What beer are we drinking this week ?

snowblind · 17-10-2013 02:51PM

Oh the bittersweet side effects of snobbery, when it's just too crushing for someone to admit that people with different tastes and opinions are not necessarily WRONG. You'll have to come up with all sorts of roundabout ways to invalidate their opinions, such as "over hyped" "trying to look cool" "their motivations are corrupted". Because my opinion is X, an opinion of Y has to be misinformed. Or, for the world to make sense for you, you will have to spin it as such, if at least to project an image of yourself with a palate of integrity. A palate of integrity, being constantly being gnawed by these sheeple of different opinions.

Somehow there's this oxymoron alive that you are more of an individual if you have such integrity in taste. In fact this is just me vs others thinking, in which there is no individual but self. Approve of the plurality of taste and you will see that we are all individuals with no absolute or static taste. Be more.....zen.....or whatever.

On the topic, I can't wait to try Sierra Nevada overhyped practically a macro Narwhal crap, looks like they have it in Drinkstore! Can't have too many imperial stouts (figuratively speaking of course....)

drumswan · 17-10-2013 03:00PM

snowblind wrote: »

On the topic, I can't wait to try Sierra Nevada overhyped practically a macro Narwhal crap, looks like they have it in Drinkstore!

Stop hyping it up, you are ruining it for everyone else. Everyone knows hype is counted as an off-flavour now

Seaneh · 17-10-2013 03:06PM

snowblind wrote: »

On the topic, I can't wait to try Sierra Nevada overhyped practically a macro Narwhal crap, looks like they have it in Drinkstore! Can't have too many imperial stouts (figuratively speaking of course....)

I'd only heard about this stuff the other day, hadn't heard any hype, just that it exists. Might check if McHugh's have it later.
Love be a big black, er, stout.

Also on topic.

Last night in was in Bull & Castle with a friend and she decided she wanted to try "something different" so I got us a large tasting try and had:

Metalman
O'Hara's Pale
O'Hara's Red
Troubled Hooker
Trouble Brewing Pumpkin Brew
Fuzzy Logic
Copper Coast (cask)
FXB Blonde

She liked them all except the O'Hara's Pale and the Troubled Hooker, found the hops too much for her.

Funnily enough, those two are my favourites

Pumpkin brew is a lot better this year than I remember it, will be going back for more.

BaZmO* · 17-10-2013 03:07PM

snowblind wrote: »

On the topic, I can't wait to try Sierra Nevada overhyped practically a macro Narwhal crap, looks like they have it in Drinkstore! Can't have too many imperial stouts (figuratively speaking of course....)

Ooh! Must pop in later and pick up a bottle.

Grayditch · 17-10-2013 03:14PM

I love a good Hypetimum, myself.

MonstaMash · 17-10-2013 03:50PM

ciaran76 wrote: »

Did you get this in Dublin?

Brought home from Georgia for me

Seaneh · 17-10-2013 03:55PM

MonstaMash wrote: »

Brought home from Georgia for me

Boo.

Lovely Bloke · 17-10-2013 04:04PM

Rogue beers ARE average, nothing to write home about, but not shíte either, and the flavour/quality doesn't justify the price.

Ipso · 17-10-2013 04:14PM

drumswan wrote: »

The craft beer scene is rife with this. Small brewery produces widely acclaimed beer (5 GABF awards, several World Beer Awards, incredible ratings on beernerd.com for Stone), becomes hugely successful and grows, closely followed by reverse snobs claiming 'over-hype', 'over-rated' and 'marketing driven'. Almost universally, by total coincidence, the local micro of these reverse hipsters are producing incredible product that you wish you were cool enough to get.

If this micro in turn actually is amazing and becomes successful, they can look forward to being described as over-rated and over-hyped by their very own wave of reactionaries.

The beer stays the same through this, and is very nice.

Had Stone's IP the last day and wasn't overly impressed, likewise with their pale ale. I had high expectations though.

Grayditch · 17-10-2013 04:20PM

I think Rogue are a mixed bag. Some good. Some not.

BaZmO* · 17-10-2013 04:29PM

Just picked up a couple of bottles of Narwhal in Drinkstore. Was talking to Richard(?) and he said that he was getting some stuff in from Oskar Blues later, from what I've had from their range I've really enjoyed them.

He was also saying that the Budget hikes are going to play havoc with the imported high abv beers.

He was saying that it'll probably make importing some of them pointless. The Narwhal is €4.99 at the moment but could increase to €5.99! That's madness.

Cue lots of moaning about value -v- quality posts in the next while!

Hootanany · 17-10-2013 05:11PM

BaZmO* wrote: »

Just picked up a couple of bottles of Narwhal in Drinkstore. Was talking to Richard(?) and he said that he was getting some stuff in from Oskar Blues later, from what I've had from their range I've really enjoyed them.

He was also saying that the Budget hikes are going to play havoc with the imported high abv beers. He was saying that it'll probably make importing some of them pointless. The Narwhal is €4.99 at the moment but could increase to €5.99! That's madness.

Cue lots of moaning about value -v- quality posts in the next while!

I thought it was on a pint in a Bar not Offies:mad:

Seaneh · 17-10-2013 05:27PM

Hootanany wrote: »

I thought it was on a pint in a Bar not Offies:mad:

There must have been a change to the duty on alcohol as well or something?

BeerNut · 17-10-2013 05:35PM

Seaneh wrote: »

There must have been a change to the duty on alcohol as well

There was only a change in the duty on alcohol, it's just the government traditionally expresses it in the budget speech as the effect it will have on a "typical" pint of beer, measure of spirits and/or bottle of wine. The increase on higher ABV beers and spirits is proportionally higher than the "10c" in the speech.

ThisRegard · 17-10-2013 05:36PM

Azza89 wrote: »

Just wondering can anyone tell me what is the best off licence in around the city centre please ? I want to try and find some more of the founders range but I live out in Meath so the pickings are slim.

Carry Out off licence just got some of the range in, it's their beer tasting selection of the week. You might find one close to you depending where in Meath you are.

drumswan · 17-10-2013 05:45PM

Just picked up some Sierra Nevada Narwhal and Oskar Blues Dales Pale Ale. The only reason I bought these is because they are hyped up and highly rated.

Btw, it would seem people actually are factoring price into their rating of beer here. I was only joking earlier on. No wonder people think the likes of Rogue are over-rated.

drumswan · 17-10-2013 05:48PM

Seaneh wrote: »

Pumpkin brew is a lot better this year than I remember it, will be going back for more.

Last year it was Or with added pumpkin at fermentation, this year its a newly concocted Amber Ale with pumpkin and Troubles own pumpkin spice which is made in-house.

BeerNut · 17-10-2013 06:30PM

drumswan wrote: »

Last year it was Or with added pumpkin at fermentation

That was the year before. Last year it was a separate beer, as it is this year.

drumswan · 17-10-2013 07:04PM

BeerNut wrote: »

That was the year before. Last year it was a separate beer, as it is this year.

So it was, Troubles last blog post was on this, I assumed it was this year. Lazy gets.

Heroditas · 17-10-2013 07:18PM

ThisRegard wrote: »

Carry Out off licence just got some of the range in, it's their beer tasting selection of the week. You might find one close to you depending where in Meath you are.

Just the Carry Out in Rathborne though, isn't it? Got the email myself earlier so I'll be popping down for a taste of them after work tomorrow.

ThisRegard · 17-10-2013 08:05PM

Heroditas wrote: »

Just the Carry Out in Rathborne though, isn't it? Got the email myself earlier so I'll be popping down for a taste of them after work tomorrow.

Tyrrelstown and Ashtown anyway, I thought they alternated the days in each store, today was Tyrrelstown anyway.

RonanC · 17-10-2013 08:06PM

Latest beers to try out in CA; Green Flash beers were a nice surprise as I hadn't heard of the brewery before. Racer 5 was ridiculously hoppy, but in a good way.

blueshed · 17-10-2013 08:15PM

Azza89 wrote: »

Just wondering can anyone tell me what is the best off licence in around the city centre please ? I want to try and find some more of the founders range but I live out in Meath so the pickings are slim.

im sure the Malt house in Trim have this range of beers in stock, hope to be back there either Friday or Saturday so will let you know.

Seaneh · 17-10-2013 08:32PM

RonanC wrote: »

Latest beers to try out in CA; Green Flash beers were a nice surprise as I hadn't heard of the brewery before. Racer 5 was ridiculously hoppy, but in a good way.

I hear good things about Racer 5.

drumswan · 17-10-2013 08:36PM

RonanC wrote: »

Latest beers to try out in CA; Green Flash beers were a nice surprise as I hadn't heard of the brewery before. Racer 5 was ridiculously hoppy, but in a good way.

Hell of a line up there! Enjoy.

Dales Pale Ale is fantastic, so fresh from the can too.

Ipso · 17-10-2013 08:42PM

RonanC wrote: »

Latest beers to try out in CA; Green Flash beers were a nice surprise as I hadn't heard of the brewery before. Racer 5 was ridiculously hoppy, but in a good way.

Racer 5 would be my favourite of those, not crazy about Green Flash myself. Keep an eye out for Ballast Point Sculpin.

Creamy Goodness · 17-10-2013 08:58PM

Punk IPA

drumswan · 17-10-2013 09:37PM

Galway Bay are launching a DIPA on the 15th of November, looking forward to that

Heroditas · 17-10-2013 10:09PM

ThisRegard wrote: »

Tyrrelstown and Ashtown anyway, I thought they alternated the days in each store, today was Tyrrelstown anyway.

They never sell any of that stuff up in Tyrrellstown!

All the Eastern European beers sell well up there.
The Mulhuddart branch is also owned by the same guy and the best seller is Dutch Gold.

17-10-2013 10:33PM

drumswan wrote: »

Galway Bay are launching a DIPA on the 15th of November, looking forward to that

Available on tap in the Oslo in Salthill when I was there last week.

What beer are we drinking this week ?

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