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I thoroughly enjoyed this - i once read about homebrew tasting 'homebrewy' and i wonder if it was why my beers never matched the flavours/aromas i wanted. Having now tried four beers by three other homebrewers i realise that the disparity i find between my beer and shop beer is definitely down...

I received indication that I had all the beers I was going to so announced I was doing this at the weekend. No one raised any objections at that point. Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk

The wife and I sampled four bottles of SMaSH on Saturday. Without further ado the results are: 1st - @Dan125 - Galaxies Mildly Collide 2nd - @JFB - Kiwi or Won't He 3rd - @AJHutch - Orange SMaSH It was an interesting one and multiple sips were taken for all involved. I will not lie that Dan's...

No worries @Hoddy, will catch you on the next fun one!

Thanks guys. Knowing what kind of profile to expect gives me good pointers as to whether or not they're hitting the mark. BTW, not that i wasn't already excited about the beers but the recipes i've received contain some of my favourite ingredients!

That'd be the beers! Is it considered bad form to ask for the SMaSH ingredients from our competitors prior to sampling? If not then please PM them to me!

@ajhutch, bottle in my possession now. I've got two entries from @JFB also (no forum name attached but guessing from initials). So, @dan125, @ajhutch and @jfb have entries in. @jceg316 thanks for the update!

Likely in the PO - wife hasn't managed to get up there yet! I'm going up on Friday to collect them so will give you a bell if it's there :lol:

@grmski, @strange-steve, @alanmanley, @jfb, @wfr42, @ajhutch, @hoddy, @doctormick, @jceg316 - checking in on this one. I've got two parcels to collect from the PO so i'm guessing these are entries from some of you lot. If you're still yet to post i'd be grateful if you could do so as soon as is...

First bottle arrived from @dan125. Hoping to set up a quaffing evening on the 27th May so there is an arbitrary deadline set there.

I second/third/fourth this volunteering. Good on you sir!

First bottle confirmed winging its way to me (thanks @dan125!). Bring on the beer!

I sense a yeast experiment coming on. Might split the batch, fire Belgian at one and English Ale at the other. Plans are afoot.

SMaSH to me means single hop, single malt. Unmalted adjuncts such as oats/wheat/rice husks etc. are fine in my opinion but any malted adjuncts (malted wheat etc.) are out.

@AJT, that's brilliant but a quick call tells me they don't deliver to Dundee. They can courier but as the lassie said to me "It's ridiculous charges really". That said i'm through in Edinburgh in a few weeks so it might be possible to pick one up. Size is the other thing i'm not sure about...