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"DCBrewing":ym5szw9c wrote: Id be in favour of just doing a cloned recipe as well. Adding in a competetion is a whole other ball game.

My vote would be decide on a recipe this week, someone contact sam and ask what date he can make it all happen in january[/quote:ym5szw9c]

Ah but DC, whose cloned recipe is the most accurate? My suggestion is actually compatable with what you're proposing.

As already pointed out, Step 1 of my fiendish plan has been completed already - we've decided on Dogfishhead 90 minute IPA

No need to over-engineer the competition (we're not German after all) - simply invite any interested Beoir members to bring their best Dogfishhead 90 minute IPA clone along to the ICB meet in January (or Feb if its more realistic) and what we judge to be the best gets brewed. Simples <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->

When you think about it, its the easist way to get several trial brews done at once too .... and by calling it a competition we get to generate some publicity, for a similar amount of effort it takes John to organise the monthly meetup!

Not everyone will have tried 90min so I'd leave it as " Your finest DIPA"

&amp;quot;dr. d&amp;quot;:ljtg024y wrote:

&amp;quot;DCBrewing&amp;quot;:ljtg024y wrote: we've decided on Dogfishhead 90 minute IPA

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Did we?

I thought we were going the other direction, given exchanges like this:

&amp;quot;TheBeerNut&amp;quot;:ljtg024y wrote:

&amp;quot;KeeganAles&amp;quot;:ljtg024y wrote: I'd be most interested in aroma over IBUs, so lots of late/flameout/hopback/dry hopping on this DIPA. [/quote:ljtg024y]+1.[/quote:ljtg024y]

&amp;quot;Drum&amp;quot;:ljtg024y wrote: I'm in favour of a clean fresh DIPA like keeganales suggested below. My favourite beer at the moment is O'Haras ipa, so i'd like to see a scaled up version with the same crispy hoppy citrusy smack in the mouth without too much body, so a bit of balance but with the scales leaning towards too much cascade.[/quote:ljtg024y]

90 Minutes is as much about bitterness as hop aroma (continuously hopped, natch) but is also a malt bomb, relatively speaking, to balance out all that lupulin.

There are plenty of overly sweet and chewy so-called IPAs kicking around the place now.

What we never get in Ireland, due to freshness reasons, is a bright, crisp, aroma-forward IPA.

Grab some of that Bear Republic Racer 5 that just landed and you'll see what I mean.

My two cents:
No clones, no competition, no judging panel.

[list:etgngb30]Clones - we have a chance to be creative; why mimic?
Competition - is everyone who contributed cash a homebrewer, and a good one at that? Gives undue influence to only part of the group.
Judging panel - again, I paid 50 quid but I might not get to vote?[/list:u:etgngb30]

I suggest we decide on a style and work up a couple of recipes.
Then the homebrewers among us are free to brew up these recipes *as samples* for all.
After that, *everyone*, whether they tasted the samples or not, votes on the recipe to brew.

Anything less seems undemocratic to me.

my bad - sorry! Don't want to jump the gun!

&amp;quot;KeeganAles&amp;quot;:17a3r72r wrote:

&amp;quot;dr. d&amp;quot;:17a3r72r wrote:

&amp;quot;DCBrewing&amp;quot;:17a3r72r wrote: we've decided on Dogfishhead 90 minute IPA

[/quote:17a3r72r][/quote:17a3r72r]

Did we?

I thought we were going the other direction, given exchanges like this:

&amp;quot;TheBeerNut&amp;quot;:17a3r72r wrote:

&amp;quot;KeeganAles&amp;quot;:17a3r72r wrote: I'd be most interested in aroma over IBUs, so lots of late/flameout/hopback/dry hopping on this DIPA. [/quote:17a3r72r]+1.[/quote:17a3r72r]

&amp;quot;Drum&amp;quot;:17a3r72r wrote: I'm in favour of a clean fresh DIPA like keeganales suggested below. My favourite beer at the moment is O'Haras ipa, so i'd like to see a scaled up version with the same crispy hoppy citrusy smack in the mouth without too much body, so a bit of balance but with the scales leaning towards too much cascade.[/quote:17a3r72r]

90 Minutes is as much about bitterness as hop aroma (continuously hopped, natch) but is also a malt bomb, relatively speaking, to balance out all that lupulin.

There are plenty of overly sweet and chewy so-called IPAs kicking around the place now.

What we never get in Ireland, due to freshness reasons, is a bright, crisp, aroma-forward IPA.

Grab some of that Bear Republic Racer 5 that just landed and you'll see what I mean.[/quote:17a3r72r]

Are there restrictions on costs? What if we settle on a recipe but the cost of the hops are really high and Sam ends up spending a fortune buying it all in?