What beer are we drinking this week? Episode 3

BonnieSituation

BeerNut wrote: »

Maybe the new head brewer will be willing to do another kettle sour. The old head brewer hated having to make that beer.

Is that what that was about?

It was an incredible beer. I mean, they don't need Brewtonic onboard now I guess...

Poorside

senordingdong wrote: »

White hag are at it again ��

https://craftcentral.ie/collections/frontpage/products/the-white-hag-shamrock-shake-ice-cream-ale-330ml-can-5-5-abv?variant=33040310337571

I imagine that was in the pipeline before the change of Brewer, hopefully it's the last of this shïte.

BeerNut

Poorside wrote: »

I imagine that was in the pipeline before the change of Brewer, hopefully it's the last of this shïte.

I bet the Cadbury Creme Egg IPA is already in the tank.

JoeLapira

Black Sheep wrote: »

La Chouffe. Another old classic...

Have one of their 1.5 litre specials, just waiting on the right time to open it

MonkstownHoop

JoeLapira wrote: »

Have one of their 1.5 litre specials, just waiting on the right time to open it

Are you alive? That's a right time to open it :-)

BonnieSituation

Having a Galway Hooker Seafarer Series Cherry Chocolate Stout; ne'er a cherry was near it.


Very disappointing. Grand as a chocolate stout, but Cherry? Pfft!

Gonna have to have a STARING AT THE SUN
NITRO RASPBERRY SOUR, ALC. 6.3% VOL. COLLAB WITH POHJALA to wash it away!

https://lervig.no/product/staring-at-the-sun/

Twee.

I had a Boundary Export Stout last night, well balanced and straightforward, nothing too crazy!

JoeLapira

MonkstownHoop wrote: »

Are you alive? That's a right time to open it :-)

I feel it will have to be shared. It would be a waste for me to sit there on my own and drink it 😂

senordingdong

Twee. wrote: »

I had a Boundary Export Stout last night, well balanced and straightforward, nothing too crazy!

I think it needs to be said that this is an excellent export stout and it's very affordable to boot

Twee.

senordingdong wrote: »

I think it needs to be said that this is an excellent export stout and it's very affordable to boot

Yep! I didn't mean either of those things to be negative, it gives exactly what it says it should!

BonnieSituation

Black's World's End and a Wicklow Wolf Apex to start the evening.

Following it up with one of my top 10 beers, the Weisenoher Eucarius Pils. Love it!

I’ll be opening a Treaty Harris as soon as the fridge does its thing.

senordingdong

Twee. wrote: »

Yep! I didn't mean either of those things to be negative, it gives exactly what it says it should!

I remember the first time I got it. I thought the price was a mistake then I figured it would be crap but holy cow, it punches with the big boys.

Beanstalk

Just had a Gravensteiner landbier, now moving on to a Schlenkerla Helles

MonkstownHoop

The GB Voyager is fantastic

Poorside

Had some Left hand Nitro milk stout last night, a beautiful stout indeed.
Mother Mac's are doing a White hag meet the Brewer next Saturday, I don't think the topic of former head brewer will be broached.
Good selection of their SMASH series will be in growlers for it, thank fück they didn't go down the road of the 'special' beers.

Insect Overlord

Poorside wrote: »

Had some Left hand Nitro milk stout last night, a beautiful stout indeed.
Mother Mac's are doing a White hag meet the Brewer next Saturday, I don't think the topic of former head brewer will be broached.
Good selection of their SMASH series will be in growlers for it, thank fück they didn't go down the road of the 'special' beers.

Did you try any of the Kinnegar barrel aged beers last week? I had the whiskey conditioned pale rye ale last night. A very interesting beer.

flended12

Had this last night. As a rule I dont like sours but this was in a subscription box.

Whilst I'm sure the creators are proud of it, for me it was like drinking I actually dont know. Deep beetroot smell, sour texture, not for me. Think fizzy beetroot juice. Amazing colour though.

The pic attached is not mine.

Poorside

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Did you try any of the Kinnegar barrel aged beers last week? I had the whiskey conditioned pale rye ale last night. A very interesting beer.

Had that as well, really liked it, lovely mellow whiskey taste to it.

Passenger

Suppin' on Whiplash Fakey Cake Maker "Silly Stout". Lovely stuff. Whiplash doing some solid Stouts.

senordingdong

Had an apex espresso last night. Was fairly underwhelming, i was expecting something more along the lines of Joe porter but the coffee seemed pretty washed out.

ianob7

Had a whiplash Cream on Chrome Double last night and it was delish. Gonna grab maybe one or two more

bobbysands81

Passenger wrote: »

Suppin' on Whiplash Fakey Cake Maker "Silly Stout". Lovely stuff. Whiplash doing some solid Stouts.

Great drink, really good pastry stout. Had one at the weekend and loved it.

bobbysands81

senordingdong wrote: »

Had an apex espresso last night. Was fairly underwhelming, i was expecting something more along the lines of Joe porter but the coffee seemed pretty washed out.

Quite liked it, completely tasted exactly how I’d expect an espresso stout to taste. Loads of great stouts around at the moment so wouldn’t be top of my list to buy again.

Insect Overlord

senordingdong wrote: »

Had an apex espresso last night. Was fairly underwhelming, i was expecting something more along the lines of Joe porter but the coffee seemed pretty washed out.

Dang. I just bought one of those yesterday.

bobbysands81

Poorside wrote: »

I imagine that was in the pipeline before the change of Brewer, hopefully it's the last of this shïte.

Don’t get the hatred for White Hag over these beers.

I’ve really enjoyed all their different stouts. Hopefully they do more and hopefully they sold really well.

the beer revolu

bobbysands81 wrote: »

Don’t get the hatred for White Hag over these beers.

I’ve really enjoyed all their different stouts. Hopefully they do more and hopefully they sold really well.

Perhaps people think that beer should have more in common with beer as they know it that with cadbury's Roses?

Personally, they don't bother me - they are easy to avoid.
I have other issues

The Hound Gone Wild

Had that Shamrock Ice Cream ale last night. Picked it up from SperValu for the novelty. It looks like a kale & spinach smoothie with a lime cordial twinkle. I couldn't pull out any flavours, I found it revolting, 2 sips and bin for me. Don't buy it for the novelty, it will only encourage them :pac:

Beanstalk

I was reading about the origins of the Reinheitsgebot recently and although a lot of it was policitally motivated, the basic gist was that after beer left monastic breweries and started to be brewed by the masses all sorts of crap was put into it and it become beer in name only. By the 1400s some authorities fined brewers and felt obliged to ban them for making bad beer, tipping their barrels into the river. Of course back then people drank more ale than water.

But regardless, here we are now, in 2021, drinking Shamrock Ice Cream Ale. :pac:

Macy0161

bobbysands81 wrote: »

Don’t get the hatred for White Hag over these beers.

I’ve really enjoyed all their different stouts. Hopefully they do more and hopefully they sold really well.

I've enjoyed some of the pastry and dessert stouts, but the few I've had of The White Hag didn't really stack up against the Wicklow Wolf/ Lough Gill/ Ballykilcavan. So for me, it wasn't the theory of them, they just weren't good examples.

I did enjoy their pumpkin ale though, which probably puts me in a minority!