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Upper Down
Co. Down's Mourne Mountains Brewery supplies the goods today: a random selection of new-to-me beers. That they're mostly stouts is accidental, honest.Cliff Hanger wants to make it very clear that it's,...
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For the culture
Canvas wasn't pouring beer at this year's Mullingar Wild Beer Festival, but Moss had brought along a selction of cans. On my way out I grabbed a handful of what was left for home drinking. Let's see...
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One summer
Normally I'm able to save up a few new release beers from Wicklow Wolf for a single post, but the brewery has inconveniently decided to celebrate ten years in the business by revisiting old recipes. No...
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Dry Sierra
It takes a lot of prompting to get me to try any non-alcoholic beer. Choice has never been greater, but by and large they just don't taste like real beer. That goes especially for the lager and pale...
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Beach bunny
Today's beers were a bit of a new departure for Kinnegar. They created a mixed four-pack of summer specials, keenly priced, I thought, at €13 in Molloy's. I presume that Kinnegar's regular "Brewers At...
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Lough around
It's a little surprising that, in today's cosmopolitan beer environment, we still cling to the notion of types of beer deriving from specific places. It's cute. Hazy IPA belongs to the world, for good...
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... and friends
They're a collaborative bunch at Hopfully. Today's three were co-created with a diverse set of co-conspirators.For the first one, they're the guests. Jonah was brewed at Bullhouse, and when these two...
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A second chance
There's hope for us all, I like to think. Today's beers aren't the first to come from a brewery premises whose earliest wares I didn't care for and thought poorly made, but under new management seem to...
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Rí-freshment
I reported on Rí-Rá Lager a year ago, and now the Wicklow brewer has released a second beer. Well, sort of. Rí-Rá Lager Shandy is presumably based on the original, but cut down to 2.8% ABV with the...
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Rascalypso
Seems they're on bit of a fruity kick at Rascals: two cans of citrusy interest, released for the summer season.I'll start on the lager: Yuzu Pilsner, a collaboration with Kaapse Brouwers and containing...
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Making the best of it
My regular July visit to England for work this year was Sheffield, which should have been excellent news from the beer perspective. The South Yorkshire city last hosted the conference in 2016 and I...
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A pilgrimage
As I mentioned on Monday, I paid a flying visit to Sheffield last month. There wasn't much time for beer drinking, but there was a window in my schedule which happened to coincide with the opening...
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Tarted up
The summer of sour and fruited beers continues with today's pair from Bullhouse Brew Co.The first, Slurp, is described as "passionfruit sour" on the can, and is depicted accurately as an opaque orange...
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Odds, sods and Kiwi hops
Today's selection comes from Oddity, the Barcelona-based brewing entity which uses the facilities of Whiplash in Dublin. I'm never sure whether they count for my goal of drinking as many Irish beers as...
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Twelve degrees of differentiation
"Oak aged lager" is the strapline. Time was, a Czech brewery wouldn't have to specify what they aged their lagers in; sure didn't we all see Michael Jackson being chased around the Pilsner Urquell...
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The lights go on again
The ground floor of the old soap factory on North King Street in Dublin's Smithfield had, as far as I know, been empty since the Dublin Brewing Company went out of business in 2004. That was a shame...
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Styling it out
For no good reason I hadn't been to Urban Brewing in an age, so nipped in during a quiet August afternoon to see what was on offer. First there was a Mandarin Lager, a style that had a bit of a moment...
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Twos and trees
Brehon Brewhouse and Two Stacks whiskey have teamed up for a second time to give us a barrel-aged imperial porter, this time with an extra woody twist. I really enjoyed Oak & Mirrors first time...
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Slow out of the Gate
Following the grand re-opening of the Guinness Open Gate taproom back in May, they've been a little slow to turn over new beers. That may just mean that they throw less out, which is probably for the...
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Hungary four more
Picking a random country for beers of international interest, I ended up with Hungary, and four from the Horizont brewery. I was a bit more deliberate in selecting the styles, interested in what the...
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