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Three beers from 100 bridges
All going well, by the time this is published I'll be in Wrocław. It's the home of the Stu Mostów brewery, which has become a regular fixture at the Galway Bay pubs in Dublin. I thought I'd better get...
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Black ballast
UnderDog recently staged a takeover of Ballast Point barrel-aged offerings. It was the place to be if you like 'em dark and strong. I went along the day after to see what was left. Plenty, as it turned...
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Tinfoil hat time
The true beer adventurer checks out the cheapie Lithuanian cans in the supermarket, searching for any traces of that country's unique brewing culture sneaking through unnoticed. So it is with this pair...
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Tropical Norway
Norwegian beer is a little thin on the ground around here at the moment, so today I'm raising a glass to the randomness of Marks & Spencer's selection, whence came this first pair.First up is Dag,...
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The local scene
The summer beer release schedule has been in overdrive lately. Today's round-up is just from the busy brewers of Dublin and its periphery.None busier than Rascals lately, with the pilot kit at full...
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Rebels at large
After Monday's Dublin run-down, a smattering of beers from Co. Cork that found their way up here recently.Black's of Kinsale joins the micro IPA trend with Night And Day, the lowest-strength Irish...
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Rounding up
Finishing the week with a round-up of assorted new Irish beers from all over the place.Galway Bay dropped a new double IPA called Double Super Fuzz, pale and murky in the contemporary fashion. The...
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To-Øl the beers I've drank before...
I've built up a random assortment of To-Øl tasting notes in past months which I need to convert into a blog post. The oldest is from September 2018, when I landed in to UnderDog and found Ms Grey, a...
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Blinded by the light
Leicht ("light") weisse is a standard German beer style, though one of the ones that the world at large hasn't been rushing to appropriate. I hadn't thought much about it until I spotted an example on...
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Hops and barrels
Time for another DOT post, following the release of a bunch of new offerings in recent weeks.We start with the hoppy cans, and Running On, described as a DDH pale ale. It's an even 5% ABV and a hazy...
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Around Silesia
I had the good fortune of being invited out to Wrocław in western Poland last month, to explore the area's booming microbrewing scene and attend its humungous beer festival. The city's cultural bureau...
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A zero-three of...
Wrocławski Festiwal Dobrego Piwa -- The Wrocław Festival of Good Beer -- has solved all those things you don't like about beer festivals. Admission: free. Receptacles: glass. Beer tokens: nope. Food...
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Still dobry after all these beers
The third and final day of Wrocławski Festiwal Dobrego Piwa was a scorcher. It's just as well that an international-grade football stadium provides plenty of shaded areas. On arriving at noon the...
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We will we will Wrocław
On the Saturday evening of my weekend in Wrocław I left the festival to give the city proper a token once over. I was accompanied by Martyn Cornell who had joined an earlier pub crawl late on the...
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All the things
These round-ups are never long filling out. Here's all the recent(ish) releases from Irish micros that have come way way since the last one.New Ireland has returned to the fray with a re-release of its...
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Chinese delinquency
Dave went beer shopping in China for me again. This time he came home with a stout. King Benefit StoutBeer is 3.7% ABV. The Bavarian branding is great, because all Europeans do look the same. It's more...
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The Buxton Archive
I've had these Buxton beers in my fridge a stupidly long time, since a distant tasting event at Redmond's and the BrewDog Beer Geek Awards of blessed memory before that. Let's get 'em quaffed.We'll...
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Second-fiddle sour
Anywhere else, Petrus would be a highlight of the local beer scene. In Belgium, during this Golden Age of Geuze, a sour beer specialist that doesn't have a lambic appellation is always going to be on...
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Offaly hazy
Poor oul Kings County Brewers Collective had better get used to the midlands references for as long as their product is in Ireland. Brooklyn was also known as Kings County prior to America's...
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Sip with one eye open
Just before it folded, Stone Berlin turned out a pilsner in collaboration with American beat combo Metallica. It's called Enter Night and is an unreasonably strong 5.7% ABV. I can't say I was mad keen...
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