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What beer are we drinking this week, too?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    I bring cans of punk to parties and people ask me why aren't I drinking pacman.gif

    Yeah, those cans are great for festivals. It just looks like lemonade! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 334 ✭✭11214


    I got a present of a create of Bud, now usually I have a laugh at people who call the mass produced stuff piss water but I guess I actually forgot what it tastes like.
    Cracked open a can and one sip was enough, not nice is all I'll say.
    So I have 23 tins sitting here making me appreciate all the more the range of beer we have available to us, thank god.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,196 ✭✭✭MonkstownHoop


    11214 wrote: »
    I got a present of a create of Bud, now usually I have a laugh at people who call the mass produced stuff piss water but I guess I actually forgot what it tastes like.
    Cracked open a can and one sip was enough, not nice is all I'll say.
    So I have 23 tins sitting here making me appreciate all the more the range of beer we have available to us, thank god.

    Bring them to a galway bay bar on NYE and have them replaced with a pint of decent beer, I presume the crap beer you give them is destroyed by fire?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭TrustedApple


    11214 wrote: »
    I got a present of a create of Bud, now usually I have a laugh at people who call the mass produced stuff piss water but I guess I actually forgot what it tastes like.
    Cracked open a can and one sip was enough, not nice is all I'll say.
    So I have 23 tins sitting here making me appreciate all the more the range of beer we have available to us, thank god.

    When your friends are over would you not try pawn them off on them ?.

    The sisters boyfriend got stuck with 20 bottles of miller and everyone who comes into the house he trys and gives a bottle of it to ha ha.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 334 ✭✭11214


    When your friends are over would you not try pawn them off on them ?.

    The sisters boyfriend got stuck with 20 bottles of miller and everyone who comes into the house he trys and gives a bottle of it to ha ha.

    That's the plan, loads of "lovely" free beer for guests on nye.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,647 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    11214 wrote: »
    I got a present of a create of Bud, now usually I have a laugh at people who call the mass produced stuff piss water but I guess I actually forgot what it tastes like.
    Cracked open a can and one sip was enough, not nice is all I'll say.
    So I have 23 tins sitting here making me appreciate all the more the range of beer we have available to us, thank god.

    Just keep them for guests? I usually have a slab of Carlsberg or Guinness lying around for when the Da or some of my mates are over. Not out of cheapness, just that I know from experience that they've no time for 'craft' stuff so why bother wasting good beer on them.

    Finishing off some Christmas leftovers here: Lagunitas Cappuccino Stout, Leann Follain Barrel Aged and Westmalle Tripel.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 31,169 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Decided to crack open a bottle of 8 Degrees Mór barley wine tonight. I am loving it. Must pick up another one somewhere before they're all gone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,157 ✭✭✭Ronan|Raven


    Wrasslers


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,157 ✭✭✭Ronan|Raven


    Some delightful timothy taylor landlord


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,972 ✭✭✭Trond


    Had some crackers over the xmas. Highlights stout wise were Laguitas Cappuccino Stout and Founders Breakfast Stout.

    2 really nice Black IPAs, Founders Dark Penance and Firestone Walker Wookey Jack.

    Im down to 13 Guns and the normal Founders Porter now.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74,449 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Local newsagents/minimart has gone on a beer stockup mission clearly as both the floor (crates/slabs) and some shelves that normally have gift bags on them are full... the 'craft fridge' that is usually Erdinger and maybe some Guinness specials has some interesting stuff in it now.

    One I've open now is a Williams Bros. Grozet, which is a gooseberry lager and probably the best of a fruited style I've had.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,196 ✭✭✭MonkstownHoop


    Blacks World's End, gorgeous, very light for a stout but full of flavour, wouldn't tell it's 8.5%


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,121 ✭✭✭tang1


    Beavertown Gamma Ray American Pale Ale & Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye IPA tonight.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,304 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    Against my better judgment I'm giving Solas Red a second go. I'll report back in due course :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,748 ✭✭✭✭Lovely Bloke


    Goddammit. Diving Bell is so bloody moreish.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 840 ✭✭✭jsa112


    Founders KBS, such a good beer, maybe better than goose island bourbon county...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,516 ✭✭✭matrim


    jsa112 wrote: »
    Founders KBS, such a good beer, maybe better than goose island bourbon county...

    Picked one up too. Undecided whether to try aging it or have it soon


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 31,169 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Got to drink in a Porterhouse pub tonight for the first time! Porterhouse North is lovely.

    Had a pint of the Oyster Stout. First time having that on draft too. Smooth.

    Ordered a Brain Blasta after that and had to send it back. Bottom of the barrel. >_< Replaced it with a Hop Head, which was only gorgeous. Must pop in again next time I'm on this side of Dublin.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,097 ✭✭✭Herb Powell


    Had a Winter Ale, as it was labelled on the tap, from Black's of Kinsale. Didn't even know it existed, but it was a very tasty beer. 8.5%, tasted like a much stronger, heavy duty KPA. No complaints from me anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,196 ✭✭✭MonkstownHoop


    Had a Winter Ale, as it was labelled on the tap, from Black's of Kinsale. Didn't even know it existed, but it was a very tasty beer. 8.5%, tasted like a much stronger, heavy duty KPA. No complaints from me anyway.

    Hi Viz?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,097 ✭✭✭Herb Powell


    Hi Viz?

    Could be, but I think they would have labelled it as such. I'll ask the next time I'm there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,427 ✭✭✭✭Clegg


    The Porterhouse on Parliament St does a nice red ale. Very, very smooth.

    Got a selection pack of craft beers as a small Christmas present from my brother. The Full Sail from Galway Bay is lovely. Also started drinking Kinnegar which the local off license has in stiock. Scraggy Bay and the Devil's Backbone goes down extremely well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,196 ✭✭✭MonkstownHoop


    Westy 12 to kick off the nights proceedings


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 31,169 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Yardsman lager is rather enjoyable, especially considering I don't usually like lager.

    Last night I got to try their stout, which is also gorgeous. Also: Farmageddon double IPA, Hip Hop (brewed for Bittles) and Joker IPA (which tasted a lot like Hop House 13...)

    The star of the show was Mum's The Word from Siren. A milk stout with cherries and chipotle. £6 for the bottle in the Hudson in Belfast, but well worth trying once!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭TrustedApple


    After nearly 8 months in the fridge i opened up a bottle of St. Bernardus Abt 12 i have been saving at 10% you really fell the kick of the beer at the 1st sip but after a few sips it is going down as a near perfect beer.

    If i had 2 bottles of this i would be on the floor after it :eek:.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,446 ✭✭✭Beersmith


    After nearly 8 months in the fridge i opened up a bottle of St. Bernardus Abt 12 i have been saving at 10% you really fell the kick of the beer at the 1st sip but after a few sips it is going down as a near perfect beer.

    If i had 2 bottles of this i would be on the floor after it :eek:.
    In future id advise leaving these type of beers at room temperature to mature if you are going to age them. Putting them in the fridge kind of negates leaving them!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭TrustedApple


    Beersmith wrote: »
    In future id advise leaving these type of beers at room temperature to mature if you are going to age them. Putting them in the fridge kind of negates leaving them!

    Wasn't planing on ageing it at all i just but it into the fridge after my weekly beer buy and just never got around to drinking it.

    But in my apartment i have quite a few nice beers that i have been ageing that are in a press and not a fridge ;).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,491 ✭✭✭stuchyg


    Sitting in watching master chef on iPlayer with the missus and 7 week old and having a Mor barleywine. Really hides its abv and ibu well, could maybe do with more bitterness for me though


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,122 Mod ✭✭✭✭BeerNut


    If i had 2 bottles of this i would be on the floor after it :eek:.
    When the alcohol in two small glasses of wine is enough to knock you down it may be best to see a doctor.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 251 ✭✭gercoral


    anybody ever have the Polish beer Lomza?! Unreal!!!!!


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