Brewdog AGM 2016

[ezraburke]

My partner and I attended this event with friends as their plus ones.

An enjoyable day where i clocked in a few decent imperial IPAs and imperial stouts.

I attended two tasting sessions, Brewdog and To Ol. At both sessions i had my homebrew head on and asked them (politely) about mash temperatures. Both brewers tend to mash low and long - the Brewdog chap said that they go as low as 55c sometimes with a mash time of nearly two hours.

To Ol chap echoed the sentiments saying they also mash low, usually about 65c.

So, for my next brew (an RIS) i think i'll be looking at mashing at 65c for 1.5hrs to see how it pans out.

Overall it was a decent day and my new favourite DIPA was established (Cloudwater DIPA V3) early on. Oh, and I also shared (via a friend) one of my homebrew BLIPAs with a head brewer from one of my favourite breweries - his comments were good and as a gesture he shared me the recipe so i could tone it up!

 

[Brew_DD2]

It was a great day out. Spent a bit of time picking Bill Covaleski's (Victory Brewing Co.) brain. What a great guy and was really interesting talking about how he likes to blend old world hops with more modern American ones.

Had some very unusual and fantastic beers on the day, and was quite fuzzy the next morning. Sign me up for next year!

 

[lagerlad]

glad you had a good day out lads just a wee reminder as you are both brewdog fans that the homebrew club will be meeting there in the very near future will get the date if any of you are interested cheers lagerlad

 

[Brew_DD2]

Sounds good. What's the setup for the meetings? I've been meaning to go in the past.

 

[lagerlad]

Usually an 8 o clock start have a beer and a chat about beer haha if anyone has anything ready and wants to let folk sample it a tasting session which is pretty good then just socialise and have general brewing chat what everyone has been up to on the brewing front,good to mix with people with the same interest cheers lagerlad