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Halloween beer

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  • 29-10-2019 12:49pm
    #1
    murphyebass
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    Hi all,

    Lookin for a Halloween beer to have this Thursday.

    LIDL used to be good for the english pumpkin ales but I haven’t seen anything from them this year.

    Ideally the stronger the better as well. Any suggestions?

    Thanks,


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    the beer revolu
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    Just buy a strong red ale and put a stick of cinnamon in it!


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    Zaph
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    Trouble Brewing are the only brewery I can think of who regularly do a pumpkin ale. I've seen a couple of bars tweeting that they had managed to get a keg, so I suspect that it's a very limited run this year and I don't know if it's also available in bottles or whether it's just kegs.


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    BeerNut
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    It's just kegs.

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    murphyebass
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    BeerNut wrote: »
    It's just kegs.

    Mmmm kegs.

    Seriously though you’d think there’d be a few bottles of something to fit the occasion going around.


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    the beer revolu
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    murphyebass wrote: »
    Mmmm kegs.

    Seriously though you’d think there’d be a few bottles of something to fit the occasion going around.

    Problem with these kind of beers is that after next weekend, no one buys them.


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    L1011
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    the beer revolu wrote: »
    Problem with these kind of beers is that after next weekend, no one buys them.

    I cleared my local shop out of some UK breweries Christmas specials - I had somehow remembered them as Wychwood/Hobgoblin but I can't find any reference to the making one last year - FOC when I pointed out they were getting quite near date and it was a gloriously warm Summer day outside. :D


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    murphyebass
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    the beer revolu wrote: »
    Problem with these kind of beers is that after next weekend, no one buys them.

    That’s a fair shout but a small batch of brews in Lidl or even a few expensive ones in Molloys or wherever would be nice. Checked out O’Briens earlier. Nothing


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    irish_goat
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    the beer revolu wrote: »
    Problem with these kind of beers is that after next weekend, no one buys them.

    Yep, I visited Trouble Brewing in the summer about 2 years ago and they had a full pallet of last year's pumpkin brew unsold there. I had a bottle and it was grand, but they'd not have gotten away with selling it again that year.


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    dvdman1
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    Brooklyn Brewery do a pumpkin ale, very hard to find an off licence that stocks it...still wasnt as nice as trouble brewings pumpkin.


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