What beer are we drinking this week ?

Grayditch · 20-10-2013 09:18AM

I really hope Hopside down doesn't turn people off trying Widmer Bros' IPA's.

blueshed · 20-10-2013 01:57PM

got a bottle of Einstok Toasted Porter http://einstokbeer.com/home.html plus a few btls of Founders Porter and Centennial.

Insect Overlord · 20-10-2013 02:02PM

I finally braved a bottle of Brew Dog Hardcore yesterday. Pure rocket fuel. Lovely stuff! I might try leaving it in the fridge a bit longer next time.

adamski8 · 20-10-2013 02:56PM

blueshed wrote: »

got a bottle of Einstok Toasted Porter http://einstokbeer.com/home.html plus a few btls of Founders Porter and Centennial.

I nearly bought that today too. Was really on the prowl for some alaskan smoked porter but had to settle for the founders range.

Had a red hook pumpkin porter. Decent enough,nice mix of spicies, hid the alcohol well but maybe a bit weak with flavour and i didnt get any pumpkin (not sure how a pumpkin ale is meant to taste though)

Grayditch · 20-10-2013 03:10PM

adamski8 wrote: »

Had a red hook pumpkin porter. Decent enough,nice mix of spicies, hid the alcohol well but maybe a bit weak with flavour and i didnt get any pumpkin (not sure how a pumpkin ale is meant to taste though)

I didn't think the flavour was too strong at first, but the next morning, all I could taste was pumpkin.

adamski8 · 20-10-2013 05:25PM

Grayditch wrote: »

I didn't think the flavour was too strong at first, but the next morning, all I could taste was pumpkin.

Just finished a few founders:
Porter- quite nice, got mainly coffee off it but didnt think it was a complete porter, i was surprised that online it rates so high.
All day pale ale- probably my fav very nice tasting with lots of floral smells and tastes.
Dry hopped pale ale- not as nice as the all day, quite dry tasting in comparsion and prob my least fav.
Centennial ipa- quite a good ipa. Bit more sweet than a torpedo which is similar in %

Pretty impressed by the overall range anyway. might try the bastard but i doubt it will be to my taste

Heroditas · 20-10-2013 06:40PM

adamski8 wrote: »

Just finished a few founders:
Porter- quite nice, got mainly coffee off it but didnt think it was a complete porter, i was surprised that online it rates so high.
All day pale ale- probably my fav very nice tasting with lots of floral smells and tastes.
Dry hopped pale ale- not as nice as the all day, quite dry tasting in comparsion and prob my least fav.
Centennial ipa- quite a good ipa. Bit more sweet than a torpedo which is similar in %

Pretty impressed by the overall range anyway. might try the bastard but i doubt it will be to my taste

Bastard is very nice but I'm only going on the small tasting I had. I didn't think much of Centennial when I tried it in Carry Out but it was straight out of the case so was a bit warm. Drank a bottle last night and was very impressed.
Quite liked dry hopped and the all-day when they were chilled. Thought the all-day is a dead ringer for Punk!

Grayditch · 20-10-2013 07:42PM

Liked the All Day. Smoother and not as strong for the suggested sessioning, but it has a lovely fruitiness. Had the Centennial after and that's still my favourite of the three Founder's IPA's I've had.

BaZmO* · 20-10-2013 07:51PM

To Øl Sundancer. At 2.7% it's aimed at being an uber session beer. Probably more suited to a summer beer. Very light body, but packs in the citrus hoppy flavours. Nice for what it is.

Seaneh · 20-10-2013 09:06PM

Drinking a Narwhal, it's grand, not the best Imperial Stout I've ever had but damned good all the same. perfect for sipping while watching the telly.

Insect Overlord · 20-10-2013 09:12PM

I need to get one of those for my winter stout/porter collection...

ciaran76 · 20-10-2013 09:46PM

Insect Overlord wrote: »

I need to get one of those for my winter stout/porter collection...

I saw plenty of boxes in Drinkstore today. Didn't pick one up as I was just there to get the last of the Hoptimum for the other half.

Sorry just realised you may not be in Dublin.

Insect Overlord · 20-10-2013 09:54PM

ciaran76 wrote: »

I saw plenty of boxes in Drinkstore today. Didn't pick one up as I was just there to get the last of the Hoptimum for the other half.

Sorry just realised you may not be in Dublin.

I order from Drinkstore every so often. Do they have the Founders stuff at the moment as well? I might get a few things delivered together.

Scortho · 20-10-2013 09:56PM

Having the stone ruination ipa that i got about 6 weeks back.
Probably should have had it at the time, but even now its unreal.

ciaran76 · 20-10-2013 10:02PM

Insect Overlord wrote: »

I order from Drinkstore every so often. Do they have the Founders stuff at the moment as well? I might get a few things delivered together.

Yeah they had them there today.

Insect Overlord · 20-10-2013 10:25PM

ciaran76 wrote: »

Yeah they had them there today.

Sweet!

In the mean time, I managed to find the only bottle of Buried At Sea in Limerick tonight. Grand stuff.

Losty Dublin · 20-10-2013 11:02PM

A trip west saw me try out West Mayo's brews over the weekend. A quick visit to FB led to an invite to the brewery, an offer I was only too glad to accept

Currently their best selling beer, Clew Bay Sunset is a slightly sweet yet extremely drinkable ale with a solid smoothness that comes from good use of hops. Clifford's Connaught Champion is a pale ale which benefits from it's softer hopping. Lastly Paddy's Pilgrim Porter is a solid good looking brown porter with a broad dry malted taste and gentle fruitiness going for it; this coming from the addition of Bog Myrtle, which grows on site

We sampled it direct from the fermentation tank so it was about as fresh as any beer could be!

As it stands, they have a solid supply to several of Westport's busier local bars and two hotels in the region and it's keeping the brewery fairly busy keeping check with demand; indeed today there was batches of the porter and pale ale awaiting kegging and two batches of the Red which were just boiled yesterday.

Definitely worth trying out their beers if you are in Westport anytime soon and credit to them for their warm welcome today :-)

drumswan · 21-10-2013 08:52AM

Nice, im in Westport next weekend.

symbolic · 21-10-2013 08:33PM

Popped over to Glasgow at the weekend and went to the Brewdog pub. (I've bought into the hype)

They had their CollabFest on with a local brewery working with each of the BrewDog Bars to create a beer for the day. They had most of them on tap at the Glasgow Bar. Thought it was a cool idea. Lots to sample.

Brewdog Collabfest Menu by phealy1982, on Flickr

Also tried the Hello My Name is Sonja, the collaboration with Evil Twin Brewing which I quite liked.

Brewdog's Hello My Name Is Sonja at Brewdog Glasgow by phealy1982, on Flickr

Went to a JD Weatherspoons too for their US - UK Real Ale Fest, the prices are so cheap... Maybe I do welcome our new ale overlords.

US meets UK Real Ale Festival by phealy1982, on Flickr

Grayditch · 21-10-2013 08:40PM

I'm having my second ever Bernardus Abt 12. Because it's as close as it is to W12, it's naturally a great beer. It's missing something slightly, and it doesn't have that instant warm-cheek feeling of W12. Still, a great beer indeed.

Insect Overlord · 21-10-2013 09:49PM

Today's beer-related discovery: Kwak goes nicely with roast lamb.

Ipso · 22-10-2013 12:04AM

Deschutes Brewery Black Butte Porter, I thought it was a bit "watery" for a porter but nice all the same.

Turpentine · 22-10-2013 01:23AM

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Today's beer-related discovery: Kwak goes nicely with roast lamb.

I always thought it went better with duck.

Ipso · 22-10-2013 01:35AM

Turpentine wrote: »

I always thought it went better with duck.

God, that's foul.

drumswan · 22-10-2013 09:00AM

Ipso wrote: »

Deschutes Brewery Black Butte Porter, I thought it was a bit "watery" for a porter but nice all the same.

Jaysus

Seaneh · 22-10-2013 09:50AM

Ipso wrote: »

Deschutes Brewery Black Butte Porter, I thought it was a bit "watery" for a porter but nice all the same.

One of my favourite beers, what I drank most while in Oregon as it was pretty much everywhere in Portland and the surrournding cities. Wouldn't call it watery at all, but I don't know what you're comparing it against. It's not "chwey" like some stouts/porters are I guess, but it's not really watery either. then again it's been so long since I've had it I'm working off a mixture of sentimentality and half memories.

Wish you could get it here, haven't had it in waaaay too long

Ipso · 22-10-2013 04:01PM

Seaneh wrote: »

One of my favourite beers, what I drank most while in Oregon as it was pretty much everywhere in Portland and the surrournding cities. Wouldn't call it watery at all, but I don't know what you're comparing it against. It's not "chwey" like some stouts/porters are I guess, but it's not really watery either. then again it's been so long since I've had it I'm working off a mixture of sentimentality and half memories.

Wish you could get it here, haven't had it in waaaay too long

Watery is a bad sounding word, not chewy like you say might be better. I'm not a stout/porter hound so I was expecting it to be thicker, I might be comparing it against a misconception

the beer revolu · 22-10-2013 04:11PM

Schneider Hopfenweiss.
8.2% of yummy hoppy, wheaty goodness for €3.75 50cl bottle.
Makes most of the beer I be drinking seem quite expensive.

Oddly, there is no mention of the genesis of this beer anywhere on the bottle (that genesis being a collaboration between Schneider and Brooklyn Brewery).
I guess that they are making it independently now but you'd think it would be a nice blurb on the label to mention how the beer originally came about.
Maybe Schneider and Brooklyn fell out?

Lovely Bloke · 22-10-2013 04:40PM

Ipso wrote: »

I'm not a stout/porter hound so I was expecting it to be thicker, I might be comparing it against a misconception

Sounds like you are comparing against nitro pints like Guinness, Murphy's etc which feels thicker alright.

cruhoortwunk · 22-10-2013 05:13PM

Heroditas wrote: »

My last can of St Austell Tribute from my holidays

Where can you get the cans of it? I need cans for Samhain, and don't want to be restricted to the usual **** that is sold in cans

What beer are we drinking this week ?

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