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Any good breweries?
I'm occasionally asked by a prospective visitor which are the good breweries to visit in Dublin, and I have to explain that breweries as drinking venues isn't really a thing in Ireland the way it is in...
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All stations
Today's the day. The Alltech Craft Brews & Food Fair opens at the Convention Centre in Dublin at 5pm and runs through to Saturday night. In today's post I'm catching up with the host's brewery,...
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Friday, bro
Our week in Irish beer concludes with a pair from the busiest outfit of 2019 thus far: O Brother. Their current arty series continues with Time Waits For No One, a saison at 6.1% ABV. As usual,...
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Rare as a Yeti
Great Divide is back! The Colorado brewer hasn't been seen on these shores in around ten years but it has returned -- via Grand Cru Beers, of course -- with a couple of the classics and a bunch more...
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A tickle of zwickl
Since they arrived almost two years ago, the Stiegl beers haven't exactly been making waves in local beer geek circles. Importer Carlow Brewing has carved out a mainstream niche for Goldbräu lager, and...
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Tetley Ležák
Beer shopping in Armagh, never a wonderland of quality and choice, took a turn for the worse on my most recent attempt. The most interesting things I could find were today's pair of warmed-up Tetley...
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And you're back in the room
The run-up to St. Patrick's Day saw Alltech taking over the Convention Centre for their seventh annual celebration of beer, spirits, food and allied pleasures. There was a lot of beer to try down on...
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In the big smoke now
It's was great to welcome breweries to Alltech Brews & Food of whom we see little in Dublin: a chance to find out what the rest of the country are drinking; or at least the 3% of them drinking...
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Would you like to hear the specials?
Today's blog post from the 2019 Alltech festival is dedicated to the handful of Irish breweries who went all out to present some weird and wacky creations for the event, most of them one-offs, never to...
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Freedom of movement
Rounding out this week of posts from the Alltech Brews & Food Fair with the small handful of foreign beers I tried.There was a bit of a buzz around new English brewery Evolution, from Shropshire....
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Fool's Gold
Something truly special for you today: a beer too long neglected by this blog, and indeed beer blogs in general. Dutch Gold has been an Irish budget mainstay since the mid-1990s. The brand is owned by...
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Spooning around
On a sunny Sunday in January, with nothing better to do I took a spin out to Blackrock. On the handpumps at The Three Tun Tavern they had Gadd's She Sells Sea Shells, "light summer ale from the Kent...
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A fair shake
I make no apology for the one-and-done approach this blog takes. There are too many beers, and too many variables affecting how it's perceived, to try and be any way objective. Beer is no more...
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Brutal winter, cruel summer
A raft of new beers from the ever so industrious Sierra Nevada today.It was still winter, just about, when I opened the Winter Warmer lager. This is a potentially warming 6.7% ABV and a very dark...
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Phoney Peroni
A few weeks ago I was at Aldi's summer drinks press event. Wine mostly, of course, but they had one new (to me) beer in the line-up, an Italian lager which was obviously aiming to be an own-brand...
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Trust
Innis & Gunn does not feature frequently on these pages: it's over four years since the last mention, and a further two for the one before that. And that's with good reason: I don't particularly...
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All over the shop
Here we go with April's random round-up of Irish beer. It's been a busy few weeks so I'll have to split this with Wednesday's post.From the Porterhouse comes SMASH pale ale, which is what it says,...
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What's up, Dublin?
Another heaping helping of Irish beers today, gathered from the locality in recent weeks.I'm starting with DOT Brew, and a pair which came my way at the annual beer-cheese-whiskey sipathon in Teeling's...
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Strange fruit
Cherries, raspberries: the canon of acceptable fruits for lambics is well established. Apricots, grapes: it keeps getting wider though. Today it's two from Timmermans with two new fruit additions for...
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Three step
A trilogy from the core range of Colorado's Ska Brewing today. First up is Rue B. Soho, a lager with added grapefruit. Quite a lot of added grapefruit, it seems, because that's what jumps out from the...
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