Maidstone Brewers - Tuesday 26th August

[legion]

Hi,

After a successful first meet, the next one is on Tuesday 26th August 19:30 - 21:30 at Ye Old Thirsty Pig in Maidstone, upstairs in the smaller room at front. If you are bringing beer for tasting bring approx 1 litre of each beer (less for very strong beers).

Please buy a pint of beer on arrival, the pub has offers Camra card members a 10p discount! The pub has been under new management for a year and features upto 4 kent ales on pump plus kent lagers on tap.

I should hopefully be bringing my Hop Attack Double IPA with me (which is currently fermenting) and contains nearly a half kilo of hops in a 20l brew with over 200 calculated IBUs!

Please PM me or reply to this thread to let me know that you will be attending.

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[oz11]

A provisional yes, might even bring beer this time.

[StrangeBrew]

I'd like to join in but won't know until nearer the time if I'll be available.

I'm surprised you haven't had a bigger response to such a good idea as there are quite a few local home brewers.

Good luck, I hope this takes off!

[StrangeBrew]

I've also just requested to join the Maidstone Brewers group on Facebook!

[jaroporter]

i'm basically commenting only to remind myself of this. gutted i couldn't make the first but i think i can make this. presume beers should be pre-chilled to serving temps?

[legion]

Request accepted strangebrew.

I think that quite a few people don't see the events as they probably only look in individual boards rather than viewing active topics.

We only need a few more people to attend for it to work well. Brew meets are great for sampling over peoples beers and getting inspiration on future brews. Following a prior brew meet in the past a fellow brewer brought a spruce beer, after tasting it i ended up harvesting spruce tips in June and making my own...

If possible bring the beers chilled, I use a smallish cool bag for mine.

[oz11]

...If possible bring the beers chilled, I use a smallish cool bag for mine.

I'll have to try to improvise something. I've a bus/train/walk to get there so not sure what condition the beer will be in when I arrive. Also might be a little later this month as it was a bit of a rush to get that train.

Last month's meet was good, but more people means more beer (hopefully!)

[legion]

Another good Maidstone Brewers meet tonight.

Beers sampled:

Bouclier single hop pale 4.8%
Keyworth Early single hop pale 5.7%
Eldflower Pale 4%
Ginger Pale 4.3%
Hoptimax DIPA 9%
Roasty Mild 4.4%
Complex Stout 6.1%
Jarvis Best 4.8%
70% Wheat 5%

Beer of the evening for me was the Roasty Mild, a very drinkable session beer.