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Pudding it out there
It's important that every day on the calendar has a beer or beer style assigned to it. Today, the last pre-Advent Sunday, is known as "Stir-up Sunday", though nobody knows why. Brehon has us covered...
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Waiting for GoDOT
Back in June, DOT Brew announced, grandly, the launch of a new core range of beers. I reviewed the first few when I got them and figured I would catch up with the stragglers -- amber ale and double IPA...
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Turfed out
I'm sure I remember drinking a beer made from 100% peat malt before. I think it was at a beer festival in Copenhagen but searching through my notes on this blog -- which is what it's for -- I can't...
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Play on
The advent of Kinnegar's new taproom in Letterkenny sees a new series of taproom-only specials called Tap Room Only (TRO). They're available in a selection of pubs across the country, with Bonobo the...
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Free range beers
Since the launch of the Farringtons Brewery I've been reporting on their output via the Post Card beers, which they produce under contract. Their own brands were confined to the restaurant where the...
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What's the catch?
I've long suspected that Omnipollo is more of an elaborate practical joke than a beer company. Today's offerings help prove my point. They're not kerr-azy concoctions of dessert and fruits; they're far...
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Fleeting Hopes
Three beers from Hope today, beginning with numbers 27 and 28 in their limited edition series.The first is a style I'm sure they've tackled before: Munich Helles. It's a high-spec one too, amber rather...
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Move fast and brew things
I made three trips to The Guinness Open Gate Brewery over the autumn, the first in September, taking further advantage of their new walk-ins policy.My on-arrival sample was Open Gate Festbier, a little...
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All angles
I mentioned yesterday that the EBCU was in town last month. The weekend involved considerably more beers than at Open Gate.Hosting Friday's meeting was Rascals, and afterwards I just had time to grab...
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Taking to the hills
The erasure of "Bitter" as a category of English beer is to be regretted, and I'm reminded of it every time I see something that's obviously in the bitter or pale ale category badged with phrases such...
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Semper Fi
The Fidelity beer festival in July meant that a lot of Whiplash's international brewing buddies were in Dublin for a few days. That gave them an opportunity to get some collaborations in the tanks,...
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Whatever you're into
I have a real fondness for how Galway Bay Brewery, a big player in this country's independent beer scene, tends to follow the interests of its head brewer in its output. I guess it's because the core...
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A long way from summer
Summer 2022 saw festivals return to these parts. One that I didn't get to attend was The Big Grill in Dublin. The Porterhouse, unusually for them, had two special edition beers made for outdoor...
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Clock this
This may be unique: a one-brewery, three-beer blog post talking about sequential releases, none of them related to each other as far as I'm aware, and all of them stouts. Lineman really is the brewery...
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The endangered list
It's a raft of special editions from Wicklow Wolf today, beginning with numbers 31 and 32 in their Endangered Species series which landed late in the summer.I like the concept of the first one, except...
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Just a bit of fun
Today's beers have very little in common with each other, other than they're in broadly wild-fermented styles and have fruit added. Both intrigued me enough to buy one each and drink back to back.The...
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Holiday beers
Halloween beer and it nearly Christmas? My beer backlog is a shame and a disgrace, so I beg your pardon for my tardiness during this season of goodwill.The White Hag's Samhain series got another...
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The epic of Gill
Blimey. Lough Gill is no friend to the slow-paced beer reviewer. While my attention has been elsewhere, their new releases have flourished, eventually claiming a whole wing of my beer fridge to...
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Lagerland land lager
The Veltins prestige brand, Grevensteiner, has been available in these parts for a while. I've had the Helles and the Radler, but never Grevensteiner Original. How remiss of me.Expecting a...
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Flashing the lights and sweeping up
And so we bring down the curtain on 2022 with the year's final post. It wasn't a bad one for me, all things considered, and I was able to get out and about more than in previous recent ones. This was...
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