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The Truth about Craft Beers...

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    #362
    newport2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,581 ✭✭✭newport2


    fizzypish wrote: »
    I had no appreciation for craft beer before I made beer myself. I appreciate it more now because I know what I'm tasting. I do understand why people think craft beers are muck though. A real hoppy (herb ish tasting) taste when you don't like or don't expect it can really turn you off. I have made beer before that only I would drink. Bottled stout is an acquired taste at the best of times. By christ it got you drunk though....

    This.

    I love trying the different bottled stouts, much nicer that Guinness IF you're just having a couple. If out drinking for the night, would always stick with Guinness though. I'd be in bits if I drank too much bottled stout. But they're lovely if you're only having one or three.


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    walkingshadow
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 369 ✭✭walkingshadow


    I never liked Duff Zero.


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    #364
    Baron Kurtz
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    It's the crafty (pardon the pun) Irish gouger publican tapping into the whole new beer movement and slapping 6.20 onto an average red ale or something similar - moderate in both taste and percentage - and trying to justify that "that's what you charge nowadays".

    It clearly isn't the case, Cullens of Ballsbridge! :)
    Especially as the very same can be purchased for under 5, even in the most specialised of craft pubs.


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    LDN_Irish
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    Not a craft beer but has anyone had Lomza? 2 euro a pop in Centra and 5.7%. I enjoyed them but I had a bad headache this morning despite only drinking 2. Coincidence or is it the fact that they're unpasteurised? I have no idea if that could give you a headache.


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    #366
    fizzypish
    Registered Users Posts: 1,000 ✭✭✭fizzypish


    LDN_Irish wrote: »
    Not a craft beer but has anyone had Lomza? 2 euro a pop in Centra and 5.7%. I enjoyed them but I had a bad headache this morning despite only drinking 2. Coincidence or is it the fact that they're unpasteurised? I have no idea if that could give you a headache.

    I honestly did not know you could pasteurize beer. Shouldn't be the cause of the headache though. If there's bacteria in your beer (more than there should be that is) it'll taste like... well.. fizzypish! Or you'll get violently ill but I'm guessing on that one.


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    #367
    anncoates
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    fizzypish wrote: »
    I honestly did not know you could pasteurize beer..

    Apparently it's the fastest drink around because it's pasteurize before you know it.....


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    #368
    BetterThanThou
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    I don't think beer is only served cold to mask the taste, a cold beer is nice. I admit, some beers do have to be served ice cold to mask the taste, I couldn't drink a warm can of Budweiser, I could drink a cold one, but I don't particularly like Budweiser anyway. I think craft beers can be served cold, but it's the degree of coldness. Having a craft beer ice cold will ruin the taste, but throwing it in the fridge is grand, I'd take a cold beer over a warm one, the only drink I'd personally drink warm is certain lagers, and even then I'd rather them cold. I just don't enjoy a warm stout or ale.


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    #369
    [Deleted User]
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    I rarely drink craft beers in a pub. Firstly, it's my friends. Drinking is a contest, not a picnic. Even drinking with women etc, you're (hopefully) having too much fun for chemical analysis.

    Craft-beer drinking, like making cocktails, is a good domestic hobby: something to be enjoyed from the garden, or at the kitchen table, at a slow pace. I do occasionally order craft beers in pubs but it wouldn't very much upset me if a pub only had Heineken.

    Off-licences that only sell mainstream beer, on the other hand....:(


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