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What beer are we drinking this week, too?

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  • #8792
    a_non_a_mouse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 328 ✭✭a_non_a_mouse


    A few new ones recently

    -White Hag - Black Boar....WOW...probably the best Irish beer I've had in bottle.

    -O'Brother - Joe, not a huge fan, could be just me and coffee stout/porter, while I love coffee mixing it with beer just doesn't seem to work for me.

    -Fran Well - Imperial IPA
    Very tasty and hides the high abv well

    -Left Hand - Nitro Milk Stout
    -Left Hand - Black Jack Porter
    Both decent, but not spectacular.

    Have a few newbies waiting in the wings
    Lagunitas Brown Shugga
    Uternos Baltic Chili Porter (not had the chili one before, but really like the regular version)
    Porterhouse - Celebration Irish Stout (had this penciled in for after the rugby, but alas...)

    and a few favorites
    Williams Brothers Fraoch
    Woodkey - Pilgrim


  • #8793
    MonkstownHoop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,196 ✭✭✭MonkstownHoop


    a_non_a_mouse wrote: »

    -O'Brother - Joe, not a huge fan, could be just me and coffee stout/porter, while I love coffee mixing it with beer just doesn't seem to work for me.

    Maybe try No Joe, it's the Porter without the coffee


  • #8794
    Lovely Bloke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,748 ✭✭✭✭Lovely Bloke


    MonkstownHoop wrote: »
    Maybe try No Joe, it's the Porter without the coffee

    it's really good, had a bottle on Friday night, I don't like coffee, so this was a welcome surprise.


  • #8795
    RasTa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,111 ✭✭✭✭RasTa


    Heading back to Barca next Wednesday. Bar Biercab and the new Brewdog place any spots to check out?


  • #8796
    BeerNut
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,122 Mod ✭✭✭✭BeerNut


    Try Black Lab and La Cerveteca, if you've not been.

    My beer blog | Bluesky | My other beer blog



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  • #8797
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,449 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    RasTa wrote: »
    Heading back to Barca next Wednesday. Bar Biercab and the new Brewdog place any spots to check out?
    never been, but work with a fella from Barcelona, apparently it's considered really bad form to refer to Barcelona as Barca and that it's reserved for the football team :pac:. Same goes for referring to San Francisco as San Fran :). Enjoy, I'd love to go.


  • #8798
    Pink Fairy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭Pink Fairy


    Currently drinking Clough More heather ipa....bland is all I'll say about it


  • #8799
    gavmcg92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,318 ✭✭✭gavmcg92


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  • #8800
    Ryath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,552 ✭✭✭Ryath


    Zaph wrote: »
    I'm generally not a huge fan of wheat beers, but I'll make an exception for some of them like dunkelweizens. However the Schneider Weisse Tap 6 Unser Aventinus I'm drinking at the moment has to be the best of them all. It's an amazingly good beer. I didn't enjoy the last weizenbock I had (Ayinger), but there's no comparison between that and this. It's malty and yeasty and bready and now sadly all gone, but I will definitely be stocking up on more soon.

    I like regular weiz beers but Tap 6 is exceptional. Worth trying 4 and 5 too not your usual weiz beers. I have Tap X I've been saving to try expecting good things. My favourite I've tried is probably Weihenstephaner Vitus


  • #8801
    UnknownSpecies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭UnknownSpecies


    Tap 6 Aventinus is one of my favourite beers, wheat or otherwise. There's a complex fruity character that you don't get from other weizens or dunkelweizens. It's a similar fruity complexity that you'd get from a Trappist ale I think. The Wine Centre in Kilkenny just recently got them in and I'm over the moon.


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  • #8802
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,647 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


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    Stocked up for the weekend.


  • #8803
    PropJoe10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,470 ✭✭✭PropJoe10


    andekwarhola wrote: »
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    Stocked up for the weekend.

    Nice! Where did you get the Double Irish??


  • #8804
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,647 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    PropJoe10 wrote: »
    Nice! Where did you get the Double Irish??

    My local O'Briens have it so presumably others too. Picked up a few of them. Got the rest in Deveneys.


  • #8805
    MonkstownHoop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,196 ✭✭✭MonkstownHoop


    Disappointed with the Thornbridge Sierra Nevada collab pale ale


  • #8806
    PropJoe10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,470 ✭✭✭PropJoe10


    andekwarhola wrote: »
    My local O'Briens have it so presumably others too. Picked up a few of them. Got the rest in Deveneys.

    Savage,cheers. Thought that stuff was long gone out of production. Great to see that its back!


  • #8807
    Subcomandante Marcos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,682 ✭✭✭Subcomandante Marcos


    Having a bottle of Grafter's IPA to wash down my mum's Biryani and roti which she forced (didn't take much) on me as I was leaving the home place earlier this evening. A fine combination.


  • #8808
    cunnifferous
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭cunnifferous


    Foxes Rock 'American Style' IPA brewed by Cumberland brewery in Newry.

    Smells OK, Tastes Gack.

    Seems every Nordie brewery I get a beer from is pretty crap bar Kinnegar.


  • #8809
    Losty Dublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,304 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    cunnifferous wrote: »
    Seems every Nordie brewery I get a beer from is pretty crap bar Kinnegar.

    Maybe the fact that it's actually a Free State beer is it's saving grace ;)


  • #8810
    cunnifferous
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭cunnifferous


    Losty Dublin wrote: »
    Maybe the fact that it's actually a Free State beer is it's saving grace ;)

    Thought crossed my mind ;)


  • #8811
    irish_goat
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 5,921 Mod ✭✭✭✭irish_goat


    cunnifferous wrote: »
    Foxes Rock 'American Style' IPA brewed by Cumberland brewery in Newry.

    Smells OK, Tastes Gack.

    Seems every Nordie brewery I get a beer from is pretty crap bar Kinnegar.

    I won a hamper of Foxes Rock and Kentucky Bourbon beers at Alltech. I took the Foxes Rock Stout home and tried to offload the rest at the Brewdock as I can't stand the Kentucky stuff and didn't rate the pale ale or lager from Foxes. Literally none of the staff wanted any of it so I gave it all to some randomer at the bar.


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  • #8812
    cunnifferous
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭cunnifferous


    irish_goat wrote: »
    I won a hamper of Foxes Rock and Kentucky Bourbon beers at Alltech. I took the Foxes Rock Stout home and tried to offload the rest at the Brewdock as I can't stand the Kentucky stuff and didn't rate the pale ale or lager from Foxes. Literally none of the staff wanted any of it so I gave it all to some randomer at the bar.

    Ha that's gas. Can't give the stuff away! Unfortunately I paid 3.50 for the pleasure.


  • #8813
    Red Wolf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 400 ✭✭Red Wolf


    Losty Dublin wrote: »
    Maybe the fact that it's actually a Free State beer is it's saving grace ;)

    Maybe the fact that the "Northern" brewery was started by a free stater who moved to America and who's main business is animal nutrition?


  • #8814
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,411 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    cunnifferous wrote: »
    Seems every Nordie brewery I get a beer from is pretty crap bar Kinnegar.

    To be fair to our northern brethren, Northbound's 33 Sticke Alt is a very tasty beer.


  • #8815
    BeerNut
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,122 Mod ✭✭✭✭BeerNut


    Red Wolf wrote: »
    Maybe the fact that the "Northern" brewery was started by a free stater who moved to America and who's main business is animal nutrition?
    It wasn't. Eddie Haughey was born in Louth, though, so you're not completely wrong.

    My beer blog | Bluesky | My other beer blog



  • #8816
    Uncle_moe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 768 ✭✭✭Uncle_moe


    MonkstownHoop wrote: »
    Disappointed with the Thornbridge Sierra Nevada collab pale ale

    If that's 'Twin Peaks' then I thoroughly agree. Bland. I really like 'Colorado Red' the one they did with Odell I think.


  • #8817
    Red Wolf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 400 ✭✭Red Wolf


    BeerNut wrote: »
    It wasn't. Eddie Haughey was born in Louth, though, so you're not completely wrong.
    OK, I should have said is currently owned by


  • #8818
    baron von something
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 745 ✭✭✭baron von something


    Zaph wrote: »
    To be fair to our northern brethren, Northbound's 33 Sticke Alt is a very tasty beer.

    +1 to that


  • #8819
    a_non_a_mouse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 328 ✭✭a_non_a_mouse


    baron von something wrote: »
    +1 to that

    +2 :) ....33 Sticke is a very tasty beer. Still can't beat the real alt in Dusseldorf tho.....


  • #8820
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,411 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    a_non_a_mouse wrote: »
    +2 :) ....33 Sticke is a very tasty beer. Still can't beat the real alt in Dusseldorf tho.....

    I agree, but it's nice to have something local to keep me going until I can make it back to Dusseldorf sometime.


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  • #8821
    eyeball kid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,803 ✭✭✭eyeball kid


    a_non_a_mouse wrote: »
    +2 :) ....33 Sticke is a very tasty beer. Still can't beat the real alt in Dusseldorf tho.....
    Zaph wrote: »
    I agree, but it's nice to have something local to keep me going until I can make it back to Dusseldorf sometime.

    Where do you find that beer? Spent a year in Dusseldorf and would love to find something similar. Living in Kildare but working in Dublin and haven't seen it anywhere.


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