What beer are we drinking this week ?

Lovely Bloke

Azza89 wrote: »

Just wondering can anyone tell me what is the best off licence in around the city centre please ? I want to try and find some more of the founders range but I live out in Meath so the pickings are slim.

Drinkstore have them, so you could order them online.

Son0vagun

Azza89 wrote: »

Just wondering can anyone tell me what is the best off licence in around the city centre please ? I want to try and find some more of the founders range but I live out in Meath so the pickings are slim.

Sweeneys in Phibsboro had them last week.

irish_goat

Wetherspoon's Real Ale Festival started yesterday.

I had...







The Bengali Tiger is fantastic. Bartender says they have some of the Stone beers in the cellar as well.

Ravelleman

irish_goat wrote: »

Wetherspoon's Real Ale Festival started yesterday.

Is this the future for the Republic? Somehow I still doubt it.

drumswan

Ravelleman wrote: »

Is this the future for the Republic? Somehow I still doubt it.

Why?

irish_goat

Ravelleman wrote: »

Is this the future for the Republic? Somehow I still doubt it.

I think it is. Wetherspoons only opened in Derry in 2001, prior to that no one was drinking cask ale in Derry and yet now the pub goes through about 14 casks a week.

Seaneh

Just so people know.

Grand Cru and their English partner James Clay managed to get their hands on some Stone beers. They recently decided to jointly import large orders of Founders (which is where those came from), Stone and possibly a few other American breweries you can't currently get here.

The stone stuff should be available in the next few weeks.

Prepare to be disappointed though, their beers are massively over rated, Rouge level over rated. Grand beers but not really worth the price.

irish_goat

Seaneh wrote: »

Prepare to be disappointed though, their beers are massively over rated, Rouge level over rated. Grand beers but not really worth the price.

I'll be paying £1.40 a pint. :pac:

Seaneh

irish_goat wrote: »

I'll be paying £1.40 a pint. :pac:

I doubt they'd be that cheap, even for Witherspoons With the vouchers.

I hadn't heard about them being shipped in cask or keg either, just bottled.

BeerNut

irish_goat wrote: »

I'll be paying £1.40 a pint. :pac:

Seaneh's talking about actual Stone beer, not Mitch-Steele-went-to-Adnams-and-looked-at-the-mash-tun beer

jrby

delirium tremens

irish_goat

Seaneh wrote: »

I doubt they'd be that cheap, even for Witherspoons With the vouchers.

I hadn't heard about them being shipped in cask or keg either, just bottled.

They have one beer commissioned for the festival so it'll be £1.90 (but then I'll use the 50p CAMRA voucher).



I doubt they'll have any Stone beer any other time of the year. On that note though, they are going to have a permanent supply of American beers by way of bringing a different brewer over every month to brew in the UK.

irish_goat

BeerNut wrote: »

Seaneh's talking about actual Stone beer, not Mitch-Steele-went-to-Adnams-and-looked-at-the-mash-tun beer

Quiet you.

:P

Grayditch

Seaneh wrote: »

The stone stuff should be available in the next few weeks.

drumswan

Seaneh wrote: »

Prepare to be disappointed though, their beers are massively over rated, Rouge level over rated. Grand beers but not really worth the price.

Im beginning to think you are trolling on here now. I suppose you think Galway Bay are better, lol

Seaneh

drumswan wrote: »

Im beginning to think you are trolling on here now. I suppose you think Galway Bay are better, lol

No, I don't think Galway Bay are better.

But I'd rather pay €4.55 for a pint of something locally produced than 7.50+ for something made on the other side of the world that's not a whole lot better and completely over hyped.

I have no problem paying for a beer when it's worth it, I'll gladly pay €7 for a bottle of Odell IPA or a Dogfish Head 90 minute (when it was here) or some of the Thronbridge beers, but some breweries are marketing driven and totally over hyped.

Stone make good beer, but it's not amazing, and some of it is outright sh*te.
Much like rogue and to a certain extent, Brewdog.

Seaneh

irish_goat wrote: »

They have one beer commissioned for the festival so it'll be £1.90 (but then I'll use the 50p CAMRA voucher).



I doubt they'll have any Stone beer any other time of the year. On that note though, they are going to have a permanent supply of American beers by way of bringing a different brewer over every month to brew in the UK.

Didn't realise Spoons were doing that, interesting.

drumswan

Seaneh wrote: »

No, I don't think Galway Bay are better.

But I'd rather pay €4.55 for a pint of something locally produced than 7.50+ for something made on the other side of the world that's not a whole lot better and completely over hyped.

I have no problem paying for a beer when it's worth it, I'll gladly pay €7 for a bottle of Odell IPA or a Dogfish Head 90 minute (when it was here) or some of the Thronbridge beers, but some breweries are marketing driven and totally over hyped.

Stone make good beer, but it's not amazing, and some of it is outright sh*te.
Much like rogue and to a certain extent, Brewdog.

You'll 'gladly' pay 7 quid for 355mls of Odell IPA but not for Stone? How does that work?

This weeks version of Full Sail must be class if its up there with Enjoy-By and Stone IPA.

I look forward to next week when you compare Rochefort to your grannys dishwater and announce youve produced a kit IPA better than Pliny

irish_goat

drumswan wrote: »

This weeks version of Full Sail must be class

Cracked up at this. :pac:

Seaneh

drumswan wrote: »

You'll 'gladly' pay 7 quid for 355mls of Odell IPA but not for Stone? How does that work?

This weeks version of Full Sail must be class if its up there with Enjoy-By and Stone IPA.

I look forward to next week when you compare Rochefort to your grannys dishwater and announce youve produced a kit IPA better than Pliny

Grand then, just use hyperbole and try to whore thanks, fine, whatever.

Ruben Remus

Seaneh wrote: »

Stone make good beer, but it's not amazing, and some of it is outright sh*te

Please educate us all on the Stone beer(s) you've had that are "outright sh*te". Thanks.

Seaneh

Ruben Remus wrote: »

Please educate us all on the Stone beer(s) you've had that are "outright sh*te". Thanks.

Reason Be Damned, was ****.

BaZmO*

Seaneh wrote: »

Reason Be Damned, was ****.

Americans doing a Belgian tend not to be great.

I've only ever tried one of their beers, Ruination, in the BrewDog Bar in Manchester (that'd be a nightmare for Seaneh! ) and I thought it was really really nice.

Seaneh

BaZmO* wrote: »

Americans doing a Belgian tend not to be great.

I've only ever tried one of their beers, Ruination, in the BrewDog Bar in Manchester (that'd be a nightmare for Seaneh! ) and I thought it was really really nice.

I like the brewdog pubs, 5am saint, punk, riptide*, dead pony club all on tap, paint me happy.


*do they still make riptide? Haven't been to a Brewdog bar (or mainland UK in general) in a while.

I liked Ruination, but I much preferred Arrogant Bastard and the Pale Ale though.

Thought they were completely over hyped though.

BaZmO*

Seaneh wrote: »

I like the brewdog pubs, 5am saint, punk, riptide*, dead pony club all on tap, paint me happy.


*do they still make riptide? Haven't been to a Brewdog bar (or mainland UK in general) in a while.

I've only been to the one and loved it, so did the mates that I had to initially drag there!
Would've loved to have tried and few more of the Stone beers but it was gonna be a long day so had to watch the abvs.

I think Riptide is just one of their "occasional brews", think I have a bottle of it stored away at home.

Seaneh wrote: »

I liked Ruination, but I much preferred Arrogant Bastard and the Pale Ale though.

Thought they were completely over hyped though.

Sounds like you're just not a fan of hype. It's just part of geekery in general, best if you just ignore it tbh.

Seaneh

BaZmO* wrote: »

Sounds like you're just not a fan of hype. It's just part of geekery in general, best if you just ignore it tbh.

Maybe, but like, some beers live up to the hype.

When I tasted Pliny back in June I didn't expect it to live up to the hype at all (too many disappointments, waaaah) but it blew me away, I don't know if it's the best beer I've ever drank, but it's fecking gorgeous.
The bottle being 15 days old when I got it probably helped a lot too.

drumswan

The craft beer scene is rife with this. Small brewery produces widely acclaimed beer (5 GABF awards, several World Beer Awards, incredible ratings on beernerd.com for Stone), becomes hugely successful and grows, closely followed by reverse snobs claiming 'over-hype', 'over-rated' and 'marketing driven'. Almost universally, by total coincidence, the local micro of these reverse hipsters are producing incredible product that you wish you were cool enough to get.

If this micro in turn actually is amazing and becomes successful, they can look forward to being described as over-rated and over-hyped by their very own wave of reactionaries.

The beer stays the same through this, and is very nice.

Seaneh

BaZmO* wrote: »

I think Riptide is just one of their "occasional brews", think I have a bottle of it stored away at home.

That's a pity, I liked it, really nice porter, I'd love to get it here.

drumswan

BaZmO* wrote: »

Americans doing a Belgian tend not to be great.

The New Belgium stuff is really fantastic.

Seaneh

drumswan wrote: »

The craft beer scene is rife with this. Small brewery produces widely acclaimed beer (5 GABF awards, several World Beer Awards, incredible ratings on beernerd.com for Stone), becomes hugely successful and grows, closely followed by reverse snobs claiming 'over-hype', 'over-rated' and 'marketing driven'. Almost universally, by total coincidence, the local micro of these reverse hipsters are producing incredible product that you wish you were cool enough to get.

If this micro in turn actually is amazing and becomes successful, they can look forward to being described as over-rated and over-hyped by their very own wave of reactionaries.

The beer stays the same through this, and is very nice.

Or you could equally say, the craft beer scene is rife with people hyping up certain beers and them having incredibly high scores on Ratebeer/Beeradvocate because only a few hundred people have rated them and have all rated them highly, then they get wider distribution and people are no longer impressed by the rarity of them so that reason for upmarking is gone and people rate them on their merits, not on hype.