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Black Leeds
Dredging through my notes on beers long since consumed, I picked up a thread of stouts from Leeds. We'll start with something easy-going on cask before hitting the silly stuff. Kirkstall's Dexter does...
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Warm welcome, cool fermentation
The ninth Beoir AGM took place in the shiny surrounds of Kildare Brewing Company in Sallins last month -- right in amongst the tanks so we could see what we were fighting for. Our hosts were generous...
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How we celebrate
The Taphouse in Ranelagh's Taphouse Celebrates event series was back with a bang during the summer, with an event in July and another in August, both of which I'm squeezing into this bumper celebratory...
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Seconds from disaster
A bottle of Pipa IPA came my way with thanks to Myles and his holiday in Portugal. It's from Pato brewery in Sintra, north-west of Lisbon and is, as the name hints, an IPA. The official description...
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Still dropping
Trying to keep up with the output at Urban Brewing has been exhausting. After a year of following closely, I'm starting to let some releases go by. I never thought I'd say this, but there's only so...
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Taking sides
Two evenings at the 2018 Big Grill Festival was enough time to get round to all the beers I wanted to try. As usual the beer and cider offer was prodigious so I'm going to have to split the review into...
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Once more round the park
The other row of festival bars at Big Grill 2018, you'll be pleased to hear, was smaller than the one I wrote about on Monday. It still had its highlights, though.I began at the north end with DOT,...
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The last of them
I've been away for the last couple of weeks, leaving in a rush of hastily-scheduled blog posts. Today's concerns the final few Irish beers I tried before I left.We begin with Toothless Grizzly, the...
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Gan bei!
I have my friend Dave to thank for today's subjects. When he tweeted he was off to China for work I asked if he could help me scratch my most persistent beer itch. Chinese lager Snow is the biggest...
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Don't wine
This was a surprise freebie from English beer label Curious: a 75cl bottle of Curiouser & Curiouser Chapter 2. It's a collaboration between Curious's parent winery Chapel Down and London...
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Postponed journey
Musgrave's Journeyman range has been around for a while now at SuperValu and Centra. It's brewed by Stationworks and bears a cosmetic resemblance to the brewery's own Foxes Rock line. With the recent...
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All done for now
I've mentioned before my gnawing unfulfilled ambition to visit the last two JD Wetherspoons in the Republic of Ireland. They're both in the greater Dublin area so it shouldn't have taken me this long...
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Real Mexico
Variety in Mexican beer is hard come by in Dublin these days. I guess it's C&C's fault. They're the distributor for Grupo Modelo, via the various arrangements with AB InBev, and they seem to have...
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Barley dodgers
Belgian beers have become a bit of a rare sight on this blog of late. Two today from the Green's gluten-free range brewed at De Proef. They've been around forever (ie slightly longer than the blog) but...
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Dark twists
"Oak smoked imperial wheat stout". Words to conjure with. This is Surround, from Stillwater Artisanal of Connecticut, a brewer I know more from their collaborative works with European brewers. The...
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Hans up
It was exciting to see a beer from Hanscraft landing in Ireland. The client brewer left a lasting impression from my last visit to Germany in 2014, for his Backbone Splitter IPA in particular. This one...
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Double Chubble
Delving deep into the dusty notebooks for this one. It was back at the end of May, in 57 The Headline, that Simon staged an impromptu vertical tasting of Cloudwater's triple IPA, Chubbles.It's a...
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O it's you
I haven't had an Odell beer on this blog in well over a year, and that won't do. A bunch of new ones arrived recently and I took advantage of the 4-for-€10 at Stephen Street News to explore them.We...
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Beer of the moment
I'm going back a few months to when there seemed to be a disturbance in the force on beer Twitter over the absence of Rheinbacher Pilsner from the shelves in Aldi. I had always assumed it would always...
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How's the weather?
Wild Weather Ales arrived unexpectedly into Ireland earlier this year like a sudden storm. The cans are striking, with their quirky names and kids'-comic artwork. I picked up a selection in O'Brien's...
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