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Festival prep
A final look at assorted new-release Irish beers ahead of the Alltech festival which opens at the Convention Centre tomorrow and runs to Saturday.Rascals will be there, and the latest one I had from...
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Going up in the world
I do love the way good beer bars become nexus points for the world of beer, beyond what they actually stock and sell. The places that develop a reputation for being the go-to pubs for international...
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The London invasion
I've long since lost track of what's happening on London's beer scene. It was so much easier in 2007. The occasional headline occurrence passes my way in the general discourse, but I know that there's...
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Gone native
With Stone Brewing's Berlin plant in full swing now, they've not only adopted the local beer style, in White Ghost Berliner weisse, they've adopted German labelling habits, putting important...
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A Suir thing
Reuben's stag weekend brought a small and very well-behaved group of beer fans to Waterford for a couple of days' civilised tippling.Action centred on two of the city's pubs in particular, beginning at...
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One night in Drumcondra
I decided, a few years ago, that bottle shares aren't for me. It's not a format in which I really enjoy drinking beer so I mostly leave it to other people. Occasionally, very occasionally, however, an...
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Time for cask
Spoonsfest fairly sneaks up on you. It seems like no time since the autumn one. My excuse for not braving the northside this time was the weather: Beast From The East 2 was still blowing up a storm on...
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Short hop
I finally made it to the Lock 13 Brewpub in Sallins! Admittedly I had to be all but marched there via an invite from the house to come and participate in a beery symposium hosted by head brewer Brendan...
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The Balmacassie shuffle
An assortment of BrewDog beers today, acquired from various sources.This bottle of Candy Kaiser, BrewDog's winter seasonal, showed up neglected on the shelves of DrinkStore, a month or so past its...
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Wild in the beer aisle
It's one of those situations where I hear lots of people talking about a beer I see every week in the supermarket and haven't tried yet. Admittedly it doesn't happen too often, but it happened with...
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Mes we can
It's over a year since I last reviewed a beer from that little bit of Belgium in Mayo, Mescan Brewery, so I'm devoting this post to a couple of theirs.Westport Saison is first, coming on the personal...
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Reservoir reservations
It seems to me a long time since Quentin Tarantino was considered cool. Lately his association with Hollywood sex pest Harvey Weinstein has tarnished further a reputation already on the skids. So I was...
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Zo surprising
I don't think I've mentioned this here before, but the fridges at Urban Brewing have some remarkable beers in them, ones you won't see elsewhere in Ireland. It's worth tippy-toeing over the bar for a...
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Spring flowers
There was a sudden abundance of new Irish beers in March. Presumably the run-up to the national holiday had something to do with that, as well as a couple of festivals to which I'll dedicate later...
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A fresh look
Alltech's beer extravaganza rolled into town in early March for its sixth annual outing. The untimely death of company founder Pearse Lyons on the day the gig opened failed to put a damper on things,...
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Still rolling
The middle post from Alltech Brews & Food concerns the more familiar brewers, the ones I drink a lot, and now just happen to be drinking them here.On the first evening there was a tasting for media...
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All over the shop
I'm giving up any semblance of order in this final post from Alltech Brews & Food 2018. It's just stuff I found to drink.Some of it came via Simon, who brought along a selection from Lacada, as is...
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More more more!
I genuinely had only closed off my last Irish beer round-up, and was some way from publishing it, when I started work on this next one. Kinnegar was first to pop into view, with a pair of new...
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Doing the rounds
Seems I now have two kinds of Irish beer round-ups to do every few weeks: the regular one and the Dublin brewpubs dispatch. We'll start this one at Open Gate.I've said multiple times that lager is the...
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Hi Sierra!
There was a veritable cascade of new Sierra Nevada beers in mid-March. It took me a while to pick my way through.From the 4-Way IPA pack, we begin with No Middle Ground, claiming to be a fruity-hopped...
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