Just quick hello to everyone, I've a couple of small all grain brews (1US Gal/4.5 Lts) under my belt, and I've paid up for membership today.
I'm looking forward to attending some of the meet-ups & possibly maybe even entering a competition one day.
Cheers.
Hi,
It's a bit complicated...France mainly, but I visit Dublin regularly. I'm Irish, moved here ~10 years ago. I'm in Blacrock (near the Dark Horse) quite a lot (at least once a month).
Welcome to the site, and we'll see you at the next meet in the Dark Horse!
Welcome to the site!
Any where near Normandy as I would love to taste some of there naturally fermeted sweet ciders!
[Its a cider maker thing]
Hi,
Nope, I'm right down south, between the Black Mountains and the Pyrenees. Nearest "big" city is Toulouse (about an hours drive away).
Cheers.
Welcome vonHolt.
Cool avatar.
Artist?
Hi johnrm,
Thanks, however I'm definitely NOT an artist :D
I'm in the more down to earth software engineering space.
Excellent, bu you'd best elaborate as we need IT input now and then here.
He hee!
20+ years - Worked as technical analyst to principal consultant from everywhere from Microsoft, Oracle, All the "Big 5", and clients in Banking, Telecomms, Semicondector & Manufacturing. Experience is across the board, time in Development, QA, systems troubleshooting / performance & scalability, Project management, Team Lead - basically the entire spectrum of large scale systems development & deployment.
Brewing is my yoga...
You've certainly blown me out of the water!
Any coding in php in there?
Yep, "internal" tools only though - your bog standard CRUD apps on a LAMP stack, but nothing to a level where I'd consider it professional enough to be at a comercial level of quality or security.
I read that as 'Expert'!
Well throw to the lions one of the days, next time we need a bit of site integration. ;)
By all means give me a shout, I'd be happy to help wherever I can - But can't guarantee anything :)
Quote from: vonHolt on July 02, 2013, 11:47:28 PM
By all means give me a shout, I'd be happy to help wherever I can - But can't guarantee anything :)
And you thought you were here for the beer :P.Welcome by the way
...and some interesting looking brews in your Sig too.
Chocolate maple Porter, Jalapeno Saison? Very interesting, do tell...
It all started with a 20LT syrup/extract kit I got for Christmas - It was the first home brew in nearly 30 years. I went online and checked out various forums and online manuals etc. etc. etc. Had all the equipment set-up and sanitized and so on. Well, long story short my IPA turned out to be more of a Miller Lite, with none of the Miller flavor, aka dirty fizzy water.
So, very disappointed in my initial results, I decided if I was going to make a decent beer I might as well learn how to do it from first principles. So I began looking at all grain brewing online.
The Chocolate Maple porter was one of the first (I got the recipe from the 'Brooklyn BrewShops' Beer Making Book) and its a decent porter. I've made some errors with it, it's over carbonated for starters, but if I leave it in the fridge for a few days it does not explode when I open the bottle :-)
Overall I'm very happy with the result (I'm a Guinness drinker when I'm back in Dublin).
The Jalapeno Saison & Grapefruit Summer Ale recipes also come from this book. I've the ingredients for a total of 7 brews lined up and the capacity to do 2 small brews (1 US Gallon each) and 1 20LT brew.
What I do is work the recipe at the small scale to see what the results are like and if it's nice I then brew the 20 LT batch.
Since I'm into the experimentation I figured doing the smaller sized batches meant I did not end up with another 20 LT of brown Miller Lite :-)
I'm worried that you know what Miller light tastes like ;-)
Welcome to the club.
Quote from: vonHolt on July 02, 2013, 10:21:26 PM
I'm in the more down to earth software engineering space.
Jesus, another one... ;D
The South Dublin meets are getting a bit IT top-heavy.. :)
Quote from: Bubbles on July 03, 2013, 09:48:25 AM
Quote from: vonHolt on July 02, 2013, 10:21:26 PM
I'm in the more down to earth software engineering space.
Jesus, another one... ;D
The South Dublin meets are getting a bit IT top-heavy.. :)
I think it's the fact that we're modern day engineers and as such like to make things ourselves.
Quote from: Eoin on July 03, 2013, 10:14:01 AM
I think it's the fact that we're modern day engineers and as such like to make things ourselves.
...aspiring Biological Engineers :)
Well I'll gladly leave the "IT" at the door.... I'm here for the beer ;D