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Here[/url:1eishsxe]'s the long-anticipated article on the most recent homebrew taste challenge, courtesy of Irish Party Ale.

I've added in a list of the beers, with the guilty parties named. I hope I've got the details right. Let me know if anyone's beer needs correcting.

Thanks for the write-up, Ed. Looks like yet again the quality line between the brewing methods is much vaguer than is often made out, even when it comes to pseudo-macro-lager. Though I also think it shows that we have much more of a taste for aley ales.

So myself and Ed managed to guess all the beers right? Nice one Ed.

I am a little disapointed my own beer only came 6th but then again, it is a kegged beer so tastes great fresh from the keg but not as good poured in to a bottle and sat on a couple of buses from Westmeath to Dublin City Centre and then on to Kimmage.

The results may not show it but one thing really stood out and that was the difference between the two all grains.

Myself and Séan pretty much had the same ingredients. Perhaps my grain bill differed with some Acid malt. I am not sure if Séan added saaz to his or not either.
My Recipe is here[/url:fx45x1vz].
Mine tasted like an Ale even though the room temp I don't think rose above 14c however Séans tasted pretty much like a lager with his temperature control system.
It would have been interesting to throw a Steam Beer in to the mix.

"Saruman":k0ntd3xg wrote: So myself and Ed managed to guess all the beers right? Nice one Ed.

I am a little disapointed my own beer only came 6th but then again, it is a kegged beer so tastes great fresh from the keg but not as good poured in to a bottle and sat on a couple of buses from Westmeath to Dublin City Centre and then on to Kimmage.

The results may not show it but one thing really stood out and that was the difference between the two all grains.

Myself and Séan pretty much had the same ingredients. Perhaps my grain bill differed with some Acid malt. I am not sure if Séan added saaz to his or not either.
My Recipe is here[/url:k0ntd3xg].
Mine tasted like an Ale even though the room temp I don't think rose above 14c however Séans tasted pretty much like a lager with his temperature control system.
It would have been interesting to throw a Steam Beer in to the mix.[/quote:k0ntd3xg]

Was it the same yeast in both cases?

Thanks to IPA for taking the time to put the article together for category a) people like myself that poured the beer for the down the drain <!-- s:oops: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_redface.gif" alt="" title="Embarassed" /><!-- s:oops: --> (it was sh*t).

I think the all grains did quite well coming 2 and 3, ok sauramans came 6th but any beer coming from the keg into the bottle is going to perform poorly against others that went straight into the bottle from the fermenter (IMO).

Well done to both IPA and sauraman for getting 7 out of 7 on the identification thats impressive <!-- s:shock: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_eek.gif" alt=":shock:" title="Shocked" /><!-- s:shock: -->

Great article, I did very poorly in identifying the beers. Glad my beer was well liked though, even if I ranked it low myself.

&amp;quot;Saruman&amp;quot;:1zvvgx3t wrote: tastes great fresh from the keg but not as good poured in to a bottle[/quote:1zvvgx3t]It was absolutely pancake-flat. I don't think we really got a proper taste of it at all.

&amp;quot;brian_c&amp;quot;:1zvvgx3t wrote: Glad my beer was well liked[/quote:1zvvgx3t]I had the pint in the photo this evening and it's lovely.

I have an observation on kit lager, based on my drinking of the kit-and-kilo Coopers over the last couple of months: If you brew it this way, and drink it ice-cold from the fridge as is appropriate to the style, you do get something that's in some way akin to shitty macro lager. I know the standard advice here is use DME instead and make an honest ale of it, but I reckon if you're after thin and fizzy pseudo-Fosters, a kilo of sugar is the way to go.

&amp;quot;TheBeerNut&amp;quot;:187ldzf7 wrote:

&amp;quot;Saruman&amp;quot;:187ldzf7 wrote: tastes great fresh from the keg but not as good poured in to a bottle[/quote:187ldzf7]It was absolutely pancake-flat. I don't think we really got a proper taste of it at all.

&amp;quot;brian_c&amp;quot;:187ldzf7 wrote: Glad my beer was well liked[/quote:187ldzf7]I had the pint in the photo this evening and it's lovely.

I have an observation on kit lager, based on my drinking of the kit-and-kilo Coopers over the last couple of months: If you brew it this way, and drink it ice-cold from the fridge as is appropriate to the style, you do get something that's in some way akin to shitty macro lager. I know the standard advice here is use DME instead and make an honest ale of it, but I reckon if you're after thin and fizzy pseudo-Fosters, a kilo of sugar is the way to go.[/quote:187ldzf7]

Whats the head like though the next day, too much sugar in a brew usually makes me feel like i've been struck on the head by a lumberjack <!-- s:lol: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif" alt="" title="Laughing" /><!-- s:lol: -->