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Something for everyone
DOT continues to barrel age things that most breweries don't, such as the "micro fruit sour" called Yeah Yeah. It's not all that micro, at 3.4% ABV, and is a translucent pale amber colour. Strawberry,...
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Lager season
It's nice to see breweries and pubs making a bit of an effort around seasonality, and Oktoberfest time brought multiple opportunities around Dublin to drink appropriate lagers.That said, I've had Sun...
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Follow-ups
My September trip to the Netherlands yielded a handful of beers which I didn't get round to drinking while travelling and which therefore came home with me. Let's see what's in the suitcase.Kees is a...
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Pull the other one
The JD Wetherspoon Autumn Beer Festival arrived in mid-October. I managed to spend some time at it, both in the central Dublin pubs, and abroad. Here's what I found, beginning at The Silver Penny on...
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Dropping pilots
I paid a fleeting visit to Rascals HQ in October, something I really must make more of a habit of. They had two new beers from their pilot series.#118 Scarlet's Ale is in everyone's...
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Black & danker
Kinnegar has added a black lager to its core range. The man in the shop told me this is replacing Yannaroddy coconut porter and, although there was nothing wrong with that beer, I'm delighted with the...
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Norwich by pub
It was CAMRA's turn to host the autumn meeting of the European Beer Consumers Union this year, and the powers that be in that august institution picked Norfolk as the destination. It's famous for its...
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Norfolk enchants
In my previous post, I went meandering around the city of Norwich drinking cask beer aplenty. There was more to my weekend in East Anglia than that, so here's more of what came my way beerwise on the...
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The international scene
I mentioned earlier this week that beer in Norwich tends to be predominantly local, or at least British, which is fair enough: that's what I went there to explore. A few imports did happen my way,...
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Get 'Er Drank
A big thank you to Ger 'Er Brewed which sent me today's beer, free and unbidden. I hadn't seen these ones on sale here in Dublin so it was nice to have the opportunity to try them. Several have since...
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Clock this
I'm used to Irish breweries having a long gestation, from the first announcement by some ballsy entrepreneur to actually being able to drink a pint they brewed can be a long stretch, and often the...
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Mutually fruity
Bit of an unusual move from me today. Collaboration beers aren't exactly rare on this blog, but I tend to group things together by the production brewery. Today's are centred around one of my locals,...
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Europe in four cans
Flemish, Wallonian, German and Czech: these are the origins of the beer styles tackled in today's set, from Czech brewery Zichovec, in collaboration with Swedish, English, Dutch and French brewers, all...
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Stan's suitcase
Mr Stan Hieronymus visited Ireland in September and I was happy to be able to meet for a couple of pints in Dublin shortly after he arrived. I was good enough to take a couple of cans which he had...
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Fully hopped
A quick catch-up with Waterford brewery Hopfully. When last seen they were wowing the RDS with cask porter, Helles and Bock. Today, they're back on much more familiar ground.Swimsuit (the label: can we...
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Bluenosing
Dublin has an unofficial beer twin city in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Their respective annual beer festivals are run by the same person, and for the Dublin event this year he arranged for two Halifax...
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Freeze right there
Is Sierra Nevada's ...Little Thing series of beers starting to run out of ideas? The preponderance of cryogenically frozen hop products is the hook on which they've hung this latest one: Cool Little...
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Encroaching darkness
Now that we're properly into winter, I get to look at some of this season's new release stouts. It's called journalism; look it up.First, we have the return of a beer series from days of yore: Lublin...
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Ghentish town
It was atmospherically foggy when I arrived into Ghent, for the judging of this year's Brussels Beer Challenge. Before getting stuck in to the contenders, there was the informalities of the opening...
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Elephant -v- Dragon
On Monday, I took you on a free-roaming rumble through a handful of Ghent hostelries. Today we're sticking strictly to the programme: the social events put on for judges at the 2024 Brussels Beer...
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