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Wild journey
Today's beer is a collaboration in the truest sense. It started life several years ago inĀ Bagenalstown as O'Hara's Red Ale and was then shipped to Firestone Walker in California to be refermented in...
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A reawakening
"Here at Galway Hooker, we are always innovating with new brews and new ideas." Well, no. Since the brewery became part of the Connacht Hospitality Group in 2022 they've stuck resolutely to their core...
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I'd rather dye
Time was, we used to scoff at the green beer phenomenon that foreign types, Americans especially, seemed to indulge in on St Patrick's Day. You wouldn't get that sort of nonsense here, and especially...
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Viennagain
It felt like I had only just left Vienna, having last been a little over a year ago. The spring meeting of the European Beer Consumers Union had me back in early March, and it's just as well it's a...
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Ott or not
Yesterday we were looking at some of Vienna's many breweries and that's where we pick up today. I don't know if Ottakringer is the largest of them, but it certainly seems to be the most prolific of the...
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An assortment of foreigns
This is the final post from my recent trip to Vienna for the spring meeting of the European Beer Consumers Union. The meeting venue for the first day wasĀ Del Fabro Kolarik, a drinks importation and...
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In for a Penny
It's funny how branches of pub chain JD Wetherspoon develop personalities for themselves. Of the three in central Dublin, The Silver Penny, in the north inner city, isn't the biggest, but it always...
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Pity purchase
Milkshake IPA is already an idea for something nobody wants; lactose-free milkshake IPA is doubling down on the ridiculousness. But that's what Dublin beershop Craft Central got together with Hungarian...
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Two cans of deer
Last October I provided a rundown of a selection of craft-ish beers from Canadian lager giant Moosehead. Turns out there were more. To catch you up:Small Batch Hoppy Light LagerĀ tells you exactly what...
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Cask on the coast
Family business brought me to Bournemouth the other week. I knew nothing about the place and arrived with a single recommendation in my pocket, for what I was told is the English seaside town's one...
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Kegs and chains
They sure love a chain restaurant in England. They have loadsĀ of them, and there's something about a town like Bournemouth -- lots of visitors looking for something familiar, perhaps -- which seems to...
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Citrus two ways
Two more new draught releases from Galway Bay, via the taps at The Black Sheep.The more exciting one, at least on paper, is Kimigayo, a gose created in collaboration with Exale Brewing in London,...
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The Original
Easter weekend saw the return of Ireland's longest-running beer festival, at Franciscan Well in Cork. Having missed last year's due to transport issues, this was the first I'd been to at actual Easter...
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Auss!
It was the first sunny day on the patio this year, and in the absence of any actual pils, my utepilsĀ for 2024 were two other kinds of German lager.Ā Schneider is a weissbier brewery, the top tier, in...
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Variety isn't everything
Today it's one of my occasional check-ins with Co. Antrim brewery Lacada, beginning with Shallows, a 4.5% ABV sour ale with cherry and raspberry. No surprise from the pinkness, nor from the minimal...
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For the sake of weird
Outlandish concoctions, and specifically a lime and elderflower flavoured Berliner weisse, are what first brought Swedish brewer Brewski to my attention, in 2015. When a bunch of their arty cans...
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Kor range
Dublin's Asian supermarkets aren't a brilliantĀ source for new and exotic beers to tick, but they're worth checking every once in a while. On a recent visit to Asia Market on Drury Street I uncovered...
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Haze praise
I've been a fan of the work of Romanian brewery Hop Hooligans in the past, so picked up these three new ones when they passed my way.Elder GodsĀ is an interesting proposition, being a sour ale of 5% ABV...
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Hops wanted
Some big IPAs from Hopfully today, beginning with ThreeLeaves, their new St Patrick's Day special. This is a cold IPA of 6.3% ABV and brewed in collaboration with Milan'sĀ Birrificio WAR. It's a...
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Wild for the Chardonnay
The quarterly Wicklow Wolf Locavore series has really hit its stride in recent years, with some truly creative and high-end beers. It may be a bit of a gimmick -- all ingredients are acquired locally,...
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