What beer are we drinking this week ?

matrim · 20-01-2013 01:31PM

baconsarnie wrote: »

Two very interesting NZ beers last night: Renaissance Stonecutter

Where did you get this? Their chocolate oatmeal stout is lovely

baconsarnie · 20-01-2013 01:34PM

matrim wrote: »

Where did you get this? Their chocolate oatmeal stout is lovely

Redmonds in Ranelagh have a fairly large range of Renaissance, 8 Wired, Epic (hop monster lives up to its name!) & Tuatara.

Not exactly cheap, but if you're feeling like a treat....

matrim · 20-01-2013 01:38PM

baconsarnie wrote: »

Redmonds in Ranelagh have a fairly large range of Renaissance, 8 Wired, Epic (hop monster lives up to its name!) & Tuatara.

Not exactly cheap, but if you're feeling like a treat....

I've been asking in every offie in dublin for nearly a year. Someone must have finally been able to source them

Looks like I'm off to redminds this afternoon. So much for no beer January

BeerNut · 20-01-2013 02:58PM

matrim wrote: »

Someone must have finally been able to source them

Redmond's are importing directly, I'm told.

Andre Salmon · 20-01-2013 03:12PM

Just opened a dr. Rudi single hop Belgian style ale. From brown paper bag project.
Seriously good. I am impressed and will be buying more.
Had a Brekle's brown ale made by anchor brewing co. yesterday, thought that was great too.
Both beers were recommended to me by Lilac wines in Fairview. Great place

Seaneh · 20-01-2013 04:31PM

BeerNut wrote: »

Redmond's are importing directly, I'm told.

I think the lads behind Cladagh Minerals (forget the company name) are the importers for most of the kiwi stuff.

matrim · 20-01-2013 05:10PM

Went in to redmonds earlier. They didn't have the Chocolate Oatmeal Stout and didn't know about it but looking at the brewery site it's seasonal and they won't have it back until their winter in June. Still picked up the Stonecutter sctoch ale and the Elemental Porter as well as a couple of the Epic beers, Hop Zombie and Armageddon IPA.

dzilla · 21-01-2013 12:09AM

Had a nice shot of stuff over the weekend, had draught blue moon on Friday which was nicer and smoother I thought than out of the bottle. Belfast lager last night, nice stuff now, good flavour. And I had majic hat aswell, not as good as i remember it was when I was living in the states

baron von something · 21-01-2013 12:50AM

still nothing can beat a bottle of innis & gunn highland cask.i'm not particularly fond of any other innis & gunn type but the highland cask is unreal

Thundercats Ho · 21-01-2013 11:42AM

Had a bottle of 8° on sat night ( i think it was sunburnt red?) very tasty.
Also had a pint of O Hara's blonde which was super.

Was down in Kilkenny, and have to say every bar i went in to had a decent selection of 'craft' beers.

Dermighty · 22-01-2013 08:33PM

theparish wrote: »

Svyturys Ekstra Lithuanian 5.2% lager is my Thursday night experimentation beer of the week.
Not my cup of tea,don't think lagers are good at high strength levels.

I find svyturys very sweet or syrupy. Not for me.

Grayditch · 22-01-2013 10:19PM

Dermighty wrote: »

I find svyturys very sweet or syrupy. Not for me.

I agree. I feel like I'm drinking a gloopy beer, at times.

Lovely Bloke · 23-01-2013 07:27AM

Was down in Harry Byrne's last night - they are now stocking both Trouble Brewing's Ór and Dark Arts - pleasant surprise.

I really like that pub, and from chatting to the barman, he reckons the person in charge of getting in the drinks is amenable to suggestions.

baconsarnie · 23-01-2013 10:20AM

matrim wrote: »

Went in to redmonds earlier. They didn't have the Chocolate Oatmeal Stout and didn't know about it but looking at the brewery site it's seasonal and they won't have it back until their winter in June. Still picked up the Stonecutter sctoch ale and the Elemental Porter as well as a couple of the Epic beers, Hop Zombie and Armageddon IPA.

Be interested to see what you make of them

Armageddon IPA- i like the sound of that. I may have to take a trip to Redmond's to investigate!

ciaran76 · 23-01-2013 10:38AM

Carraig Dubh Cul Dorcha - another nice beer from West Kerry.

Pours a lovely dark red and I got a slight smokey taste followed by a hint of sweetness. Wasn't too carbonated either so went down nice and easy.

Seaneh · 23-01-2013 11:23AM

baconsarnie wrote: »

Be interested to see what you make of them

Armageddon IPA- i like the sound of that. I may have to take a trip to Redmond's to investigate!

The Armageddon is nice enough, not as hoppy as they make it out to be, but not shy either. For something that is 6.6% it's fierce easy to drink.

ASJ112 · 23-01-2013 01:27PM

The Armageddon is nice enough, not as hoppy as they make it out to be, but not shy either. For something that is 6.6% it's fierce easy to drink.

Yeah this is how I felt too. Well worth trying at least once. I think my favourite was Hop Zombie when I tried them.

Had a bottle of Rogue's Yellow Snow IPA, was disappointing. Am not a fan of Rogue's beers, but had this on tap before so thought I'd give it a shot. I'd like to try their Brutal IPA on tap since people here have said its quite tasty, but cant accept paying the extra few euros on their beers.

Has anybody noticed quite a few Brewdog beers floating around that are gone off in March ? Am going to have to pay closer attention to Best Before dates as it really effected some Hardcore's I got.

Lovely Bloke · 23-01-2013 06:29PM

ciaran76 wrote: »

Carraig Dubh Cul Dorcha - another nice beer from West Kerry.

Pours a lovely dark red and I got a slight smokey taste followed by a hint of sweetness. Wasn't too carbonated either so went down nice and easy.

Need to get another bottle of this, the only time I've had it was straight after a bottle of their Stout, and the stout is big and robust and the flavour was still there when I started drinking the ale, it got kind of drowned out.

Pity, as all reports are saying it's lovely.

Dubchef · 23-01-2013 06:34PM

I tried a beer called Heineken, have you ever heard of it??

Lucena · 23-01-2013 07:50PM

Dubchef wrote: »

I tried a beer called Heineken, have you ever heard of it??

You sure about that?

Herb Powell · 23-01-2013 08:09PM

Dubchef wrote: »

I tried a beer called Heineken, have you ever heard of it??

Yes, what a ridiculous question

Random_Person · 24-01-2013 03:06PM

Herb Powell wrote: »

Yes, what a ridiculous question

:rolleyes:

Grayditch · 24-01-2013 05:54PM

Why don't you just drink noooormal things like noooormal people?!

Seaneh · 24-01-2013 09:17PM

Tonight I'd a bottle of Anchor Porter and now washing it down with a bottle or two of Belfast Black (€2 each in Tesco) while watching Braveheart on film 4.

Not a bad way to kill a cold January evening.

BaZmO* · 24-01-2013 09:20PM

Seaneh wrote: »

Tonight I'd a bottle of Anchor Porter and now washing it down with a bottle or two of Belfast Black (€2 each in Tesco) while watching Braveheart on film 4.

Not a bad way to kill a cold January evening.

I initially read that as "Braveheart 4" and I was like Whoooaahh!! Why haven't I heard about 2 & 3?!!

Herb Powell · 24-01-2013 11:04PM

Random_Person wrote: »

:rolleyes:

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Martyn1989 · 24-01-2013 11:50PM

Herb Powell wrote: »

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Seizure?

enda1 · 24-01-2013 11:52PM

Some lovely pints of Sam Smiths. The lager and stout.

Dermighty · 25-01-2013 03:26AM

I finally got around to trying an Odell that wasn't their IPA, namely the St Lupulin.

I really liked it, different to the IPA but I liked it for similar reasons. I think the Americans make the best IPA's!!

Review here: http://www.theperfectlyhappyman.com/odell-st-lupulin-extra-pale-ale/

David Della Rocco · 25-01-2013 08:17PM

Petrus Speciale

What beer are we drinking this week ?

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