What beer are we drinking this week? Episode 3

Big fan of the Argus 8.6.

Be wobbling nicely afte a half dozen of those bad boys.

You have a point there Lewis……now the “half dozen “ would be be over a good period so no bad effects.

Over did it in the early days and left several ‘blowouts’ like a bad jumbo can of Shines Tuna Chunks in the pot.

Tis grand

Just opened a bottle of 200 Fathoms tonight, and it's gone off. I was really looking forward to it, so I'm really disappointed.

I heard from a offy owner in Dublin that Belgian ales have gotten less popular, people have been switching to German.

The reason given was the high ABV.

How true that is, or how widespread, I don't know.

I have seen more German 50cl bottles around, more brands that I have not seen before.

Try telling that to a German 😂

(I've made that mistake!)

Had the Galway bay "kreik". I really liked it. Pretty sour and complex.

White hag selection box of different IPA's

Lovely.

Is Weihenstephaner Vitus as good as this guy says it is?

Vitus is good.

Though if I wanted a strong weissbeer, I'd prefer the much darker Schneiderweiss Aventinus.

I did get asked for a Guinness 0.0 with a regular top this week. Then again I'm regularly asked for a pint of special. Can confirm though that our 0.0 comes in keg form!

The original Guinness 0 taps were a contraption where you loaded a can into to tap.

They were a disaster though as you could only do 1 beer at a time due to the semi automated top up system and the machine having a habit of not reading the cans.

It was a way to get around having beer sitting for ages in quiet kegs and lines that almost immediately became a non issue due to the runaway popularity of the beer.

As for mid strength I worked in a Guinness heavy pub back then and their was an astonishing level of childish narrow mindedness towards it. We had to bin the glassware because people were afraid to been seen drinking it and full strength drinkers would refuse a beer in the glass because of the pathetic slagging that would occur.

Macardles Ale, 568ml pint bottles, i was in the local shop last weekend and noticed they had them for sale, have not had it in years, 3 euro 25 a bottle.

i am a big ale fan, very pleasant and enjoyable few bottles i had to finish off the festivities.

i remember in the pubs years ago round my area, lads would drink them off the shelf, like the pint bottle of Guinness. I had mine chilled and the froth/head kept very well in the glass, will be purchasing again !