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Romanian plain
Timişoreana is far from my favourite brand of Romanian macro lager. I'm an Ursus man. Always have been, and likely always be. You can disagree, but you can't change the facts. An unpasteurised...
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Styling moose
Two beers today from Hop City, the fake-craft arm of Canadian giant Moosehead. When big breweries pull this sort of trick the results are rarely any good, though I did give the last ones I tried a...
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Mikki tickin'
Gosh there sure are a lot of Mikkeller beers around these days. I still think of the Danish contract brand as the high-end, epitome-of-craft that it was a dozen years ago so it's slightly jarring to...
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Sick burn
I have a soft spot for stupid macho chilli beers, even though they're almost always awful plasticky messes. The awfulness doubles down today with one from English brewery Fallen Angel, a regular on...
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Causes for celebration
Wicklow Wolf has never needed a reason to put out a beer before, but the latest pair both seem to have been the result of special occasions.Marking one year since the move into their new brewery in...
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Autumn beckons
A change of season is upon us, and as we bid farewell to this strange sad summer, let's have a few beers.Hey, remember Neomexicanus? Most of my experience with the semi-feral American hop came via St...
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Konnichi Watou
For some reason there's a bar in Tokyo themed around the St Bernardus brewery in west Flanders. As good a theme as any, I suppose. In 2012 the brewery produced a special witbier for it, and again I'm...
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Stay in your lane!
I wasn't expecting much from the next in Volfas Engelman's Tastes of the World series, having been disappointed last time out. This time it's a "Belgian style wheat ale" -- so a witbier -- called...
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Hazeville
"Welcome to Kilcoole, the hazy IPA capital of Ireland" a sign outside the Co. Wicklow town may as well say. Both of its breweries have been elbow-deep in the hop sack and pumping hard at the haze...
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Non-Pacific
It's chapter three of Random Finnish Beers in Lidl. I'm glad they're spacing these out so I get a new post from each one. Today Pyynikin has a Pacific Pale Ale for us, a 5.5%-er.For a start, it doesn't...
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Easy company
Sierra Nevada's Hazy Little juggernaut rolls ever onwards. After the double iteration and the session iteration, now we get the soured fruity iteration. Does anyone else suspect they're associating...
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Good points
My DOT collection has been building steadily in recent months. Time for a clear-out.Down at the lighter end of the spectrum we have the 3.9% ABV Barrel Aged Session Ale, exclusive to Redmond's off...
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Not so witty
A few weeks ago I reviewed a pair from Belgian brewer De Brabandere in their Brewmaster's Selection series. I subsequently found there's a third one in said series, and tempting as it was to just go...
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In the interests of balance
Like many a hardcore beer geek I'm a fan of Rheinbacher, the cheap and cheerful house pilsner from Aldi. In accordance with the natural of order of things there is a Lidl equivalent: the equally hardy...
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Sender of darkness
As a nascent beer geek in the early years of the century, one of my regular suppliers was the Celtic Whiskey Shop on Dawson Street. The selection has waxed and waned over time but now they've gone...
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Bereft of Borefts
With no jolly excursion to the De Molen brewery last weekend, I'm comforting myself with a bottle of their beer I found locally.Actung Berry is a Berliner weisse with added hibiscus and blueberry. It's...
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Tom, Dec and barrels
Cork-and-cage vs waxed cap: it's a fancy beer stand-off!In the green corner, Galway's Land & Labour with their first bottle release: Saison de Coupage. "Wild ale aged in oak barrels" is the general...
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A mountain range
I built up a tidy little collection of Odell beers over the past few weeks from here and there, all of them new to me. Let me take you through what I found.Oh hey: here's an interesting starting point....
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White goes purple
Witbier is a beer style that's firmly out of fashion at the moment, and yet this is the fourth I've featured this month. How about that? There is at least a twist with To Øl's Berry White: it has...
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Dampf squibs
"The young folk are all into that 'steam punk' thing these days, right?""Sir, I don't think...""Yeah, make it steam punk. Make it very steam punk."And so, Lidl presents the Steam Brew range of beers,...
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