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Farmhouse rock
Time was, the wild-fermented beers were untouchably grown-up. Sour, funky, achingly dry -- they were strictly for the adult palate. Since then they've become just another platform for novelty recipes....
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An IPA kick
Time for another cross-sectional look at the IPA and IPA-adjacent offerings from Irish breweries over the past few months. I'm easing myself in with the first couple, starting without any alcohol....
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Achievement unlocked
Well? Did you notice? Every beer appearing on this blog during the month of March was brewed in Ireland. Mind you, the fact that it's still February when I'm writing these words for the final post...
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Chasing strange
In order to begin weaning myself off a full month posting about nothing but Irish beer, I've picked a brewer from Catalonia which uses the facilities closer to home, in Ballyfermot. Oddity, that is,...
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Universal chicken
I have a tendency to rag on Omnipollo a bit here. The Swedish contract brewer is a byword for the candy-polluted pseudo-stouts that are a plague on contemporary beer. Yet I've generally found their...
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The Silk Road
It's always nice when the breweries come up with blog post ideas for me, so shout-out to Carlow Brewing and Hope for simultaneously releasing nitrogenated stouts in a can. I'm not the world's biggest...
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Hooray for pints
I do like these one-pint cans you get from Volfas Engelman, even if the beer inside isn't always stellar. It's nothing fancy today, just a handful of traditional European styles which I'd guess they...
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This calls for a session
Forcing us all to buy three beers instead of one, DOT came out with a matching set of session IPAs recently. All three are 4.5% ABV and brewed with oats and rye, plus a varying combination of hops.Hop...
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Non-fungible tinny
I'm a longtime fan of Wild Beer's Millionaire salted caramel stout, so when a brand extension passed my way I grabbed it. That's how brand extensions are meant to work. Trillionaire isn't merely an...
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Familiar fruit
I use "nectarine" quite a bit in tasting notes, but I can't remember the last time I actually ate one. Or even saw one. I'm pretty sure they're real, though. And now Sierra Nevada has put some in a...
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Ale Satan
Duvel Tripel Hop was a big deal when it first arrived. It was one of the first signifiers that American beer trends were making themselves felt worldwide, even in traditional Belgian brewing. Batch...
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Wish you were there
Sure we would all love to be in New Zealand about now. Rascals has done their bit to bring The Land of the Long White Cloud to us instead, with this themed pair. Both are named after hop blends...
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Berries and chillis and whatnot
Silly stouts from parts north is today's theme, and Boundary has a bunch of them. I have picked two representative examples.I Heard You've Been Looking For Me is the lighter of the pair, 8% ABV and...
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And the Oskar goes to
The Colorado veteran Oskar Blues makes a welcome return to the blog; welcome in particular when it comes bearing lagers.Mama's Little Yella Pils has been part of the range since forever but appears...
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Waiting for Trouble
Last year Trouble released a pair of twin pale ales called Didi and Gogo. They've followed this up now with something similar but different.The lighter of the pair is Lucky, a 4.4% ABV pale ale with...
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Earth works
A big thanks to Tom of Land & Labour for shipping me some hard-to-find bottles of his wares, buckshee.I opened with Cuvée L&L, a blend of two- and three-year-old... whatever terms you're...
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A view on the new BRÚ
It's just over a year since Carrig subsumed BRÚ Brewery and began revamping the brand. This included a revision of the core range and they kindly sent me a set of each to try out, something I had been...
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What's that it looks nice
Strong and dark is how my missus likes 'em. It does mean that there's always imperial stout in stock, as there should be in every properly-run household. And occasionally there's something new for me...
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Curiouser
Larkin's value range of sub-€4 cans has seen an expansion. I have four new ones for you today.You don't see many American-style wheat beers these days -- Lidl's Rye River one has the local market...
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Giving the people what they want
For some unfathomable reason, my posts about Aldi's off-brand lagers are perennially popular with you lot. Never above a bit of click-bait, I filled a basket with ones I hadn't tried on a recent...
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