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1) Irish Party Ale (Bray OK)
2) TheBeerNut (Bray OK)
3) Halite (Bray OK)
4) Andrew (Bray OK)
5) Sbillings (Bray OK)
6) RichieH (Bray OK)
7) thelynchfella (Bray OK)
8 ) kev2403 (Bray AOK)
9) Dr Jacoby (Braysen Leecher)
10) Biertourist (Bray OK)
11) rossa (anywhere)
12) Brian_c (Bray, Wicklow. If it is Bray, Oklahoma Im out)
13)Saruman - I am up for it if I am around and it is on a Saturday

Wow! I wasn't expecting this many - I'll have to tidy up the gaff now! <!-- s:lol: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif" alt="" title="Laughing" /><!-- s:lol: -->
Assuming all goes well, shall we say Saturday the 8th of May in Bray then? Around 2-3pm ish?
If people want to bring their own beers as well, and we can have a bit of a mini monthly tasting session. And theres always Porterhouse Bray on the way back to the Dart statyion <!-- s;) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt="" title="Wink" /><!-- s;) -->
This is of course based on the fact that I can make 3 beers successfully in 1 weekend <!-- s:shock: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_eek.gif" alt=":shock:" title="Shocked" /><!-- s:shock: -->

So, just curious, but I assume you're gonna try and make these as alike as possible, so kit, then an extract version of that kit and an AG version, same hops, same yeast, the works? Will be a cool experiment!

Thats the theory but trying to figure out whats in the kit could be hard work! Ah well, should be a bit of craic anyway!

I was thinking that, but I'm sure you could approximate it. At the very least, it'll be easy to create an extract and AG beer close enough to each other. Do any of the kits give an indication of the proportion of the grain bill used to make them?

Nope - the best I can do is guess based on the IBU and the abv and try to make something a bit similar... I'm guessing that this will make the kit beer stick out a bit like a sore thumb... Maybe if I dry hop them all that might help a bit...?