What beer are we drinking this week, too?

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

I actually suspect a few things

1. it wasn't Sorachi Ace coming from the tap, but Barry served me and we had a chat about old times, so there's no way he'd do that knowingly.

2. It was an old (ish) keg, with beer in the line, and the flavour had disappeared.

3. I'm not able to discern the SA flavours from the usual hop profile of O'Hara's Pale (it was definitely O'Hara's, their beers have an underlying flavour profile).

4. the flavour profile of SA is not as "different" as is being stated. I could detect no lemongrass (a flavour I cannot stand by the way), nor bubblegum sweetness.

Hmmm... Interesting...

1. If Barry hadn't hooked up the keg or tasted it then maybe it was the wrong keg? The bar men in my experience there can be a little unknowledgeable...

2. Its not that old so could it dissappear that quick? Could it have had a remnant of another beer in the line?

3. I don't think you could miss the unique flavour of SA unless your palate was severely compromised. It's happened to me...

4. I didn't get lemongrass but I did get a kind of tropical fruit bubble gum plus barley sugar sweetness.
But that's just my palate of course.

jsa112 wrote: »

I didn't think the sorachi ace was particularly coming through in the O'Haras one. Got it more with the aroma from what I can remember.

Maybe some people ARE more attuned to SA? Like with off flavours?

But I do think that tasting any beer once is perhaps not a good thing for most of us, in so far as forming an opinion of it. The flavours we pick up are affected by so many factors. Mood, diet, location.... whatever.

I think that's especially true of beers we perceive not to like.

That's not excusing poorly made beers btw.

Having a Sierra Nevada blindfold black IPA.

If I did a blind taste test. Id say this was a porter. Smells of roasted malts, mild taste of hops but the taste is mostly roasted malt.

Had a delirium red, very sweet, fruity, sugary. Then a couple blackwater gin and tonics. Haven't had a load of gins but this was probably my favourite (Bombay sapphire, Gordon's, beefeater, cork dry gin, Hendricks being the competition (Hendricks the only real competition))

Big Thursday night

Rumun wrote: »

Power of voodoo triple ipa collaboration brew betwen beavertown and boneyard

Insane flavour and aroma. One of the best beers i had this year along with heavy water and alchemist

In my fridge skullking also from beavertown.

Where did you get it? Im jealous, Boneyard are outstanding!

DirtWolf is a testament to hops fading, at three months old the bottles that are here are a shadow of when I had fresh ones near their source.

Radikale Hopster was gross. At least it wasn't a sweet mess, but it was a mess in every other way.

The best beers I've had recently have been 8 Degrees hoppy beers and Prairie Bomb!s. Getting hoppy beers from far away doesn't make any sense anymore, but we have some messy ones locally too. Thank god someone is doing it right :P

Cant check it in work, do drinkstore sell Kinnegar's Black IPA?

BaZmO* wrote: »

Are you thinking of Blacks of Kinsale Black IPA? I'm open to correction, but I don't think Kinnegar do a Black IPA?


DS have the Kinsale Black IPA in stock according to their website.

Black Bucket?

BaZmO* wrote: »

Yes, you're right. I've even tried it too. My bad.

It's not available on DS though.

Cheers gents that's the one.

I'll try a couple of the better off licences I frequent! (Sweeneys or McHughs)

I thought it was a lovely beer, on tap anyway!

Blackbird in rathmines but it is all gone now:(

That's always been sold around that price afaik. Although the fact that it is so old may warrant discussion on being mugged.

They do a southern harvest version which is better I think. Always get the two mixed up, but one of them is better and rather lovely.

Had a couple of pints of Beamish there last week. Creamy goodness.