What beer are we drinking this week ?

ciaran76 · 20-09-2013 01:59PM

I'm off to a beer festival this evening in Bismarck ,North Dakota. Have no idea what its like or what range of beers will be available but will try track as best I can.

I went to the off licence to get these for tomorrow/Sunday.

Lone Peak IPA - Lone Peak Brewery
Horny Goat Exposed Cream Ale (vegan friendly also)
Goose Island - Just in case I hate the others i can fall back on this.
Deschutes Chainbreaker White IPA (want to try this again)
Summit Sága IPA - Another beer i enjoy so just got it as haven't had it in ages.
Lucky Bucket Oktoberfest
Empyrean Dark Side Vanilla Porter

Heroditas · 20-09-2013 03:39PM

Pay day today so decided to treat myself.
Got the following:
2 cans of Punk
White Gypsy American IPA
Galway Bay Full Sail
Hardknot Queboid
Rok IPA
Crew IPA
To OL Raid Beer

Rather surprisingly I haven't tried the last four so am looking forward to tucking into them at various points this weekend.

bnt · 20-09-2013 07:47PM

Picked up 3 for €7 in Tesco:
Last night I had the Asahi, tonight it's the Fuller's London Porter. For tomorrow it's a bottle of the award-winning Proper Job IPA: time to find out whether or not I really like Hops ...

Insect Overlord · 20-09-2013 07:56PM

For tonight: One bottle of Nøgne Ø Porter
For tomorrow: Two bottles of Delerium Nocturnum

For a special occasion: One bottle each of White Gypsy's German Dopplebock and American Pale Ale. I've those packed away safely with two of the O'Hara's barrel aged stout and a litre of Fran Well Jameson Stout. It'll be a grand winter!

Seaneh · 20-09-2013 09:05PM

Galway Bay Pilot 001 Session APA on cask in The Black Sheep.

What it lacks in abv it more than makes up fir on taste and drinkablity, great stuff.

Seaneh · 20-09-2013 09:09PM

P.s. they are all out of amberella, sad times

Never got to try it!

Seaneh · 20-09-2013 09:28PM

Having a Scraggy Bay on draught.
Had it from the bottle at the start of the summer and wasn't blown away but its fecking lovely from the tap!

I'd say the bigger kit is doing wonders for the hops too, they seem far better used in this incarnation.

Knifey Spoony · 20-09-2013 10:22PM

Having an Amber Ella at the moment and it's an absolutely fantastic beer. Wasn't too impress at the start, thought there was a long and very pronounced bitterness without the body to back it up. But, let it warm up and it comes to really comes to life.

8 degrees are really on a roll this year after Kindred Spirit, Hurricane, Cyclone and now this. If only they could bring back Ochtoberfest... it is Octoberfest season after all!

Collibosher · 20-09-2013 11:14PM

After years in the wilderness of pissy lagers and bland stouts, have been investigating various ales/beers over the last few months.

Tried Hefe-Weissbier for first time tonight.

Jumped in with some Paulaner and Franziskaner. Really enjoyed, and preferred the Paulaner over the Franziskaner, but am open to suggestions on other weissbiers to try.

Scortho · 20-09-2013 11:17PM

Collibosher wrote: »

After years in the wilderness of pissy lagers and bland stouts, have been investigating various ales/beers over the last few months.

Tried Hefe-Weissbier for first time tonight.

Jumped in with some Paulaner and Franziskaner. Really enjoyed, and preferred the Paulaner over the Franziskaner, but am open to suggestions on other weissbiers to try.

I'm the opposite. I prefer franziskaner over paulaner.
My favourites are weihenstephaner and Schneider weisse tap 4!:)

The Drunken Destrier · 21-09-2013 12:03AM

Collibosher wrote: »

After years in the wilderness of pissy lagers and bland stouts, have been investigating various ales/beers over the last few months.

Tried Hefe-Weissbier for first time tonight.

Jumped in with some Paulaner and Franziskaner. Really enjoyed, and preferred the Paulaner over the Franziskaner, but am open to suggestions on other weissbiers to try.

I second Scortho, anything from Weihenstephaner or Schneider Weisse is weissbier gold.

I myself had 8 Degrees Amber Ella tonight, and its bloody delicious. Still plenty of bottles to be had in Bradley's, I reckon I'll have to go back for more.

ciaran76 · 21-09-2013 01:18AM

The beer festival I just visited had good and bad points.
Good point a card with all beers on it and a box after it to say you tastes it.

Bad point was stupid staff didn't know which box to tick. Another bad point was the people pulling the pints never tasted the beer or didn't care what they they were serving. Not on every stand but a few.

1 other bad point was some brewery's didn't have taps and only used bottles. Not that it's bad but I was expecting draught beers all around,

BaZmO* · 21-09-2013 06:53PM

Green Flash - West Coast IPA

Very similar to a lot of Irish style IPAs.

Hides the 7.3% ABV very well. Nice beer.

drumswan · 21-09-2013 07:59PM

BaZmO* wrote: »

Green Flash - West Coast IPA

Very similar to a lot of Irish style IPAs.

Which Irish IPA is it like?

BaZmO* · 21-09-2013 08:01PM

drumswan wrote: »

Which Irish IPA is it like?

O'Haras

Lovely Bloke · 21-09-2013 08:05PM

Got myself a selection of porters and stouts for the evening

The two Galway Bays, a Scottish Oat Stout, an Icelandic Toasted porter which I'm most lookign forward to, and To Øl Black Ball to finish.

The Oat Stout is pretty good, and the Stormy Port, I'm afraid to say, is like a homebrew in comparison.

It's my first time having the bottled GB beers, and I'm a bit dissapointed. I'll open the LAS next, and I love this on tap in the pubs, so hopefully it's better than the SP.

Heroditas · 21-09-2013 08:45PM

I'll be interested to read what you make of the Black Ball. I nearly bought one yesterday but decided against it in the end, mainly because I'm in an IPA phase at the moment.

Currently sipping an 8 Degrees Hurricane. Nice but not nearly as nice as I remembered it at the Craft Beer Festival. I really think I destroyed my taste buds with some overly-hoppy beers at the start of the evening!!

Lovely Bloke · 21-09-2013 09:02PM

The BAS is about a hundred times better than the SP, it's as if it's from a different brewery.

I'm impressed with that.

Heroditas wrote: »

I'll be interested to read what you make of the Black Ball. I nearly bought one yesterday but decided against it in the end, mainly because I'm in an IPA phase at the moment.

Did you have a look at the Black Ball spiel on the To Ol website?

Black Ball Porter

Black Ball is a potent porter, boasted with dark cassonade sugar and a good heap of American hops to rebalance the edgy and full-flavoured malt profile. You will find notes of chocolate, caramel and sulphur. This results in a porter with a broad and delicate mouth feel, capable of a good kick and does not leave the mouth voluntarily.

Black IPA? No way! Hoppy Porters is here to stay!

Heh, you probably should have bought it

Heroditas · 21-09-2013 09:05PM

Interesting! Must give it a shot.

BaZmO* · 21-09-2013 09:16PM

I thought it was beautiful when I tried it.

Heroditas · 21-09-2013 09:25PM

Baldy, where did you get those? Was it Carry Out in Ashtown?
Reason I'm asking is because I also got a TSA beer yesterday but it was an IPA and I hadn't seen them anywhere else, not even in Drinkstore this afternoon.

Lovely Bloke · 21-09-2013 09:30PM

It was as it happens, yes.

I live about a five minute drive from it down in Finglas, we are lucky with that off licence there, Superquinn have a decent selection, then there's Sweeney's in Glasnevin, Drinkstore over in Stonetbatter and the big Tesco Clearwater. My folks live over in Coolock so that's always an excuse to visit McHugh's in Artane.

jsa112 · 21-09-2013 09:59PM

Haven't been majorly impressed with any of the To Ol beers, their quad "F^ck art this is advertising" was the best one I've tried.

Had a galway bay red ale, wasn't up to much, people were complaining about carbonation for some of the beers, which was a problem with the bottle I had. Had a Bo Bristle IPA which wasn't bad at all, but not worth 5.20 a pint imo.

Drank some brewdog hardcore's earlier, been a while since I had them. Still absolutely super. Got me thinking, is this the only regular/fresh DIPA we get in Ireland ? I had some of the American DIPAs a few years ago before they all really stopped exporting, I think Brewdog is the only one now.

Heroditas · 21-09-2013 10:20PM

Correctly drinking a Hardknot Queboid.
Quite a nice, full flavour but could do with a tiny bit of carbonation. Just that little bit too flat.

Ipso · 21-09-2013 10:20PM

BaZmO* wrote: »

Green Flash - West Coast IPA

Very similar to a lot of Irish style IPAs.

Hides the 7.3% ABV very well. Nice beer.

Where did you get it?
Keep an eye out for Sculpin by Ballast Point also from San Diego, one if my favourite beers.

Grayditch · 22-09-2013 12:41AM

Black Ball is one of my favourite porters.

Son0vagun · 22-09-2013 09:09AM

That Icelandic Toasted porter is lovely! Haven't tried their White Ale yet.

Grayditch · 22-09-2013 03:07PM

Proper Job is obviously great, but Big Job is probably even better. Delicious.

drumswan · 22-09-2013 04:15PM

BaZmO* wrote: »

O'Haras

Really?!?!

jsa112 wrote:

Haven't been majorly impressed with any of the To Ol beers

Hardly a week goes by on here without someone being underwhelmed by a world class brewery

Grayditch · 22-09-2013 05:07PM

I just had Robinson's Old Tom Chocolate Ale. Pleasantly surprised. Subtle and warm. The cat winking at me on the bottle gave me the heads up it was a decent brew.

8 Degrees Hurricane is a pretty good IPA, might try the Cyclone next.

What beer are we drinking this week ?

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