What beer are we drinking this week, too?

The Hill Billy

Folks:

We've hit 10,000 posts in the old thread, so we've had to call time on it as the hamsters get tipsy when a thread gets that big.

But, the shutters are up & the kegs are tapped for the next round...

Edit:

Just putting in a link to the original thread.

What beer are we drinking this week ?

Felexicon

I've 4 cans of Carling, 2 bottles of Heineken and a Kopperberg mixed berry in the fridge. Good times ahead.

Scortho

New thread!:)
Was down in kilkenny last night, so had to drag the misses to the brewery corner. She was none to impressed with the fact that it was empty as she likes a busy pub?

Is it normally like this or did I hit it on a bad night, because if that's normal night for them bar Friday and Saturday, I can't see them keeping the doors open for long.

Had a lovely bottle of kinnegars yannaroddy coconut stout in the grapevine with some lovely tapas though. Wish it was rust bucket though.

Lovely Bloke

Felexicon wrote: »

I've 4 cans of Carling, 2 bottles of Heineken and a Kopperberg mixed berry in the fridge. Good times ahead.

adamski8

Can we get this bad boy stickied?

The Hill Billy

It doesn't need to be stickied - it is constantly being updated these days & is always on the 1st page of the forum.

tHB

Lovely Bloke

I do think it rather nullifies the "Drink of the Week" sticky though.

The Hill Billy

Agreed - I see that there's only been a few posts in that in the past year. We'll probably unsticky it.

tHB

Scortho

Had an erdinger this evening, my once favourite beer now tastes like fizzy juice.
Still nice, but **** me is it bland!:(

Insect Overlord

Scortho wrote: »

Had an erdinger this evening, my once favourite beer now tastes like fizzy juice.
Still nice, but **** me is it bland!:(

LOL. I has a Hardcore IPA. :P

(Sorry really! I made the mistake of drinking Erdinger last summer after my first experience of Trouble Brewing's Sabotage. I thought I was drinking a pint of pure foam.)

Scortho

Insect Overlord wrote: »

LOL. I has a Hardcore IPA. :P

(Sorry really! I made the mistake of drinking Erdinger last summer after my first experience of Trouble Brewing's Sabotage. I thought I was drinking a pint of pure foam.)

And sabotage isn't even hoppy!
It's funny how your tastes change. I still like porter thank ****, but even better wheat beers like weihenstephaner and franziskaner don't do it for me anymore which is annoying when this time last year I considered it my favourite style.

Last January I had my first punk ipa, which was also my first ever ipa and I couldn't finish it.
I remember having to leave behind a half pint of metalman pale ale, thinking it was far to hoppy and how anyone could vote it irish beer of the year was beyond me??? On Sunday night I was drinking it thinking this is nice and refreshing but is missing that extra kick.

Insect Overlord

Scortho wrote: »

And sabotage isn't even hoppy!
It's funny how your tastes change.

Oops. I should have made that a bit clearer. I meant I had one drink followed by the other. I was still in shock from my first IPA and couldn't enjoy the weissbier an hour later.

Scortho

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Oops. I should have made that a bit clearer. I meant I had one drink followed by the other. I was still in shock from my first IPA and couldn't enjoy the weissbier an hour later.

Even still sabotage isn't even hoppy for an ipa. I remember having it at the craft beer festival in the Ifsc last year and thinking it was the best ipa ever because I could actually drink it! :pac:

Lurching

Had a "To Øl Sort Mælk" by the Danish branch of Brewdog last night.
Milk stout, 13.1%. Smooth with a very late caramel after taste. Then came the indigestion!

That's now 262 different bottled beers since March '13.

MonkstownHoop

Scortho wrote: »

New thread!:)
Was down in kilkenny last night, so had to drag the misses to the brewery corner. She was none to impressed with the fact that it was empty as she likes a busy pub?

Is it normally like this or did I hit it on a bad night, because if that's normal night for them bar Friday and Saturday, I can't see them keeping the doors open for long.

Had a lovely bottle of kinnegars yannaroddy coconut stout in the grapevine with some lovely tapas though. Wish it was rust bucket though.

Was there on a Saturday night pre Christmas and it was dead, I wasn't impressed with the place at all, funnily enough in 2 other pubs down there they were using bottles of O'Haras as decorations as such, managed to get them to sell us a few bottles at 3 Euro each

BaZmO*

Lurching wrote: »

Had a "To Øl Sort Mælk" by the Danish branch of Brewdog last night.
Milk stout, 13.1%. Smooth with a very late caramel after taste. Then came the indigestion!

That's now 262 different bottled beers since March '13.

I don't think you're quite right with that statement. The beer is by To Øl (a separate brewery to Brewdog, but it was brewed at Brewdog.

Ruben Remus

Had a bottle of Whitewater's Belfast Black. Not bad.

the beer revolu

I very much enjoyed a few bottles of Black's Pale Ale and Black IPA last night. In 50 cl bottles:D
I can't wait to see what specials this brewery come up with.

Lovely Bloke

What does the Pale Ale compare to? Metalman?

Mo14

Scortho wrote: »

New thread!:)
Was down in kilkenny last night, so had to drag the misses to the brewery corner. She was none to impressed with the fact that it was empty as she likes a busy pub?

Is it normally like this or did I hit it on a bad night, because if that's normal night for them bar Friday and Saturday, I can't see them keeping the doors open for long.

I've never seen it dead, always manage to find a seat, but it's never been too quiet.

Keeping it on topic, I finished my Christmas present of a box of beer last night with a delicious Westmalle Tripel. Now I have to go back to buying beer again

BaZmO*

Having a beer to celebrate finishing exams. Stone IPA. All the elements are there of a nice IPA but the long lingering bitterness just ruins it for me.

I popped into Drinkstore to see if there was anything new knocking about. Only new thing there was the latest SN Celebration (rather fitting!), so I picked up a couple to have tonight.

I see the latest Brown Paper Bag Project beer will be out shortly.

Heroditas

Sabotage is a very strange beer in my opinion.

Currently having a Metalman IPA in O'Neills. It really is a lovely beer.
It and the Franny Well IPA may be my two favourite Irish draught beers at the moment.

the beer revolu

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

What does the Pale Ale compare to? Metalman?

It's paler. More hop flavour, less hop bitterness. More like a US style pale ale but not too full on.

ciaran76

I see L.Mulligans has Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier on tap.

Not my cup of tea but I know there is a few in here who like it.

Ravelleman

It's like drinking bacon.

ciaran76

Ravelleman wrote: »

It's like drinking bacon.

I love bacon but dont like the liquid version

Scortho

Mo14 wrote: »

I've never seen it dead, always manage to find a seat, but it's never been too quiet.

Keeping it on topic, I finished my Christmas present of a box of beer last night with a delicious Westmalle Tripel. Now I have to go back to buying beer again

I was expecting it to be somewhat like the porterhouse on a Sunday night. Not packed but busy enough but there was only 4 there. If it's generally busy, then that's brilliant as the more craft pubs the better.

I was surprised none of the Galway bay beers were there but come to think of it, I don't think they sell Carlow themselves in their pubs.

Beer related had another devils half acre in the porterhouse and a raging bitch last night. Still loving both. Anyone got any suggestions of great IPAs in porterhouse? Think I've had them all at this stage!
Also received a few bottles of Rochfort 10 of friends for my birthday!:)

Lovely Bloke

ah jaysis, I don't believe it about the Schlenkerla, I bleedin love the stuff.

Itsdacraic

Have 4 nice bottles of Goose Island IPA waiting for me when I get home this evening.

slayerking

ciaran76 wrote: »

I see L.Mulligans has Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier on tap.

Not my cup of tea but I know there is a few in here who like it.

I noticed this also on their fb & twitter. Needless to say I will be making a trip in later on.
I love that beer. I think it's nicer on draft also.

Ravelleman

I think I'll have to drop in as well. My first trip there too, now that WJ K is gone.

Halloween Jack

Having a foam and fury in black sheep, definitely not as good as the first batch. Disappointing kind of pine-tasting aftertaste

slayerking

Drinking a Schlenkerla Marzen in Mulligan's at the mo. It is gorgeous, smokeyness is a little less in your face compared to the bottle, but still plenty smokey. Defo one of my all time favs!

ciaran76

Dead Pony club at the moment followed by a Jackhammer.

BaZmO*

ciaran76 wrote: »

Dead Pony club at the moment followed by a Jackhammer.

Say goodbye to your taste buds so!

adamski8

ciaran76 wrote: »

I see L.Mulligans has Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier on tap.

Not my cup of tea but I know there is a few in here who like it.

thats a first afaik! Ill have to swing by this weekend if possible. Hope it doesnt sell out

adamski8

ciaran76 wrote: »

I see L.Mulligans has Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier on tap.

Not my cup of tea but I know there is a few in here who like it.

thats a first afaik! Ill have to swing by this weekend if possible. Hope it doesnt sell out

ciaran76

BaZmO* wrote: »

Say goodbye to your taste buds so!

I enjoyed it. Not a beer to drink all night but a nice beer to taste.
Liked the grapefruit after taste. Bitterness lingers for a good amount of time.

If new to IPAs stay away from this.

adamski8

Had a few bottles tonight.

Porterhouse louder: very nice and a better barleywine than SNs offering i would say.

Founders all day: went back to this, think i might brew a clone of this, just a very well done aromatic pale ale.

Founders breakfast stout: didnt enjoy it as mich as i did last time. A little harsh in coffee flavour department but still very good.

BeerNut

adamski8 wrote: »

thats a first afaik!

Against the Grain have had it a couple of times, but not in ages.

Ravelleman

It would be nice if they had a gravity cask for it. In the end I didn't actually try it though. I had a pint of Redbreast bitter on cask but after eating couldn't drink anything else. Redbreast wasn't exactly the most flavoursome of beers but I find it quite 'sessionable' - a good choice given my thirst.

BeerNut

Ravelleman wrote: »

It would be nice if they had a gravity cask for it.

It's not cask conditioned AFAIK, so you'd probably get the full bayerischen Anstich effect if you bought a growler of it

slayerking

Ravelleman wrote: »

It would be nice if they had a gravity cask for it.

I don't think you can get it on cask outside of Bamberg. And even then, the casks are unusual oakwood ones and its served via a big old school brass tap.

MonstaMash

Porterhouse Louder, certainly got a kick to it, 11% ABV + it's always nice to be able to support Irish craft brewers/beers.

IMHO I do prefer SN Bigfoot though, just seems more balanced to me.

adamski8

I think i preferred the louder because it was less balanced. Less sweet?

matrim

adamski8 wrote: »

I think i preferred the louder because it was less balanced. Less sweet?

Probably just fresher

Lovely Bloke

matrim wrote: »

Probably just fresher

agreed, probably a matter of a couple of weeks from the brewery, nothing more.

:pac:

Andre Salmon

I'm having a very pleasent afternoon. Started with a bottle of Amber Ella, moved on to a jackhammer and now sipping a founders centennial.
All delicious

BaZmO*

Surely fresher equals more sweet?

Ravelleman

Porterhouse Plain - though nitro I find it to be a consistently good pint. On the sweeter side of things, which is good, as I'm not a big fan of drier dark beers. We've all tried it but a good 'err day' day beverage, though perhaps not 'err day'.

BaZmO*

Having a Headwaters Pale Ale by Victory at the moment. Beautiful beer. Light and refreshing with plenty of hops and a lovely sweet malty finish.

Gonna have an OFAF next. Just to see if it's as nice as I remember.