What beer are we drinking this week? Episode 3

That Oktoberfest thing in the docklands was an abysmal event, crap beer, crap "entertainment", crap prices, crap crowd management.

Spotted this in an off licence in Smithfield at the weekend. Thought they were starting early.

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Ended up at it for multiple hours one year, work went there at ~5 and then some friends came in about ~7.

Heard the same five or six tracks from the band maybe five times each.

Really enjoying Wide Street Brewing's Valhalla. At 9.7% it's a great room temperature sipper (I may have to pick up another one for xmas day). The tartness is offset by the warmth of the abv and the oakiness from the barrel ageing. It's fantastic to have an Irish brewery eschewing the DIPAs and hoppy East coast IPAs etc and doing something so unique but also making beers such high quality beers.

Just finished an Irish Red Ale 7.5% Vol from Whitefield Brewery in Templemore..I drank it at room temperature, it's lovely, no nasty aftertaste..

Def buy this again..

A White Hah Yule last night, delightful as always. Tried the O Brother/Bierhaus Red Ale collaboration, tasted stronger than the 4.7% and a fair whack of bitterness too, enjoyable.

White Hag Gola Secca, dry Italian stout. Not bad but not great, nice and dry but a tad watery for me.

hey lads, i have a slab of 24 cans of elevation. every can i open is basically froth. am i missing something obvious? no matter how slow i pour it into a pint glass i end up with 80% froth. any ideas?

Low abv beers like 2/3% can sometimes be excessively frothy in my experience but 4.8% elevation shouldn't do that. Are they short dated perhaps?

thanks for replying. ive loads of different types of glasses from breweries, i usually put cans in fridge a day or 2 before drinking, so they are well cold. theres really no difference whether its a warm or a can thats been in the fridge for a month. driving me mad.

frothy to?

All froth. Takes an age to pour/settle. Will leave it off the list.

I've never really had a head on Leann Follain. No issue with that at all. It's one of my favourite stouts.

The Rye River "Crafty" (Lidl) "Grafters" (Dunnes) and another one in Tesco I can't remember the name of is actually really good, and cheaper than buying the same stuff under their own name 😁