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ICB Munster Meet 17.1.2009

We had a very good ICB Munster meet yesterday evening despite the horrible weather conditions. Nice turn-out, Rebel, BITR, his buddy Morgan (about to join!!!), Oconn, his buddy Sean (also to join!), Taf (have a funny feeling you will be coming again!) and myself.

Thanks to Dave for hosting us as always – ICB will be getting a bill shortly for the one glass I broke but I am sure the coffers will be deep enough to pay for same!

We sampled the following –

Ger’s First Porter which got very favourable comments. Most of my First Amber Ale disappeared in froth once bottles were opened but the bit that was left was also sampled. Too much sugar I guess. All part of the learning curve.
Oconn brought also a bottle of stout and three different ales for sampling – all which were most pleasant. One had Pacific Gen New Zealand Hops uub it – our horizons are broadening!!!
BITR brought two brews to the meet – two lighter ales, named IDN and IDNE (I don’t know and I don’t know either!)). These were in contrast to Oconn’s darker ales and all went down well.
All home brews presented were well received so guys must be doing something right!!!

We followed our tasting of home brews with different brews from the Bierhaus menu, Phuca was a popular choice and we had much swapping / sipping of each other’s beers including such beers as Rodenbach Grand Cru, Ayinger Celebrator, Broughton’s 80/- Scottish ale, Utenos Porteris amongst many others. Unfortunately rebel and Oconn were on driving duty so could not partake fully.

We loosely agreed to try to meet approximate once a quarter, our next get together will most likely be the Easterfest at the Franciscan and in the summer we may well yet get to the Harbour Bar in Kinsale!!!! We also discussed the proposed Homebrew Expo and this will be followed up by BITR in a separate thread.

At the end of our homebrew tasting while ordering drinks at the Bar I came in conservation with Andy and Robin who where over from London for the week-end. Andy is a homebrewer and a member of CAMRA and they took up my invitation to join us. Suffice to say much more beer / brewing talk followed as well as on-going sampling. We left the Bierhaus about 930 and popped into the Off-licence in the Abbot Alehouse before going to the Bar upstairs. More great beers were had including Kwak on draught which is the guest draught at the moment at the Abbot.
Andy will also be joining the website and posting some recipes also.

All in all a more pleasant and interesting evening. Again as I wrote previously none of us would most likely never have met if not for the ICB site. Here’s to our next meet and in the meantime hopefully as many members a possible will support the Bierhaus, Franciscan Well and Abbot Alehouse, the three best bars for beer choice in Cork by far

a good night ...a few new faces...fair play to Dave at the Bierhuas again for accomadating us and Gers exploding ale <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->

t'was a gud un alright.

As o'conn said fairplay to dave and barryin the Bierhaus letting us take up so much space on a reasonably brisk night of trading.

Barry and mossy from the abbotts deserve a mention too, it was plain to see that barry was absolutely shattered when we entered but somehow managed to stay awake until we left, fairplay to him.

Probably the best Meet-up/night out i've been to in a long time.

&amp;quot;Ger Cork&amp;quot;:ttnhojes wrote:
At the end of our homebrew tasting while ordering drinks at the Bar I came in conservation with Andy and Robin who where over from London for the week-end. Andy is a homebrewer and a member of CAMRA and they took up my invitation to join us. Suffice to say much more beer / brewing talk followed as well as on-going sampling. We left the Bierhaus about 930 and popped into the Off-licence in the Abbot Alehouse before going to the Bar upstairs. More great beers were had including Kwak on draught which is the guest draught at the moment at the Abbot.
Andy will also be joining the website and posting some recipes also.

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And i officially had my worst ever hangover the next day although luckily it was short lived after a quick nip to the dreaded McDonalds! Thanks again for everyone being so welcoming, a great night was had by myself and Robbyn and we hope to come over again in the future!!!

I will type up those recipies i mentioned shortly and post them up, i have a few that will be of interest including:

Thomas Hardy Ale
Imperial Russian Stout
Gales HSB
Old Peculiar

and my personal fave, the original recipe( before Wadworth buggered it up) for Gibbs Mew Bishops Tipple, an absolute cracker of a beer, not for the feint hearted!

Thanks again all, look forward to speaking to you again!

Andy

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welcome to the site

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Didnt get back home until 2am on Monday so pretty did nothing monday day, this is the first time i've been near a PC

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