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Players
Kinnegar's Hazy Session IPA is the 8th in their Brewers At Play series, and if you want an indication of how much of a stranglehold this style has on Irish beer, the 7th was also a hazy session IPA....
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November grain
It's been a while since the last round-up. Let's get some of the autumn backlog cleared before we go properly into winter.Something light to kick us off, a DDH Session IPA of 3.8% ABV from Wicklow...
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Go, lassi, gose
Today's beer is called Bianca, described as a mango lassi gose, brewed at Buxton for ridiculous Swedish contractors Omnipollo. Pouring took a while, due to the very high carbonation, but I eventually...
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Appy days
Several breweries have released a tie-in beer to mark ten years of the beer ticking app Untappd, all under the slightly tortured name of I Remember My First Check-In. The version from Beavertown was...
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Wotta lotta DOT
Over the last few months, DOT has been releasing beers literally faster than I can track down and drink them. It's time to clear out the fridge. This may take a while.We begin with Barrel Aged Just...
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Century city
Today's beer came courtesy of Eoghan Walsh, author of the Brussels Beer City blog and was created to accompany his book of the same name, on the history of brewing in the Belgian capital. It's that...
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All the fancy stuff
You might be thinking of getting a few posh beers for the upcoming Christmas break. Here's some of what the high end looks like in Ireland 2020.A collaboration starts us off: Brú and DOT got together...
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Tampa tantrum
The beers from Cigar City have been packing the off licences of late. It has taken me a while to catch up with what's available but here's what's in the mix so far.We start with a brand extension since...
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The ALD alliance
What a jape! What an absolute wheeze! When discount supermarket Aldi brought out obvious knock-offs of BrewDog's flagship beers Punk IPA and Elvis Juice, the Scottish brewer retaliated with ALD IPA,...
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Fruit moose news
It's far from seasonal, but this range of Moosehead radlers arrived recently and I couldn't resist. Radler should perhaps be in inverted commas as they're a full 4% ABV. Good value for that at just €2...
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The Twelve Brewers of Christmas 1: Third Barrel
Here we go again! The venerable annual tradition of twelve daily blog posts of all-Irish beer in the run-up to Christmas is now in its second year. The breweries aren't selected on any particular...
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The Twelve Brewers of Christmas 2: Western Herd
Western Herd of County Clare provides today's beers. Both are IPAs, a style this hop-crazy brewery still seems very much in love with.Islander has been part of their line-up since 2016 but has never...
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The Twelve Brewers of Christmas 3: Larkin's
To say the anticipation around the next in the Larkin's single hop series was eager is an understatement. Two fine varieties get the treatment for this round.The first is Galaxy, a sometime favourite...
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The Twelve Brewers of Christmas 4: Hope
Seasonal deckchair dude is back for a new Hope seasonal. They've gone for a Red IPA as the Winter 2020 release. I was hoping for something ruby-clear but it's a bit muddy in the glass. The aroma is...
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The Twelve Brewers of Christmas 5: Wide Street
Wide Street has started going all arty with its cans. I don't know if I approve. I liked the earlier, uniform approach -- it showed a brewery that was about the beer. But I'm not here to review...
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The Twelve Brewers of Christmas 6: Ballykilcavan
Ballykilcavan looks to be aiming for all the trendy targets with its Clancy's Cans series. A fruited Berliner weiss was first, and they've followed that with a DDH IPA and a couple of pastry...
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The Twelve Brewers of Christmas 7: Otterbank
I wasn't a big fan of the first release from Otterbank as a standalone brewery. Numbers two and three are here, and in the spirit of the season I'm prepared to give them a fair shout, and at least...
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The Twelve Brewers of Christmas 8: Wicklow Wolf
On the winter solstice we are visited by two wolves. Big stout ones.The first is from Wicklow Wolf's Crossbreeds Series, a collaboration with Lough Gill. It's the second stout with peanuts in this...
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The Twelve Brewers of Christmas 9: Eight Degrees
For 2020, Eight Degrees picked Ireland's munroes as the theme to their special beers. There were six in total, the first three scattered through earlier posts but I've ended up collecting the second...
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The Twelve Brewers of Christmas 10: O Brother
We pay our third and final visit to a Wicklow-based brewery for this year's Twelve Brewers: the ever-so arty O Brother.IPA of various stripes is the brewery's stock in trade and we begin with Deep Love...
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