What beer are we drinking this week? Episode 3

Hotblack Desiato

The Extra or Original or XX or whatever they're calling it this week is nice, but usually vastly overpriced in the supermarkets. My local off-licence commits the sin of putting all stout into a very cold fridge so I don't buy stout there. But same price as supermarket for it, IIRC.

Yes, usually in a 568 (used to be a 4-pack of 500 bottles but don't think there is any more)

West Indies porter is one of my favourites, more expensive but 6%.

Yeah Right

Local offo ran out of blue moon recently, I was getting a pick n mix of random beers to try and some young lad told me to try this stuff. Had never heard of it, was familiar with Estrella and Daura and a couple of others, but hadn't even heard of it. The bottle was designed for some Michelin star chef who didn't like seeing beer bottles on the table in his restaurant, apparently…..

Anyway, it's the nicest new beer I've tried in ages. To call it a Spanish Blue Moon would be both accurate yet underselling it. Very light and refreshing, kinda citrusy. Goes well with a slice of orange in the glass, á lá blue moon. Worth a try if Belgian style beers are your thing.

nice bit of green

Have never been into new beers but recently tried Rascals in the back garden sunshine and have been very pleasantly surprised. Happy Days Pale Ale & Side Kick IPA being my faves.

Any recommendations for anything similar much appreciated.

BeerNut

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Little Fawn, Scraggy Bay and Ambush: the holy trinity of Irish pale ales.

Black Sheep

Probably best served cold, as suggested, and in volume. Uninteresting as a lager, but if you read the blurb, they're up front about what this is. Malty, uncomplex easy drinking beer. As palatable as a McDonalds burger, it just slides down the gullet leaving little trace. Fresh though!

Slightly more interesting, but in the same ballpark.

Both succeed at what they're meant to be for, I guess? Perhaps the cloudless being the maximally optimised of the two to easy backyard quaffing.

patrickc

I'm currently supping an O' Haras Hop Adventure Strata. delicious

cunnifferous

Having a batch brew from Wicklow Wolf. It's their latest Brennan's Bread fueled brew. A pale ale @4%. Fairly unremarkable but a solid well balanced beer none the less. Decent body for the ABV. Nice summer quencher. Comes with a voucher for Brennan's bread too 😂

FlicFlak

Just read in the Roscommon Herald that Black Donkey are ceasing operations. Got too expensive for them.

I will genuinely miss their beers, drink alot of them, Sargent Jimmy one on the best saisons ive had!

County Roscommon brewery set to close after over a decade in business - News - Roscommon Herald

Insect Overlord

That's a shame. They made some fabulous beers.

erbr00

Managed to get across the border last week so have some English ales to get through. London Pride, Newcastle Brown, etc.

ablelocks

not sure if it's been mentioned, but the Aldi Grande spanish lager is surpringly lovely!

flended12

Tis more of a black lager hybrid than a stout, but it's drinkable. Very drinkable.

toffeeshel

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had it in Portugal last year and agree. Very drinkable

Black Sheep

Had a few cans of Trouble Brewing Dark Arts over the weekend.

I wonder have they changed the recipe, or has my palate just changed overtime? I remember this being a cracking beer on tap, years ago.

This poured very thin and definitely on the cusp of being like a red ale almost. Always on the more chocolately side, I found it overly sweet now.

By way of comparison, I had a few cans of O'Hara's Nitro, and they were exceptional. I think the "at home" stout to beat, at this stage.

Dundalk's Nitro stout offering isn't bad as well. I tried their Nitro export stout, however, and that didn't work… I don't know whether it was just an issue with that specific can't nitrogenation, however.

numbskull20

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Tesco and Dunnes in Sligo have been sold out of Foreign Extra for about 6 months now. Still no sign of it.

Does anyone know a good place up north to buy some? The Asda web site sells it but I've looked in the Enniskillen Asda a few times and they don't have it.

the beer revolu

Park Pictures West Coast IPA. Bit pricy at €7.80 for a 7% 330ml. But so nicely made and balanced. Nothing wild but it's the most I've enjoyed a beer in a while. Kinda hard to describe why it's so good. Like a an IPA from a decade ago. Bierhaus, Cork.

the beer revolu

Also this weekend Rodanbach evolutions pale sour. Very nice. You'd need to be a cider fan, though. If you gave it to me blind as a barrel aged cider, I'd completely accept it and love it. Definitely different to lambics I'm familiar with. (Around €18, 75cl bottle, Bradley's, Cork)

Rodanbach Grand Cru was the first sour beer I ever tastedl (around 2006 and a very confusing experience) so this was very interesting to me.

Insect Overlord

Barrel-aged Narwhal. Can. American pint sized. 11.8%, if I remember correctly. Stunningly good.