dogfish head Randall!

poitinstill

Our spanking new dogfish head Randall!

bierhaus in cork just got one.......anyone have any experience ?

irish_goat

Kinsale Brewery are using one at the RDS this weekend. Looking forward to tasting the result.

I also managed to convince the B&C to buy one before I left, their order is being processed so they should have it soon.

irish_goat

Kinsale Brewery are using one at the RDS this weekend and will be putting several varieties of hop through it. Looking forward to tasting the beer out of it.

I also managed to convince the B&C to buy one before I left, their order is being processed so they should have it soon.

Ronan cork

Going to try convince him to hook it up to the erdinger tap. Could make some kind of dry hop-fen Weiss type thing! Have a bit of dry curaçao peel left over from a brew that might make an interesting addition!

oblivious

Nice one poitin

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irish_goat wrote: »

Kinsale Brewery are using one at the RDS this weekend and will be putting several varieties of hop through it. Looking forward to tasting the beer out of it.

There'll also be one at the National Homebrew Club stand afaik. Along with a selection of free homebrew

the beer revolu

Tube wrote: »

There'll also be one at the National Homebrew Club stand afaik. Along with a selection of free homebrew

Randall hooked up in Bierhaus. Shandon stout through oak chips and Cafe River coffee beans. Very nice indeed.

irish_goat

Bull and Castle's one has arrived.

ciaran76

I never heard of a Randal till last week and suddenely I am seeing it mentioned in a lot of places.
Look forward to trying some beer through it.

BaZmO*

ciaran76 wrote: »

I never heard of a Randal till last week and suddenely I am seeing it mentioned in a lot of places.
Look forward to trying some beer through it.

Actually never heard about it until now. Sounds interesting.

ciaran76

Blacks Kinsale Brewery are going to use it on their Kinsale Pale Ale at the Beerfest.

Should be a hop bomb at the Beerfest.

BaZmO*

ciaran76 wrote: »

Blacks Kinsale Brewery are going to use it on their Kinsale Pale Ale at the Beerfest.

Should be a hop bomb at the Beerfest.

For the first 10/20/30? pints? I'd imagine it's expensive to keep it stocked fresh with new hops.

ciaran76

BaZmO* wrote: »

For the first 10/20/30? pints? I'd imagine it's expensive to keep it stocked fresh with new hops.

Not sure to be honest.

Losty Dublin

How does one of these thingamajigs work?

irish_goat

Losty Dublin wrote: »

How does one of these thingamajigs work?

You load one chamber with hops and can fill the open chamber with ice then attach it to a beer tap. Beer flows into the hops chamber and picks up loads of hop oils and then moves into the 2nd chamber where the foam can subside (the ice will keep it cool). Then you pour from the tap.

drumswan

Ive always wondered about these. How do the brewers feel about bars changing the taste of their product at the retail end?

irish_goat

drumswan wrote: »

Ive always wondered about these. How do the brewers feel about bars changing the taste of their product at the retail end?

I think they're happy to make a sale tbh. It's only real beer geeks who are going to go for pints out of the randall so they would know not to judge the original product based on whatever comes out of it.

The plan for the B&C is to have a launch night for the randall and invite Metalman up to talk about their beers and pour them through it. They were very happy with the idea anyway.

Creamy Goodness

irish_goat wrote: »

I think they're happy to make a sale tbh. It's only real beer geeks who are going to go for pints out of the randall so they would know not to judge the original product based on whatever comes out of it.

The plan for the B&C is to have a launch night for the randall and invite Metalman up to talk about their beers and pour them through it. They were very happy with the idea anyway.

jesus, where do i sign up for such an event :pac:

irish_goat

B&C had it on last night with Metalman and absolutely packed with Cascade hops.



Sold out apparently so tonight is Cascade + orange.

ciaran76

irish_goat wrote: »

B&C had it on last night with Metalman and absolutely packed with Cascade hops.



Sold out apparently so tonight is Cascade + orange.

Would have loved to try that.

Seaneh

Depending on which orange peel they use (or segments, whatever way they are planning on doing this) it could be awesome, a good super biter orange would work great with cascade.

How often will B&C be doing the Randal?

Creamy Goodness

had the metalman from the randall last night. was nice but was a bit too hoppy for my liking. took away from metalman i think. still it's an interesting machine and well worth experimenting with.

Knifey Spoony

I had Shandon Stout ran through coffee and oak cubes in the Bierhaus last week and really liked it. It really did dramatically change the flavor of the stout, although, it was coffee that dominated the taste, don't think the oak cubes did much.

But, the stout was very flat. Is it generally something Randles that the beer put through them would end up flat? I still enjoyed the stout though.

drumswan

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

had the metalman from the randall last night. was nice but was a bit too hoppy for my liking. took away from metalman i think. still it's an interesting machine and well worth experimenting with.

Everything Ive had through a Randall has been unbalanced. I still dont see the point in ordering a pint of craft beer which has presumably been designed with a particular balance of flavour in mind only to have some spotty student behind the bar run it through some hoppy gloop.

I officially disapprove of Randalls in a bar setting

ciaran76

Could you run Coors light through it or would you need more than one Randall?

BaZmO*

ciaran76 wrote: »

Blacks Kinsale Brewery are going to use it on their Kinsale Pale Ale at the Beerfest.

Should be a hop bomb at the Beerfest.

BaZmO* wrote: »

For the first 10/20/30? pints? I'd imagine it's expensive to keep it stocked fresh with new hops.

To answer my own question. I was speaking to one of the lads from Blacks at the Beerfest and I asked him the same question. He reckons that each addition would last for the a barrel.

I'd be a bit skeptical of that tbh. I could understand how one dosing of hops could dry hop a full barrel if all the beer went back into the same barrel before being served, but the nature of this device would just mean that it would get progressively less hoppy as the beer was poured. Brilliant idea all the same.

You can actually buy a small from from Dogfish. Randall Jr.



Cheap enough, but you could just use a jam jar. Must try something like this the next time I'm making some homebrew.

irish_goat

A cafetière would do the trick as well. Might try that tonight in fact.

drumswan

Great idea for trying out different hops with homebrew alright. What stops the leaf material getting into the beer?

BaZmO*

drumswan wrote: »

Great idea for trying out different hops with homebrew alright. What stops the leaf material getting into the beer?

I wire mesh/sieve thingamajig.

Seaneh

irish_goat wrote: »

A cafetière would do the trick as well. Might try that tonight in fact.

Or one of those teapots for loose leaf tea with the little mesh cup your pour the water through.

Throw a handfull of hops into the mesh, your your beer over it, let it settle a bit in the fridge, pour it from your tea pot into a glass.

The dogfish head one has an airtight seal though so it would be kind of like a growler where you can fill it from a tap/bottle/can and leave it in the fridge for a few hours and not worry about loss of carbonation or whatever.

A_Fitz

ciaran76 wrote: »

Could you run Coors light through it or would you need more than one Randall?

:D:D