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A thread for the beer snobs!

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  • #32
    valknut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 129 ✭✭valknut


    Quality craft beer can be got for very reasonable prices, this it's to expensive is rubbish.

    Picked myself up 15 bottles of the mighty paulaner in lidl yesterday for €30, been drinking thornbridge pail ales and rougue brewery ales of late.


  • #33
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Grayditch wrote: »
    I say drink and let live! Thou shalt not pass judgements on thy neighbours pint.

    I agree, but some people just enjoy being smug.


  • #34
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Going to try the new Galway Bay beer later, 'Of Foam and Fury'. Have high expectations!

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #35
    Gran Hermano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,329 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    Have some Black Ball porter chilling in the boot of the car for later.
    Will allow it to warm up before imbibing.


  • #36
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    valknut wrote: »
    Quality craft beer can be got for very reasonable prices, this it's to expensive is rubbish.

    Picked myself up 15 bottles of the mighty paulaner in lidl yesterday for €30, been drinking thornbridge pail ales and rougue brewery ales of late.

    When pubs thought they could get away with charging extortionate prices for something different, it was too expensive. Like a few years back when there really wasn't much choice, you'd have a pub that might be charging 6 odd euro for a bottle of Hoegaarden. It was a joke. These days there's much more competition for the craft side of things. My local had a cask of the Thornbridge/Odell's Colorado red, absolutely incredible beverage and it was a fiver for a pint. I was well happy ;)


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  • #37
    valknut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 129 ✭✭valknut


    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    Going to try the new Galway Bay beer later, 'Of Foam and Fury'. Have high expectations!

    Had one of there red ales a few weeks back quite nice.


  • #38
    Grayditch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,347 ✭✭✭✭Grayditch


    Gran Hermano wrote: »
    Have some Black Ball porter chilling in the boot of the car for later.
    Will allow it to warm up before imbibing.

    Quality porter. Probably the best I've ever tasted.


  • #39
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    MadsL wrote: »
    If it is a direct draw setup with the lines sitting in a refrigerated space or on a glycol system, there is nothing wrong with it 'sitting' in the lines, it is as perfectly chilled as it it were sitting in the keg. Most places run off the first yard or so from the lines before pouring anyway (drives me nuts to see the waste, but ther you go, old yield management habits die hard)
    Unless the line is three feet or less between keg and tap you're wasting your time. Beer has to be shifting, not standing. That's what I can't understand about these craft beershops in my opinion, they're carrying too much stock.

    Might I suggest Mama's Little Yella Pils from Oskar Blues if your arm is twisted...
    Had a couple of cans of that before, I think. Out of Walgreens of all places.:pac:


  • #40
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    Going to try the new Galway Bay beer later, 'Of Foam and Fury'. Have high expectations!

    It's good, but at 8.5% it's a bit much for me

    Other people have said it's one of the best things they've done. I did think their Imperial Brown was awesome though


  • #41
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    I had a fe pints of guinness in Kennys in Lucan last night.

    The best pint of guinness I've had in years


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  • #42
    xXxkorixXx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 438 ✭✭xXxkorixXx


    adnams sole star. the husband loves that stuff


  • #43
    BMJD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,637 ✭✭✭BMJD


    Anyone wrote: »
    This week, I 'ave mostly been drinking, cans of Kilkenny.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeUAso9rx-E


  • #44
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    xXxkorixXx wrote: »
    adnams sole star. the husband loves that stuff

    Adnams are awesome, their Innovation and Ghost Ship are fantastic, but I've never tried the Sole Star so must give that a go ;)


  • #45
    mojesius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭mojesius


    Myself and a few friends enjoyed a few bottles of Ruthless Rye last weekend.

    Really tasty, from the Sierra Nevada brewing company.

    Just make sure you drink too many and end up in the Ruthless Realm! :D


  • #46
    frag420
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,161 ✭✭✭frag420


    Mint Aero wrote: »
    I'm brewing potato beer for myself

    Spudweiser?


  • #47
    rednik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,264 ✭✭✭rednik


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_tK_VtjiXc


    BUD !!


  • #48
    xXxkorixXx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 438 ✭✭xXxkorixXx


    Mint Aero wrote: »
    I'm brewing potato beer for myself
    call it 'pickled rooster' thayts a real beery name


  • #49
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,244 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    The down side, I find, with drinking craft beer is that the conversation then often revolves around craft beer. This could easily be the company I keep which is mostly the 30's and 40's age group, regular mid week punters drinking larger brand pints. Guinness for myself. But I do pop into a few craft bars and have a tipple occassionally.

    Hit and miss experiences. I like English ales and bitters but haven't found one I really like in Ireland but have had some lovely lagers and ciders. But as the flavours etc. vary so often I'll usually just have two at most. When I have had a night of solid drinking in a craft bar i find myself getting drunker quicker and fairly sloppy drunk too.

    Do regular craft beer drinkers find the varying alcohol levels hard to handle?


  • #50
    Knifey Spoony
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭Knifey Spoony


    Nice bottle of Rebel Red chilling in my fridge now, along with a home brewed IPA for tonight. In Bradley's tomorrow on a quest for Dungarvan's Coffee and Oatmeal Stout, Odell's IPA and whatever else takes my fancy. Also have 40 pint bottles of home brewed vanilla whiskey stout slowly conditioning for Christmas.

    Can't wait to finish work now.


  • #51
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    humberklog wrote: »
    Do regular craft beer drinkers find the varying alcohol levels hard to handle?

    Nope, I just go for something lower in alcohol as I don't really like beer that's too strong. But maybe that's just experience, because I do know some folks who have gotten smashed because they went straight for the really strong ones.


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  • #52
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    When I'm not drinking cheap piss out of a tramp's shoe I'm partial to a nice plate of Maultaschen washed down with some good socialist Rothaus Tannenzäpfle.


  • #53
    drumswan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,592 ✭✭✭drumswan


    humberklog wrote: »
    Do regular craft beer drinkers find the varying alcohol levels hard to handle?

    Personally I dont drink nearly as much as I used to before I started being interested in the beer I was drinking. Its too strong and expensive to be lashing back like its water.


  • #54
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Grayditch wrote: »
    After Hours is a god-awful place for this thread.

    Often wondered why there are so many beer threads here when beer has its own forum here.

    Don't really have an issue with it but its strange to see how some folk have no problem talking about beer here, yet the same people will descend into scarlet faced snot filled convultions of tantrum fuelled rages taking in every level of apeshíterry at the very mention of the word soccer in AH.


  • #55
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Lapin wrote: »
    soccer.

    banned.


    Though he is right. We do have a forum for this.


  • #56
    Malibu Stacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 61 ✭✭Malibu Stacy


    I currently live in New England, home to lots and lots of craft brewers (and drinkers).

    Magic Hat - #9; Circus Boy
    Founders - Breakfast Stout
    Left Hand - Milk Stout; Nitro
    Pretty Things - Baby Tree (Belgian-style ale)

    That said, I do miss all of the good Czech and Central European beers that were more accessible in Ireland than here.


  • #57
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Lapin wrote: »
    Often wondered why there are so many beer threads here when beer has its own forum here.

    Don't really have an issue with it but its strange to see how some folk have no problem talking about beer here, yet the same people will descend into scarlet faced snot filled convultions of tantrum fuelled rages taking in every level of apeshíterry at the very mention of the word soccer in AH.
    to be fair, there's a forum for every topic that's brought up on AH. Soccer is different because it tends to involve extremely heated threads and is historically difficult to mod, same reason the soccer forum isn't open access


  • #58
    valknut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 129 ✭✭valknut


    Links234 wrote: »
    Nope, I just go for something lower in alcohol as I don't really like beer that's too strong. But maybe that's just experience, because I do know some folks who have gotten smashed because they went straight for the really strong ones.

    Would agree with that, it's not the high alcohol % bothers me it's just anything above 7% I just don't enjoy, and I've tried many! That said though even when you're wheeled after a feast of quality beer the hangovers are minimal compared with mass produced ****e as there is less chemicals and more love and affection in the brewing process imo.


  • #59
    keano_afc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,713 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    I hate being labelled a beer snob because I drink beer that I like the taste of.


  • #60
    Grayditch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,347 ✭✭✭✭Grayditch


    Whoever calls someone out over drinking craft beer, will more than likely themselves pay more for something in their life that they prefer the quality of.

    "Ah when it comes to Steak, ya can't mess around"

    It's weird, so many people I know with a chip on their shoulder about others drinking craft beer spend loads on expensive food when they're out. Wouldn't be caught dead slumming it in McDonald's!

    Is it that much different?


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  • #61
    brevity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,536 ✭✭✭brevity


    Links234 wrote: »
    Are you picky about your tipple? Get excited when your local gets in a new brew you've not tried before? Are you all about the cask? Well then this thread is for you! Share your excitement, your favourite beers from ale to hefenweizen to imperial stout and everything else out there!

    What's your beer of choice at the moment?
    Stocking up on anything for Christmas?

    Gonna be stocking up on some Kinsale Ale or some Brew Dog I'd say. I'll also have a few Tiger Beers.


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