Met home brewer at Craft Beer Festival who gave me great bock beer to taste

[Tadghin]

I'm thinking of starting brewing after meeting the guy mentioned above. His beer was excellent although I think I drank too much that night. He told me that there are meet up at Kavanagh's in Dorset Street. When is that and do I just turn up? I'm not sure I have enough space etc but I'd love to try brewing beer at least once...I might try the Bock if its not too difficult to start with. :-)

[imark]

Hi. Welcome to the forum. Bock not easiest to start with but you'll get plenty of good advice on here.

[Tadghin]

Thanks Shane. It was you. I remember you said you were from Kildare. Great beer!

[Tadghin]

Thanks iMark too!

[LordEoin]

Hi. Welcome to the forum. Bock not easiest to start with but you'll get plenty of good advice on here.

agreed. grab yourself a coopers english bitter/australian pale/sparkling ale kit and a can of liquid malt extract to start off with.
They all make good beer, don't need much temperature control, and are pretty foolproof.

Welcome

[mr hoppy]

Yeah, still working up to a bock 5 years later!

[LordEoin]

Go on happy. take the plunge. taste the rainbow.

[beerfly]

we wont be meeting in kavanaghs untill the end of january, we have a brew day next saturday if you want to drop down http://www.tog.ie/location/

[Metattron]

Black Rock do a bock kit. It was the first one I did and got me hooked. Got another one on at the minute. Probably not exactly true to style, but a very nice beer. Very easy to do too, give it a go.

[mr hoppy]

There's basically three reasons I've not done one

1 - no stir plate
2 - no temp control
3 - no patience

[johnrm]

1 and 2 are fixed with cash.
For 3, just make sure you have enough interesting brews on to distract you!

[beerfly]

There's basically three reasons I've not done one

1 - no stir plate
2 - no temp control
3 - no patience

Slowly building 1


For 2 I use a frozen 2l coke bottle beside the fermenter, helps keep the temp a few deg lower then normal.

3 I think most people have this problem.

[tpc2001]

Not to encourage cheating of any kind . White Labs San Francisco Lager and Wyeast California Lager yeasts behave like lager yeast up to temperatures of about 17-18 degrees c. I used used Wyeast California Lager for making bocks with good results.