South Dublin Brewers - Next Meet - Thur 28th May

[Bubbles]

Hey lads, next meet on Thur 28th May. See further details here. Please sign up below if attending.

Cheers,
Bubbles.

[Bubbles]

1. Bubbles - American Amber, California Common

[molc]

1. Bubbles - American Amber, California Common
2. Molc - Belgian strong golden ale, if it's ready, extract tripel from last summer

[Shanna]

1. Bubbles - American Amber, California Common
2. Molc - Belgian strong golden ale, if it's ready, extract tripel from last summer
3. Shanna - Weissbier

[Lurchalicious]

1. Bubbles - American Amber, California Common
2. Molc - Belgian strong golden ale, if it's ready, extract tripel from last summer
3. Shanna - Weissbier
4. Lurchalicious - Blonde Ale

[Shanna]

1. Bubbles - American Amber, California Common
2. Molc - Belgian strong golden ale, if it's ready, extract tripel from last summer
3. Shanna - Weissbier, 2014 Group buy cider & 2013 Russian imperial porter recently bottled
4. Lurchalicious - Blonde Ale

[Lurchalicious]

Anyone have some campden tables handy for Thursday?  I'm looking to brew Friday.

[John_C]

1. Bubbles - American Amber, California Common
2. Molc - Belgian strong golden ale, if it's ready, extract tripel from last summer
3. Shanna - Weissbier, 2014 Group buy cider & 2013 Russian imperial porter recently bottled
4. Lurchalicious - Blonde Ale
5. JohnC

[molc]

Anyone have some campden tables handy for Thursday?  I'm looking to brew Friday.

Yeah I can grab some and pop them in my bag.

[Shanna]

From a previous discussion on the Garden County Brewers thread Molc suggested that anybody who entered a beer in the recent Garden County Beer competition is to bring your brewsheet and notes with recipe from the brew day, so people can really break things down to give some feedback. Also if you slap out your notes in front of you, people will know that beer is looking for some real critique and give it to you straight."

Just in case it was not clear you should also bring the beer that was made using the recipe and for whom you also received feedback in the competition, thanks Bubbles :-)

Sounds like a wonderful idea that I will try and take up going forward.

Shanna

[Bubbles]

Lads, it's no good bringing just score sheets and recipe sheets. You need to bring a bottle of the beer that was judged. Most low-scoring beers are caused by flaws in the brewing process, not the recipe.

[molc]

Yeah I can bring along what I have on mine and you can have fun hunting for vegetal flavours and see if it was just a bad recipe. My low score, from my understanding, is from not brewing to style, but will be interesting to see if people think differently.

I think it's an idea that should apply to any beer where you want serious feedback, as without brewing and recipe details, it's pretty hard to make any meaningful suggestions on improvements.

Also, I have two different bottles of my Golden ale, though I need to give it a taste before the meet and see if it's conditioned enough for tasting. One stalled in the main fermenter at 1.020 and the second fermented out dry in the blowoff vessel, so it's an interesting example of same beer, same conditions and just different yeast levels (assuming the smaller fermenter didn't go to a radically higher temperature).

[Brewtus]

1. Bubbles - American Amber, California Common
2. Molc - Belgian strong golden ale, if it's ready, extract tripel from last summer
3. Shanna - Weissbier, 2014 Group buy cider & 2013 Russian imperial porter recently bottled
4. Lurchalicious - Blonde Ale
5. JohnC
6. Brewtus - Irish Red and ESB

[John_C]

I don't have any more from my competition batch but I think my low score was caused by a problem at bottling so I'll bring along a similar beer bottled the same way.

1. Bubbles - American Amber, California Common
2. Molc - Belgian strong golden ale, if it's ready, extract tripel from last summer
3. Shanna - Weissbier, 2014 Group buy cider & 2013 Russian imperial porter recently bottled
4. Lurchalicious - Blonde Ale
5. JohnC - Americal Brown Ale
6. Brewtus - Irish Red and ESB

[David]

1. Bubbles - American Amber, California Common
2. Molc - Belgian strong golden ale, if it's ready, extract tripel from last summer
3. Shanna - Weissbier, 2014 Group buy cider & 2013 Russian imperial porter recently bottled
4. Lurchalicious - Blonde Ale
5. JohnC - Americal Brown Ale
6. Brewtus - Irish Red and ESB
7. David - Irish stout and barley wine