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A lager renaissance?
The Irish breweries have been busy as we head into winter. There is much local content in the backlog and in the fridge, but first a random smattering from an assortment of producers, including four --...
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Two out of three
It's a pair of IPAs from Third Barrel today, both released under the brewery's eponymous brand.A new Pilot Series begins (obviously) with 01, a Thai Inspired IPA. The hell does that mean? Well, it's a...
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Flying Luponic
Firestone Walker is today's brewery of interest, starting with their take on the new category of low-strength, low-calorie IPA.Like recent reviewees Oskar Blues One-y and Lagunitas Daytime, FW Flyjack...
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Whip smart
Start your week with Whiplash. I have four from the Ballyfermot murk pedlars today, but before we go all hazy IPA, a hazy farmhouse thingy: Never Cursed, a grisette of 4.1% ABV. Despite its failure to...
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A Dog growls on Dame Street
As a small windowless bar without a kitchen, it was inevitable that UnderDog would only be re-opening at the last and most liberal phase of pandemic restrictions. There's no sign of that coming any...
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Bay cans
Two cans from Galway Bay today. I'm used to trying their new releases on draught at The Black Sheep so this feels a bit weird. Still, at least it means I'm not blocking the bar trying to get an...
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Brown under
Today it's the return of the New Zealand contract brewer Yeastie Boys. Only two of the beers are brown but I couldn't resist the title.The first they've called Shadow of the Dog but I don't know why....
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Brazilians bringing New England to Waterford
A tidy little pair from Hopfully today, 33cl cans sporting their new clean-but-weird artwork.Insideout is first, 5% ABV and telling us nothing more about it on the can. Well, nothing much. It doesn't...
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You are not alone
Beer Hut is the brewery under the microscope today, beginning with two from their Solo Series of single-hop beers. At €6 for a 44cl of 6% ABV, neither was particularly cheap, but are they good...
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Nitro The Living Dead
It's another grand array of Colorado beers for you today (I did Odell a few weeks ago) and this time Left Hand is the brewery bringing the goods.We'll begin with the basic styles, and a pilsner kicks...
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Nothing fancy
Spare a thought for poor old red ale, the most unloved of Ireland's "traditional" beer styles, at least by the latter-day craft movement. Presumably people are still buying them out there because even...
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Squash tournament
It's Halloween tomorrow, and Ireland has a new pumpkin beer: White Hag Samhain Pumpkin Ale, challenging Trouble Pumpkin Brew's dominance of the sector. For the curséd year that's in it, Trouble has...
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Running dogs
Today it's one of my occasional glances at some of the many BrewDog beers coming and going on the local market at the moment. There's no particular pattern to the selection.Pale Ale is first. Wot no...
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A wolf in the shadows
With dark beers not exactly en vogue at the moment, it's pleasing that one of the island's best breweries, Wicklow Wolf, has a fan of them at the helm. I almost whooped when I saw that Locavore 2020...
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All passion, no fashion
A new trilogy from the Third Barrel collective today, all styles that have fallen out of favour in recent times, for no good reason probably.The first is an India Pale Lager under the Stone Barrel...
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Expand your mind, extend your brand
I've been working through some of what's on offer from Oskar Blues at the moment, beginning with Slow Chill, badged as a Munich-style Helles. It's weird and inappropriate to get one of these in a small...
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January already?
For some time now I've been of the opinion that stout is the ideal style for alcohol-free beer. For a start there's all those lovely non-beer dark malt drinks, plus the excellent Švyturys GO Juodas,...
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On the lash
Whiplash puns. They're running short. But the beers keep coming. Five today, the first three with a Belgian angle.The previous trilogy included a grisette and this one starts there too, with Grisette...
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SMASH mouth
Self-proclaimed Single-Malt-And-Single-Hop beers were all the rage in the early days of Ireland's current beer boom but fell out of favour, perhaps as breweries grew up and found their feet. Not that...
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Glazen saison, Toren tripel
Today's post is a pair from Flemish brewery De Glazen Toren, one I haven't featured here before, I think."brewed according to the old Saison tradition of Hainault" proclaims the label of Saison...
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