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Time bending
It's hard to discern what "Vintage" means on the label of Beoir Chorca Duibhne's Vintage Ale. No information is given on the label, other than it's "warm & dark" and 5.7% ABV -- not even a year,...
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What's the matter lagerboy?
Today I'm taking the pulse of Irish lager brewing. Or at least, I'm drinking a random selection of Irish lagers to find out what's what.We'll start at St James's Gate, home to the only people who...
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The reboot is on the other foot
It's catch-up time with BRÚ today, a couple of brand new beers and some rejigged old ones too.It joins the select number of Irish breweries to have released a grodziskie, with Old Times. This...
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Furry beast
Sometimes a beer name just speaks to me. Trial By Wombat was one such, though it helped that it has also been garnering favourable notices. I had no qualms about plucking it from the offy fridge and...
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Russian to judgement
Once again the Polonez grocery chain has scratched my itch for seeking unfamiliar beers in foreign supermarkets. This time it's an all-Russian affair, beginning at their selection of Moscow Brewing...
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Summer lashin'
I'm feeling a bit of nominative determinism trying to keep up with the releases from Whiplash. Every week a couple more, then a couple more. It's downright anti-social. I needed to draw a line...
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Paso doble
I picked up two new ones from Barcelona contract brewer Oddity: the white one with the pink writing and the pink one with the white writing. When I went to the fridge to select the first one I...
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Blessed are the tickers
They're not daft, those Belgian monks. They've noticed that if you're in the business of selling beer, it pays to have the occasional new release to stay in the drinkers' line of vision. Today's are...
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Urban sprawl
Florida brewer Cigar City provides the beers today, and a lot of them at that, across a happily diverse range of styles.On the lighter end, we have Paloma Gose at 4.2% ABV. This differs from the...
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Barrowside trilogy
Carlow Brewing has undertaken a bit of a refresh regarding its range and branding. I'm not sure where it's going and which if any of the existing beers are about to vanish, but I do know we now have...
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Stretching it
Although very much a modern, playful, creative brewery, Heaney Farmhouse built its reputation, for me at least, as a producer of solidly formulated traditional styles in plain-packaged half-litre...
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The lupulin crowd
Time for another round-up of all that's new and hop-laden from Irish brewers.Larkin's is first, and a new addition to the Curious Society range, simply titled Citra. This is a pale ale of 4.5% ABV and...
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Midnight sunny
I'm sure they value their summers in Iceland at least as much as we do down here. Three season-appropriate beers from Einstök arrived recently, all new to Ireland.Arctic Lager looks like a...
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Four for ten
Metalman Brewing is ten! They've celebrated in the appropriate way with a rake of new beers including the official commemorative one and three with swanky new rebranding.The latter set, grandly dubbed...
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Own-label
It's another selection of beers from the three-headed beast of Bluebell, still churning them out like there's no tomorrow. Maybe they know something we don't.Last month, Third Circle gave us Catching...
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Who do you brew?
Today it's a big bunch of beers from the busy beavers of Bluebell, churning out cans for all-comers, it seems.The parade of cuckoos begins with Otterbank, and the second iteration of Mates Rates tart...
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The old reliables
I'm determined not to become one of those beer drinkers who know what they like and like what they know and don't mind telling you about it, repeatedly. This blog has always prided itself on the...
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Cheap and exotic
Cheapie beer doesn't have to mean mass-produced chemical fizz. I'm a sucker for anything that looks interesting in the bargain corner of the supermarket beer shelves.The first isn't actually from a...
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Fun Guy Four
Back in the heyday of craft beer (c.2010) yeast series were all the rage. Mikkeller did one, BrewDog did one, and presumably whatever American brewery they were stealing their ideas from did one too....
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Let's play!
Though better known for a traditionalist core range that belies the brewery's youth, Dundalk Bay does throw us the occasional special. They've gone particularly craft-oriented with this latest pair,...
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