Brew day

[LordEoin]

It seems there's no shortage of places to brew, so lets pick sort out a few details and we can fix a location later on.

• date
  
• recipe
  
• barrel or not?

[Garry]

• date : Saturday or Sunday. End of August or all September suits me.
  
• recipe : Session (4-5%) Hoppy Pale Ale?
  
• barrel or not? : Not. But we could discuss what's next for the barrel on the day.
  

[LordEoin]

• date : Saturday or Sunday. End of August or all September suits me.
  
• recipe : Session (4-5%) Hoppy Pale Ale?
  
• barrel or not? : Not. But we could discuss what's next for the barrel on the day.
  

+1

That's pretty much what I was going to say anyway.
something simple and delicious for the brew. grab a bag of base malt off MCI and then just a couple speciality grains. 2 or 3 hops. An american pale ale maybe?

[mr hoppy]

What kind of brew length were ye thinking of?

[johnrm]

500ml
Makes for more meetups!

[mr hoppy]

Oh grand, we can use a 10 yoyo tesco kettle as the brew kettle then, and maybe put a tea cosy on it for mashing.

[johnrm]

Poifect!

Fcuk it, thats a great way for doing a trial batch...
Worlds smallest BIAB!

NHC in the Guinness Book of Records - How ironic is that!

[Garry]

What kind of brew length were ye thinking of?

25l ?

[mr hoppy]

Sounds good. Was only wondering as you mentioned the barrel.

[LordEoin]

We could do IPAs and enter them in the IPA comp.

[dcalnan]

Would love to come along to this, I'm away for the next few weeks, but i like the idea of doing ipa's. I was considering entering the competition myself, but i think learning from a group would be better for me.

[Garry]

@dcalnan, you're more than welcome. Of course we need to decide when and where first!

I like the ipa idea too. Are we allowed enter a club beer?

[LordEoin]

why enter a club IPA? Why not enter many members' attempts at an IPA?
Mr Hoppy will probably want to make some crazy belgian IPA, Taf will  probably go for a black IPA, I'm thinking English or american IPA.
Woudn't also be a great meetup in the well mid winter with 5 or 6 different styles of IPA to try

[mr hoppy]

Snap, I was thinking IPA (not because of the comp) - maybe black IPA. Just for fun.

If we did a large batch IPA everyone could take their fermenter away and hop it with their favorite hipster hop.

Or with a small batch maybe we could each bring a favored hipster hop and make a group hop bomb. I've some dehusked carafa and sinnamar, so... you know

[Garry]

Where'd you get the sinimar you dark horse?