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Helping out
Maybe it's no more than a token gesture, but it's something. The invasion of Ukraine has sent the international beer trade off in search of products from that country, to put a bit of cash into...
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Springtime for Lidl
Welcome back to the Abbey! I get almost giddy when I see a new Abbaye de Vauclair beer in Lidl, even when it is slightly out of season. This is the Spring edition, de Printemps. It's been around for a...
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Caña believe it?
They like a lager in Spain, although they tend to like it in climate-appropriate smaller measures. Spain's busy microbrewing scene does lager too, though for a different audience and in a different...
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Keeping the faith
Three years after the inaugural event, Fidelity was back in the Round Room of the Mansion House a couple of weeks ago. It's the only festival of its kind in Ireland, where punters pay up front and have...
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Big night
For the second post from Fidelty 2022 it's time for the dark beers, the strong beers, and the answer to the question if I drank any IPAs at all. Mostly, I drank them vicariously in the company of...
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Cancel contest
Which company is worse: JD Wetherspoon or BrewDog? I reckon you can tell a lot about an Irish beer enthusiast's values by having them answer this. Not that I'm interested in anyone's actual answer. It...
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Seasonals in the sun
It's a random medley of Irish beers today, broadly on theme of summer special editions.Larkin's produced a radler especially for SuperValu in Raheny and I have my old multimedia mucker Brian to thank...
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Arrivederci
I fear we've reached the end of the draught Ca'del Brado goodies at The Black Sheep. My final one was Cerbero Purple, a barrel-aged old ale. It's not the kind of clean, pale and spritzy thing that I...
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That summer in Dublin
In its previous incarnations, Post Card wasn't the most prolific Irish beer brand but since they relaunched via the brewing facilities of Farrington's in Kildare they've kept the new beers coming. The...
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Normcore
I've long been a fan of Denver's Crooked Stave brewery, specialising as it does in the sort of barrel-aged mixed fermented beer that I like. That it arrives here with a very reasonable pricetag is a...
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Peak pastry
For reasons best known to itself, the normally sober and reliable brewery Thornbridge has chosen to try and recreate banoffee pie in imperial stout form. The result is Pardus Banoffee at 8% ABV. It has...
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Garden County sunshine
It's the summer releases from Wicklow Wolf today, beginning with the latest in the seasonal Locavore series of beers made entirely from local ingredients. Locavore Summer 2022 is once again a saison,...
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Source mode
I find myself feeling guilty when I don't sufficiently avail of the good beery resources we have in this town. Post-pandemic there aren't as many as there used to be but that's no excuse not to get out...
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Up all night
We don't get new beers from The Porterhouse very often. Since the last big rebrand a couple of years ago the only thing of note was their Around the Clock winter imperial stout, so it was a pleasant...
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Space case
With Metalman stepping aside, the niche for physics-themed beers has been taken by new operation Outer Place. Beers two and three from them arrived in July.Interstellar is a 5% ABV pale ale, hopped...
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Return flights
After Rascals, the next stop on my Dublin brewery staycation was Open Gate, now living up to its name and accepting walk-ins. Despite a gap of over two years since my last visit, it's much the same as...
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In summery
Two broadly season-appropriate offerings from Odell today, beginning with Sippin' Tropical. This is a variant of their Sippin' Pretty sour beer, one I wasn't terribly impressed by back in 2019. Here...
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Tiny maverick operator
Larkin's has done another rebrand and this time we're going with bespectacled anthropomorphic animals. OK then.New in the line-up is a session IPA called Tiny. It's not all that tiny by these...
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Going to town on the hops
It's blog post three of my Dublin taproom catch-up and this time it's a Saturday afternoon at Urban Brewing. The financial district is quiet at weekends so there was plenty of elbow room in the outside...
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Wheatless
Erdinger is a weissbier brewery. For many in these parts, I'm sure, it's the only weissbier brewery. They've had a very decent Helles on the books for some years -- Fischer's -- but have always kept...
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