What beer are we drinking this week ?

annie.t · 27-10-2010 12:23AM

Rockery Woman wrote: »

my friend bought me some beer from Poland.:D

Its called "Warka Strong" its lovely, but I don't think I can get more of it in Ireland though!:(

But its the best beer Ive ever had!!!!

I think I saw Warka S. in one of the offies in Newbridge, however it was long time ago. But maybe if you shop around...

27-10-2010 12:45AM

Rockery Woman wrote: »

my friend bought me some beer from Poland.:D

Its called "Warka Strong" its lovely, but I don't think I can get more of it in Ireland though!:(

But its the best beer Ive ever had!!!!

Heineken are trying to get it into the supermarkets here, maybe before chistmas.

treacy52 · 27-10-2010 11:57AM

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Had a few beers that i'd never tasted before this weekend.

Singha - Thai beer, pretty damn delicious. Wish i'd got more than 2. Not particularly cheap at 1.79 for 330ml - 8/10

Warsteiner - Its ok. Tastes a bit like Perllenbacher but its double the price. Probably won't bother with it again. 5/10

Singha over Warsteiner?? Really? Each to their own I suppose & that's the beauty of beer. I wouldn't put those two in the same league of quality though. Was over in Germany again recently and spent the weekend on Warsteiner. You should try it on draught if you can get it. Beautiful!

enda1 · 27-10-2010 12:30PM

treacy52 wrote: »

Singha over Warsteiner?? Really? Each to their own I suppose & that's the beauty of beer. I wouldn't put those two in the same league of quality though. Was over in Germany again recently and spent the weekend on Warsteiner. You should try it on draught if you can get it. Beautiful!

Warsteiner in Ireland is an entirely different beast to its German origin.
It is produced in Dundalk for the Irish market (and perhaps other markets too).

treacy52 · 27-10-2010 01:11PM

enda1 wrote: »

Warsteiner in Ireland is an entirely different beast to its German origin.
It is produced in Dundalk for the Irish market (and perhaps other markets too).

Dundalk?? Where did you hear that from?

It definitely isn't anyway. All of the Warsteiner in Ireland is imported directly from the main brewery in Germany.

enda1 · 27-10-2010 01:26PM

treacy52 wrote: »

Dundalk?? Where did you hear that from?

It definitely isn't anyway. All of the Warsteiner in Ireland is imported directly from the main brewery in Germany.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Northern_Brewery,_Dundalk

Maybe not all is produced there, but any of those cheapo special offer bottles sure as hell are!

BeerNut · 27-10-2010 01:39PM

enda1 wrote: »

It is produced in Dundalk for the Irish market (and perhaps other markets too).

It used to be, but Diageo dropped it a couple of years back.

enda1 · 27-10-2010 02:05PM

BeerNut wrote: »

It used to be, but Diageo dropped it a couple of years back.

Didn't realise they've now dropped it.

I moved out of Ireland about 3 years ago. I remember being a student though and getting Warsteiner for less than a euro a bottle in Dunnes. They were produced in Ireland.

Is there much of an improvement with the current imported bottles? How's the price now?

treacy52 · 27-10-2010 02:10PM

Ah right, so Diageo in their infinite knowledge decided it was a better idea to have a go at making it here rather than where it's originally from (which is one of the highest quality breweries in the world). Makes sense!

Glad its gone back to being made in Germany now the way it was before anyway. I don't really get the point of having a fake imported beer. If a beer is going to be made here why not just brew it as an Irish beer?? Always seems strange to me.

BeerNut · 27-10-2010 02:15PM

treacy52 wrote: »

Makes sense!

Makes sense for Carlsberg, makes sense for Bud. Makes sense for the dozens of breweries brewing Guinness around the world.

treacy52 wrote: »

I don't really get the point of having a fake imported beer. If a beer is going to be made here why not just brew it as an Irish beer?

Branding. People who know and like the brand -- or even the idea of the brand -- will buy it. There are drinkers who think just because a lager is brewed in Germany it's automatically good.

treacy52 · 27-10-2010 04:32PM

BeerNut wrote: »

Makes sense for Carlsberg, makes sense for Bud. Makes sense for the dozens of breweries brewing Guinness around the world.

Does it really though? Might make sense financially for the companies. But for anyone who has a favoured drink in it's original form (be it Guiness, Warsteiner, or whatever it may be) and tries the local attempt at brewing it when they are abroad, the differences are usually very apparent.

Given the precision involved with brewing it is surely next to impossible to completely recreate a recipe across multiple locations. Even a slight variation in the water that they use to brew the beer would make a noticeable difference in the final product.

fonecrusher1 · 27-10-2010 05:03PM

treacy52 wrote: »

Singha over Warsteiner?? Really? Each to their own I suppose & that's the beauty of beer. I wouldn't put those two in the same league of quality though. Was over in Germany again recently and spent the weekend on Warsteiner. You should try it on draught if you can get it. Beautiful!

Howdy treacy, yeah i stand by that!:D I tried a few beers i'd never heard of, with zero influence from fans of either & i just found the thai beer had quite a clean distinctive taste. Not much of an aroma but hey im not an expert? It tasted good, thats all i know.

The warsteiner was ok, smelled nice but the taste is quite subtle, nothing memorable. I suspect the Warsteiner you drank was of a different quality to the bottled stuff they put on tescos shelves here.

BeerNut · 27-10-2010 05:45PM

treacy52 wrote: »

Does it really though? Might make sense financially for the companies.

That's the only kind of sense that's relevant in this discussion. It's the only kind of sense multinational companies understand.

treacy52 wrote: »

But for anyone who has a favoured drink in it's original form (be it Guiness, Warsteiner, or whatever it may be) and tries the local attempt at brewing it when they are abroad, the differences are usually very apparent.

Sure. But people on holiday are a teeny-weeny tiny proportion of drinkers. Most drinkers of Carlsberg brewed in Ireland will never taste the one brewed in Cyprus, for example; and vice versa, so why does it matter if it tastes different? Both gain market share from having a famous name, and make enough profit to pay the licence fee to the brand owners in Denmark.

treacy52 wrote: »

Even a slight variation in the water that they use to brew the beer would make a noticeable difference in the final product.

Well not really, thanks to reverse osmosis. But when it comes to mass-market multinational lager, the finished product and how it tastes is almost irrelevant: it's the brand that matters. "People don't drink lager, they drink advertising" is the old saying. And it varies from company to company: Anheuser-Busch are famously fastidious about how their licensees brew their product, and send out regular inspection teams from St. Louis. Foster's, conversely, couldn't give a XXXX how you brew it.

Sephiroth_dude · 27-10-2010 07:32PM

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Yeah its a nice brew.:D Hey give Singha beer a go, honestly its feckin lovely.

Kombacher? Never heard of it. Where do you usually get it?

Used to be able to get the 500ml bottles in my local super value,not anymore though

,you should try it if you come across it

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Sephiroth_dude · 27-10-2010 07:33PM

Deleted User wrote: »

The abbots ale house have it. Saw it in one of the fridges there last friday night. Dunnes do it too, but only the 6x330ml though.

Do abbot ale house have the 500ml bottles?

28-10-2010 01:12AM

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Do abbot ale house have the 500ml bottles?

Yes.

the beer revolu · 28-10-2010 12:49PM

Had a bottle of Brooklyn Local 2 waiting to be tried for a while now.
Opened it last night and I found it a little disappointing.
It's not a bad beer, by any means, but just seemed to lack 'something'.
I guess it's emulating something like Westmalle Dubble.
I think I'll stick the Belgians for Belgian style beers and stick to the Americans for American style beer;)

BeerNut · 28-10-2010 01:27PM

Make an exception for Flying Dog Raging Bitch if you see it: fantastic stuff.

the beer revolu · 28-10-2010 02:11PM

I've yet to taste a Flying Dog I didn't like!

BeerNut · 28-10-2010 04:01PM

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Its my replacement for kombacher seeing as I can't find it anywhere anymore .

Saw Krombacher on special (6 33cls for €9) in a Dublin Tesco today. I doubt it's gone.

Technocentral · 28-10-2010 04:58PM

Picked up a new one for me in Redmonds earlier, Hook Norton Haymaker Pale Ale, trying it now, is nice but not as good as their 12 Days.

fonecrusher1 · 28-10-2010 05:08PM

I was just looking around my local tescos. Not a great selection really. All the usual garbage & a few more quality brews. Brooklyn beer - 6 330ml for 10euro? Bit steep? They have duvel & chimay for a reasonable price. Leffe & paulaner & a few others. Tiger, singha etc. Not enough choice.:rolleyes:
Looks like im going to have to go to a specialist offie. Ive already located a place near me.:D

Also going to pop into aldi & Lidl to see what they have at the moment. Any recommendations welcome.

I'l report back tomorrow to reveal my purchases.:)

28-10-2010 10:02PM

Tried Grolsch weisbier last week and am currently enjoying some more. I was really surprised at how good it is. I usually drink erdinger or weihenstephaner when I go for wheat beer but grolsch gives them a run for their money.

BeerNut · 28-10-2010 10:11PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Tried Grolsch weisbier last week and am currently enjoying some more. I was really surprised at how good it is.

Me too. Nice beer.

gavmcg92 · 28-10-2010 10:16PM

Can someone suggest good places around town that stock these exotic beers you talk of...

BeerNut · 28-10-2010 10:22PM

Have a look at this map. Off licences are the green pins, pubs are yellow and blue.

gavmcg92 · 28-10-2010 10:26PM

cheers man... Thanks
I always wanted to be more adventurous with my beer.

Sharkey 10 · 28-10-2010 10:36PM

I had some furstenburg tonite (not by choice ) , i told a freind to pick up a random beer that i may not have had.
It was very dissapointing not really any flavour nnot any bad taste in particular but not any plus points apart from it is very easy to drink .
Also i saw this beer in o briens the other day , I think it was english , it also had a rant on the side of the bottle saying how bad the current beers on the market are and that thy were leading a beer revolution. Anyone know what beer this was? It was over two euro a bottle and is not on their website.

BeerNut · 28-10-2010 10:54PM

Sharkey 10 wrote: »

it also had a rant on the side of the bottle saying how bad the current beers on the market are and that thy were leading a beer revolution. Anyone know what beer this was?

Sounds like something from BrewDog. Punk IPA maybe?

Sharkey 10 · 28-10-2010 11:18PM

BeerNut wrote: »

Sounds like something from BrewDog. Punk IPA maybe?

Thats it thanks, they had three or four different types. Any recomendation?

What beer are we drinking this week ?

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