What beer are we drinking this week? Episode 3

"Zingibeer" now availabel in Supervalu I think. It is an Irish product and only ginger beer on market.

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.

😂

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..

Krombacher today for me.

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 😁

That was a spambot 'asking' so I don't think they're too pressed on the matter. I suspect tomato beer is very bad for servers anyway.

How about with chips? 😉

Well I've been going "Backwaters" much more since they launched that. Currently €2.50 in Tesco!

Yeah I’m a bit P’d off with GBB’s strategies these days. They seem to be wanting to push punters towards buying 330ml cans of everything. OFAF I kind of get because it’s kind of a heavy hitter but the Bay Ale and Full Sail shoukd st least be in 440ml cans. Chopping around the range isn’t great either. I was in Salt House yesterday and was told Buried At Sea is discontinued. Time was they had two stouts on the go. I forget the other one as I was a BAS fan. Ostara isn’t that great imho and it’s hard to get a right impression as well with those pi$$y little 330ml cans. Seems like they’re in it fur tge cash grab now or she’s disappearing up their own jaxies!

Thanks! Yes, Stormy Port. That was it. Definitely a good core I’d have thought. I had a pint of Flaggy Shore, their oyster stout yesterday and I wasn’t left feeling too enthusiastic. Mind you I had a Lindemans Frambroise just prior so that would have altered my impression.

Im having a Western Herd Siege right now. It’s a great beer I think. I have the Spanish Point in the fridge so will try that next. Haven’t had it before. Western Herd seem to just be improving more abd more as time goes by. Personally speaking I found their earlier stuff very hoppy and it seemed to give me attrocious hangovers so I gave them a bit of a berth for a while but I’ve recently tried their stuff again and really like it. I’m delighted for them as well. I’m from Clare so it’s great being able to support the locals and county colours don’t come into it now. I’d be drinking their stuff anyway.