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Not from around here
With the discourse all about the native brewing traditions of the nordic regions, it can be easy to forget that they make normal beers up there too. Today's subjects are from Lithuania, acquired in...
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Shmoke?
I should stop being so amazed when breweries I know from abroad show up in the fridges of Irish off licences. It's great that we have the variety, and that more local drinkers and brewers get exposed...
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The lagers of west Dublin
It had been a while since we last had a new beer from my local brewery, Four Provinces, but we got one in February. It's a tribute to/collaboration with the Shamrock Rovers podcast Tales From the East...
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Down my way
Mourne Mountains from Co. Down is the latest Northern Irish brewery to begin selling its beer south of the border. They have an intriguing range and I've encountered them only sporadically before on...
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Beer jacket
It's a new packaging format for Otterbank: they mostly do 33cl bottles, there are a few contract-brewed cans, but the latest comes in a 75cl bottle. Winter Coats is described as a "Burgundy BA mixed...
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The green beer tradition
This day last year I reported on The White Hag's release of a Shamrock Shake ice cream ale, luridly green for the day that's in it. Despite the howls of derision from the nation's beer purists, they've...
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Tap pirates!
Oh it's good to see guest taps coming back, as Dublin's beer-geek pub life settles into whatever the new normal will be. With UnderDog gone, the brewery-owned pubs are the best offer in the city...
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Nice try
English brewery Wild Beer Co. came up with this wheeze for the just-finished 2022 Six Nations rugby tournament: six collaborative beers produced with brewers from the competing countries. Of course I...
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CA'mon!
Continuing with the guest taps at Galway Bay Brewery bars, as mentioned last week, another I got my mitts on was Cuvée de Zrisa by one of my favourite Italian brewers, CA' del Brado.It's...
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Hopswitching
All of today's beers have featured on the blog before. Well, sort of. Breweries change their recipes all the time: hop availability, or lack of it, can be a bit of a random factor so change is...
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Journey to the Centre
Events are back! Hurrah! My first out-of-town Irish beer excursion since February 2020 was to Athlone, for the third birthday of Dead Centre Brewing's bar, and a first in-person social event by one of...
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How rude!
Another event? Already? This one actually took place a few days before the Athlone trip I wrote about on Monday, marking the beginning of the new era of Going To Places Where There's A Beer Thing On....
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Try your luck
The big Wetherspoon on Camden Street, Keavan's Port, does seem to be quite good at what I want a Wetherspoon to do: turning over the cask ales with decent regularity and having them on a few at a time,...
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The big shop
For some years now, Lidl has ruled supreme in the own-brand beer space. Its "Crafty Brewing" range by Rye River runs from damn-decent to exceptional, largely depending on one's opinion of the styles...
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One and one
There's something quite cute about how many of O Brother's beers are hazy pale ales of one kind or another. They must genuinely like the genre; I refuse to believe it's solely a commercial decision....
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Serious pastry
When DOT went to Larkins, strong sweet stout was on the agenda. Three collaborative ones arrived simultaneously in cans last month.They're all 8.5% ABV which made it tricky to pick a running order, so...
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Switching it up
Friday's post was about DOT Brew's recent collaborations with Larkin's. Today we find out some of what they've been up to on their own time.Barrel-aged pilsner is something that will always raise my...
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You don't know what you're getting
It was inevitable, with the rise in fashion of beers badged as west coast IPA, that we'd get a lot of variation within those supposed parameters. BRÚ illustrates the point for us today.They've called...
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Kraft & Kromme
Three beers from two Dutch brewers today. First up is De Kromme Haring of Utrecht and their black IPA Inktvis. By saying it's "black IPA as we think they are meant to be" they make big claims for this...
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The browns and the blues
It's a new set of Whiplash cans today, all be it slightly fewer than the last tranche, and some smaller cans too.Loud Places is a pale ale, presented in the typical hazy Whiplash fashion. With that...
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