Galway Hooker

kenoconnell

Steady on guys... It's strictly the finest Irish Pale Ale for sale in little Ellen St. Was trying to find the old thread for craft Irish beers...

Info on 061 401190.

More to come - Ken

sioda

Ken had my stag last week in galway have to say great beer good flavour and easy to drink whenyou getting it in?

kenoconnell

It's there on draft ready to go.. Gone through a few kegs already with great feed back... Priced well right at €3.95..

Amazotheamazing

Fair play for bringing it down Ken. Must drop in myself for a few.

sioda

Great will be down for a few. Must admit was in oslo beer hall in galway last week limerick needs one. Also in the bull and castle in dublin the week before and felt limerick is really missing out

Amazotheamazing

sioda wrote: »

Great will be down for a few. Must admit was in oslo beer hall in galway last week limerick needs one. Also in the bull and castle in dublin the week before and felt limerick is really missing out

The Oslo is a great bar. A really great spot. The Salt House is worth checking out too (same owners?). Fully agree we could with something similar in Limerick.

kenoconnell

Well good to see some interest and support, without it we won't be able to keep them as if its not flowing the quality won't be there. We hope to get one more ale and a stout and try drive them...

They'll all be priced cheaper than regular beers even tho cost slightly more to try encourage people onto them and make them more attractive for people to try.

Quite a few have expressed interest so fingers crossed, it's up to those around who want them to keep them..

Hopefully they'll go well. .

Go on the hooker!!

AaronEnnis

Excuse the ignorance, but what pub is this? Limerick is sorely lacking in beer selection, let alone produce from Irish breweries, so this is great news!

kenoconnell

AaronEnnis wrote: »

Excuse the ignorance, but what pub is this? Limerick is sorely lacking in beer selection, let alone produce from Irish breweries, so this is great news!

Bar on little Ellen St, (formerly old quarter)

Have half the Guinness Collection up with some lovely carltonware pieces aswell and our full series of original Irish notes to pass the time while suppin the ale!!!

Thanks for the interest..

AaronEnnis

Class stuff. Will be in Tuesday for some Hooker, hear its great.

Clareman

More suited to Beer Thread I think, @Mods feel free to move it back to Limerick if you think it's best there

Fuinseog

kenoconnell wrote: »

Steady on guys... It's strictly the finest Irish Pale Ale for sale in little Ellen St. Was trying to find the old thread for craft Irish beers...

Info on 061 401190.

More to come - Ken

its not even brewed in Galway, but Roscommon and they do not spare the chemicals

BeerNut

Fuinseog wrote: »

they do not spare the chemicals

Eh?

kenoconnell

Fuinseog wrote: »

its not even brewed in Galway, but Roscommon and they do not spare the chemicals

Far from what it says on there website and the gold medal award they got in 2007... Care to elaborate???

dapto1

Fuinseog wrote: »

its not even brewed in Galway, but Roscommon and they do not spare the chemicals

I hear it's FULL of dihydrogen monooxide!

Berty

I thought it was brewed in the Oslo in Salthill.

What is the brewing room up the back which you can see from the bar itself through the glass windows?

BeerNut

That's the Bay Brewery where they make Bay Lager and Bay Ale for the chain of pubs that Oslo is part of. The Hooker Brewery is indeed in Roscommon town.

Fuinseog

kenoconnell wrote: »

Far from what it says on there website and the gold medal award they got in 2007... Care to elaborate???

there are better small breweries. I tried it once or twice and got an awful headache from it. Most barstaff I have talked to, do not hold it in high regard, but it sells well with the tourists.

Berty

Fuinseog wrote: »

there are better small breweries. I tried it once or twice and got an awful headache from it. Most barstaff I have talked to, do not hold it in high regard, but it sells well with the tourists.

Regionally I'm sure it sells to Tourists whom have heard of Galway but try to get, lets say a barman in Kinsale or Killarney to sell it, and you might run into issues.

However, the idea of a publican in Limerick trying to create a bierhaus of sorts is admirable. Limerick does not have this by any stretch.

Hit Galway with the Salthouse, Roisin Dubh, Bierhaus(go figure), Massimo all within a stones throw of each other.

Glad somebody in Limerick has the balls to try something new.

Needs a bigger range though.

Ken knows who I am.

dapto1

Fuinseog wrote: »

there are better small breweries. I tried it once or twice and got an awful headache from it. Most barstaff I have talked to, do not hold it in high regard, but it sells well with the tourists.

It won beer of the festival a few years ago at the Franciscan Well's Easter Beer Festival.

BeerNut

Twice: 2007 and 2009.

And, Fuinseog, if you're coming out with "they do not spare the chemicals" on the basis that you "tried it once or twice and got an awful headache from it", it might be time to learn a bit more about beer and how it's made before commenting further.

MANUTD99

Galway Hooker is my number one choice these days. I am at the point to where I avoid pubs that don't sell it.

It's good value at 4.20 in my local Ryan's

Bigcheeze

Fuinseog wrote: »

but it sells well with the tourists.

Probably because they haven't been brain washed in to thinking that the only quality beer is made by Diageo or heineken.

phelixoflaherty

It's my no. 1 in galway. Top notch

The Snipe

kenoconnell wrote: »

Steady on guys... It's strictly the finest Irish Pale Ale for sale in little Ellen St. Was trying to find the old thread for craft Irish beers...

Info on 061 401190.

More to come - Ken

Saw it on the screen earlier, and had to crack the joke of when did the old quater become a brothel too :P

zuroph

is it included in the €3 pints at the table quiz?

Mr Magnolia

Fuinseog, I'm taking a dim view of your unsubstantiated contribution to this thread so far. Please bear this in mind before you post here again.

Fuinseog

Mr Magnolia wrote: »

Fuinseog, I'm taking a dim view of your unsubstantiated contribution to this thread so far. Please bear this in mind before you post here again.

before you get up on your high horse there John I should point out that most beers in this country have chemicals added to them ie They are not brewed according to the German purity law (Czech and Austrian beers would be brewed this way aswell). The beers here are not completely natural and you not only taste the difference, but are more likely to get a bad hangover from them.

BeerNut

Fuinseog wrote: »

I should point out that most beers in this country have chemicals added to them

Source?

kraggy

Fuinseog wrote: »

before you get up on your high horse there John I should point out that most beers in this country have chemicals added to them ie They are not brewed according to the German purity law (Czech and Austrian beers would be brewed this way aswell). The beers here are not completely natural and you not only taste the difference, but are more likely to get a bad hangover from them.

Fuinseog, not only are you talking out of your arse, but you're also making serious allegations that the brewery are conducting false advertising.

From their website:

"At the Hooker Brewery, we hand-craft every batch to ensure that the perfect balance of malt sugars and hop flavours are extracted into the beer. The beer is produced in 650 litre batches and, because no chemicals are added to speed the process up, it spends an unusually long period (minimum of six weeks) in fermentation and conditioning before being ready for filtration and packaging. It might not make economic sense – sort of like a Hooker waiting for her wedding night – but it’s so worth it."

No matter how clean a beer is, you can get a hangover from it if you

a. haven't had enough to eat that day
b. are tired before you drink it
c. have had little water in the build-up to drinking it.

It's not just chemicals that provide a hangover, it's the dehydrational effect of the alcohol in the product also.

Dehydration = headache, anytime, not just when you've been drinking.

Galway Hooker is delicious. It's all I've been drinking for the last year. Hope they start bottling it soon. Would love to be able to have one at home.

oblivious

Fuinseog wrote: »

before you get up on your high horse there John I should point out that most beers in this country have chemicals added to them ie They are not brewed according to the German purity law (Czech and Austrian beers would be brewed this way aswell). The beers here are not completely natural and you not only taste the difference, but are more likely to get a bad hangover from them.

German purity is just a marketing ploy these days, it just restricts ingredient and does nothing to regulate quality, Germany produces it fair shear of bad/generic euro lager

If you mean “chemicals” like the likes of Calcium chloride and Calcium sulphate then you better stop drink tap water. Or dried marine algae, “Irish moss” are just another crop that’s harvested.

As for acids, such as food grade lactic acid produce industrially or by bacteria is lactic acid, homeopathic nonsense do not apply.

oblivious

Fuinseog wrote: »

before you get up on your high horse there John I should point out that most beers in this country have chemicals added to them ie They are not brewed according to the German purity law (Czech and Austrian beers would be brewed this way aswell). The beers here are not completely natural and you not only taste the difference, but are more likely to get a bad hangover from them.

Also Galway hooker is a Pale ale with finished America hops that gives it a unique taste, your quote is referring to lager to very different taking beers. The water use to brew each contain different amounts of trace ions such as Calcium ,chloride ,sulphate and magnesium that will have a dramatic effect on taste, how the hops come through, yeast attenuation and mouth feel.

BeerNut

oblivious wrote: »

Or dried marine algae, “Irish moss” are just another crop that’s harvested.

And roasted barley, for that matter: a key ingredient in every Irish stout and not a "chemical", but not permitted under the Reinheitsgebot.

RonanC

This is great value at €3.95; paid my first visit to your pub last week solely because I heard you had got GH.

Any chance you'll be getting it in Annacotty too?

Technocentral

A fantastic beer, stuff about chemicals and headaches is nonsense, while we are on the subject, last 2 times I was in Whelans on saturday nights they had none left when bar staff went to the pump, I wonder if its because its selling really fast or if they aren't ordering any new kegs, young girl behind didn't know when I asked her.

Big Nasty

MANUTD99 wrote: »

Galway Hooker is my number one choice these days. I am at the point to where I avoid pubs that don't sell it.

It's good value at 4.20 in my local Ryan's

Goes down well with a BLT!;)

Big Nasty

kraggy wrote: »

Hope they start bottling it soon. Would love to be able to have one at home.

Was talking to Aidan recently - they intend on bottling it soon, later this year in fact!;)

Sergeant

Had it in Galway for the first time since I came back to Ireland on Sunday. As a poster mentioned above, they didn't have it in Whelan's last Wednesday night. A delicious beer and good to see it becoming available in more and more pubs around the country.

The Hill Billy

Fuinseog wrote: »

before you get up on your high horse there John I should point out that most beers in this country have chemicals added to them ie They are not brewed according to the German purity law (Czech and Austrian beers would be brewed this way aswell). The beers here are not completely natural and you not only taste the difference, but are more likely to get a bad hangover from them.

Fuinseog:

1. Do not argue on-thread after a mod warning.
2. You made specific unsubstantiated allegations regarding chemicals in the product being discussed in this thread & are now using generalisations to try to back-up that statement. Poor form.
3. Do not post in this thread again. (If you have an issue - PM me & Mr M.)

HB

kraggy

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Was talking to Aidan recently - they intend on bottling it soon, later this year in fact!;)

Brilliant!

Hope it's a reasonable price.

That's excellent news.

JnarF

It was only €3 a pint in The Bierhaus in Galway last week, great value for a great beer. Delighted to see it in so many places now.

mikewest

About bloody time they are bottling it. The kit for bottling was in the brewery when they took it over. Might be able to get it at home in quantities smaller than half a cask now .

oblivious

mikewest wrote: »

About bloody time they are bottling it. The kit for bottling was in the brewery when they took it over. Might be able to get it at home in quantities smaller than half a cask now .

Unfortunately brewing license limit you to selling 20 litres or more to the public directly

Leslie91

Available in bottles right now. Lovely stuff.