Which Dublin Aldi has the O'Shea Pale Ale?

BaZmO*

Had some the other night and imo it's essentially O'Hara's IPA in every sense except for the big upfront hop kick. Which would make sense for the price of it. Lots of hops in a beer tends to come at a price.

I thought it was lovely btw. It'd make a great session beer.

Ruben Remus

BaZmO* wrote: »

Had some the other night and imo it's essentially O'Hara's IPA in every sense except for the big upfront hop kick. Which would make sense for the price of it. Lots of hops in a beer tends to come at a price.

I thought it was lovely btw. It'd make a great session beer.

Had my first bottle last night and I'd agree with that assessment. It's good value at €1.79.

mayto

Had a bottle of this last night and loved it. Lovely american C hops in the aroma and it goes down too easy . Nice session strength as others have said but plenty of hops there too. Nice to have a local beer free of chill haze and actually tastes nice.

Aglomerado

I had one of these a few days ago and I loved it too... the first impression I got was a taste of Turkish delight! Yum.

Technocentral

Had a bottle of this earlier for the first time, delicious and well worth 1.79, not quite as hoppy as O Hara's version (maybe 10 or 15% less) but just as delicious if not more so! Fair play to Aldi, not many Irish companies supporting Irish breweries, will stock up on this for Crimbo.

BaZmO*

Technocentral wrote: »

Fair play to Aldi, not many Irish companies supporting Irish breweries,

Really? What about Dunnes, Superquinn, Molloys, Carry Out, Drinkstore, Deveneys, etc. and all the Craft Beer Pubs and indeed, all the regular Pubs supporting Irish breweries?

BeerNut

Joe Macken's chain (Jo'Burger, CrackBird, Bear) uses only Irish companies where possible so the beer is all White Gypsy and Eight Degrees.

BaZmO*

BeerNut wrote: »

Joe Macken's chain (Jo'Burger, CrackBird, Bear) uses only Irish companies where possible so the beer is all White Gypsy and Eight Degrees.

And they also have Llewellyn's cider

schemingbohemia

BaZmO* wrote: »

Really? What about Dunnes, Superquinn, Molloys, Carry Out, Drinkstore, Deveneys, etc. and all the Craft Beer Pubs and indeed, all the regular Pubs supporting Irish breweries?

Maybe I'm going to the wrong Dunnes (Cornelscourt) but their Irish craft beer selection has been brutal any time I've been in. In saying that it's a couple of months since I was last there so maybe things have improved an awful lot.

Scortho

schemingbohemia wrote: »

Maybe I'm going to the wrong Dunnes (Cornelscourt) but their Irish craft beer selection has been brutal any time I've been in. In saying that it's a couple of months since I was last there so maybe things have improved an awful lot.

Its still brutal! rows and rows of piss and then a tiny little shelf of craft beers and Erdinger/krombacher etc.

Tesco's in celbridge have a whole aisle devoted to craft beers and your non-mainstream ones.

Technocentral

BaZmO* wrote: »

Really? What about Dunnes, Superquinn, Molloys, Carry Out, Drinkstore, Deveneys, etc. and all the Craft Beer Pubs and indeed, all the regular Pubs supporting Irish breweries?

I should have been more specific, I meant commissioning a beer from an Irish brewery, as far as I know Aldi are the only supermarket doing it apart from I think M&S, not sure even if they do .

BaZmO*

Technocentral wrote: »

I should have been more specific, I meant commissioning a beer from an Irish brewery, as far as I know Aldi are the only supermarket doing it apart from I think M&S, not sure even if they do .

I know what you meant, hence the

I think Beernut would be the man to know if there were others.

I think L Mulligans are collaborating with 8 Degrees on the Brown Bag Project, and Keogh's crisps used Dungarvan's Blackrock Stout for a while, not sure if they're still doing them though.

BeerNut

Yeah, the M&S Irish Stout is by Carlow.

FXB's have a house beer brewed by Carlow and in Cork Benny McCabe's pubs have a beer he gets Franciscan Well to make for him, while the Market Lane and associated outlets have their stout brewed by White Gypsy. Neachtain's in Galway has a house beer brewed by Hooker (or it used to; hopefully it still does: it's lovely), The Crown in Belfast used to have a house beer by Whitewater but I don't know if that still exists under the new management. And I think Dice Bar still has Revolution Red which they brew at Trouble.

BaZmO*

See I told ya!

BeerNut wrote: »

Neachtain's in Galway has a house beer brewed by Hooker (or it used to; hopefully it still does: it's lovely)

Had it a couple of months back and I concur, lovely beer.

Seaneh

BeerNut wrote: »

Yeah, the M&S Irish Stout is by Carlow.

Neachtain's in Galway has a house beer brewed by Hooker (or it used to; hopefully it still does: it's lovely),

Two, Bonaparte Stout and the summer ale Nectar.

BaZmO*

Seaneh wrote: »

Two, Bonaparte Stout and the summer ale Nectar.

What about Opus II Dark Wheatbeer? That's the one I was talking about.

Seaneh

BaZmO* wrote: »

What about Opus II Dark Wheatbeer? That's the one I was talking about.

ha. totally forgot the Opus II. that's 3!

baconsarnie

Aldi in Cavan also has the pale ale

Tube

Scortho wrote: »

Tesco's in celbridge have a whole aisle devoted to craft beers and your non-mainstream ones.

Not sure exactly what defines "craft", so personally I prefer to use "micro" as it has a clear definition, but Tesco Celbridge now has a very poor selection. Same with Maynooth. Completely dumbed down and no hoppy good stuff any more.

Tube

BaZmO* wrote: »

What about Opus II Dark Wheatbeer? That's the one I was talking about.

My understanding was that Opus II was no more. I wasn't a huge fan of it.

markesmith

Seaneh wrote: »

Two, Bonaparte Stout and the summer ale Nectar.

The stout that weaned me off Neachtain's Guinness

Delicious stuff