What beer are we drinking this week, too?

L1011 · 04-07-2015 10:00pm

Grabbed some US stuff for the day that's in it (and a bottle of Bulleit for the night it'll become...).

SN Torpedo does not taste like its 7.2%. Although that is probably why its called that!

BaZmO* · 04-07-2015 10:38pm

L1011 wrote: »

SN Torpedo does not taste like its 7.2%. Although that is probably why its called that!

It's a great beer but the reason for the name is......

The first beer to feature our “Hop Torpedo”—a revolutionary dry-hopping device that controls how much hop aroma is imparted into beer without adding additional bitterness.

L1011 · 04-07-2015 11:09pm

BaZmO* wrote: »

It's a great beer but the reason for the name is......

Ah right. It does sneak up on you from under the surface, ABV% wise though.

Insect Overlord · 04-07-2015 11:20pm

RadikAle's Rubenesque Belgian dubbel goes down very, very easy. Beautifully smooth, especially at 7% abv.

Tonight's drinking also featured Mountain Man's Hairy Goat and samples of Reel Deel's Say Nowt Stout and Mountain Man's Sneaky Owl.

writhen · 04-07-2015 11:31pm

Keller - very nice for a lager - only €1.30 per litre bottle!

ciaran76 · 05-07-2015 12:45am

Voyager US in bottle is very good indeed.

Victorys Dirtwolf is a different breed altogether very piney and herbal. Didn't get much else from it.

limnam · 05-07-2015 10:59am

BaZmO* wrote: »

O'Hara's / Starr Hill collaboration Foreign Affair Red IPA. Really like this. It tastes like a mix between O'Hara's Red & IPA strangely enough.

Pretty much what I thought too, really enjoyed it and was sorry I only got one as it's something you could definitely drink a few of.

the beer revolu · 05-07-2015 11:19am

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

Radikale Hopster and a Cotton Ball Pale Ale this evening just before heading for dinner. Two grand Irish beers.

Might be hitting the beer market later.

The Hopster dry hopped cask version is a thing of beauty.

ben.schlomo · 05-07-2015 8:09pm

Picked up a Cerveza Dougall's Leyenda Bitter in Dunnes this evening, should be interesting.

limnam · 05-07-2015 9:44pm

Voyager US in the bottle.

Was a bit like recent bottles Of Foam and Fury, but with a bit less foam and a lot less fury

ben.schlomo · 06-07-2015 12:55am

ben.schlomo wrote: »

Picked up a Cerveza Dougall's Leyenda Bitter in Dunnes this evening, should be interesting.

Surprisingly very nice, nice balance between hops and some light caramel sweetness.

ciaran76 · 06-07-2015 10:16am

Brick By Brick "Bosun’s Moustache" I thought it was an American IPA but turns out its a Lithuanian IPA!
Its an ok IPA but nothing that would make me go back to.

Ryath · 06-07-2015 10:25am

Doing some of Wild Atlantic Way for a few days. Pint of Galway hooker pale with dinner in O'Dowd's in Roundstone lovely pub and food. Only saw after I ordered they had Sheep Steeler Buckit and a few Independent beers.

Couple of Kinneger Rustbuckets in Clifden then last night night. First time trying it realy nice beer.

Ruben Remus · 06-07-2015 10:42am

Tried Galway Bay's new gorseflower witbier on tap at The Oslo. I wasn't impressed by it - thought it was too thick and heavy for the style. I have also tried Mescan's witbier and White Hag's White IPA this year but I didn't like any of these as much as plain old Hoegaarden.

CramCycle · 06-07-2015 2:35pm

limnam wrote: »

James Brown - Chocolate Orange Stout.

Was fairly disappointed with this possibly too high an expectation.
There was nothing here for me. As a stout it was too light in the body the finish was non existent and not a a single hint of orange could my taste buds muster out of the glass and I really put the effort in.

I have had two of them, both as bland as each other, no orange at all, I thought I got a hint of orange in the first one but since it was only on one mouthful and I couldn't taste it again, I presume it was my mind playing tricks on me.

I got another one this weekend, hoping it was just my taste buds the last time.

No idea how it won anything.

Uncle_moe · 06-07-2015 3:50pm

Picked up a couple of Odells St Lupulin - good but not outstanding. Fairly balanced but was expecting more hops. Fire rock was much the same but a little less malty.
The cans of Punk were the nicest beers I had at the weekend.
Would like to try a new IPA if anyone has suggestions. Something like Gamma Ray or Modus Hoperandi would be nice.

Not G.R · 06-07-2015 7:27pm

Couple of after work beers to kill the Monday blues. Started with Uncle Zester by Siren. Unlike anything I've ever tatsed. Sweet, juicy and sour with a malty backbone. Lovely stuff. Followed by a Goodbye Blue Monday. Solid as ever. Love the stuff. Skipped on over to the beer market for GBB new wit. Awful. No lemon, no Coconut, almost no carbonation. On top of that really heavy and cloy. Don't know want went wrong here. After I left I thought it could have been the Uncle Zester screwing with my taste buds. Will try again at a later date to check.

Grayditch · 06-07-2015 9:44pm

Black's of Kinsale Session tastes a lot better than the first time I tried it, when it first came out in bottles.

janiejones · 06-07-2015 10:03pm

just had a bayreuther zwickl beer. really enjoyed it. i mainly bought it cause it was a swing top bottle but its like memories of the best lagers i had in pubs. just that time when the heineken or bud really hit the spot. maybe it's cause i've been drinking lots of hoppy ales but it was a nice change of pace

janiejones · 06-07-2015 10:07pm

CramCycle wrote: »

I have had two of them, both as bland as each other, no orange at all, I thought I got a hint of orange in the first one but since it was only on one mouthful and I couldn't taste it again, I presume it was my mind playing tricks on me.

I got another one this weekend, hoping it was just my taste buds the last time.

No idea how it won anything.

i had 2 as well, no hint of orange, better than average stout but i was hoping for more

Zaph · 07-07-2015 12:39am

Kinnegar Cup & Saucer Coffee Stout this evening. I was expecting a lot more of a coffee hit to it, it's a lot more subtle than some others I've tried, and the coffee isn't really sustained as you drink more. That said, it's a nice stout without being spectacular, and I suspect it would be just as acceptable without the addition of the coffee.

L1011 · 07-07-2015 7:58pm

Voyager US (bottle) - nice, very nice in fact but I'm not 100% sure I'll pay €6 for it again.

limnam · 07-07-2015 10:24pm

Brooklyn Brewery - Dark Chocolate Stout

After reading what beernut had said about it in this post I was really looking forward to it as if it came anywhere near 200 fathoms I was going to be in for a treat.

Don't get me wrong, it's not awful. But I was slightly disappointed. It has the perfect body, nice mouth feel, bit of warmth, perfect amount of alcohol for me but all the flavors were lack luster, the stout profile, the roastyness, the chocolate arrived in just a dry sourness that never got balanced out. No vanilla, caramel,smoke or espresso as i would have expected and the finish vanished very quickly. When I read the reviews I'm left scratching my head wondering what they or I was drinking completely different drinks

janiejones · 07-07-2015 10:55pm

limnam wrote: »

Brooklyn Brewery - Dark Chocolate Stout
as if it came anywhere near 200 fathoms I was going to be in for a treat.

Don't get me wrong, it's not awful. But I was slightly disappointed.

would you say 200 fathoms is better? is the brooklyn stout whiskey barrel aged? i had the 200 fathoms and loved it. I've just bought the franciscan well jameson barrel aged. sorry for the barrage of questions

jsa112 · 07-07-2015 11:10pm

Doesn't appear to be according to Brooklyn's site. I had it before and wasn't particularly impressed. Haven't really been blown away by any of Brooklyn's beers

Had Siren's Uncle Zester, amazing stuff. Their Quadrophenia wasn't great though. Really liking Siren, doing a lot of cool beers.

Tried some of the new O'Briens offerings, sorachi ace was terrible, as was the falcon red collab, the milk stout isn't bad though. All three have a weird amount of carbonation though.

limnam · 07-07-2015 11:24pm

janiejones wrote: »

would you say 200 fathoms is better? is the brooklyn stout whiskey barrel aged? i had the 200 fathoms and loved it. I've just bought the franciscan well jameson barrel aged. sorry for the barrage of questions

200 fathoms is a far far superior stout. Brooklyn is not barrel aged as far as I know. If you want something closer to 200 I think founders KBS is a lot closer to the same league

quadrifoglio verde · 07-07-2015 11:50pm

limnam wrote: »

200 fathoms is a far far superior stout. Brooklyn is not barrel aged as far as I know. If you want something closer to 200 I think founders KBS is a lot closer to the same league

200 fathoms is no where near the same league as KBS. 200 fathoms is great, but KBS is the nectar of the gods. Theres that tiny little gap between the two that makes a massive difference

limnam · 08-07-2015 8:59pm

quadrifoglio verde wrote: »

200 fathoms is no where near the same league as KBS. 200 fathoms is great, but KBS is the nectar of the gods. Theres that tiny little gap between the two that makes a massive difference

Our taste buds will just have to differ, but the great thing is, they'll be both right

lk67 · 08-07-2015 10:14pm

jsa112 wrote: »

Tried some of the new O'Briens offerings, sorachi ace was terrible, as was the falcon red collab, the milk stout isn't bad though. All three have a weird amount of carbonation though.

Do you mean O'Hara's?

Personally I thought they were all great, although Sorachi Ace is a divisive hop. I thought the Foreign Affair (falcon red??!!) was the best of the three.

So there you go - Boards people disagree on beers.

Who'd have thunk?!

Insect Overlord · 08-07-2015 10:34pm

What's the milk stout? I'd be interested in trying it.

Nekarsulm · 08-07-2015 11:22pm

Got a few bottles of Schneider Weisse today. I must say I like it, going down well with barbecue pork ribs at the moment!

jsa112 · 08-07-2015 11:30pm

It's "lubulin to dublin", think this is the second version of it. Did you try brooklyn's sorachi ace lk67 ? Far better version imo

Ipso · 09-07-2015 1:35am

Sierra Nevada's Kolsch from their summer pack is lively stuff. I think this years Hoptimum is a bit like Torpedo.
I also had two from Ballast Point; Victory at Sea Porter with Coffee and Vanilla which was lovely and Grunion Pale Ale which smelled like onions and sweaty socks. That wasn't so good.

lk67 · 09-07-2015 8:52am

jsa112 wrote: »

It's "lubulin to dublin", think this is the second version of it. Did you try brooklyn's sorachi ace lk67 ? Far better version imo

Yep, have had both. They're quite different beers but I liked both of them. Mind you I'm VERY fond of S A hops!

Haven't tried the wee bottles of Brooklyn's yet though and only had Carlow's on draught.

Off to the offie again...

Lovely Bloke · 09-07-2015 8:53am

I couldn't discern much difference between O'Hara's PA and SA when I'd a pint of SA in

The Norseman

on Saturday night

CramCycle · 09-07-2015 9:32am

Had some of the Radik ales over the last few days:

Hopster: Didn't like at all, can't say why, the flavours were just either not there or over bearing with the single hop, just not for me.

Rubenesque: Started like an OK belgian, not overly flavoursome as it was slightly too chilled but as it warmed up it tasted like a blend between a good red ale and a mild Belgian Dubbel, not overpowering but a lovely blend of tastes, would recommend this to anyone who likes either, will definitely get again

lk67 · 09-07-2015 10:32am

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

I couldn't discern much difference between O'Hara's PA and SA when I'd a pint of SA in
The Norseman
on Saturday night

I find Sorachi Ace to be unlike any other hop. Different palates, different opinions I guess.

Lovely Bloke · 09-07-2015 10:46am

I actually suspect a few things

1. it wasn't Sorachi Ace coming from the tap, but Barry served me and we had a chat about old times, so there's no way he'd do that knowingly.

2. It was an old (ish) keg, with beer in the line, and the flavour had disappeared.

3. I'm not able to discern the SA flavours from the usual hop profile of O'Hara's Pale (it was definitely O'Hara's, their beers have an underlying flavour profile).

4. the flavour profile of SA is not as "different" as is being stated. I could detect no lemongrass (a flavour I cannot stand by the way), nor bubblegum sweetness.

jsa112 · 09-07-2015 11:38am

I didn't think the sorachi ace was particularly coming through in the O'Haras one. Got it more with the aroma from what I can remember.

Trond · 09-07-2015 12:28pm

Anyone else a fan of Left hand Nitro Milk Stout? Think its one of nicest stouts I've had in ages. So easy to drink.

RasTa · 09-07-2015 1:06pm

Yeah love it, although trouble's chocolate cherry is the nicest one I've had, might have being the cask.

Not G.R · 09-07-2015 7:08pm

Just letting people know Blackbird in rathmines have Power of the Voodoo and Skull king cans for sale. €8.50 each...

lk67 · 09-07-2015 7:37pm

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

I actually suspect a few things

1. it wasn't Sorachi Ace coming from the tap, but Barry served me and we had a chat about old times, so there's no way he'd do that knowingly.

2. It was an old (ish) keg, with beer in the line, and the flavour had disappeared.

3. I'm not able to discern the SA flavours from the usual hop profile of O'Hara's Pale (it was definitely O'Hara's, their beers have an underlying flavour profile).

4. the flavour profile of SA is not as "different" as is being stated. I could detect no lemongrass (a flavour I cannot stand by the way), nor bubblegum sweetness.

Hmmm... Interesting...

1. If Barry hadn't hooked up the keg or tasted it then maybe it was the wrong keg? The bar men in my experience there can be a little unknowledgeable...

2. Its not that old so could it dissappear that quick? Could it have had a remnant of another beer in the line?

3. I don't think you could miss the unique flavour of SA unless your palate was severely compromised. It's happened to me...

4. I didn't get lemongrass but I did get a kind of tropical fruit bubble gum plus barley sugar sweetness.
But that's just my palate of course.

jsa112 wrote: »

I didn't think the sorachi ace was particularly coming through in the O'Haras one. Got it more with the aroma from what I can remember.

Maybe some people ARE more attuned to SA? Like with off flavours?

But I do think that tasting any beer once is perhaps not a good thing for most of us, in so far as forming an opinion of it. The flavours we pick up are affected by so many factors. Mood, diet, location.... whatever.

I think that's especially true of beers we perceive not to like.

That's not excusing poorly made beers btw.

Lovely Bloke · 09-07-2015 8:30pm

I'd just been for an Italian, nothing very strong flavour wise, glass of white wine.

It was my first beer of the evening, and I got none of those flavours associated. Going to have to get a bottle somewhere.

HopsAndJumps · 09-07-2015 8:46pm

Having a Sierra Nevada blindfold black IPA.

If I did a blind taste test. Id say this was a porter. Smells of roasted malts, mild taste of hops but the taste is mostly roasted malt.

toffeeshel · 09-07-2015 10:35pm

The perks of the job- drinking a Belgian Petrus Aged Pale from a box of Petrus samples. Wonderful, sour, fruity and hiding its 7.3%. Really really good

janiejones · 09-07-2015 11:59pm

Had a delirium red, very sweet, fruity, sugary. Then a couple blackwater gin and tonics. Haven't had a load of gins but this was probably my favourite (Bombay sapphire, Gordon's, beefeater, cork dry gin, Hendricks being the competition (Hendricks the only real competition))

Big Thursday night

Rumun · 10-07-2015 7:32am

Power of voodoo triple ipa collaboration brew betwen beavertown and boneyard

Insane flavour and aroma. One of the best beers i had this year along with heavy water and alchemist

In my fridge skullking also from beavertown.

HopsAndJumps · 10-07-2015 10:22am

Rumun wrote: »

Power of voodoo triple ipa collaboration brew betwen beavertown and boneyard

Insane flavour and aroma. One of the best beers i had this year along with heavy water and alchemist

In my fridge skullking also from beavertown.

Where did you get it? Im jealous, Boneyard are outstanding!

L1011 · 10-07-2015 10:36am

Was in a bar with a surreal range of taps and ended up on Cute Hoor.

It's possibly the worst pint I've had in years

What beer are we drinking this week, too?

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