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Just a quick Heads Up, I have not been very active on here recently due to work commitments etc.

Its the First meet of the year at Heald Green Village Hall Cheshire, of the Northern Craft Brewers.

All welcome, we will be sampling a yeast trial Brew 4 cornies of same batch split 4 ways (it was 6 but 2 failed) meet 12noon for a 1pm Meeting.

full details Here

We look forward to meeting you all.

UP

Again my wife has made plans for me so can't make it - whcih sucketh mightily, though not as much as not being able to make the Saltaire nmeet unless I can scare up somewhere to stya in Leeds...

That bit to far butt my brew is on the go for march

That bit to far butt my brew is on the go for march

I will have a box of ??????????????????????????????, to give out as freebies on saturday.

All Kindly donated by Rob at the Malt Miller.

Yet another reason not to miss this Saturdays meeting.

& you won't know whats going begging if you don't come

UP

unclepumble wrote:
All welcome, we will be sampling a yeast trial Brew 4 cornies of same batch split 4 ways (it was 6 but 2 failed) meet 12noon for a 1pm Meeting.


UP

Look forward to the results of the tastings on your yeast varietal experiment.

Keen to find out what people have to say about the impact of the different yeasts and the resultant flavours.

When you say that two failed which ones and how/what exactly happened? Was this a hygiene failure somewhere along the line or a yeast failure?

Can you expand on how you stepped up the brewlab supplied cultures from slant to pitching volume?
Did you rehydrate the dried yeasts or pitch the dehydrated yeast direct into warm wort?

Good wishes for the meetup - that part of the world is my old stomping ground - if I were there I'd be off for a pint at the bird in hand in Mobberley!

I will meet with NCB as soon as I am able but sadly have to work this Saturday. Have a good meeting

bellebouche wrote:

unclepumble wrote:
All welcome, we will be sampling a yeast trial Brew 4 cornies of same batch split 4 ways (it was 6 but 2 failed) meet 12noon for a 1pm Meeting.


UP

Look forward to the results of the tastings on your yeast varietal experiment.

Keen to find out what people have to say about the impact of the different yeasts and the resultant flavours.

When you say that two failed which ones and how/what exactly happened? Was this a hygiene failure somewhere along the line or a yeast failure?

Can you expand on how you stepped up the brewlab supplied cultures from slant to pitching volume?
Did you rehydrate the dried yeasts or pitch the dehydrated yeast direct into warm wort?

Good wishes for the meetup - that part of the world is my old stomping ground - if I were there I'd be off for a pint at the bird in hand in Mobberley!

All will be revealed on the NCB website following tomorrows meeting.
I will post a write up as soon as I get all the results in.

Up

See you tomorrow Shane

I just looked in the box that arrived today, & Rob has been Very generous Indeed, there will be some very happy NCB members tomorrow,


UP

Rob was indeed very generous. Thanks Rob.

Thanks to Shane aswell for bringing the cornies full of muddy water

Glad it got to you in time, those bin ends are great for dry hopping. It just takes to long to list them all on the site so someone may as well get good use from them

Cheers

Rob

Thanks for the Goodies Rob, they went down very well with the members, hopefully they will now furnish you with lots of orders in return .

The yeast trial brew theme was a bit of a disaster as the cornies, I took must have still had sediment in them, therefore the 4 beers were a little Turbid to say the least, @ least the members present were kind enough to sample the 4 offerings, & there was definitely a marked difference between the 4 beers.

The concensous split the preference between Gervin English Ale & Thames Valley 2, but to be fair I think it wasn't a fair offering to judge them properly.

I therefore declared the tasting a monumental disaster, & will endeavor to redo the whole thing, when I have more time to hand later in the year.

We all had an excellent meeting & a few of us retired to the Port Street Beer House to sample some excellent commercial beers in the early evening.

Our next meeting is March 31st at the Saltaire Brewery Shipley, an English IPA competition & a Joint meeting with the Midlands Craft brewers, mark a date in your diary as it will be a fool who misses this meeting, there will be plenty of IPA's on the day to sample, & plenty of very knowledgeable brewers to have a good old chinwag with.

I hope to see you there.

UP

We were helpers / Van Driver all that weekend for Emma's mum's house move... I'm quite sure i would have preferred to drink beer!