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Thanks for coming out and sharing your beers, guys. And thanks to the B&C as ever for hosting. I think it worked quite well and I hope those of you who were interested in learning stuff learned stuff.

Delzep showed that kit beer really really doesn't have to taste like kit beer if done well: the Cooper's Stout had a lovely bottled Guinness roastiness to it.

Irish Party Ale's Pils had a bit more of a kit flavour from it, but was still tasty, and had a lovely soft carbonation. Let's have some bottled conditioned lagers Mr Heineken please.

Rossa's dodgy lager was a dodgy lager but quite passable as a tannic English pale ale.

Silenus's flat brown was quite brown and very very flat. Nice and caramelly, though. There was also a bottle of the strawberry cider in the basket he left. It's past its best and turning a bit marker-pen-ish. All of a sudden the contents of the stein went a bit pink...

Which brings us to marceldesailly's stout. It was lovely: wonderfully full-bodied, creamy and packed with roasty goodness, a bit like the Carlow Celebration, I thought. It'll be well worth the effort if anyone decides to scrape it off the beerhall ceiling, which is where most of it went when the cap came off.

very enjoyable evening.thought it worked really well.hopefully my next offering will be less explosive

good bit of craic last night. Thanks for the feedback on my stout...much appreciated <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->

&amp;quot;TheBeerNut&amp;quot;:35voemsb wrote: Silenus's flat brown was quite brown and very very flat. Nice and caramelly, though. There was also a bottle of the strawberry cider in the basket he left. It's past its best and turning a bit marker-pen-ish. All of a sudden the contents of the stein went a bit pink...[/quote:35voemsb]
I think you got the wrong bottles. i didn't leave cider with the bottles for the tasting, they're from the oZ & James night. Anyway we'll have the proper ones in september on the 18th.

Yeah, there was nothing on top of the Erdinger boxes, but there was a basket next to them containing the strawberry cider, the 3PA and the Flat Brown, all of which we drank.

&amp;quot;marceldesailly&amp;quot;:2j5j5r4s wrote: very enjoyable evening.thought it worked really well.hopefully my next offering will be less explosive[/quote:2j5j5r4s]
It did add a bit of entertainment to the evening <!-- s:wink: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt="" title="Wink" /><!-- s:wink: -->