Stouts for Xmas

sonicstrav

limnam wrote: »

There's no nuts, butter or biscuit in it, but tastes of all 3. It's magic

I didn't like it at all -- very buttery biscuit peanut in a horrible way to my palate -- however, I'm a small minority in RateBeer - a lot of people love it! As I recall it gets 100/100

stecleary

Innis & Gunn kith and kin is worth a try

Johnny Drama_11

Thread resurrection... What stouts should I be buying for Xmas 2020?

Feisar

Fuller's London Porter, lovely stuff.

Also, a lot of people don't rate it but Trouble Brewing's Dark Arts.

Normal One

Lineman have a couple of outstanding stouts at the moment: Gigantic and Astral Grains.

the beer revolu

The Rye River Belgian Stout is lovely.

Johnny Drama_11

Are Shanco dubh and Crann beatha by Brehon still widely available?

Open the Pubs

Guinness Foreign Extra, best bottled stout I've had but at 7.5% it's quite strong.

mccard

World's End by Blacks is your only man.

the beer revolu

mccard wrote: »

World's End by Blacks is your only man.

That beer is different every time it comes out.
Sometimes it's like Cadbury's drinking chocolate, sometimes it has a very strong whiskey barrel influence. It just doesn't know what it wants to be.

I loved the very first batch of it. Then they started fcuking around with it.

Padraig Mor

the beer revolu wrote: »

That beer is different every time it comes out.
Sometimes it's like Cadbury's drinking chocolate, sometimes it has a very strong whiskey barrel influence. It just doesn't know what it wants to be.

I loved the very first batch of it. Then they started fcuking around with it.

Yeah, I had a few of the rum cask version in Abbott's and it was gorgeous. Later picked up a bottle of the chocolate vanilla version (which is all that seems to be around these days) and it was sickly sweet.

BeerNut

Porterhouse has a four-stout box set out: Plain, Oyster, Celebration and the new barrel-aged imperial Around the Clock.

I really enjoyed the new porter by Stone Barrel: Spectre. Straightforward, no fancy stuff; one you could drink a lot of if porter's your thing.

Effects

Johnny Drama_11 wrote: »

Are Shanco dubh and Crann beatha by Brehon still widely available?

I've seen them in Martin's in Fairview and Molloy's on Franics St. recently.

Padraig Mor

BeerNut wrote: »

Porterhouse has a four-stout box set out: Plain, Oyster, Celebration and the new barrel-aged imperial Around the Clock.

I really enjoyed the new porter by Stone Barrel: Spectre. Straightforward, no fancy stuff; one you could drink a lot of if porter's your thing.

Pity they didn't include (Wrassler's) XXXX - a fantastic, hearty stout - best of their three 'standard' stouts IMHO.

Johnny Drama_11

Effects wrote: »

I've seen them in Martin's in Fairview and Molloy's on Franics St. recently.

Martins is not too far from me so will pay them a visit. Thanks.

Effects

Johnny Drama_11 wrote: »

Martins is not too far from me so will pay them a visit. Thanks.

It'e generally not in the fridge, but is on the shelves, to the right of the fridges, at the back of the store. They do online sales as well, so you could also check stock that way.

Geuze

Open the Pubs wrote: »

Guinness Foreign Extra, best bottled stout I've had but at 7.5% it's quite strong.

And five for 10 euro in O'Briens.

BeerNut

Galway Bay's Two Hundred Fathoms is about to make a return after two years away.

Insect Overlord

BeerNut wrote: »

Galway Bay's Two Hundred Fathoms is about to make a return after two years away.

Now this is something I can get excited about!

Useful.Idiot

Great news. An amazing stout.

Macy0161

BeerNut wrote: »

I really enjoyed the new porter by Stone Barrel: Spectre. Straightforward, no fancy stuff; one you could drink a lot of if porter's your thing.

Mine arrived this morning from craft central, along with the Whiplash Scaldy Porter and the Kinnegar Flying Saucer. Saturday night will be stout night though (Friday night is sharing IPA's with the better half)! Hope to have the Wide Street Monksland by then too.

Astral Grains the pick of the winter so far for me as far as "extra" stouts go, but I've had a few non-special/ non extra decent stouts in recent weeks. I enjoyed the Ballykilcavan Blackwell Stout, Wrassler as mentioned, and the Wicklow Wolf Apex and Lough Gill Arethusa Oatmeal Stouts.

Open the Pubs

Geuze wrote: »

And five for 10 euro in O'Briens.

Is that only in the off licenses, I can't find it on the website

irish_goat

Not a stout but White Hag have launched an egg nog beer for Christmas.

https://www.twitter.com/TheWhiteHag/status/1326924246656954369

adrian522

Yeah, its in there advent box in Redmonds.

irish_goat

O'Hara's seem to bottling a beer in a 330ml corked bottle today as well. Possibly their imperial stout.

jh79

Wicklow Wolf have a barrel aged stout coming out too. Unfortunately wax seal. Hate the wax.

Macy0161

jh79 wrote: »

Wicklow Wolf have a barrel aged stout coming out too. Unfortunately wax seal. Hate the wax.

Think it's Wicklow Brewery rather than Wicklow Wolf? It's this years 12.12.xx

The Big American Brown was my favourite rather than the stouts (I think 12.12.17?), but still have an 18 and 19 I was only recently given to try again.

Wicklow Wolf were supposed to have a Lough Gill Collab imperial out, in cans, but doesn't seem to be "released in the wild" yet.

Insect Overlord

Open the Pubs wrote: »

Is that only in the off licenses, I can't find it on the website

I think O'Brien's have cut most of the beer section from their website. They only seem to have multi-packs, slabs and the like online now. Much bigger range in the shops.

Effects

I always found O'Briens beer selection to be very poor.
Then just last week I had to visit their branch in Sandymount, and they didn't have a single craft stout to choose.

shatners bassoon

Third Barrel's 'The Space Between Us' is the best stout I've had this year.