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Brummed out
On Monday I wrote about beers in Stratford-upon-Avon, but one cannot simply arrive there from Dublin; it is a necessity to travel through the city of Birmingham and drink some there while doing so. I...
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That's more like it
I don't drink much beer from Danish brewery To Øl. A lot of what we get from them is hazy IPA and, through practice and diligence, I have decided that I don't really like the way they do them. In July...
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May as well
I had a bit over an hour to kill before a later engagement, and where any sane person would sit it out with a pint and a book, I went to the nearest brewery taproom to work through half pints of their...
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Morrigan rises
Black Donkey's limited edition beers are tricky to find in Dublin, but Blackrock Cellar sorted me out with this pair. Both are barrel-aged saisons, fermented with a mixture of yeasts, including the...
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Big ones
I'll say it at the outset that Whiplash makes all sorts of beers, even though they've made their name as one of Ireland's finest purveyors of hazy IPA. Today, however, it's largely hazy IPA and...
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Alliteration and lactose
Today's beers are from the Larkin's brewery in Wicklow. It seems to have been through a tumultuous time lately, including a change of ownership, I believe. But the beers are still coming out and...
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One-twelfth of a tree
Beer made with a proportion of waste bread in the grist isn't new. Babylone IPA from Brussels Beer Project was the first to come my way, back in 2015. Rascals did it, St Mel's (RIP) did it, and now...
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Beer Pearing
With the rise of non-alcoholic beer in recent years it was perhaps inevitable that established players outside of the beer industry would take notice. After all, no brewing licence or, arguably,...
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A passage to Sligo
I thought I would get all my pre-Hagstravaganza White Hag beers closed off in a blog post the Monday before the festival, but circumstances conspired against me, and a couple of days beforehand,...
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Get up offa that thing!
I make this -- Tropical Little Thing -- the seventh Sierra Nevada "Little Thing" beer to come my way. It does at least share a few attributes in common with the original and, arguably, best Hazy Little...
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Dropping well
I love finding cans from the tiny Irish country breweries which don't really sell in Dublin much. Dew Drop in Kill, Co. Kildare is one such, and here are two, both of which have been around for over a...
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Mixing it
There's been a nice selection of styles from Third Barrel lately. Did they miss the memo that everything has to be a hazy IPA now? I mean, who's going to buy this lot?A good old pilsner to start with,...
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Up to Scotland and turn left
On my way home from the Netherlands last May, I picked up a bottle of an unfamiliar Einstök beer, the Icelandic Wee Heavy. I suppose it makes a certain amount of sense that a beer style with its roots...
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Passing clouds
The first Cloudwater tap takeover in Dublin happened in 2016, at The Beer Market, as was. I braved inclement weather to get to it and try some beers from this young fêted Manchester brewery. The fickle...
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Boutique beers
I finally ran out of excuses and had to go to the Midlands Craft Beer Festival in Moate, Co. Westmeath. Veteran beer blogger turned industry mainstay Simon has been running this gig in his hometown...
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Farm boys
Thanks to the good offices of Craic Beer Community I got to visit Ballykilcavan during the summer. The Co. Laois brewery is more than just vessels and hoses, it's also a farm, a sustainability project...
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No funny stuff
Today's selection is from Sakiškių Alus, a Lithuanian brewery which makes lots of off-kilter beers. Each of this lot was chosen purely on the grounds of its perceived strangeness. It's as good a reason...
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Causes for celebration
It's still high summer in my notes backlog. Here's a few cans Rascals sent out over the last season.I managed to find twenty minutes of al fresco beer drinking time and spent it with Pink Lemonade...
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Autumn is the new Spring
I didn't notice that Morning Dew was a spring seasonal when I picked it up from Blackrock Cellar. I see little enough WhiteField beer that I didn't even realise they had a seasonal series, but...
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A sliding scale
With its abstract art, sweet fruit beers, pastry stouts and endless IPAs, Lough Gill has grown into a brewery unashamed to chase international beer trends. Well, there has to be at least one per...
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