What beer are we drinking this week ?

Technocentral · 06-07-2011 06:44PM

Grimbergen Optimo Bruno, rich and spicy and at 10% just having the one.

ciaran76 · 07-07-2011 02:43PM

Technocentral wrote: »

Grimbergen Optimo Bruno, rich and spicy and at 10% just having the one.

I love the Grimbergen blonde or dubel on tap when I am in Belgium but never seen the Optimo Bruno on tap before must look out for the bottles also.

Sarky · 08-07-2011 02:19PM

I tried the BrewDog Hardcore IPA last night. Pretty tasty. Reasonably cheap too, considering the 9% abv.

ciaran76 · 08-07-2011 06:11PM

Samuel Smith old bitter on cask. Tastes lovely after a long walk !

Great copper colour and malty. Great autumn beer when the weather gets a bit colder.

BeerNut · 08-07-2011 06:35PM

ciaran76 wrote: »

Samuel Smith old bitter on cask.

That's a rarity! Decent beer, though.

ciaran76 · 08-07-2011 07:02PM

BeerNut wrote: »

That's a rarity! Decent beer, though.

You have me thinking now that they are false advertising. Lol

All the same I really enjoyed the bitter.

BeerNut · 08-07-2011 07:22PM

ciaran76 wrote: »

You have me thinking now that they are false advertising. Lol

All the same I really enjoyed the bitter.

Old Brewery is the only cask beer Samuel Smith does, and I don't think it's in many of their pubs.

ciaran76 · 09-07-2011 02:28PM

Greene kings Ale fresco on cask. Nice hoppy ale. A little citrusey but really nice.

ciaran76 · 09-07-2011 05:14PM

Thornbridge Kipling Pale ale on cask then on keg. Cask a better temp than the keg as keg is almost frozen.

They are using New Zealand hops I am told and really another great summer beer for the sunshine.

In the Whitehorse pub London and don't want to leave now.
It's beer heaven and the staff are only too eager for to let you sample their beers.

Moved onto a beer called Rapture red ale. Similar to O'Haras red but maybe a little hoppier.

youcancallmeal · 09-07-2011 05:54PM

Drinking some Brooklyn Summer Ale at the moment. Pretty lightweight as far as ales go but I'm enjoying it.

Got some bottled Hobgoblin lined up which I havent had since I was last in England. Hopefully its as nice as I remember it

ciaran76 · 10-07-2011 11:34AM

Tried another Thornbridge pale ale called Jaipur.

It was colder than than I expected and hoppy but wasn't as citrusy as the Kipling.

Also saw a stout called Dark arts but wasn't the Irish Dark Arts we all love.

10-07-2011 12:24PM

Had a bottle of Weihenstephaner Vitus last night, very good indeed. Nice kick to it too, 7.7%.

Corvo · 11-07-2011 12:08PM

Jesus, Im getting jealous here. I've not spotted these beers about anywhere

Saruman · 11-07-2011 12:51PM

You need to know where to go. Where are you from?

Getting other than "the usual suspects" in a pub is very difficult in this country.
It means that Irish pubs are among the best in the world, if you can stand the fact they serve the worst range of beers in the world.

Corvo · 11-07-2011 01:12PM

Hi Saruman,

I'm from Wexford, which is a bit unadventurous at the best of times with regards the pub scene and I believe only one pub in town serves anything other than the norm, but none of the stuff posted is available.

BeerNut · 11-07-2011 01:42PM

DrinkStore and The Beer Club deliver nationwide.

Corvo · 11-07-2011 01:43PM

Nice one mate, did not know that.

Will check them out. Recommend anything?

BeerNut · 11-07-2011 01:56PM

Griffin1988 wrote: »

Recommend anything?

Plenty of recommendations in this thread

Me, I'd be putting some Sierra Nevada Torpedo, Williams Bros. Fraoch, Thornbridge Kipling, St Bernardus Abt 12 and Aventinus in my first order, just to spread things out geographically.

irish_goat · 14-07-2011 07:22PM

Headin to Bray tomorrow so gonna try and pop into Holland's off license. Any recommendations?

Dahtac · 14-07-2011 07:28PM

Ask Jay in Hollands when you get there, he'll sort you out with something nice

As a side note, they should just after getting in some fun Norwegian brews, been looking forward to taking a trip out myself

Krusty_Clown · 15-07-2011 12:57PM

Dahtac wrote: »

Ask Jay in Hollands when you get there, he'll sort you out with something nice

As a side note, they should just after getting in some fun Norwegian brews, been looking forward to taking a trip out myself

Also Galway Hooker. Definitely worth picking up a couple of bottles.
They have a great selection of IPAs (I'm like a child in a sweet-shop).

Dahtac · 15-07-2011 02:01PM

Yet to be sold on Hooker as a beer. The IPA selection there is amazing though.

Come to think of it, we should all stock up on our 5am saint before it disappears from the shelves for a while...that was an incredibly tragic accident

ciaran76 · 15-07-2011 08:59PM

Ok have 2 bottles of Hophead bought purchased same day and kept in same condition in a fridge.

Had 1st bottle and hoptastic the 2nd one I opened is much sweeter and way less hoppy.

I seem to get different flavours from different bottles of the same beer,

Not complaining by the way just something I noticed. I wonder is it because it's not mass produced and with smaller batches there is mire likely to get different results ?

1st time I noticed this was another beer in Australia called Little creatures.

BeerNut · 15-07-2011 09:07PM

ciaran76 wrote: »

Had 1st bottle and hoptastic the 2nd one I opened is much sweeter and way less hoppy.

The third one would have the same lower hoppiness as the second. Your palate adjusted.

ciaran76 · 15-07-2011 09:13PM

BeerNut wrote: »

The third one would have the same lower hoppiness as the second. Your palate adjusted.

I don't have a third sadly.

Maybe you are right but I had 2 Hopheads a few weeks ago and thought both bottles were equally hoppy.

Might open a brewdog punk see if it is the palate.

BaZmO* · 15-07-2011 11:26PM

Dahtac wrote: »

Come to think of it, we should all stock up on our 5am saint before it disappears from the shelves for a while...that was an incredibly tragic accident

Ya what now?

fonecrusher1 · 16-07-2011 12:10AM

Just finished a bottle of O'Sheas Traditional stout (Aldi) & found it pleasant enough. Not exactly sensational but yeah i would get it again. Its quite a fizzy stout unlike more mainstream alternatives like guinness or murphys. Nice coffee smell & a slightly smokey/malty taste.

Not a bad brew.

TheWarrior · 16-07-2011 08:29AM

Dahtac wrote: »

Yet to be sold on Hooker as a beer. The IPA selection there is amazing though.

Come to think of it, we should all stock up on our 5am saint before it disappears from the shelves for a while...that was an incredibly tragic accident

Why-didnt hear anything-what happened?
Had 1 too many O haras IPA last night- big enough to admit it!

Dahtac · 16-07-2011 11:26AM

They lost a whole tank of 5am when a carb stone popped out of a BBT during the week. With no back stock we will probably see a shortage of the beer for the next few months

Black Sheep · 16-07-2011 12:29PM

Was in Deveney's in Dundrum a week ago and looked over the new Galway Hooker bottles. Man, they're plain looking. The purple colour of them seems like a bizarrely uninspiring choice... I know it's what's inside the bottle that counts, but still....

Last night had a couple of pints of Hop Head from the cask in the Porter House Temple Bar. Seriously syrupy and taste-laden - worth getting in there guys.

Unfortunately the Metalman they had on cask there seemed to be finished, which I was sorry about. Anywhere else currently still got it?

Had a few pints of the Metalman pale ale on regular tap ... Still very tasty.

What beer are we drinking this week ?

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