What beer are we drinking this week ?

noby wrote: »

It's still going? That must really be one of the last casks.

Ha, if the conditioning was still as active as it was it must be up around 10% abv by now!

Im not in Ireland Seaneh, sorry mate. Just had them both, they were nice but Ive had better, my top two in IPA are Firestone Walker Union Jack IPA and Lagunitas A Little Sumpin’ Sumpin’ Ale. If you prefer them super hopped you'll like the Deschutes and New Belgium better, I prefer the ones with more caramel character myself.

Dont see why they wouldnt be available in Ireland, I bought them all off a supermarket shelf in NZ. Should just be a matter of someone bothering to import them.

Now onto an Anderson Valley Hop Ottin' IPA

Remind me to buy some lager or hefe or something next time

reeb wrote: »

Im not in Ireland Seaneh, sorry mate. Just had them both, they were nice but Ive had better, my top two in IPA are Firestone Walker Union Jack IPA and Lagunitas A Little Sumpin’ Sumpin’ Ale. If you prefer them super hopped you'll like the Deschutes and New Belgium better, I prefer the ones with more caramel character myself.

It's not specifically either of those two beers I'd been excited about, althout I do like them a lot, but the breweries other beers. I'd love to be able to get a few bottles of stuff like Black Butte Porter, Mirror Pond Pale Ale, Obsidian Stout, Red Chair or even the special brews like The Abyss, Black Butte Aniversery of The Dissident by Deschutes. I drank in their pub in Portland and their brewery in Bend a few years ago and was totally blown away.
Ranger is just a nice hot day beer and a quite like fat tire too so would be nice to get some new belgium beers.

If you are more into the malty type of pale ales try Mirror Pond by Deschutes, lovely biscuity malts and not super hoppy, and to 5% it's fairly sessionable.

Fart wrote: »

I'm pretty sure I've seen some of these in Redmonds of Ranelagh.

Alas, I have phoned every good offie in Ireland and nobody can get their hands on any of the Deschutes, I even phoned the brewery to ask for a European distributor and they told me that they don't presently and will nto in the next atleast 2 years have a European distributor as they are focused on getting their beers to very US state first, it's currently near impossible get any of their beers on the East coast of the US, never mind Europe, I have a friend form Portland who's living in Virginia and he drives to .
If Reeb can get them in NZ it's because a someone bought from a third party.



That's their current distribution map, this time last year their distribution was about half as many states so they are expanding quickly, hopefully it won't be long before someone in Europe starts importing their beers.