This arrived in the mail. Contact me if you'd like to know more.
QuoteLet me introduce myself, I am part of the CultureTECH Festival team, we are a festival that is based in Derry-Londonderry and which is now in its third year and has become Northern Ireland's biggest tech / media event - blurring the lines between arts, culture and technology - and in 2013 we attracted an audience of 24,000. The festival is made up of dozens of performances, showcases, exhibitions, conferences, meet-ups, fun & games and this year we are looking at attracting an audience of 40,000+.
The dates of our festival are 15th - 21st September and will take place in dozens of venues across Derry-Londonderry and on our last day we would love to have our first Craft Beer Sunday to take place within the heart of the city in a place called the Craft Village. We are inviting 6/7 different brewing companies to come along and showcase their beers, this may be the first time we are doing this but we are hoping it won't be the last and for it to become a regular event within Derry-L'Derry. We obviously want local brewers to be involved with this - would you and your members be interested in taking part and showcasing their beers?
If you are interested I would love to chat to you in more detail about the event, I would be happy to give you a call at your convenience.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Was that to your personal account or the club account?
Happy days. Things have improved slightly in Derry in that Kinnegar is now stocked in a few bars/restaurants. Long way to go.
Can you fire me over the details Tube? :)
Any more details on this?
Ok, been chatting with Siobháin from Culture Tech. Initially I offered to do an all grain, an extract or a kit brew and recommended the kit as the best for beginners and it's also the least "boring" i.e. no waiting around for the mash/boil etc. She has said it is trying to be a "family event" although I imagine that is just to satisfy some funding overlords but I think doing a kit brew is the best way to go. She emailed back asking me if I could 5! I said I could but I don't want to end up with 125 litres of beer to get home and wouldn't want to have to pay for 5 kits (don't mind paying for one). She then got back to say that Get'Er Brewed have kindly offered to sponsor the kits and equipment and they're going to have a stall there so people can ask them questions and buy products.
So, plan is I'll bring my HLT and we can use that to make the kits up and maybe do a few grain steeps or hop teas. I'll find out what kits we're getting but I'd assume it will be a mix. We agreed that we would maybe raffle some of the kits to the public so that they can take them home and ferment and bottle the beer themselves and then maybe have a tasting night a month or two later. Happy to let anyone on here take one home as well if they want.
Sounds class! I'll definitely be up for that weekend!
Great stuff. I met her at the maker faire. She was very nice and it sounds like a great event and also a chance to show Derry what they are missing out on !
Been in touch with Get'Er Brewed and they've said they'll sort us out with kits (preferably Muntons). Any preferences lads? Was thinking a mix of stout, IPA, mild and wheat?
http://www.geterbrewed.com/muntons-beer-kits/
Get'Er Brewed have said they get 2-3 orders a week up to Derry so hopefully we can entice a few of them into joining up.
Cheeky mild would be great. Any kit ciders for the non beer heads?
They've no Munton's cider listed but it does exist so maybe they could look into getting us one.
Happy days, if it's an all day thing, you sure you don't wanna throw on a cheeky AG? Is it in the craft village yeah?
Quote from: CARA on July 30, 2014, 05:53:52 PM
Happy days, if it's an all day thing, you sure you don't wanna throw on a cheeky AG? Is it in the craft village yeah?
Aye, feck it, why not!
It's in "the cottage" in the craft village, which is right beside Cafe Del Mondo. There's gonna be 6 or 7 breweries there giving out samples and then Cafe Del Mondo will be selling their beers as well.
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I know it yeah. Sweet ill bring my mash tun up from culmore too sure
Happy days. Maybe get a cask/keg set up using cornies as well? I might brew next weekend so we have samples for this anyway.
Sounds like a plan
If I can get a lend of a corny off you I'll brew up too.
I've a fermenter here for you too, Thomas.
Aye I can have a spare corny for you no prob.
Cara, would you have a cask engine or keg set up we could use? I have a mixed gas reg but that's about it.
I've a nice pallet wood bar if you want?
Yeah no bother, I've a "keg engine" too
Quote from: Tom on August 01, 2014, 07:05:23 PM
I've a nice pallet wood bar if you want?
Aye sounds good. Have ye a photo?
I'm gonna try and put a pale ale on this weekend or next and then will dry hop in the corny before serving. For the AG I'm thinking we do something nice and malty for the colder months? Maybe a no-sparge red ale? Cara, you have any nice yeasts knocking around?
Pallet wood bar is shown there on the wedding thread in equipment.
I was going to do an AIPA (and bottle a bit for the Galway comp), but if you're set on pale I can conjure something else up. Dark wheaty lager or something bananas.
Any NHC stuff we can use? Business cards etc. Are we allowed?
Quote from: Tom on August 14, 2014, 07:39:00 PM
Pallet wood bar is shown there on the wedding thread in equipment.
I was going to do an AIPA (and bottle a bit for the Galway comp), but if you're set on pale I can conjure something else up. Dark wheaty lager or something bananas.
Any NHC stuff we can use? Business cards etc. Are we allowed?
I'm gonna brew this Sunday but there's no reason we can't have 2 pale n'hoppy beers.
I have a small amount of NHC flyers but will try and get more. We can do anything we want pretty much as well.
I can't compete with your pale hoppy beers! ;)
I'm gonna try and do a sort of amber weizen from Warner's book. Never decocted before, and want an excuse to give it a go without having to then drink gallons of a beer I don't like as much! It means I don't have to worry about it for a few weeks too.
Well, ah, this weekend? What's the arrangements? Can we assemble the evening before or something, give the beer time to settle down?
I've one corny full of red ale here, but I'm not a corny user, so I've no dispense stuff for it. I've a bottle of CO2 I can bring, but my reg has broken, so that's all I have. What sort of stuff will we need, and is there anything I need to bring?
Flat out at work here so trying to get a moment to plan stuff is tricky.
Declan has an engine, I was hoping you'd have disconnects! I'll see if I can get Get'Er Brewed to bring some. I have a reg anyway and a lightly carbed pale ale.
Equipment wise I can bring my HLT, mash tun, kettle and all the bits and bobs. Need to get a recipe done up but was thinking a nice red ale. I have plenty of MO, wheat and vienna and a few other specialities. Would you have a bit of roast barley? Declan is providing fresh goldings and primadonna hops so we can use them.
Cafe Del Mondo in the Craft Village don't have any fridge space unfortunately. I'll see if I can sort something else but if push comes to shove we can probably store it in the Tower Museum. We have a room just off the square there that I can access anyway. I'll ring Culture Tech tomorrow and check it all out though.
Nice one.
No disconnects, sorry, but if push comes to shove we can flip the lid and put a tube to the bottom!
No roast either, sorry. I've black or light chocolate.
I've a beer engine too if you want to have both beers going at once?
I'll chill my beer down to zero overnight the night before then, so.
Ok, just off the phone with Culture Tech and they said we can store the kegs up there on Saturday. I might see about cobbling together some sort of icebucket for us to chill the beer in overnight as well. Was chatting with Ger'Er Brewed briefly on the phone, sending them an email now outlining what we need but I'd say they should be grand to give us some disconnects. I might buy a bag of roast barley too sure and get them to bring it up with them.
Ask them to stick a few sachets of cider/champagne yeast in there too! Got my phone back. Surely we should have a meeting about all this? I propose over a pint. No buckfast allowed.
Will do. Did you bring us any nice yeast for the red ale?
Could do a pint this evening or tomorrow night probably?
Tonights good yeah. I didn't actually! I'll have a nosey on GEB to see what they have. Irish ale or something?
I have Gervin (notty) and maybe some US-05 in the house. The Gervin stuff seems to always do the business anyway so I'm happy using it.
7pm spoons?
Won't make that, sorry. Good you found your phone!
Gervins sound sure but I'll ask GEB what they have too. Can be at spoons for about 7.15?
7.15 is grand. Have ordered roast barely and a few wine/cider yeasts for you there.
Good day was had, thanks to everyone who showed up and big thanks to Get'Er Brewed for donating kits. There was about 8 professional breweries there but a lot of people were saying the best beer available was a home brewed APA on our handpumps. ;D
Going forward I think we should start having a regular tasting night. Cara is back up around Halloween so maybe get one that week. Bring beer, or not and at least get the word out there, even if it's only a handful of us at the start.