a golden ale I brewed along for the craic. I'll enter it in the competition, though I don't expect much from it due to cloudiness.

Can I bring my competition bottles for submission? Garret, I think you are a drop point.

Quote from: nigel_c on January 25, 2016, 01:44:26 PM
Jesus that's some list of beers  :o

Medal challenge  :)

Quote from: delzep on January 25, 2016, 01:49:36 PM
I'm not able to make the last Thursday of the month until June  :-\

Pull a sickie

I'm hoping to make it on Thursday, I'll be late cause I have an exam at 6.30. I'm not entering anything in the comp but I might bring a stout.

Glad you can make it diarmo. Should be some nice beers if you're not too late. We're a thirsty lot.

Updating my list also
1. DEMPSEY English pale ale and Brian's auld bruin
2. Eanna chocolate bourbon vanilla milk stout
3. Giacomo (tentatively) - robust porter, maybe a bottle of the American Wit (surely not fully carbonated)
4. Lordstilton - London Porter, cider , Irish Red, cream ale, rauchbier,  alt beer
5. OzBrewer - helles, APA, rauchbier
6. imark - couple of Belgians, a sour and white IPA
7. Blueshed - dark lager - stout - red lager
8. Saruman - Dark Stranger stout (if ready)

Is it a 7pm kick off?

Yes :)

See you all then.

Hi, just started brewing at Christmas, have a very plain and kind of weak bitter. Ok if I drop by to the Lucan County this evening?

Quote from: Dylan on January 28, 2016, 06:21:23 PM
Hi, just started brewing at Christmas, have a very plain and kind of weak bitter. Ok if I drop by to the Lucan County this evening?

Hi Dylan. You're very welcome to come along. We'll be easy to spot with a whole load of unlabelled bottles on the table.

Great thanks, was thinking of bringing about 6 bottles, is that too much or too little?

A 500ml bottle is usually fine

Thanks again lads, great evening and very enlightening!

Some great beers on show last night and good to see some new brewer's.

The future is bright for the Liffey Brewers.

Yip. Think we had some really good beers last night. There's definitely a bunch of medals there. The standard of beers being brewed by the Liffey brewers is excellent now so we're doing something right.
Special thanks to our super host in the Lucan County. We were very well looked after. Thanks to Gerry.

Quote from: imark on January 29, 2016, 03:52:21 PM
The standard of beers being brewed by the Liffey brewers is excellent now so we're doing something right.
Special thanks to our super host in the Lucan County. We were very well looked after. Thanks to Gerry.

I'm sure it always was

Always some good beer mixed in with some not so good. There is a notable improvement in the quality though in terms of how rarely a poor beer makes an appearance.
Some of the recent recruits have started at a really good standard. That's probably echoed across clubs too as people have access to better kit, ingredient and information.

Yep the coffee and ginger stout was a beer that really stood out last night... Fantastic beer

I preferred the straight stout. Thought it was one of the nicest dry stouts I've had.

Coffee and ginger was really nice

Cheers lads. I was very happy with the coffee and ginger alright.