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Good craft beer bars in cork?

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  • 18-06-2014 10:03pm
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    drkpower
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    Been a long time since I was there so just looking for a few pointers.

    Will have a few hours to kill on Friday afternoon and evening and hoping to find a good craft beer bar....... with a beer garden...... which will have the World Cup on......

    Asking for too much?


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    Prenderb
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    First three that come to mind are....

    Bierhaus, Cork.

    Franciscan Well.

    Porterhouse have a nice spot down there too.


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    Ravelleman
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    The Abbots is also alright. The €2 pints of cask bitter in April were quite memorable.


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    the beer revolu
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    Ravelleman wrote: »
    The Abbots is also alright. The €2 pints of cask bitter in April were quite memorable.

    Still going. Doombar at the moment:D


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    Padraig Mor
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    Abbot's and Bierhaus don't have beergardens. I don't think the Porterhouse does either. Franciscan Well does (a big one). Another option is the Fionnbarra on Douglas St - not quite a purely craft beer bar but they have a decent enough selection (and have had for a very long time), and a great beer garden.


    Must say I think the Abbot's Ale House has gone downhill big time in the last six months or so. Stink of desperation about the place these days - flogging pints at €2 each has a certain target market, and it ain't the craft beer aficionado. The selection has disimproved majorly as well - the fridge had far less of interest than usual last time I was there and the draught selection has been fairly poor for a while now, being mostly Franciscan Well beers, Hoegaarden, Leffe and Grolsch recently - all fine beers (well, maybe not the Grolsch so much), but beers I can get in plenty of other places. The days of a selection of rarely seen Belgian hard hitters seem to be gone. Pity, as the place was the original craft beer pub in Cork (the downstairs anyway), many years before craft beers became popular (and when they were known as "foreign beers").


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    Seaneh
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    the beer revolu wrote: »
    Still going. Doombar at the moment:D

    Even at €2 I wouldn't be excited by Doombar...


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    the beer revolu
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    Seaneh wrote: »
    Even at €2 I wouldn't be excited by Doombar...

    Ah, it's quite drinkable.
    I never said I was excited:P


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    Seaneh
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    the beer revolu wrote: »
    Ah, it's quite drinkable.
    I never said I was excited:P

    I dunno, every bar in this country has that, Tribute and A.N. Other English Pale/Golden ale on cask and I'm always super disappointed, especially when Wales has breweries like Conway, Purple Moose, Tiny Rebel and others making some cracking beers.

    It's £2-3 per pint here depending on where/when you are and I'd very rarely buy it.


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    Ravelleman
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    the beer revolu wrote: »
    Still going. Doombar at the moment:D

    Definitely wouldn't say no to that. The Sharpe's Special they had before was quite decent - a nice, very sessionable English bitter.


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    the beer revolu
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    Ravelleman wrote: »
    Definitely wouldn't say no to that. The Sharpe's Special they had before was quite decent - a nice, very sessionable English bitter.

    Two glasses of Doombar, two glasses of Cottonball pale ale. €7.
    Happy days.


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    the beer revolu
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    Ravelleman wrote: »
    Definitely wouldn't say no to that. The Sharpe's Special they had before was quite decent - a nice, very sessionable English bitter.

    Two glasses of Doombar, two glasses of Cottonball pale ale. €7.
    Happy days.


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    drumswan
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    the beer revolu wrote: »
    Two glasses of Doombar, two glasses of Cottonball pale ale. €7.
    Happy days.

    !


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    the beer revolu
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    Padraig Mor wrote: »

    Must say I think the Abbot's Ale House has gone downhill big time in the last six months or so. Stink of desperation about the place these days - flogging pints at €2 each has a certain target market, and it ain't the craft beer aficionado. The selection has disimproved majorly as well - the fridge had far less of interest than usual last time I was there and the draught selection has been fairly poor for a while now, being mostly Franciscan Well beers, Hoegaarden, Leffe and Grolsch recently - all fine beers (well, maybe not the Grolsch so much), but beers I can get in plenty of other places. The days of a selection of rarely seen Belgian hard hitters seem to be gone. Pity, as the place was the original craft beer pub in Cork (the downstairs anyway), many years before craft beers became popular (and when they were known as "foreign beers").


    4% and under ABV beers on cask just don't appeal to "a certain market" whatever the price. I've never seen anyone drinking the cheap cask heavily in there. Also a bar full of nobody but "craft beer aficionados" sounds like a very dull and boring pub to me.

    The beer selection in The Abbot's has always been an up and down affair and is something I often complain about and often love. To be fair, it's not really the time of year for 8 - 10 % dark, sweet Belgian beers. I'm very happy with having the cask on and a choice of two Cork pale ales - Chieftan and India Summer.

    The warm weather and the world cup aren't doing the bar any favours at the moment, though.


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