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BeerNut · 30-01-2017 3:54pm

glasso wrote: »

with no redeeming features.

€4.50 a pint on Wednesdays = redeeming feature.

Personally I think The Hill is much better with a bit of light in it. I remember it in the '90s as dark, smoky and unfriendly.

30-01-2017 4:58pm

BeerNut wrote: »

€4.50 a pint on Wednesdays = redeeming feature.

Personally I think The Hill is much better with a bit of light in it. I remember it in the '90s as dark, smoky and unfriendly.

light could have been introduced without completely altering the character of the place.
the last time I was there they had ran out of Guinness and the only options were random craft beers - I ordered one and it turned out to be over 7 euro.

BeerNut · 30-01-2017 5:17pm

They have the prices chalked in front of the taps. More pubs could do with having that sort of transparent pricing.

30-01-2017 7:05pm

BeerNut wrote: »

They have the prices chalked in front of the taps. More pubs could do with having that sort of transparent pricing.

pretty sure there weren't prices marked when I was there.

DelmarODonnell · 31-01-2017 11:34am

glasso wrote: »

pretty sure there weren't prices marked when I was there.

Yeah €4.50 any pints, any % is pretty brilliant. The prices are always very clearly marked for what you are ordering. The food is excellent too. Loyalty cards in place too.........

If you are in again, try a pint of O'Haras Leann Follain instead of Guinness.

I was only in it the once before it was taken over, friendly pub, really liked the design of the pub. Good traditional boozer. But to be honest, other than the massive lick of paint and the kitchen put in, I don't think it lost much of its original design. The bar is still beautiful.

rubadub · 31-01-2017 12:00pm

I was upstairs in whelans on wexford street a few weeks ago. I saw an unusual looking guinness tap there. I ask for a pint tapping on this unusual tap and the barman says "oh you want the nitro guinness" I looked at him confused and then at the tap, and he was making out like it was somehow different from regular guinness. He went to pull a pint and it was empty and he says "do you just want the regular guinness instead of the nitro one".

As it was busy I just said yeah grand. A lad beside me was equally confused saying to me "but normal guinness is nitro" and I nodded.

So I wonder if this "special" tap was a non-nitro guinness or somehow different.

BeerNut · 31-01-2017 12:13pm

rubadub wrote: »

I saw an unusual looking guinness tap

Unusual how?

rubadub · 31-01-2017 1:09pm

BeerNut wrote: »

Unusual how?

I had had a few by this stage! but the signage display on it was quite large, maybe 3 or 4 inch diameter, think it was perfectly circular and had white writing on it, or there was a fair bit of white. The tap was at the end of the bar and I think it really stood out on its own. It possible had "dublin" in the writing, I see a dublin porter bottle but I think I would have remembered if it said porter. While the guinness he ended up pouring from was a bog standard tap in amongst a line of others.

irish_goat · 31-01-2017 1:49pm

rubadub wrote: »

I had had a few by this stage! but the signage display on it was quite large, maybe 3 or 4 inch diameter, think it was perfectly circular and had white writing on it, or there was a fair bit of white. The tap was at the end of the bar and I think it really stood out on its own. It possible had "dublin" in the writing, I see a dublin porter bottle but I think I would have remembered if it said porter. While the guinness he ended up pouring from was a bog standard tap in amongst a line of others.

This it?

matrim · 31-01-2017 2:14pm

rubadub wrote: »

I was upstairs in whelans on wexford street a few weeks ago. I saw an unusual looking guinness tap there. I ask for a pint tapping on this unusual tap and the barman says "oh you want the nitro guinness" I looked at him confused and then at the tap, and he was making out like it was somehow different from regular guinness. He went to pull a pint and it was empty and he says "do you just want the regular guinness instead of the nitro one".

As it was busy I just said yeah grand. A lad beside me was equally confused saying to me "but normal guinness is nitro" and I nodded.

So I wonder if this "special" tap was a non-nitro guinness or somehow different.

It was probably the nitro IPA

rubadub · 31-01-2017 2:37pm

irish_goat wrote: »

This it?

I think that was it! not 100% though.

andekwarhola · 02-02-2017 1:37pm

Dublin Porter on draught?

The Nitro IPA is in a few places now. Friend of mine had a pint the other day.

Buckfast W · 02-02-2017 2:20pm

andekwarhola wrote: »

Dublin Porter on draught?

The Nitro IPA is in a few places now. Friend of mine had a pint the other day.

Had a pint myself a few weeks back, wasn't too impressed :P

andekwarhola · 02-02-2017 3:19pm

Buckfast W wrote: »

Had a pint myself a few weeks back, wasn't too impressed :P

Yeah, had it at the Guniness Open Gate at it wasn't up to much. Bit like their Rye Ale. Better than HH13 etc if you're stuck but a bit meh.

Wish they'd put out Foreign Extra Stout or West Indies Porter on tap instead of weaker offerings like Nitro IPA or Dublin Porter.

Slattsy · 02-02-2017 4:19pm

The West Indies Porter on tap could be amazing. It's a lovely bottle.

BeerNut · 02-02-2017 4:26pm

andekwarhola wrote: »

Wish they'd put out Foreign Extra Stout or West Indies Porter on tap instead of weaker offerings like Nitro IPA or Dublin Porter.

Antwerpen Stout was on draught for a while, though I don't know if it made it to the rotation taps outside the Open Gate. Draught Dublin Porter has been discontinued so there's an opening

Buckfast W · 02-02-2017 4:30pm

andekwarhola wrote: »

Yeah, had it at the Guniness Open Gate at it wasn't up to much. Bit like their Rye Ale. Better than HH13 etc if you're stuck but a bit meh.

Wish they'd put out Foreign Extra Stout or West Indies Porter on tap instead of weaker offerings like Nitro IPA or Dublin Porter.

Its probably just me but I find the new styles of beer that Guinness are releasing to be very hoppy (like hop house 13) which I know the clue is in the name but I find it very over powering.

I tried another one in Galway just before Christmas in Foxes Forester Street it was a Guinness limited edition one, can't think of the name of it though, again ok but meh........

andekwarhola · 03-02-2017 12:56am

BeerNut wrote: »

Antwerpen Stout was on draught for a while, though I don't know if it made it to the rotation taps outside the Open Gate.

Had that at the Open Gate too and really liked it. Typical the one they release (Nitro) was the worst of the lot that night! Must go again soon.

BeerNut · 17-02-2017 10:36am

andekwarhola wrote: »

Wish they'd put out Foreign Extra Stout or West Indies Porter on tap instead of weaker offerings like Nitro IPA or Dublin Porter.

Slattsy wrote: »

The West Indies Porter on tap could be amazing. It's a lovely bottle.

I found West Indies on draught (straight CO2) in Paddy Cullen's Ballsbridge last night. It is indeed lovely.

matrim · 17-02-2017 11:18am

BeerNut wrote: »

I found West Indies on draught (straight CO2) in Paddy Cullen's Ballsbridge last night. It is indeed lovely.

I saw it in the Living Room last week but didn't get a chance to try it

the beer revolu · 17-02-2017 11:20am

BeerNut wrote: »

I found West Indies on draught (straight CO2) in Paddy Cullen's Ballsbridge last night. It is indeed lovely.

I've never known straight CO2 to be used in Ireland.
Is it not 50:50 for Lager and ales and 75%Nitrogen : 25%CO2 for most stouts?

BeerNut · 17-02-2017 1:27pm

the beer revolu wrote: »

I've never known straight CO2 to be used in Ireland.
Is it not 50:50 for Lager and ales and 75%Nitrogen : 25%CO2 for most stouts?

Yeah probably something like that. It's fizzy not creamy is all I mean.

RasTa · 17-02-2017 2:38pm

Mulligans(poolbeg) usually has all the Guinness stuff on tap. Mid-strength, Nitro IPA, Porter and West Indies.

the beer revolu · 17-02-2017 6:35pm

BeerNut wrote: »

Yeah probably something like that. It's fizzy not creamy is all I mean.

Ah, I wondered if someone was actually using pure CO2 like on the continent.
I reckon it's why generic lager seems to always taste better abroad (apart from the general everything tastes better on holiday).

BeerNut · 18-02-2017 2:51pm

Talking to the guys in Open Gate last night, draught West Indies is a limited run. It'll be swapped for something else on rotation before long.

irish_goat · 18-02-2017 4:17pm

the beer revolu wrote: »

Ah, I wondered if someone was actually using pure CO2 like on the continent.
I reckon it's why generic lager seems to always taste better abroad (apart from the general everything tastes better on holiday).

Not sure if pure CO2 is ever used. I think 75/25 is the highest ratio that's ever used for beer. More CO2 would only really make the beer fizzier anyway, which I don't think is the case for generic lager abroad.

the beer revolu · 18-02-2017 5:34pm

irish_goat wrote: »

Not sure if pure CO2 is ever used. I think 75/25 is the highest ratio that's ever used for beer. More CO2 would only really make the beer fizzier anyway, which I don't think is the case for generic lager abroad.

Doh, I met the guy that could had definitively answered that today and didn't think to ask him.

Basically, I'm not sure either.

RasTa · 18-02-2017 9:53pm

Pub's use suremix 25 which is 75/25% and will do a Guinness and any larger with the same gas tank.

Homebrew heads would use straight C02

BeerNut · 19-02-2017 12:07am

Here's the BOC site with details of their mixes.

oblivious · 20-02-2017 12:35pm

RasTa wrote: »

Homebrew heads would use straight C02

Because they looking to carbonate and dispense usually with just one system. Were as pubs are just looking to dispense, with out picking up CO2 in the delivery

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