What beer are we drinking this week? Episode 3

dominatinMC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121226137#Comment_121226137

Ya I'm a big fan, and a bit surprised to hear about that. Although, given that I'm from Limerick, I'm slightly biased and, furthermore, I usually drink their stuff in the local bars, so it's guaranteed fresh. Never had any bad experiences, apart from the odd hangover from drinking too much!

Geuze

Has there been any discussion of the range of Belgian beers in Lidl at the moment?

All 4-packs of 33cl bottles.

There is quite a range. It looks like some of them are own-brand. From around 6% I think up to 10.5%

Kwaremount

Petrus

Cirius

Archivist

Waterloo 8.5% triple blond - I tried this, and thought it was poor: watery, no bite

Piraat 10.5% by Van Steenberge

Plus some more than I can't remember now.

BeerNut

The Archivist is fine: aimed at copying Leffe Blonde, and is pretty much on the money for that.

Cetyl Palmitate

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121227590#Comment_121227590

Piraat is pretty nice, especially as we get into wetter, colder weather.

Probably half the price you would see it in off licenses too.

ben.schlomo

Same ones they always do every few months. Nothing too exciting.

BPKS

Had a couple of bottles of the Bockbier, Leute last weekend. I enjoyed it although I must admit i wouldn't have put it at 7.5% abv.

Building up a stock of Piraat to see me over the winter - a cracking beer. Sipping 2 bottles watching a football match means you won't have to risk missing a goal while running for a p1ss!

Hotblack Desiato

Blow it up ref I'm bursting! 🤣

Pen Rua

I’ve been enjoying Brew Dog’s Black Heart quite a bit recently. I think it’s about the same price point as cans of Guinness / Murphy’s / Beamish and I’d probably pick it up over those (Murphy’s close second) if it were more widely available.

Would be curious to see if they push it more here with Island’s Edge’s demise.

Hotblack Desiato

Hard to know who exactly they envisaged drinking Ireland's Edge but it was hardly craft beer drinkers in general.

You have to laugh though - a special stout for people who don't like stout. Although Rockshore have a cider for people who don't like cider and a lager for people who don't like lager...

janiejones

Had the lineman like clockwork tonight. Was distinctly underwhelmed. I don't know of it's that my palate has developed (I think it has) or that this isn't as good a beer ( I believe this to be true as well) but I can remember drinking Galway bay 200 fathoms for the first time back in 2014 and the experience bring transformational. I've developed (degenerated) as a drinker since then but I can't believe these 2 beers are from the same family

Hotblack Desiato

Most craft brewers are all going for safer, blander choices. Porterhouse's stuff had turned into piss well before the sellout.

Citizen Six

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121349181#Comment_121349181

I think you just get used to drinking good beers. The market also got saturated with BA stouts the past few years. 200 Fathoms used to get snapped up when it came out. Now my local off licence still has loads of it left from when the 2022 batch came out earlier this year. Pointy Shoes is another one that used to sell out,and it's still around in a few places.

Insect Overlord

Dug out a 2018 edition of 200 Fathoms tonight. It was best before November 2021 so no real good reason to hold onto it too much longer. It has held up very well in the bottle. Boozy, no doubt, but still a very smooth sipper.

flended12

Sidestep IPA 5.8% from Dot Brew, very pleasant

Hotblack Desiato

Got that a few weeks back in Aldi, enjoyed it.

Geuze

Sierra Nevada Hazy Little Thing IPA, 6.7%

I am not a huge fan of IPA, but this is good

Lovely filling mouthfeel.

Pack = 6x 12 US fluid ounce cans, price =10 euro

Hotblack Desiato

Nobody has any idea what a UK fluid ounce is these days never mind a US one.

I'm guessing 355mL?

Pen Rua

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121370946#Comment_121370946

Yes

https://www.google.com/search?q=12+fl+oz&rlz=1C1GCEA_enIE1047IE1050&oq=12+fl+oz&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyCQgAEEUYORiABDINCAEQLhivARjHARiABDIHCAIQABiABDIHCAMQABiABDIHCAQQABiABDIHCAUQABiABDIHCAYQABiABDIHCAcQABiABDIHCAgQABiABNIBCDU3ODJqMGo3qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Geuze

I'm surprised that there is no mention of ml anywhere on the can or packaging.

You'd think to place product on the EU Single Market that the ml volume would be mentioned.

BeerNut

You're surprised that Irish people routinely ignore the law and that there's no enforcement of it? Have you just arrived?

Every packaged beer must show the quantity in metric, the ABV and an address in the EU. Almost no American beers sold in Ireland are legally compliant (the Sierra Nevada core range is an exception), and I'd say very few British ones are either.

Hodors Appletart

Speaking of SN - the Celebration beer is back on the shelves. it's a great beer

Insect Overlord

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120677940#Comment_120677940

Just going back to this from the summer. I tried the O'Hara's DIPA a few weeks ago and really enjoyed it. I wasn't a big fan when it was first released, for some reason. And tonight I'm trying Western Herd's barrel aged Flora and Fauna, aged in a Currach single malt Wakame Seaweed cask. The first taste took me right back to the old OFAF, before the seaweed flavour started to take over.

Insect Overlord

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121439754#Comment_121439754

That reminds me, any good Christmas beers on the market this year?

I vaguely remember the excitement about a decade or so ago when Samichlaus hit the Irish market. I think I made that one 14% abv. bottle last me about 6 hours. 😂

antimatterx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121439861#Comment_121439861

14% beer. Sign me up

Insect Overlord

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121439959#Comment_121439959

DOT Brew have a few up around the 18% mark at the moment, if you know where to look.

BPKS

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121439754#Comment_121439754

Stick with Stiegl Hell. 2.65 in tesco with club card and a really nice Helles it is

Cetyl Palmitate

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121443563#Comment_121443563

With some of the best designed cans and bottles to boot!

Annothe

6.1 ABV | Brewed by Brooklyn Brewery (Kirin)

squonk

Ordered a box of the Kinnegar Christmas Beers a few days ago and tried them tonight.

First Beer: Winterland | 5.3% Vanilla Coffee Milk Stout

Second Beer: BAP 35 | 6% Belgian Blonde Ale

Third Beer: TRO 8 | 5.6% Plum Witbier

Really excited Winterlznd. I’m a big fan of milk stouts anyway. Belgian PA was good. Nice easy drinking beer. The plum witbier was plum mainly on the nose I thought. The taste didn’t really deliver but I started with the stout so that might have ruined my taste.

Pat Dunne

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121447845#Comment_121447845

Pardon my ignorance, but what is a, “Nice easy driving beer”?

Thanks.