OK from the Disorganiser himself, Thanks to the wonders of modern technology I have free wifi where I am staying tonight.
ALL GRAIN KIT
Each kit contains:
Kirin pale malt - 5 kg (search on 'Kirin' for specs)
Hoepfner Rauchmalz -~0.9-1.0 kg
Bairds Medium crystal (145 EBC) - 1.0 kg
Weyermann Carafa Special III (1200-1300EBC) - 0.25 kg
Wheat Malt - x 0.45 kg
NZ Super Alpha 06 - x 11%AA - ~110grams
NZ Hallertau 06 7%AA - ~110 grams
Styrian Goldings - 4.8%AA - ~60 grams (Gryphon Brewing, can you please confirm the AA rating???)
Yeast US05 - 1 packet
EXTRACT KIT
Pale DME - 3 kg
Bairds Medium crystal (145 EBC) - 0.25 kg
Inclusions for doing a Mini / Partial mash
Kirin pale malt - 1 kg
Hoepfner Rauchmalz -0.25 kg (could possibly be steeped?)
Weyermann Carafa Special III (1200-1300EBC) - 0.25kg (could be steeped for colour only)
Wheat Malt - x 0.45 kg
NZ Super Alpha 06 - x 11%AA - ~110grams
NZ Hallertau 06 7%AA - ~110 grams
Styrian Goldings - 4.8%AA - ~60 grams (Gryphon Brewing Can you please confirm this???)
Yeast US05 - 1 packet
NOTE 1
Due to a slight lack of supervision and a large amount of enthusiasm both packs of NZ Super Alpha and NZ Hallertau were taken out of their respective boxes before anybody realised that the hops were packed in plain silver bags and the variety and AA rating was only marked on the box that they had come from. At this stage both packs were sitting next to each other on the table so nobody was sure what was what. A few members did a bit of a rub and sniff and a few even braver souls even had a chew on a few pellets and a consensus was reached as to which hop was what.
NOTE 2
For those who wanted the "Supersize" option we made sure that everyone who wanted a standard sized kit got one before making up the "Supersized ones". Your supersized kits may not have as much rauchmalz or crystal as the standard ones but you do have extra hops and yeast, PS please bring a few $$ to the next meeting to chip in for the extra ingredients, we know who you are!
Questions & Answers AKA THE RULES
YES, feel free to do whatever you like with the malt, whether it is roasting, toasting, stewing or feeding to your pet and then collecting the droppings ala the famed "Big Shit Porter" of a few Christmas case swaps ago.
Question from last night: Can we make two beers from our ingredient kit?
Well you can if you want to but it's a lot of work and make sure you choose your Best one to submit for judging as considering we have about 27 participants we will only accept one entry per brewer.
Question from last night: Do we have to use all of the ingredients?
Again yes you can but you don't have to if a dark, crystally, smokey, megaIBU beer is not your thing 
. In the spirit of exercising your creativity there is no limit to HOW MUCH or HOW LITTLE of each ingredient that you use except with the following proviso: EACH OF THE INGREDIENTS PROVIDED MUST BE DISCERNIBLE TO THE AVERAGE PALATE IN EITHER APPEARANCE, AROMA, TASTE AND PROVED WITH YOUR GRAVITY / IBU CALCULATIONS
Question from last night: Can we use any other yeast?
NO and please no 'accidental' wild yeast infections
Question from last night: Can we use Sugar?
ONLY for bottle priming
Some questions I have just made up:
Do we have to submit our recipe with our beers?
YES see the Answer above about how much of the ingredients you have to use, with each entry you must submit a recipe detailing your OG, FG, batch size, calculated IBU's yada yada plus details of any extra things that you did. We can check if you have cheated h34r: plus we can also publish a recipe book for everyone after. Promash or Beersmith files gladly accepted.
How much Beer do we need to brew?
You will need to supply 4 x 750ml bottles for judging, your starting gravity is up to you. It would be nice if everyone had enough beer for an informal "People's Choice" judging / tasting session but that is to be decided still
Can you brew "Any" Beer?
YES "Any" beer as long as it fits into one of the many and varied BJCP categories
I will send out an an email at the end of the week to all club members, in the meantime if anyone has any more questions then please post them here and I will answer them in the thread.
A big thanks to our local brewshops, Gryphon, TWOC and Brewmart for their help in getting the ingredients together and also the others who helped out.
