lufties wrote: » I'd say check out some of the other posters
Lil Sally Anne Jnr. wrote: » Very well acquainted with Yorkshire. Lovely looking pubs on the outside, table quizzes, bingo, and people drinking mediocre ales and Guinness knock offs inside.
lufties wrote: » Gosh, that's unbelievable. I was in kilkee recently and the standard ****e was on tap everywhere. The edgiest drink I could get was beamish lol.
Dizzyblonde wrote: » @ lufties, I suggest that you be careful with the tone of your posts, a lot of them are borderline abusive and trollish and that won't be tolerated in this forum.
lufties wrote: » That's your opinion, I drink great ales here in Yorkshire. Keep drinking your drain cleaner like a good sheep.
ShamNNspace wrote: » Well I've heard of cash and in kind sweeteners to certain pubs to keep the competition away from the taps where the cash flow is an then they've snookered the bar owner by providing their own "craft" beers like hop House, cute hoor an the like.. Now that's just my opinion mind
lufties wrote: » ShamNNspace wrote: » Tis a pity. I normally go out once a week on a weekday in a county town. I like to visit maybe 4 pubs in town of a night so I mostly stick to what's available in all four ie carlsberg or H. I think from what I heard diagio have too much of a hold on the pubs and can influence what they stock What do you mean by 'have too much of a hold'?
ShamNNspace wrote: » Tis a pity. I normally go out once a week on a weekday in a county town. I like to visit maybe 4 pubs in town of a night so I mostly stick to what's available in all four ie carlsberg or H. I think from what I heard diagio have too much of a hold on the pubs and can influence what they stock
Deleted User wrote: » Clare has a much smaller population than Dublin, that was the implication. Segment of OP I took issue with, and addressed: Your initial claim. If you expect to float in to any pub down the country and be greeted with a plethora of craft ales then you are misguided. However, they aren't hard to find within a matter of seconds on the internet.
Lil Sally Anne Jnr. wrote: » Stupid thread populated by amateurs. Lots of craft ales on tap in Cork, and if you know where to look you'll get bottles of lambic, sours, even imperial stouts. Love a lambic or geuze, but love my pints of Guinness too. Gone on ta phuck with your British ales. The Brits wouldn't know how to make a daycent pub even if meant leaving the EU.
lufties wrote: » Ok, I'm comparing yorkshire with Ireland. In yorkshire you can walk into a pub without being met with at least 5 smaller brewers. Yes, I realise it's in the UK, but it's so refreshing. Btw Clare is not a small county.
lufties wrote: » However, I never see them in Irish pubs outside Dublin. I've visited a few pubs recently in Tipp and Clare, they all serve the same mass produced rubbish.
arccosh wrote: » genuine question.... I love nothing more than a cold pint... but any of these ales/home brews are lukewarm... I've found a blonde before which was chilled but it wasn't great.... What are my options? I just usually grab Bierra Moreti or Peroni instead
lufties wrote: » Wary why? You'd think we'd consider own instead of foreign conglomerates. Especially when clearly the quality is better. I guess most Irish people are happy with the muck they drink in pubs, otherwise things would change. Having lived in Germany the choice was great too, going back to Irish pubs seems archaic in some ways considering how we pride ourselves on booze culture.
thegills wrote: » I asked my local in Killaloe if they had any craft beer and they pointed to a can of Carslberg.
hesker wrote: » The Rising Sons Brewery from Cork is doing well I believe. I like a pint of stout now and again but got completely fed up with the variability of a certain brand. Then someone put me on to Mi Daza and I can enjoy my pint again. It's now selling in Dublin too I believe.
Deleted User wrote: » Another example is Loudon's in Feakle, took off a few years ago. I've now given you three examples, which isn't bad for a small county. Some people are never satisfied. The micro-brewery won't travel to your doorstop, do the cursory research and try to incorporate these places on your travel itinerary.
L1011 wrote: » All of those are made by Irish breweries; the problem is pubs are wary of them and incentivised not to sell them.
lufties wrote: » Definitely an exception, not one micro brewer in the popular holiday town of Kilkee.
lufties wrote: » I even had a pint of Franciscan well in London lol, although it was a bit strong for me. What Im getting at is we could do so much better, with a variety of session IPAs and lower strength lager.
Deleted User wrote: » Reside in Clare, and debunked your lament about lack of micro-breweries outside Dublin. Another popular spot here is the Roadside Tavern in Lisdoonvarna, which has a trio of their own craft selection called 'Celtic' on tap. Including a bitter stout, if one is that way inclined. Brewed in-house.
[Deleted User] wrote: » I live in Clare, and debunked your lament about the micro-brewaries outside Dublin. Another popular spot here is the Roadside Tavern in Lisdoonvarna, which has a trio of their own craft selection called 'Celtic' on tap. Including a bitter stout, if one is that way inclined. Brewed in-house.
lufties wrote: » Have a read of my original post
L1011 wrote: » Its an Irish craft product. It was initially made in the UK for a few months many many years ago. Its made in Celbridge by Rye River, one of the bigger Irish craft breweries. Diageo, Heineken, C&C and to a lesser extent MolsonCoors have the clout to offer incentives to pubs to get tap space. The small brewers don't. The cider wars between then currently are eating up tap spaces like crazy - can have somewhere with FIVE taps of macro ciders (Diageo Rockshore, Heineken Applemans and Orchard Theives, C&C Bulmers and Outcider). Free kegs, free fitout as 'marketing material' and so on. My local has a motorised roof for the smoking area provided by Molson for instance. Those small English pubs selling ales are probably owned by the brewery that makes it or their spun off pubco also. Near Dublin it's now very common for a pub to have either a Rye River or an O'Haras tap; also the drinkable but MolsonCoors Franciscan Well products are common too.
Beechwoodspark wrote: » Don’t forget as well UK has approx 10 times the population of Ireland So for every 1 real ale enthusiast they have 10.
