What beer are we drinking this week ?

Ipso · 10-10-2013 03:56PM

BaZmO* wrote: »

Some would say that that a good selling point.

They do label it as resiny, not keen on that taste myself.

Seaneh · 10-10-2013 06:16PM

Having two bottles of O'Hara's Stout tonight to unwind after a long day of doing sweet feck all.

Ravelleman · 10-10-2013 07:27PM

Had a Metalman Moonbeam on cask in WJ Kavanaghs earlier. It was nice - hoppy, a little bit of a tang but not as heavy as I expected. I tried a little bit of their Chameleon Solstice as well but really thought it was lacking in character - mildly citrus-y, very little body, something of a 'lite' beer, I thought.

Seaneh · 10-10-2013 07:56PM

I'd like to make a disclaimer to my sweet feck all comment.

I'm a fulltime student and part time youth worker.

I have college classes monday, tuesday and friday and should be working tuesday evenings and thursdays.

I am currently waiting for Garda vetting nonsense so I can start work, but there's a backlog, so it's a few weeks of trying to find stuff to keep me busy!

Insect Overlord · 10-10-2013 08:02PM

Fecking typical students, burdens on the state!
Says yours truly, a month after finishing his MA. :pac:
Best of luck with the night of stout and the job-hunt.

I got one bottle each of Kwak and Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rhye (which I know I like) and a Triple Karmeliet (which I'm looking forward to trying) for tonight.

Seaneh · 10-10-2013 08:11PM

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Fecking typical students, burdens on the state!
Says yours truly, a month after finishing his MA. :pac:
Best of luck with the night of stout and the job-hunt.

I got one bottle each of Kwak and Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rhye (which I know I like) and a Triple Karmeliet (which I'm looking forward to trying) for tonight.

Cheers, I have the job, just waiting on vetting!
Also, I'm 29 and was a long suffering member of the PRSI club, so I'm just taking back what I'm owed :P

Scortho · 10-10-2013 10:34PM

Seaneh wrote: »

I'd like to make a disclaimer to my sweet feck all comment.

I'm a fulltime student and part time youth worker.

I have college classes monday, tuesday and friday and should be working tuesday evenings and thursdays.

I am currently waiting for Garda vetting nonsense so I can start work, but there's a backlog, so it's a few weeks of trying to find stuff to keep me busy!

That's part time student!:pac:
I'm lucky if I'm not in before 10 and out before 7 Monday -Friday.

Fair play for heading back to college. Not an easy thing to do as a mature student, especially when most of your year will be still 18.

Seaneh · 10-10-2013 11:02PM

Scortho wrote: »

That's part time student!:pac:
I'm lucky if I'm not in before 10 and out before 7 Monday -Friday.

Fair play for heading back to college. Not an easy thing to do as a mature student, especially when most of your year will be still 18.

I leave my house and 7am and I'm lucky to be home at 5.30, so I'd call it fulltime when you add in assignments, and I have classes all day, 15 minute break at 11am and 45 minutes at 1.15pm.

It's like fecking secondary school!!!

And yeah, was weird the first few days with all the chungwans all over the place but luckily my course is mostly people over 23 and there are a few around my age so I don't feel too old!

Scortho · 10-10-2013 11:32PM

Seaneh wrote: »

I leave my house and 7am and I'm lucky to be home at 5.30, so I'd call it fulltime when you add in assignments, and I have classes all day, 15 minute break at 11am and 45 minutes at 1.15pm.

It's like fecking secondary school!!!

And yeah, was weird the first few days with all the chungwans all over the place but luckily my course is mostly people over 23 and there are a few around my age so I don't feel too old!

Leave at half 6 and rare that I'm home before 8!:(
Only home now because I went to the cafe be seine of all places.

adamski8 · 11-10-2013 07:14AM

Silly mature students! Your meant to skip half of your lectures! And stop asking questions ;-)

Had a pint of sweetmans pale ale and porter the other night and they tasted quite a bit blander/cleaner, hope it was a once off or just my taste that night.

salacious crumb · 11-10-2013 07:27AM

Last night I had one of each of the following: Rogue Dead Man, Brew Dog Dogma, Rogue Hazelnut Brown Nectar and O'Hara's red.

I think the hazelnut is tastiest thing I've ever tasted :pac:

Lovely Bloke · 11-10-2013 07:32AM

adamski8 wrote: »

Silly mature students! Your meant to skip half of your lectures! And stop asking questions ;-)

Had a pint of sweetmans pale ale and porter the other night and they tasted quite a bit blander/cleaner, hope it was a once off or just my taste that night.

I'm going into Sweetman's tonight, so will need to sample these, because the last time I was there the porter was not on - it was in production - but anytime I've been in before that I've found the porter to be the best beer of it's style being produced in Ireland (Dark Arts, Galway Bay porter, various others like Blackrock, Belfast Black)

drumswan · 11-10-2013 08:21AM

Had a couple of pints of the pale and the porter in Sweetmans last night and they were excellent.

Lovely Bloke · 11-10-2013 08:23AM

Jaysis!!

salacious crumb · 11-10-2013 08:43AM

All of Sweetmans beers are nice. I'm not usually a fan of IPAs, or weiss beers for that matter, but I even thought those were damn tasty. Barmen are all sound too.

The Drunken Destrier · 11-10-2013 09:31AM

Really have to get up to Dublin and finally visit Sweetmans.

For now though, got some Kinnegar and Hilden goodies, yet more Irish beer I've not tried.

Halloween Jack · 11-10-2013 09:49AM

Ive noticed Thornbridge stuff around lately, had Jaipur on tap and from the bottle, and some other pale ale from the bottle. They were both magnificent, expensive but worth it.

Lovely Bloke · 11-10-2013 10:39AM

The Drunken Destrier wrote: »

Really have to get up to Dublin and finally visit Sweetmans. For now though, got some Kinnegar and Hilden goodies, yet more Irish beer I've not tried.

did you get the Kinnegar Rye?

It made a jump up my favourites list, and it's in my top 5 of Irish beers now. Levely stuff altogether.

The Drunken Destrier · 11-10-2013 01:56PM

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

did you get the Kinnegar Rye?

It made a jump up my favourites list, and it's in my top 5 of Irish beers now. Levely stuff altogether.

Yep, Rustbucket and Limeburner, and Hilden's Twisted Hop. I'll be doing the rest too eventually, but they were around €3.79 a pop so I couldn't get the lot. Really looking forward to the Rustbucket yeah, heard lots of great things about it.

Lovely Bloke · 11-10-2013 02:14PM

Have you had Ruthless Rye?

It's similar-ish to that, but without so many up-front hops - which is why I love it.

That smooth, kind of spicey, Rye flavour is absolutely gorgeous.

Donadea Leo · 11-10-2013 02:22PM

twisted hop is quite nice. Best of the Hilden beers i.m.h.o. Though the age of the beer does make big difference, have found this with few of the craft beers, like the homebrew it needs time to mature

adamski8 · 11-10-2013 06:01PM

In sweetmans now again. they actually great, must have been a bad night by myself. I love them.

Sky King · 11-10-2013 06:07PM

O Shea's Stout from Aldi.

Lovely beer.

matrim · 11-10-2013 06:09PM

I like the sweetmans beers but the last few time's I've been in the (table) service has been really poor.

I've chatted to the barmen before and they are sound, but the poor service has put me off the bar a bit.

ciaran76 · 11-10-2013 07:21PM

Rogue Hazelnut Brown Nectar - if you like hazelnuts then you will love this.

Every time I lift the glass to drink I get a huge whiff ifv hazelnuts followed by the strong taste of hazelnuts.

Its quite malty also but no it my type of beer. Too nutty.

Insect Overlord · 11-10-2013 07:23PM

Is Innis & Gunn stout worth trying? I might see if I can get a bottle or two later on.

Seaneh · 11-10-2013 07:30PM

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Is Innis & Gunn stout worth trying? I might see if I can get a bottle or two later on.

Is that the "Irish Whiskey Aged Stout"?

If so, give it a miss.

Seaneh · 11-10-2013 07:31PM

ciaran76 wrote: »

Rogue Hazelnut Brown Nectar - if you like hazelnuts then you will love this.

Every time I lift the glass to drink I get a huge whiff ifv hazelnuts followed by the strong taste of hazelnuts.

Its quite malty also but no it my type of beer. Too nutty.

I found it tasted too much like that hazelnut syrup you get in cafe's as coffee flavouring, makes it sickly after a few mouthfulls.

Tastes great at first but by the end of the pint I feel like I've been drinking a glass of hazelnut flavoured sugarwater.

Ipso · 11-10-2013 07:39PM

Had three beers in San Francisco last night; first was Stone's Pale Ale, unremarkable to be honest. I was expecting mire based on the popularity of their IPA's.
Next was Snake Oil IPA by the bar Elixir, lovely aroma but bland taste.
Best of the three was Scrimshaw Pilsner by North Coast Brewing, not whatI was expecting as it came across as what I thought a wheat beer would be like. Worth checking out.

H_Lime · 11-10-2013 09:04PM

Ipso wrote: »

Had three beers in San Francisco last night; first was Stone's Pale Ale, unremarkable to be honest. I was expecting mire based on the popularity of their IPA's.
Next was Snake Oil IPA by the bar Elixir, lovely aroma but bland taste.
Best of the three was Scrimshaw Pilsner by North Coast Brewing, not whatI was expecting as it came across as what I thought a wheat beer would be like. Worth checking out.

See if you can land some cans of Heady Topper from The Alchemist, meant to be fab!

This is my weekend batch. The bourbon barrel aged ONE from Struise is divine...
The hopside down is 'typical' and drinkable but pretty unremarkable, houblon chouffe triple ipa kicks its arse

Havnt tried the leffe radieuse, anyonr comment on it?

What beer are we drinking this week ?

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