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  • #62
    Effects
    Registered Users Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭Effects


    Zaph wrote: »
    I was in a bar in Sardinia once where the beer was served in dog bowls. Bloody hipsters. :mad:

    Pictures or it didn't happen.


  • #63
    Effects
    Registered Users Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭Effects


    Pen Rua wrote: »
    Didn't know soup bowls were going to be the next big thing in glassware:

    I use a similar shaped glass sometimes, that perfectly fits a 330ml can.
    Can't see much of an issue with it myself.


  • #64
    youcancallmeal
    Registered Users Posts: 7,985 ✭✭✭youcancallmeal


    Effects wrote: »
    I use a similar shaped glass sometimes, that perfectly fits a 330ml can.
    Can't see much of an issue with it myself.

    330ml can sideways?


  • #65
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,274 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Effects wrote: »
    Pictures or it didn't happen.

    I tend not to take many photos I'm afraid, so can't help you out there. I do remember they had a decent selection of beers though, and that one of my friends had a rauchbier from her bowl. As a non-craft beer drinker that was a bit of a shock to her system. :D


  • #66
    Effects
    Registered Users Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭Effects


    Zaph wrote: »
    I tend not to take many photos I'm afraid, so can't help you out there.

    I think a beer served in a dog bowl is worth documenting, if only for the people that won't believe it.


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  • #67
    BeerNut
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,777 Mod ✭✭✭✭BeerNut


    Brickyard in Dundrum has just launched its own online shop: Yards & Crafts. Prices look a little more competitive than Craft Central, with the same €5 national delivery.

    My beer blog | The Twitter | My other beer blog



  • #68
    youcancallmeal
    Registered Users Posts: 7,985 ✭✭✭youcancallmeal


    BeerNut wrote: »
    Brickyard in Dundrum has just launched its own online shop: Yards & Crafts. Prices look a little more competitive than Craft Central, with the same €5 national delivery.

    Looks great, local to me too so can go in for growler and cans. They don't have much in the way of storage as far as I'm aware so I don't think their selection will match up to the likes of craft central. Maybe they'll expand but it'll be hard to do once the bar reopens


  • #69
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users Posts: 16,757 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    That hybrid style piques my interest, though.

    As someone who loves bitter (well, balanced) hoppy beers, but hates NE style IPAs with a passion, I wonder if this hybrid would suit my palate?

    Any other examples of this kind of thing?


  • #70
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users Posts: 16,757 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    the beer revolu wrote: »
    That hybrid style piques my interest, though.

    As someone who loves bitter (well, balanced) hoppy beers, but hates NE style IPAs with a passion, I wonder if this hybrid would suit my palate?

    Any other examples of this kind of thing?

    Nope.
    Didn't enjoy this at all.
    Very much NE ipa, to my taste.

    Enjoyed Western herd blue jumper, though.


  • #71
    youcancallmeal
    Registered Users Posts: 7,985 ✭✭✭youcancallmeal


    the beer revolu wrote: »
    Nope.
    Didn't enjoy this at all.
    Very much NE ipa, to my taste.

    Enjoyed Western herd blue jumper, though.

    You'll have to wait another few years before the NEIPA style popularity starts to die off I reckon. Same with the IBU/bitterness wars. I remember drinking Stone Arrogant Bastard years ago and having the same thoughts you have about NEIPA.


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  • #72
    BeerNut
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,777 Mod ✭✭✭✭BeerNut


    youcancallmeal wrote: »
    You'll have to wait another few years before the NEIPA style popularity starts to die off
    Here's what's going to replace it.

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  • #73
    irish_goat
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 5,760 Mod ✭✭✭✭irish_goat


    BeerNut wrote: »
    Here's what's going to replace it.

    Surely just a DIPL then?


  • #74
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users Posts: 16,757 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    irish_goat wrote: »
    Surely just a DIPL then?

    Sounds like an own brand cheap IPA.
    You know the type, lacking in body, a bit bitter.


  • #75
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users Posts: 16,757 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    Innovation should have stopped when I got tired of new styles!
    Around 2016, I reckon.


  • #76
    Black Sheep
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 3,032 Mod ✭✭✭✭Black Sheep


    So this "cold IPA" ... Is it basically a dry, hoppy lager?


  • #77
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users Posts: 16,757 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    Black Sheep wrote: »
    So this "cold IPA" ... Is it basically a dry, hoppy lager?

    But stronger


  • #78
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users Posts: 18,921 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    Techno is now easier to pigeonhole than IPAs. Who'da thunk it.


  • #79
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users Posts: 16,757 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    Lough Gill Lost Armada is going down well in a West Coast kind of way right now.

    But I can't help feeling that NE has somehow influenced new IPAs, even the self titled west coast ones. IPA is getting less bitter, I think.


  • #80
    Hodors Appletart
    Registered Users Posts: 2,015 ✭✭✭Hodors Appletart


    Fullers IPA and Shep Neame are good options for bitter ipas imo


  • #81
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,856 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Hodors Appletart wrote: »
    Fullers IPA and Shep Neame are good options for bitter ipas imo

    Used to be able to get those in the supermarkets. Haven't seen them around for ages though.


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  • #82
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users Posts: 16,757 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    Hodors Appletart wrote: »
    Fullers IPA and Shep Neame are good options for bitter ipas imo

    For me, I'm afraid, Shep Neame aren't a good option for anything except maybe an Irish stew.

    I find them particularly bland.
    Fuller's I always likes a lot more.

    My tastes would be more towards US/modern style IPAs


  • #83
    Hodors Appletart
    Registered Users Posts: 2,015 ✭✭✭Hodors Appletart


    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    Used to be able to get those in the supermarkets. Haven't seen them around for ages though.

    I was looking at them both in a local offie today


  • #84
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,856 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Hodors Appletart wrote: »
    I was looking at them both in a local offie today

    There was a Next Door off-licence I used to go to every now and again in Ennis that always had the Shepherd Neame stout and IPA. Alas, it would hardly be an essential journey at the moment! :D I remember enjoying their 1698 a long time ago when I was first dipping my toe into the world of beer.


  • #85
    irish_goat
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 5,760 Mod ✭✭✭✭irish_goat


    Proper Job is a good, bitter IPA if you can get it down south. £1.70 a bottle in Sainsburys, decent value.


  • #86
    youcancallmeal
    Registered Users Posts: 7,985 ✭✭✭youcancallmeal


    the beer revolu wrote: »
    Nope.
    Didn't enjoy this at all.
    Very much NE ipa, to my taste.

    Enjoyed Western herd blue jumper, though.

    Just had the Voyager NZ and I thought it was interesting. Looks and tastes like NEIPA but a nice level of bitterness on the back end you don't usually get with NEIPA. Not something I'd go looking for again but nice all the same


  • #87
    Hodors Appletart
    Registered Users Posts: 2,015 ✭✭✭Hodors Appletart


    irish_goat wrote: »
    Proper Job is a good, bitter IPA if you can get it down south. £1.70 a bottle in Sainsburys, decent value.

    yeah it's in SuperValu for a good price usually

    lovely beer


  • #88
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 33,866 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    irish_goat wrote: »
    Proper Job is a good, bitter IPA if you can get it down south. £1.70 a bottle in Sainsburys, decent value.

    Tesco have it and veyr nice it is too. Used to be in their 4 for €10 deal, not sure what it is now but more than €2.50 no doubt :rolleyes:

    One of my favourites, Guinness West Indies Porter went from 4 for €10 in Tesco to €3.20 each!!!! €2.60 in Dunnes.

    Life ain't always empty.



  • #89
    Geuze
    Registered Users Posts: 13,065 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    the beer revolu wrote: »
    For me, I'm afraid, Shep Neame aren't a good option for anything except maybe an Irish stew.

    I find them particularly bland.
    Fuller's I always likes a lot more.


    What are people's opinion on Shepherd Neame double stout?


  • #90
    Geuze
    Registered Users Posts: 13,065 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    Is there any way to buy Bernard dark lager in Ireland?

    Foley's off-licence in Sligo don't have it anymore.

    Any online seller in Ireland?


    Thanks.


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  • #91
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,856 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Geuze wrote: »
    What are people's opinion on Shepherd Neame double stout?

    I used to really love it when I could get it. I think the Red Hen was the only bar in Limerick that ever had it in the fridge, maybe Mickey Martin's for a little while, but I'd get it any time I passed through Ennis before lockdown. The Next Door off-licence there usually had it in stock.


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