National Homebrew Club Ireland

The "South Dublin Brewers" will be conducting their next tasting meet on Thursday 21st November in the Dark Horse, Blackrock. Details below...

Location
The Dark Horse, Blackrock, Co. Dublin

Date
Thursday 21st November

Time
8pm

Protocol

• You don't have to have any beer to bring in order to participate! Inexperienced brewers are more than welcome. Even if you're only thinking about brewing your own, come along  - our friendly crowd will answer any questions you might have.
• If you have some brews for tasting, please bring along 500ml of each.
• To show some thanks to our hosts for allowing us to drink homebrewed beers in their pub, it is customary to buy some drinks from the house. The Dark Horse boasts an extensive range of craft beers and also has an excellent off-license.
• Please sign-up below if you'd like to attend - that way you will be notified of any cancellations or other changes.

Cost
Free

Organiser/Contact
Bubbles
Shanna

01. Bubbles - Belgian Pale Ale

02. Nick-saison rye pale ale

01. Bubbles - Belgian Pale Ale
02. Nick-saison rye pale ale
03. Gar - Woodfordes Wherry

Champion Beer of Britain apparently ... i have a lot to live up to....

01. Bubbles - Belgian Pale Ale
02. Nick-saison rye pale ale
03. Gar - Woodfordes Wherry
04. Shanna - American Pale Ale

Quote from: Shanna on November 05, 2013, 08:45:52 PM
01. Bubbles - Belgian Pale Ale
02. Nick-saison rye pale ale
03. Gar - Woodfordes Wherry
04. Shanna - American Pale Ale, sample number 2 of Russian Imperial Stout from asouth Dublin barrel.

01. Bubbles - Belgian Pale Ale
02. Nick-saison rye pale ale
03. Gar - Woodfordes Wherry
04. Shanna - American Pale Ale
05. John_C - American Pale Ale

I'll probably be late getting there but I should see you all around half nine or ten.

01. Bubbles - Belgian Pale Ale
02. Nick-saison rye pale ale
03. Gar - Woodfordes Wherry
04. Shanna - American Pale Ale
05. John_C - American Pale Ale
06. Brewtus - Irish Red

Looking forward to tasting another selection of fine brews...

Looking forward to this!

I've got a fairly hop-heavy IPA that I'd like some feedback on, so I'll bring a bottle of that too.

01. Bubbles - Belgian Pale Ale, Imperial IPA
02. Nick-saison rye pale ale
03. Gar - Woodfordes Wherry
04. Shanna - American Pale Ale
05. John_C - American Pale Ale
06. Brewtus - Irish Red

i'll probably be out and seeing as there is a pale ale theme going

01. Bubbles - Belgian Pale Ale, Imperial IPA
02. Nick-saison rye pale ale
03. Gar - Woodfordes Wherry
04. Shanna - American Pale Ale
05. John_C - American Pale Ale
06. Brewtus - Irish Red
07. Beerfly - American Pale ale

shanna you left without the blank slants the other week, you still want them?

Hi Beer fly,

Yes please I was half way out the rock Road on b Tyne bike when I remembered them.  Looks like Thursday is going to be pale ale night.

Shanna

01. Bubbles - Belgian Pale Ale, Imperial IPA
02. Nick-saison rye pale ale
03. Gar - Woodfordes Wherry
04. Shanna - American Pale Ale
05. Brewtus - Irish Red
06. Beerfly - American Pale ale

I won't have any brew tomorrow. I had a couple of beers last night and I accidentally finished the keg.

01. Bubbles - Belgian Pale Ale, Imperial IPA
02. Nick-saison rye pale ale
03. Gar - Woodfordes Wherry
04. Shanna - American Pale Ale
05. Brewtus - Irish Red
06. Beerfly - American Pale ale
07. CH - Low ABV Cream Ale(Amarillo and Cascade), Low ABV APA!, GCB RIS control.


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01. Bubbles - Belgian Pale Ale, Imperial IPA
02. Nick-saison rye pale ale
03. Gar - Woodfordes Wherry
04. Shanna - American Pale Ale, SD RIS barrel sample 2
05. Brewtus - Irish Red
06. Beerfly - American Pale ale
07. CH - Low ABV Cream Ale(Amarillo and Cascade), Low ABV APA!, GCB RIS control.

Will you bring a control as well?


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Will have to see if I can find an original bottle from the fill in June. As far as I can remember there were only two filledcas the barrel proved bigger than expected.

Shanna

No I meant some of the one you just brewed?


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Quote from: CH on November 20, 2013, 08:49:59 PM
No I meant some of the one you just brewed?


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Ah Ok but I managed to locate one of the original batch bottled back in June. Was thinking it would make more sense to compare a pair of samples of the same vintage. No matter I can bring the newer sample.

Shanna

Quote from: John_C on November 20, 2013, 06:11:08 PM
I won't have any brew tomorrow. I had a couple of beers last night and I accidentally finished the keg.

And?

Mooching is positively encouraged at these things...! :)

Quote from: CH on November 20, 2013, 06:30:52 PMGCB RIS control.

Oh, I get it... coming up to Dublin for the night, and asking us to diagnose the off-flavours in the GCB brew. I see what you're up to.......

;) :D

Cheeky barsteward, I see it more like me being on the Missions educating the mud hut locals, in Jim Bowen style, "and this is what ya could have won"

 8)

Quote from: Shanna on November 20, 2013, 10:54:53 PM

Quote from: CH on November 20, 2013, 08:49:59 PM
No I meant some of the one you just brewed?


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Ah Ok but I managed to locate one of the original batch bottled back in June. Was thinking it would make more sense to compare a pair of samples of the same vintage. No matter I can bring the newer sample.

Shanna

Oh jesus if you found an original bring that instead!

Quote from: CH on November 20, 2013, 11:09:26 PM

Quote from: Shanna on November 20, 2013, 10:54:53 PM

Quote from: CH on November 20, 2013, 08:49:59 PM
No I meant some of the one you just brewed?


Sent from 1 of 300,000,000

Ah Ok but I managed to locate one of the original batch bottled back in June. Was thinking it would make more sense to compare a pair of samples of the same vintage. No matter I can bring the newer sample.

Shanna

Oh jesus if you found an original bring that instead!

Will do.  Maybe you can squeeze in some time to learn me my letters sir? :)

Was thinking maybe we could do a blind tasting of all 3 brews and see if people can tell tbe difference and also see which do they prefer. It should give Conor something else to write about other than my champagne gusher style American Pale Ale :)

Shanna

Thanks to everyone who came along to the DH last night, it was a triumph.

Best beer of the evening for me was Ciderhead's Galway Hooker clone. Too often you're handed a beer or a recipe that purports to be a clone of a commercial beer but is nothing of the sort. This was the real deal - a fantastic grainy flavour and the hop character is just spot-on. I'm not usually one for clone recipes, but I'll definitely be doing this.

We got a great side-by-side comparison of the Wicklow and SD barrels too. Both delicious -  I'd say the SD porter is only a month or two away from bottling.

The head's suffering a bit this morning though, I have to say...  :-X

Great bunch of lads in SCD with some good kits and for me the best of the night was red from Brewtus and imperial pale from Bubbles which had a great balance of hops and malt and was far too quaffable, scarily I couldn't tell it was 8%, until this morning!


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Ditto ... Its great to know that beers at the level of Brewtus Red, CH IPAs and Bubbles IPA can be brewed at home ... something to aim for

Lads, which of ye was I discussing "peat-smoked malt" at this meet in November? It was either JohnC or Bruce, I can't remember?

Anyway, I've got loads of this stuff, so I'll do up a small bag for you and bring it along to January's meet if you're around.

That was me and I'm still looking for it if you can bring it along.

Cheers

Hey John, that's cool. I'll bring along a bag for you too. I'm doing one for Declan also. I'll do a 150g bag for you, as I'm led to believe it's pretty potent stuff.

Quote from: John_C on January 03, 2014, 08:06:14 PM
That was me and I'm still looking for it if you can bring it along.

Cheers

Hi John C,

Before XMas you mentioned you would drop a brewing book around to my house. Any chance you bring it around to the next meeting y

No Problem,
I can probably drop it over sooner if you like. I have the address.

Quote from: John_C on January 04, 2014, 05:26:07 PM
No Problem,
I can probably drop it over sooner if you like. I have the address.

No hassle, if your passing by would be great if you could drop it in otherwise it will keep till the meet on the 16th.

Thanks,

Shanna