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Title: What have we got planned for 2015?
Post by: danger_zone on December 09, 2014, 11:10:05 AM
Any interesting brews lined up lads?or any plans for the club?

i'm planning on doing some sort of IPA next to use up the last of my hops then i might try my hand at doing a BIAB brew.

We also still need to agree on a date to do a tour of Brehon Brewery, or maybe we did and I was too drunk to remember
Title: Re: What have we got planned for 2015?
Post by: itsclinto on December 10, 2014, 10:51:56 AM
Nah you weren't too drunk  ;) I don't think we had a set date as it didn't suit everybody.

I don't have anything planned, still in getting it right phase.  I'll hopefully take the plunge and move to all grain next year and learn from you guys.

I noticed this on the for sale section http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/forum/index.php/topic,8067.0.html You get to create an extract and all grain recipe that HomeBrewWest will give a discount for.  Might be good to create one for the club.   ;D
Title: Re: What have we got planned for 2015?
Post by: danger_zone on December 11, 2014, 12:08:16 PM
good idea.we'll get cronan on that he makes the nicest beer out of the lot of us
Title: Re: What have we got planned for 2015?
Post by: helmet on December 15, 2014, 07:42:40 PM
I've a Witbier bottled and ready for the next meeting, there's a double IPA waiting to be bottled at the weekend.
Tonight I put together a cyser (thanks for the yeast Niall!)
(http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/12/15/6d64fcec06d802e6ee8598cbd04103fa.jpg)
Finally, I found a use for that blonde beer I had last time. I was listening to the beer fella on Newstalk last Friday and he was on about mulling beer for christmas......fairly tasty!
http://www.newstalk.com/Christmas-Beer
Title: Re: What have we got planned for 2015?
Post by: itsclinto on December 16, 2014, 09:26:11 AM
Quote from: helmet on December 15, 2014, 07:42:40 PM
Tonight I put together a cyser (thanks for the yeast Niall!)

Sounds nice.  Had to look it cyser up as i never heard of it before  :-[

Sorry i didn't get talking to you properly, i didn't even know we were going out until i got home (hense the jacket still on).
Title: Re: What have we got planned for 2015?
Post by: danger_zone on December 16, 2014, 02:45:29 PM
mulled beer sounds intriguing. i might give it a try


oh whenever you've time niall will u type up that recipe brian gave you for the baileys liqueur
Title: Re: What have we got planned for 2015?
Post by: itsclinto on December 16, 2014, 05:14:15 PM
Quote from: danger_zone on December 16, 2014, 02:45:29 PM
oh whenever you've time niall will u type up that recipe brian gave you for the baileys liqueur

I didn't actually take it with me, Brian should still have it.  I'll have to make it as christmas desert!
Title: Re: What have we got planned for 2015?
Post by: helmet on December 16, 2014, 09:14:30 PM
Quote from: itsclinto on December 16, 2014, 09:26:11 AM
Quote from: helmet on December 15, 2014, 07:42:40 PM
Tonight I put together a cyser (thanks for the yeast Niall!)

Sounds nice.  Had to look it cyser up as i never heard of it before  :-[

Sorry i didn't get talking to you properly, i didn't even know we were going out until i got home (hense the jacket still on).

Yeah it was a new one on me. I more or less used this recipe with a few wee changes.
http://www.russwhaley.com/home-cooking-apple-pie-cyser/
Title: Re: What have we got planned for 2015?
Post by: barney on December 18, 2014, 11:19:53 PM
Baileys from last Friday

300 ml fresh cream
400ml condensed milk
300ml jamson whiskey
2 tea spoons of vanilla extrast
2 desert spoons of chocolate syrup
1 tea spoon of coffee ( I put 2 as I like coffee but it was too much)
2 desert spoon sugar
Blend for 40 sec all ingredients in food processors
Chill for two hours and enjoy

Regards
Brian

Ps great meeting last Friday
Title: Re: What have we got planned for 2015?
Post by: danger_zone on December 19, 2014, 02:24:31 PM
ah brilliant brian cheers

p.s. i found a recipe in a book of clone recipes i have of Double Diamond. isn't that the one you said you tried to make one time
Title: Re: What have we got planned for 2015?
Post by: Bubbles on December 19, 2014, 03:52:59 PM
Quote from: barney on December 18, 2014, 11:19:53 PM
Baileys from last Friday

300 ml fresh cream
400ml condensed milk
300ml jamson whiskey
2 tea spoons of vanilla extrast
2 desert spoons of chocolate syrup
1 tea spoon of coffee ( I put 2 as I like coffee but it was too much)
2 desert spoon sugar
Blend for 40 sec all ingredients in food processors
Chill for two hours and enjoy

Regards
Brian

Ps great meeting last Friday

Wow, I've never seen a recipe for homemade Baileys before! But then, I never looked for one..

Is it any good? Superior to the real thing?
Title: Re: What have we got planned for 2015?
Post by: barney on December 19, 2014, 10:08:48 PM
Hi bubbles

I made 1 ltr last Friday as my dog wrecked the airlock I had on some coconut stout and had nothing else new to show.
I took 400 Ml to meeting and left 600 in fridge it, was drank by my sister in law before I got home
I am not too pushed on Baileys but I made another batch on Wednesday and gave it to my Dad on Thursday I called up to him to night and the bottle was gone and he asked me for some for Xmas
So as I reply to you I am sampling today's batch and have ran out of chocolate syrup.
So to some up if you like cream and whiskey chocolate it's great stuff!

Regards
Barney
Title: Re: What have we got planned for 2015?
Post by: helmet on December 19, 2014, 10:17:59 PM
Fair play Brian, could be the hit of the season!
Title: Re: What have we got planned for 2015?
Post by: barney on December 19, 2014, 10:21:49 PM
Hi danger zones

Did you get the mail I sent you about kit?
Where did you see the reciept for the unicorn clone is it a Dave line book or beer smith??
It is a great beer but difficult to remake as there is noting to compare it to.

Regards
Barney
Title: Re: What have we got planned for 2015?
Post by: danger_zone on December 19, 2014, 11:13:38 PM
i'm just after seeing it there.great deal,a lot of kit but herself was giving out to me earlier about the gear i already have

it could actually be a different beer with the same name,the one in my book says its made by Carlsberg-Tetley in Leeds.the books called Clonebrews: Recipes for 200 Brand-Name Beers by Mark Szamatulski
there's even a Harp Lager clone in it which is beyond me why somebody would want to clone Harp
Title: Re: What have we got planned for 2015?
Post by: barney on December 20, 2014, 04:32:01 PM
Hi Stephen

Thats mad I was just. Talking a about doing a harp clone for Emma's dad
I really dont like the stuff at all but the weather is suitable for doing larger so might give it a go
There is a recipe for it in by book also
Title: Re: What have we got planned for 2015?
Post by: danger_zone on January 08, 2015, 11:57:09 AM
I took the all grain plunge and got myself a brew bag and an all grain kit so I'm looking forward to seeing how the BIAB goes. First thing I noticed was the size of the kit. There's so much grain. And there was me thinking my steeping grains for the extract brews were big bags
Title: Re: What have we got planned for 2015?
Post by: TheSumOfAllBeers on January 08, 2015, 12:51:22 PM
I am looking to gear up in a big way. Looking at the Ss conical gear, precise temp control, water treatment. Outgrowing my current approach, and fed up of making mediocre beers at huge effort
Title: Re: What have we got planned for 2015?
Post by: danger_zone on January 15, 2015, 05:20:33 PM
Quote from: TheSumOfAllBeers on January 08, 2015, 12:51:22 PM
I am looking to gear up in a big way. Looking at the Ss conical gear, precise temp control, water treatment. Outgrowing my current approach, and fed up of making mediocre beers at huge effort

I'd love a fridge for the beer and a temperature control set-up myself.some day