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Pale writer
Further explorations of the Heaney Farmhouse Brewery today, a company with two faces, it seems.Big Little IPA self-describes as a session IPA and is 4.2% ABV. Lots of busy foam on pouring falls away...
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First out of the box
This Saturday would have been the fourth Hagstravaganza festival at the White Hag brewery in Sligo, arguably the high point of the Irish beer calendar. Instead they've moved it online, putting together...
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The quarter master
This was a surprise. I've been watching on the socials how busy Limerick's Treaty City brewery has been with its limited-edition and special-occasion beers. It seems to have graduated beyond just...
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Here comes the sweeper
My five-week, 25-post focus on Irish beer comes to an end today with this bumper round-up of items I couldn't fit in anywhere else. The usual eclectic mix of beer from all over, including here, starts...
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Home at last
"This beer has been brewed and canned at our brewery in To Øl City, Svinninge, Denmark." After years living the gypsy life, To Øl has found a home. And presumably enough venture capital to build an...
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Beer as comedy
They had to be having a laugh at Northern Monk when they came up with these. Two beers in collaboration with frozen roasted side-order brand, Aunt Bessie's, claiming to recreate the effect of a Sunday...
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Birra a casa
I had been impressed by the salty Cristalli di Sale lager from Heineken that I'd found on last summer's trip to northern Italy. When I saw the flagship of the same brand, Messina, on sale in Dublin I...
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Wild about something
Two beers from De Brabandere today, their Brewmaster's Selection. As with their Petrus series, there's a feel of something primarily made for the export market.Wild Tripel Hop is first up. The lengthy...
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Wistful drinking
With international travel off the cards for the next while, I've found myself buying beers from places I wish I could go. Today it's Barcelona, and two from Garage Beer.The first is their contribution...
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One and a half fish
Lervig has retained its series of retro-branded beers even as it succumbed to the weird names and abstract art that nordic brewing has now gifted to the world. Lucky Jack is the one I'd regard as the...
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Two of your five a day
Just in time for the summer, such as it was, two spin-offs from Stiegl's ever-popular Grapefruit Radler arrived on these shores. Both are 2% ABV and may be acquired for a very reasonable €2.50 per...
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Needs less hops
Not long after I posted a much-delayed review of the Finnish Mosaic Lager that appeared randomly in Lidl, another lager from the same brewery arrived. This time it's a half-litre can and the lager is a...
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Bridging the gap
I'm hedging my bets with Thornbridge today: two IPAs from two different aspects of IPA culture.To begin, a bottle of Shelby, created to tie in with the Peaky Blinders TV series and meant to taste like...
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Dancing to the beat
Remember brut IPA? The sub-style's brief moment in the sun a couple of years ago has left one survivor in the off licences of Dublin: Ska Brewing's Moral Panic. It has been around more or less since...
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Hag-in-a-box
25th July would have been the fourth Hagstravaganza festival at the White Hag brewery in Sligo. As a workaround, the organisers gathered together a mix of local and international beers (and one cider),...
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And for the hop-dodgers...
It's round two of the Boxtravaganza selection today. As with the beer that kicked off yesterday's pale ales, the first is a low-strength one at just 3.5% ABV. It's from Horizont in Budapest, their...
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Virtual Belgium
I've not been one for recreating at home or online the things I used to enjoy but can't currently do. I'll appreciate them all the more when they return for real. I have, however, found that...
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Light motif
Low-strength German oddities isn't a theme I've tackled on here previously, as far as I can recall, but I do like to mix things up, so here goes.Radler isn't really odd, but then it doesn't count as...
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Kiuchi cutesy coup
Until recently, the Hitachino Nest beers from the Kiuchi brewery were imported into Ireland by the Yamamori restaurant chain. That was fine, and I was glad they're around, but it did tend to limit...
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Whole Wild world
Beers from Somerset brewer Wild Beer have been steadily arriving in off licences over here for the last while. I've been gradually picking them up, usually to fill out a 4-for-€10 offer and sticking...
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