city deal: Introductory Beer Making Course for €15 at My Beer and Wine (€40 Value)

rubadub

Todays deal, I have no connection and dunno if it is any use

Introductory Beer Making Course for €15 at My Beer and Wine (€40 Value)

After extensive trials it turns out scotch eggs aren't a sure fire way to get the party started. Learn the truth about tipples with today's CityDeal: for €15 instead of €40 get an introductory beer making course at My Beer and Wine.

Masters of the ancient martial art of brewing and passing their sauce conjuring secrets on to sober students, My Beer and Wine are dedicated to helping people create their own breed of homemade beverage. Based in the southside urban suburb of Rathmines, they stock a whole host of specialist equipment, ingredients and bubbling caldron, as well as divulging well-kept thirst quenching secrets and tricks of the trade to help clients produce the finest fizzing firey water possible.

CityDeal customers can sign themselves up for a three hour long introduction to beer making. Each person will get two half litre bottles of freshly made beer to take home at the end, as well as learning the following:

> Overview of equipment used during the brewing process
> Sanitation methods
> Temperature controls
> Yeast management
> Beer recipes explained
> Culminates in a 40 pint batch of beer being produced
> Introduction into the bottling process and how to naturally carbonate beer
> Kegging and home bar construction explained
> Advanced brewing methods explained

http://www.citydeal.ie/deals/dublin/mybeerandwine/513570?nlp=&CID=IE_CRM_215_0_0_0&utm_source=Deal_general_newsletter&utm_medium=All_Cities&utm_content=Initial_Version&utm_campaign=Varies

Wonder if it is legal to give "free beer" like that.

Saruman

rubadub wrote: »

Todays deal, I have no connection and dunno if it is any use


http://www.citydeal.ie/deals/dublin/mybeerandwine/513570?nlp=&CID=IE_CRM_215_0_0_0&utm_source=Deal_general_newsletter&utm_medium=All_Cities&utm_content=Initial_Version&utm_campaign=Varies

Wonder if it is legal to give "free beer" like that.

I think it sort of goes against the letter of the law to give away what is home brewed beer but it is probably one of those grey areas that are not going to be enforced.

Although the fact that the free bottles require paying for a service makes it a little more against the letter of the law I would say.

That said, I would say the course itself is worth it for those who want to get in to homebrewing.

stevenmu

They say 'freshly brewed', and if it's what's produced during the course and it hasn't fermented it might not count as an alcoholic beverage?

Donny5

stevenmu wrote: »

They say 'freshly brewed', and if it's what's produced during the course and it hasn't fermented it might not count as an alcoholic beverage?

Nah, you can't bottle the beer until it's fermented.

stevenmu

True. I was thinking they might use a bottle as a mini-fermenter and tell you to take it home, stick it in the hotpress, loosen the cap and leave it a few weeks. Not very likely though.

Lars

Just purchased that deal. Should be some fun if nothing else. It says the course is at 92/93 Stephens green. Anyone know what's at that address?

homerjay2005

looks like the offer id full, but i defo want to do this...anybody have a link directly to them?

Saruman

stevenmu wrote: »

True. I was thinking they might use a bottle as a mini-fermenter and tell you to take it home, stick it in the hotpress, loosen the cap and leave it a few weeks. Not very likely though.

If they told me to ferment beer in a hot press I would be likely to cause physical bodily harm and ask for my money back.

Thankfully I neither need the course nor am I violent so it's all good.


Beer fermented in a hotpress = worst beer imaginable.

Degsy

homerjay2005 wrote: »

looks like the offer id full, but i defo want to do this...anybody have a link directly to them?

barry@mybeerandwine.com

stevenmu

Saruman wrote: »

Beer fermented in a hotpress = worst beer imaginable.

Ah, that's my ignorance, I'm sure they'd know better and recommend accordingly.

merc230ce

So did anyone else on here buy it? I'm going next Thursday :-)

Bugsyboy1

Over 700 signed up. For a beginner like me I reckon I've nothing to lose. I'll be there next Thursday afternoon.

rubadub

887 sold, didn't think brewing was so popular! considering it would be mainly newbies too. Very good value for 3 hours & some beer.

merc230ce

Grrr. A must-attend work meeting has been changed from Wed to Thurs evening so I won't be able to go to the class as planned >-[ I might still be able to go to the first hour but I'll probably miss out on the good stuff!

merc230ce

Bugsyboy1 wrote: »

Over 700 signed up. For a beginner like me I reckon I've nothing to lose. I'll be there next Thursday afternoon.

So how did it go?

I'm raaagin I couldn't go, but I'm still gonna do my first brew this w/e - I'll just have to learn from my mistakes! ;-)

Bugsyboy1

It was very good for a beginner like me.

There were 6 other people there and it was a in a small conference type room in the hotel. It went on for 2.5 hours (20 minute break in the middle) and Barry made a batch of Cooper's Canadian Blonde from scratch. He was very clear, explained the equipment and the process. There were loads of questions which he answered very clearly. We bottled a couple of beers from a previous batch which we took home.

Apparently over 1100 people signed up. I can't see how he can keep up the pace to do 50 sessions!! Definitely worth my 2.5 hours and at €15 it was a steal. I got a wine kit and a beer kit today from his shop in Rathmines as a kind of support/appreciation. Wish I'd done the course before I'd made an arse of my first lager brew. I am sure you can change your appointment to a different day.

Please forgive the slightly overglowing review but there was something about the genuineness of the guy and his willingness to help that really struck me.

Paul

Lars

I went to the course. enjoyed it but it was very basic. Great for someone whos just starting(I'm not exactly a master brewer with 2 kits and 4 extract recipes done:D). The beer we got to take home was a canadian blonde Coopers kit that he'd made up at home and brought in, in the bottling bucket/secondary fermenter. It was bottled in PET bottles with a carbonation drop. Course is more geared towards someone who's considering starting to brew from kits. He did show off some kegging equipment which I was glad to see as I've only been bottling to date, and it was goo dto have someone to ask a few direct questions

L

domcq

I attended the course on Tuesday. I've one Coopers dark ale kit under my belt. There was plently of oppertunity for questions throughout the course.

I learned among other things that if I'd used malt extract instaed of the 1kg of regular sugar, I'd have improved my dark ale quality - it was very worthwhile IMO and i'll visiting the shop soon to try another (ginger beer perhaps).