What was that beer called?

JohnK

During the last OctoberFest in the Franciscan Well, I seem to remember an Apple beer being served draft in the tent. Does anybody know what it was called or where I could buy some in Cork? For some reason I've been craving a pint of it for the last few days

Cheers,

John.

DamienH

There's an apple cider called koppaberg but that's proably not it. Apple beer sounds pretty nice

JohnK

I saw the koppaberg in a few off licences but I don’t think that’s it. Koppaberg looks to be quite clear whereas what I remember is an almost cloudy drink. It was very sweet but went down so so easily

Cool_CM

Try the abbot's ale house, specialist offie off coburg street, they generally stock most of the beers from the beer fest, they also stock plentiful supplies of delerium tremens.........sweet delerium tremens........

JohnK

Nice one Cool_CM . I'll try and take a trip in there tonight (once I figure out where coburg street is!)

Cool_CM

When looking up Patrick's hill on bridge street swing a left against the flow of traffic, walk down past Sin e and it's down there on the corner across the road on the right(the side street by the old courthouse)

JohnK

Splendid, thanks I'll have a look at the weekend, I'm too tired to go out now. Is it an off licence or a pub?

DamienH

Hmm what's this delerium tremens like? And most importantly how much a can is it

JohnK

According to wikipedia it won best beer in the world during 1998. Thats some achievement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_Tremens_%28beer%29

radiospan

Delerium is incredible! Too bad I'm doing exams during the Easter Beer Fest.

Can you get it anywhere else in Cork?

the_syco

JohnK wrote:

I saw the koppaberg in a few off licences but I don’t think that’s it. Koppaberg looks to be quite clear whereas what I remember is an almost cloudy drink. It was very sweet but went down so so easily

If you find the name, and where you got it, post it up. Always on the look out for cider. And cider-beer sounds great )

dahamsta

plazzTT wrote:

Delerium is incredible!

Shouldn't that be "Delerium is tremen-dous"? Or did somebody do that already?

John, what you want is a nice pint of Old Fashioned. Put hairs on your chest. And the inside of your mouth, and the palms of your hands, and....

JohnK

the_syco wrote:

If you find the name, and where you got it, post it up. Always on the look out for cider. And cider-beer sounds great )

Dont worry, I'll post the name if/when I find it.

Ken Shabby wrote:

John, what you want is a nice pint of Old Fashioned. Put hairs on your chest. And the inside of your mouth, and the palms of your hands, and....

A pint of Old Fashioned... Are you out of your ****ing mind?!?!!?! The last time I had that, with you I might add, there was much memory loss and unpleasantness the following morning And that was just a glass!

dahamsta

Wimp.

JohnK

If you went through what I went through you wouldn't be so quick to try it again!

dahamsta

Must've been a bad slice of fruit.

JohnK

I think I've found it! I went into the abbot's ale house today and they had Floris Apple which I'm pretty sure is what I was looking for. Its a 3.6% Belgian beer, very sweet but going down nicely. Unfortunately I only bought 2 bottles so it’ll be gone soon

the_syco

JohnK wrote:

I think I've found it! I went into the abbot's ale house today and they had Floris Apple which I'm pretty sure is what I was looking for. Its a 3.6% Belgian beer, very sweet but going down nicely. Unfortunately I only bought 2 bottles so it’ll be gone soon

Is that somewhere in Cork? If so, I'll check a few of the off-license's around where I live, as some do a very wide range.

JohnK

the_syco wrote:

Is that somewhere in Cork? If so, I'll check a few of the off-license's around where I live, as some do a very wide range.

Right in the city. X marks the spot on the attached map

Blitzkrieger

You didn't spot if they had any exotic spirits in there as well, did you?

JohnK

I didn't I'm afraid. I just went in and asked the guy at the till but from my *very* quick glance around it seemed to be mostly beer but I could be totally wrong.

Tree

the floris apple is nice, the strawberry and passion fruit varieties are supposed to be good too


stay away from coconut flavoured beer, it tastes like the body shop

JohnK

coconut beer does sound a bit on the strange side alright :eek:

Cool_CM

The beer fest will be on in the Franciscan well this weekend, i cant feckin wait!

JohnK

I wonder if they'll have that sweet sweet beer again? Guess theres only one way to find out... So much for my plan of avoiding town this weekend :rolleyes:

Abstract

My reccomendation for the beer fest(i can't go i'm working:( ) is watou's wit -cloudy beer it is magically delicious.You can get it in the abbots ale house in bottles too i think.
Working 8pm to 5am friday saturday sunday for jazz weekend...Thats painfull

shoegirl

JohnK wrote:

During the last OctoberFest in the Franciscan Well, I seem to remember an Apple beer being served draft in the tent. Does anybody know what it was called or where I could buy some in Cork? For some reason I've been craving a pint of it for the last few days

Cheers,

John.

It was most probably Koppaberg, which is Swedish and comes in apple and pear 4.5% proof and berries which is a 7% killer. Never been more sick than I did after drinking the 7% stuff. A lot of off licences including O Donovans and even some Spars stock it. I've also bought it back in Dublin in the Lord Mayors off licence on Main St, Swords.

JohnK

They didn't have it . I was all excited when I walked up to the bar tonight but it was not to be. All they had was Newton apple beer which seems very week in comparison to the stuff they had last time.

radiospan

No Delerium Tremens this year either! Terrible news.

Although they have this amazing Belgian Raspberry beer on tap, seemed to be very popular last night. Anyone here try it? (or know the name of it? started with F i think.)

JohnK

Yeah I tried that. Its called Belgian Framboises and it was nice alright but I only got around to having 1 pint of it.

Kold

By any chance are you thinking of Newtons?

In other news, at last nights fest I ate 2 burgers and a hot dog... And was still hungry later.