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Name your favourite craft beers

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  • 25-06-2014 9:44am
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    Dally
    Registered Users Posts: 75 ✭✭


    Hi All,

    I'm living abroad but I return soon for a while. I moved away 3 years ago and I think a few new craft beers have appeared since then. I want to try some of the Irish ones when I'm home.

    Please tell us your favourite craft beers (preferably including Irish ones), as many or as few as you like, in order if you like, and maybe with a brief (or long!) explanation of what's so good about each.

    Thank you :)
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    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    O'Haras Leann Follain
    Whitewater Clothworthy Dobbin
    Blacks Black IPA
    Blacks Pale Ale
    Trouble Whistle Blower
    Trouble Red Rye Ale
    Independent Pale Ale
    Bru Rua
    Bru Dubh
    Dungarvan Blackrock
    Eight Degrees Amberella
    Galway Bay Of Foam & Fury
    Galway Bay Buried at Sea


    And loads more worth checking out.


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    irish_goat
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 5,760 Mod ✭✭✭✭irish_goat


    Metalman Pale ale, how I miss thee.


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    Seaneh
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    I think he wants to take some away with him. Hard done with Metalman until they get this elusive canning line up and running.


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    yknaa
    Registered Users Posts: 830 ✭✭✭yknaa


    Big fan of Rower's Ale from Offaly. Well worth a sample when spending time in Ireland. Oh, and Rebel Red too.


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    Maynard
    Registered Users Posts: 175 ✭✭Maynard


    Porterhouse Celebration Stout.
    Leann Folláin
    O'Haras IPA
    8 Degrees Amber Ella


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    Ravelleman
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    Leann Folláin
    Horn8s' Nest
    Amber Ella
    Full Sail, latterly


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    Slaphead07
    Registered Users Posts: 2,323 ✭✭✭Slaphead07


    as a Guinness drinker I love O'hara's stout. Nectar!


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    drumswan
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    Is Horn8ts nest pouring anywhere? Has it been bottled?


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    Ravelleman
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    drumswan wrote: »
    Is Horn8ts nest pouring anywhere? Has it been bottled?

    The Norseman in Temple Bar, for one. The price is entirely reasonable too - €5.50, I believe.


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    Lucena
    Registered Users Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭Lucena


    yknaa wrote: »
    Big fan of Rower's Ale from Offaly. Well worth a sample when spending time in Ireland. Oh, and Rebel Red too.

    Is this the one you mean? (Carrig Rowers Red Ale)

    http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/carrig-rowers-red-ale/184950/


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    Losty Dublin
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    In no particular order I'm a big fan of O'Hara's Red, Porterhouse Plain, Bru Rua, Dark Arts porter, Metalman PA, Galway Hooker, Dungarvan's excellent Copper Coast and Kinnegar's Rustbucket and Yannaroddy. And that's just whats on my mind just now.


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    Ravelleman
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    Losty Dublin wrote: »
    Porterhouse Plain

    This is an underrated beer.


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    Dont be at yourself
    Registered Users Posts: 10,571 ✭✭✭✭Dont be at yourself


    Dally wrote: »
    Hi All,

    I'm living abroad but I return soon for a while. I moved away 3 years ago and I think a few new craft beers have appeared since then. I want to try some of the Irish ones when I'm home.

    Please tell us your favourite craft beers (preferably including Irish ones), as many or as few as you like, in order if you like, and maybe with a brief (or long!) explanation of what's so good about each.

    Thank you :)

    Anything by Kinnegar or White Gypsy: far and away the two stand-out Irish brewers, to my mind.


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    yknaa
    Registered Users Posts: 830 ✭✭✭yknaa


    Lucena wrote: »
    Is this the one you mean? (Carrig Rowers Red Ale)

    http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/carrig-rowers-red-ale/184950/

    It is indeed. Apologies.I didn't know they moved from Banagher in Offaly to Leitrim. It seems a bit sketchy. Are Carrig and Bo Bristle one and the same?


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    BeerNut
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    yknaa wrote: »
    Are Carrig and Bo Bristle one and the same?
    No. Bo Bristle brewed the first two Carrig beers: Lager and Rowers Red. My understanding is that this arrangement has continued even now that Carrig has its own standalone brewery in Carrick brewing all the other Carrig beers: Pipers, Poachers, Brazen and the Pilsner.

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    Seaneh
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    yknaa wrote: »
    It is indeed. Apologies.I didn't know they moved from Banagher in Offaly to Leitrim. It seems a bit sketchy. Are Carrig and Bo Bristle one and the same?


    Nothing sketchy about it. Lots of brewers start off contracting their beers to an established brewery while they build they own, Metalman was being brewed by Whitegypsy for a while at the start, Brú are brewing for one or 2 new companies, Eight Degrees brewed the first few batches of Black's Pale Ale and so on. Fairly standard stuff.


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    Aglomerado
    Registered Users Posts: 5,761 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    Hilden's Headless Dog and Twisted Hop.
    PorterHouse's Hop Head.


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    Dally
    Registered Users Posts: 75 ✭✭Dally


    Great suggestions. Thanks all!


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    Angron
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    I grew very fond of Jarl by Fyne Ales after I tried one at the recommendation of a boardsie. There's a few others I've liked, but that one would be my favourite.


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    uch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭uch


    McGargles, Granny Mary's Red Ale is savage and very reasonably priced


    http://www.mcgargles.com/

    21/25



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    irish_goat
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    uch wrote: »
    McGargles, Granny Mary's Red Ale is savage and very reasonably priced

    He's looking for Irish craft beer though. :p


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    Ravelleman
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 3,635 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ravelleman


    irish_goat wrote: »
    He's looking for Irish craft beer though. :p

    Jarl is indeed lovely though.


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    perth112
    Registered Users Posts: 23 ✭perth112


    Fuller's London Pride
    Fuller's Organic Honey dew
    O'Haras Red Ale/ Stout
    Old Speckled Hen
    Hobgoblin by Wychwood Brewery.
    Fuller's India Pale Ale
    O'Hara's Pale Ale

    All the above beers are great and readily available in most supermarkets.


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    schemingbohemia
    Registered Users Posts: 5,606 ✭✭✭schemingbohemia


    perth112 wrote: »
    Fuller's London Pride
    Fuller's Organic Honey dew
    O'Haras Red Ale/ Stout
    Old Speckled Hen
    Hobgoblin by Wychwood Brewery.
    Fuller's India Pale Ale
    O'Hara's Pale Ale

    All the above beers are great and readily available in most supermarkets.

    Did you miss the bit about Irish craft beers?

    For me Kinnegar's Rustbucket Rye Ale is my favourite tipple at the mo.


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    Ravelleman
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    schemingbohemia wrote: »
    Did you miss the bit about Irish craft beers?

    To me it reads like the shelf of my local Tesco.


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    perth112
    Registered Users Posts: 23 ✭perth112


    schemingbohemia wrote: »
    Did you miss the bit about Irish craft beers?

    For me Kinnegar's Rustbucket Rye Ale is my favourite tipple at the mo.
    It says nothing about ' Irish 'craft beers.


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    #28
    perth112
    Registered Users Posts: 23 ✭perth112


    Carling is nice, but I prefer Cider, Bulmers is nice, but I prefer Druids.


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    Niallp1976
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭Niallp1976


    Quote: uch
    McGargles, Granny Mary's Red Ale is savage and very reasonably priced


    He's looking for Irish craft beer though. "

    McGargles is an Irish Craft beer. We've invested over a million euro in the brewery in Kilcock and hired 17 people


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    drumswan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,592 ✭✭✭drumswan


    Niallp1976 wrote: »
    Quote: uch
    McGargles, Granny Mary's Red Ale is savage and very reasonably priced


    He's looking for Irish craft beer though. "

    McGargles is an Irish Craft beer. We've invested over a million euro in the brewery in Kilcock and hired 17 people
    Great stuff, has production of the mc gargles range moved over fully? Any plans to produce beers under a different label than mc gargles?


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    Ravelleman
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 3,635 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ravelleman


    perth112 wrote: »
    It says nothing about ' Irish 'craft beers.

    Check again.


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