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Good night, Vienna
Carlow Brewing Company has really begun to flex its international muscles this year. I covered the arrival of beers from London's Gipsy Hill a few months ago. Then Vienna-based brewery Muttermilch...
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A very movable feast
The late winter snowstorms damaged the beer garden roof of the Franciscan Well brewpub in Cork. It meant that Ireland's longest-running beer festival got shunted from its normal Easter slot to late in...
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Mourne-full
A visit to Sainsbury's when last up North yielded a couple from Mourne Mountains Brewery, a Co. Down operation I've tried a few beers from, but never properly tasted the core range.Mourne Mist is a...
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Rockin'
An assortment from Magic Rock in today's post. The latter ones are specials, or at least new, but the first is a core beer — around since 2013 — which had never crossed my path before.Until, that is,...
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Source load
Everything recent(ish) from Dublin's brewpubs today. Stop me if this is getting perfunctory.Urban Brewing has been throwing all sorts of stuff into the fermenter, but I'll start with something a bit...
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Brewing at the crossroads
Trieste is high on my list of places to visit, largely for its James Joyce associations, though I'm attracted to it for similar reasons as he was. While now in eastern Italy, the city spent several...
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It's ya birthday
The redoubtable Francesca of London brewery Five Points organised a pub crawl through south Dublin to mark her employer's fifth anniversary in business. Arrangements were made for a commemorative...
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Profiles in mediocrity
Ahead of the June Bank Holiday weekend, Lidl got the beers in: a selection from three different countries on the lower-right side of Europe. Normal procedure on this here blog would be to work through...
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In with the old, in with the new
The launch of DOT Brew's latest happened at Molloy's off licence on Francis Street at the beginning of the month. One of the guys in the shop produced a bottle of DOT's Barrel Aged Imperial Stout,...
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Wild things
The latest UK brewery to join Carlow Brewing's import portfolio is Wild Beer. The event was commemorated with a tap takeover and tasting at 57 The Headline in May. It afforded me the opportunity to...
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Look around you
Indie Beer Week is upon us! Events kicked off on Friday and run through next weekend too. Have a look at the calendar to see what's happening in your part of the country. I did my bit locally on...
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Who wants some?
I've not visited the Third Barrel Brewery, but outbound traffic must be brisk, what with three in-house brands to keep stocked, plus numerous proxy arrangements for other beer makers. In my second post...
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Indie and Urban
Indie Beer Week continues with a return visit to hyperactive Dublin brewpub Urban Brewing to see what strange novelties they have for me this time.There's a rosé theme to the off-kilter offerings,...
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The Belly-go-round
Feels like a while since my last YellowBelly reviews so here's a multi-beer Indie Week catch-up.It begins with Yellowbeard, a 7% ABV IPA with added pineapple. Though a murky orange colour, it's no...
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Late to the party
This is day eight of Indie Beer Week 2018 and I'm rounding off my series of posts with the beers I discovered during the week itself.I'm picking things up where I left them yesterday with Praetorian,...
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Pooch hooch
Hey, remember BrewDog? I found some notes about some of their beers and made a blog post out of them.My first ever 500ml BrewDog can was Eight-Bit, an 8% ABV eight-brewery collaboration New England...
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The sideshow
With the excitement of Indie Beer Week behind us until 2019, I can now bring you a couple of beers from small Irish breweries that don't qualify for inclusion.The latest bottle release from 5 Lamps, in...
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Better than expecto'd
A nice broad topic for the The Session this month, and flagged sufficiently well in advance for me to get my act together for it. Our host is Roger's Beers, and German wheat beer is the theme.Roger...
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Hot balls
An opportunity to expand my horizons with regard to Magic Rock's Cannonball+ series presented itself recently, with the arrival of two unfamiliar iterations to Irish shores.Neo-Human Cannonball is...
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The Swedish Empire
Funny how Sweden doesn't get associated with strong and dark beers. Baltic porter and imperial stout are the affairs of near neighbours. Sweden not so much.That's by way of introduction to The Sidamo...
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