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Difference in Hop House pint and bottle?

  • 25-03-2016 6:13pm
    #1
    Gerard3003
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    So I've grown fond of the Hop House lager down the local, and seeing as good Friday was coming up I said I'd stock up to combat the thirst. Got a few bottles of said lager and unfortunately the taste left a lot to be desired in comparison to the pint in the pub. Is this a common case or just a bad few bottles I got? I know some drink tastes quite different in comparison to its pub equivalent but this tastes almost like a different lager!
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  • #2
    WesternZulu
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    I'm actually drinking one here from a bottle myself and thinking the same thing.
    I enjoy it from draft but it seems bland in comparison from a bottle.


  • #3
    oblivious
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    Maybe it's scale back on the hops with a mass release


  • #4
    Gerard3003
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33 ✭Gerard3003


    WesternZulu wrote: »
    I'm actually drinking one here from a bottle myself and thinking the same thing.
    I enjoy it from draft but it seems bland in comparison from a bottle.

    Yeah would be my favorite beer atm on draught but was really disappointed with the bottles today. Even more disappointed that it may be a common thing and not just a once off that happened me!


  • #5
    Lovely Bloke
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    oblivious wrote: »
    Maybe it's scale back on the hops with a mass release

    maybe the bottles aren't as fresh as the draft, and the hop aroma is worn off.


  • #6
    poitinstill
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    was 1.60 a bottle in tesco mahon point last week.


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  • #7
    BeerNut
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    Baldy Conscience wrote: »
    maybe the bottles aren't as fresh as the draft
    That makes sense. Diageo has no bottling line in Dublin. Draught Hop House 13 will go straight from James's Gate to the bar; the contents of the bottles will have been to either Belfast or Runcorn and back. It's something that wouldn't make a difference to Guinness or Macardles, but I'd say you'd feel the loss of freshness in something that relies on a sparse hop flavour like Hop House.

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  • #8
    newacc2015
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    I thought the same. It has far less flavour from the bottle than from a pint.


  • #9
    andekwarhola
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    WesternZulu wrote: »
    but it seems bland in comparison from a bottle.

    Now that's bland.








    Joke. Please no multi-page thread about craft beer snobs.


  • #10
    deandean
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    I may be walking a lonely road here but I don't detect much of a difference between the draft and the bottled 13.

    BTW I am paying 10 euro for 4 at local off license. Anyone seen better around Dublin?
    edit: that's 4 x 500 bottlez, so 5 euro a litre.


  • #11
    L1011
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    deandean wrote: »
    I may be walking a lonely road here but I don't detect much of a difference between the draft and the bottled 13.

    BTW I am paying 10 euro for 4 at local off license. Anyone seen better around Dublin?

    500 or 330?

    You can get 4x330 for 8 or less in most places. 7 in the Spar on the Ballymun Road yesterday, I'd imagine others are similar.


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