Scottish Craft Brewers January Meeting - Sun 30th Jan

[Calum]

The first meeting of the New Year will be our Yeast Trial on the 30th January at Elgin House, Easter Road, Edinburgh for an 11am start.

Five of our members have each brewed a cornie of pale ale to a specific recipe with the only difference being the yeast employed to ferment it out. The idea is that we learn the different flavour profiles the yeast brings to the beer.

We will also have a short talk from Invalid Stout who is organising a Glasgow Beer Week for this spring. This is a new idea to try and organise a number of beer and craft brewing related events in Glasgow so we have invited Robbie along to promote the event and hopefully to gain some support from the membership.

Please feel free to come along and join the brewing community. Bring your own beer and get a second opinion, sample the yeast trial beers and if you have any ideas for events then bring them too.

Davie Martin from Edina Homebrew will be preparing lunch for us too which is always a treat so there will be a nominal charge for that to cover the costs. Give me a shout if you plan to come along so we can ensure that we get the catering requirements correct

Entry is free for members of the SCB and £2 for non members.

[Calum]

Just an update to anyone swithering about coming along:

Dunc, our resident yeast enthusiast, is going to do a Show and Tell on how to inoculate slants for yeast storage. There may also be time for some microscopy type work too.

[Calum]

For all those coming along (and we appear to have a very healthy attendance). Please bring a pen or pencil for filling in your yeast scores.

Also, bring along some beer of you have any ready. :cheers:

[mysterio]

I'm in, looking forward to looking at some yeast in a microscope as sad as that sounds.

It will be very interesting comparing yeast as well! Will it be a blind tasting sort of thing ?

[Calum]

My write up of the meeting and results of the Yeast Trial can be found on the SCB website.

SCB 2011 January Meeting

[mysterio]

Calum, great write up!

I noticed my comments in all of the yeast apart from the US-05. To be honest I thought that beer may have been slightly infected. The Muntons was surprisingly disappointing but it was definitely the yeast which let the beer down because I noticed some kind of rubbery aroma which was odd, as I have used that yeast in the past. Not a slight on your brewing as it was definitely the yeast.. ! Nottingham I thought had a nice bit of hops in the aroma which was much more prominent than the rest. I had a couple more samples of that beer and enjoyed it even though it was a pretty boring recipe.

The wyeast 1318 was a great beer all round, very well rounded, great mouthfeel and complex. Interesting as it's not a yeast which has a White Labs equivalent, according to Mr Malty it is the Boddingtons yeast. I will definitely be picking some of that up. 1098 I thought was more estery and not quite to my taste but still a good drinking beer.

Anyway, I enjoyed the meeting, the most enjoyable aspect was being able to talk beer with people of all ages who I would normally, probably have very little in common with. I hope I can participate in future experiments!

[Calum]

Thanks for the feedback Mysty, I've started a thread for ideas for future events, experiments, brews......if you have any ideas then please chip in as it would be really appreciated. The attendance at the meeting was quite staggering so there is obviously an interest in Central Scotland and it would be good to sort out next years agenda to meet their needs.