Last call to NHC members to our festive camping weekend. Come for an hour or the weekend. Reuben and Hillary chose the weekend and they will be here in a few mins.
One of the many highlights is the cask ale we produced for the event.; 9 gallons of our finest effort, Kellies food feast, the beetroot lager brewday, The Dublin ladies Craft society ( about 10 of them), then of course the BBQ, the Round table beer tasting sessions and the all night campfire ale session until the last person drops ( and that will be late)..
Weather is fantastic forcast and this will be the homebrew weekend of all weekends with about 50+ guests and 20+ overnighters.
Food, drink, real ale, craic, food, bbq, campfire and a homebrew masterclass.
All welcome to drop in or stay obver, just bring ur tent :)
We have sampled the finished cask ale and all we can say is......Guests ye are in for a real ale treat ;) it is outstanding. Official tapping of our Kildare fetive cask is 2pm tomorow while the boil is underway on our fresh beetroot lager :)
Full details here:
http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/forum/index.php?topic=6442.msg86138#msg86138
I'm bringing some vials of Yorkshire square Ale yeast.
Have a great one, sorry we can't make it. Hope you'll still sing the Norwegian national anthem.
still camping places! Trailer tent not booked yet :) ;)
dont forget folks its not compulsory to stay the weekend... drop in drop out its open house till sunday late afternoon.
My quality control manager is here at the moment checking out the stock ::) ::)
Have a great day lads. The weather is going to be good. Unfortunately my civil service job is on tomorrow.
Sounds good bren. Enjoy! :)
Enjoy Bren. Working today so won't make it down.
Have a great week end guys.
Looks like you'll need the factor 20!
Have a great time (green with jealousy here)
Hope the day goes well for you Bren, can see the work you have put in, that being said. Mon the Gunners
I'm packing up for the event, mash tun coming in handy!
Bren we don't have a tent though....isn't there a place somewhere with a rubber floor?
(Dunkel those are your hops)
It was a great evening!
Good meeting some of you in person guys :)
Bren's waterhole is dry as sahara now, poor Bren
Here is Shiny's coolbox in action ;D
Definitely bringing a couple of kegs in the cooler box the next time to take some of the pressure off Bren's stocks. :)
It looks you had great day over there.
Shame, I couldn't come on Saturday evening.
Cheers!
Many thanks to Bren and Kellie for their hospitality.
It's great to meet up like this to share brews and banter in such a relaxed atmosphere.
Lovely to meet with other NHCers partners and family too.
Sounds like much fun was had.
Ye also had the weather for it as well. Your like Dolly Parton's children, lucky suckers :D
Wow...........what a great day/night we had............Brilliant to spend time with everyone, lads/lasses and children what fun we had! I have just come back in to the land of the normal and Brendan is busy brewing with Keith to replenish the stocks, cause yis certainly know how to drink!! :) ::)
Thank you to all who attended and contributed really appreciate it.
All i can say is when are we doing it all again??? ;)
Thanks Bren and Kellie for the hospitality it was a super weekend. Everything was just right, good company, good food, good beer and even the weather made a contribution to proceedings. There's no doubt that you guys put a lot of work in to ensure that everything went as smoothly and enjoyably as it did, it's much appreciated.
We came ..we partied ..we drank the place dry :D
Role on the next one it was an amazing day, thanks again Kellie and Bren for great get together. It was good to put some faces to forum names aswell. Allot of empty kegs to fill Bren a labour of love.
Quote from: B.B. on May 19, 2014, 12:17:12 PM
We came ..we partied ..we drank the place dry :D
Yis Fruckers...yis did...we were just about to call in the crisis management team from the Red Cross as there is a Beer Famine in South Kildare.
Luckily yis didnt drink the 4 barrels fermenting beer that I made last week in anticipation of the crises......but ys drank everything else...so just to recap :o
1/2 Corny of Porter with a twist
1/2 Corny of chocolate stout
1/2 corny of partriges weiss
1/2 tall corny (23litre corny) of 6 month old lager
1/2 corny of fruity ale with a tart
9 gallons of cask ale (TOOK YIS UCKERS only 4 hours to dispose of that, Phil the chef got the last pint at 5 o clock)
12 x 750 ml bottles of various lagers
1/2 corny of the Yakima experimental
The last 4 Gold medal scottish shilling (winner of Irish and scottish ale category)
1/2 bottle whiskey
5 bottles wine
and folks...that was in addition to all the stuff yis bough yorselves......I have contacted the Chief medical officer this morning for some help with yer issues
Food....Ill keep it simple
30kg of meat (thats nearly a kilo each...best get yor cholesterol checked soon)
10 kg of bread
20 kg of curries
30+ packets of chips/crisps/tortillas
20 kg of vegetables, beans and peas (2 kg in the beetroot beer ;)
If we could measure the beer banter fumes it would be mega
if we could measure the fun it would be off the scale as well
Thanks to all our guests (40 ish), great respect shown, great comradery cleaning up at 10am tsunday and no fights, drunkiness or damage done to the place...just one broken glass and Kellie broke that I think ::) Dublin ladies have a whale of a time and made another winning beer ;) 8) well fingers crossed :) and went home happy...very happy...overnighters chilled till well into the AM around the campfire and untill there was LITERALLY no beer left :o
All the fab food contributions and the fantastic range world craft beers that appeared here on saturday at our best and biggest all things beer weekend...
Overall impression........a classic example of how good a beer meetup can really be..roll on the next one...oh and PS I may be looking to central funds when my esb bill arives next month :) ;) :D ;D
Sounds like a blast, unfortunately was not able to attend but would love to attend the next one when ever that is.
Shanna
Actually, I found a bottle of Molson Canadian that nobody wanted to drink... ;)
Ye john..but dats not beer is it?
Correct, I'm sure our Isle of Man friends left this to test us. We passed!
Coming from someone in a tiny apartment, I loved the big campfire. :)
got an odd look or two on the bus, only realised how smokey i still smelled when i got home :P