National Homebrew Club Ireland

I'm sure many of you know that Brewdog released all of their recipes as homebrew recipes scaled down to 25 litre batches. I can't attach the PDF to this post as it's too big but it can be downloaded here (https://www.brewdog.com/lowdown/diydog) by entering an email address.

It might be fun to hold a competition, either BJCP certified or not. All entries must be clones of Brewdog products. The idea is to brew as close to the original as possible.

Brewdog are after any publicity they can get and might jump at the chance of sending someone, perhaps even James and/or Martin over themselves to help judge the entries. It could be a great publicity stunt for the club.

I don't have the time to organise it myself but if anyone else would like to give it a go, I can certainly contact James and see what he thinks. It could prompt copycat competitions around Europe. Brewdog already host homebrew competitions at their bars.

Would need the entry numbers to get Brewdog involved though. What do people think?

I think it's a great idea. How well 'attended' is the clone beer section of the BJCP comps? I suspect not at all. I reckon that not only brewing to style, but brewing to a specific BEER will be a real challenge, worthy of the real talent we have here.

Exactly. It will be all about process rather than recipe as the recipe speaks for itself.

Do we get extra points for the bottle being encased in woodland creatures?

Adding an aesthetic dimension to it? I like it.

Their clone recipes are all over the place, they seem more interested in the Michael O'Leary approach to selling beer these days and I'm going off them by the hour.
We should try and have a comp cloning Irish beers with a blind taste side by side comparison. I know the homebrew would win!

Brewdog were breaking boundaries when a lot of people in here were still supping Heineken. I'm on for the clone comp!

Both ideas have merit. I wonder if Shane HBC changed any of his mashkits when the homebrewdog book came out? :P

If the clone list was limited to say 10 beers, the ones that are easy to come by plus the odd rare/hard one for the showoffs, that would make a manageable, interesting and challenging competition.

Sounds good! Would be a really interesting one to judge!

Judges would need commercial examples to compare against.  ;)

Ye would want brewdog in. Also would need to set out ground rules as they have alot of beers

Only beers available in Ireland?

Could be fun. There's a lot to getting those recipes right as some are off the wall in the book, having being scaled down I think. Would be really interesting to see the result!

I'd be in if 5AM saint was in the list :)

Has been available here for years so that's a foregone conclusion.

Sounds like fun!

Clonedog/Copycat  :D

Could be interesting. I just bottled up my attempt at Jackhammer from DIY Dog last night too. Or Brewcat Sledgehammer as I've been referring to it.

So guys you know how this works doesn't go to a Comp committee or approval by anybody it's just done usually by the person that suggests it but Reuben is too busy so rather than let it die who wants to lead it from the front? And who will support them?

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I'll help but can't take the lead as I have too many other beery projects going on.

I'm really interested in this. Done the 5am (cost of hops skint me) and it's close. Have the Citra in the fermenter at the minute so I'm one step ahead (if it's on the list). Someone organise it please.

Try a Pliny clone if you really want to see an expensive recipe!

As I write, Brewdog (well, Four Corners, their distributors in Ireland) are doing a Brewdog beer tasting in the off-licence where I work. Talking with them, they're very interested, and reckon Brewdog would want to get involved e.g. James Watt coming over to judge.

Any interest?

Let's do it

I just sent James an email so will see if he bites. He flew me over to the brewery (http://www.taleofale.com/2015/05/a-visit-to-brewdog.html) last year and we chatted by email after so it won't be too out of place for me to send the request.

If some of the brewdog people are involved, especially if they supply some prizes, it could be pretty epic. Might even get a few international entries. Otherwise, we can just have a smaller competition for the craic.

Excellent idea.  Would definitely enter this.

Just an update, James is off on holidays but is interested in setting something up so he put Bethany on it, his first mate which I reckon is a nautical version of Personal Assistant since he's the Captain.

Something might come of this  :D

Would this be considered cheating  :P  :

http://www.brewuk.co.uk/beerkits/craftybrews/brewdog-diy-dog.html?mc_cid=4feed774b0&mc_eid=bc1fb55e6f

-Barry

Quote from: Bazza on June 22, 2016, 01:15:23 PM
Would this be considered cheating  :P  :

http://www.brewuk.co.uk/beerkits/craftybrews/brewdog-diy-dog.html?mc_cid=4feed774b0&mc_eid=bc1fb55e6f

-Barry

Maybe not but in the spirit of it....maybe

They are just recipe packs. Hardly cheating.
We already have the recipes, it just requires buying the ingredients.

The idea of the competition is to get the process right.

Bump
Just wondering if this could be used to pick a couple of winning beers to go forward to the brewdog competition

Good idea

Lots of ideas, if you want to see it run, pick it up and go for it. - maybe do it al club level?

nothing stopping ng anyone entering it regardless, I don't need a job, but am toying with the idea of send some bottles over for the craic.

I'd love to help but i'm already organising enough, but sounds like a great op.

Quote from: Saruman on June 04, 2016, 11:38:14 AM
I just sent James an email so will see if he bites. He flew me over to the brewery (http://www.taleofale.com/2015/05/a-visit-to-brewdog.html) last year and we chatted by email after so it won't be too out of place for me to send the request.

If some of the brewdog people are involved, especially if they supply some prizes, it could be pretty epic. Might even get a few international entries. Otherwise, we can just have a smaller competition for the craic.

I wonder if this is what triggered the idea to launch it by Brewdog?

Only issue is time. The brewdog competition runs until September 16th. There isn't a free weekend to arrange this until about October. We can do something small ourselves of course but to have the time to do it with Brewdog would need more planning.