What beer are we drinking this week, too?

adamski8

what is the best irish brewed red out there atm, dont like the style myself but its for a recommendation?

Insect Overlord

adamski8 wrote: »

what is the best irish brewed red out there atm, dont like the style myself but its for a recommendation?

Probably 8 Degrees Sunburnt Irish Red or Franciscan Well Rebel Red. You'd pick those up in Tesco as well so you wouldn't have to visit a dedicated off-licence to find them.

BeerNut

I'd say Brú Rua.

Heroditas

Not G.R wrote: »

My word is that "I"PA bad. Its fairly fruity on the nose but it leaves a lingering "aftershave" taste. It like walking into your granddads bedroom as a child after he doused himself in Brute and it getting lodged in your throat.

Ive read that its actually brewed in the UK by a contract brewery while theyre building a €1 milllion brewery here. What's the point if they're just going to brew muck like that?

The only positive is that I've found Beoir because of them and subbed... so there's that.

I really hope they succeed, it'd be a real shame for an independent Irish brewery to go under, but they seriously need to up their game if they want to avoid it.

On the bright side, you got a bottle opener!

irish_goat

An File wrote: »

Franciscan Well Rebel Red.

No longer Irish brewed though...

O'Hara's Red or 8 Degrees Red would be my favourites.

Heroditas

irish_goat wrote: »

No longer Irish brewed though...

You've opened a can of worms there!

BaZmO*

adamski8 wrote: »

what is the best irish brewed red out there atm, dont like the style myself but its for a recommendation?

Porterhouse Red for me or the new Red from the BPBP (think it's only a special though?)

slayerking

Best Irish red for me is Bru Rua, by a mile.

Porterhouse red is pretty nice also - from the bottle, not on the nitro tap.

Insect Overlord

irish_goat wrote: »

O'Hara's Red or 8 Degrees Red would be my favourites.

I still haven't tried the O'Hara's! Dunno how I managed that. Might get a few for the weekend.

BaZmO* wrote: »

Porterhouse Red for me or the new Red from the BPBP (think it's only a special though?)

Another good shout. That BPBP red is quality.

irish_goat

Heroditas wrote: »

You've opened a can of worms there!

Not even getting into the whole Molson Coors thing though, just pointing out that it's being brewed in the UK at the minute.

An File wrote: »

I still haven't tried the O'Hara's! Dunno how I managed that. Might get a few for the weekend.

The O'Shea's Red Ale in Aldi is great value too(€1.79). Definitely worth checking out.

Heroditas

irish_goat wrote: »

Not even getting into the whole Molson Coors thing though, just pointing out that it's being brewed in the UK at the minute.

Ah! I didn't realise that.

Creamy Goodness

Brooklyn Irish stout - not bad, not great.
Chorca Dhuibhne Béal Bán - solid golden ale.

drumswan

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

Brooklyn Irish stout - not bad, not great.
Chorca Dhuibhne Béal Bán - solid golden ale.

Where did you get the Brooklyn Irish stout?

Saw on Twitter today that there is some Brooklyn monster floating about Dublin

Creamy Goodness

drumswan wrote: »

Where did you get the Brooklyn Irish stout?

Saw on Twitter today that there is some Brooklyn monster floating about Dublin

Hollands in Bray literally got it in today (fresh off the pallet).

Four Corners are the distributors so I assume it will be in all the good off-licences soon

dregin

A fan of McGraths Red, myself.

Insect Overlord

Tis a good clear night. Think I'll darken it up with a Narwhal...

Ipso

Samuel Smiths Organic Chocolate Stout, first few sips I thought it was lovely but after a while it was like drinking chocolate milk.

Losty Dublin

dregin wrote: »

A fan of McGraths Red, myself.

Had a bottle of it on Saturday evening; suitably impressed by it. Shame it's a wee bit on the dear side, though.

As to a good red, if it's considered to be one then Copper Coast is a contender.

G rock

Ipso wrote: »

Samuel Smiths Organic Chocolate Stout, first few sips I thought it was lovely but after a while it was like drinking chocolate milk.

Same.

Was the first choc milk stout I had, and it nearly put me off them.

The sam smith oatmeal and imperial stouts are a whole lot nicer though

Grayditch

dregin wrote: »

A fan of McGraths Red, myself.

Losty Dublin wrote: »

Had a bottle of it on Saturday evening; suitably impressed by it. Shame it's a wee bit on the dear side, though.

As to a good red, if it's considered to be one then Copper Coast is a contender.

Read that as McGargles Red and was just wondering what the hell I was missing

Insect Overlord

dregin wrote: »

A fan of McGraths Red, myself.

I had one of those in a bar in Limerick that usually sticks rigidly to the popular macros. It was a bit too cold out of the fridge, but I think I remember enjoying it anyway!

I've an O'Hara's Red in the fridge now to go with dinner. That should do nicely.

Ravelleman

Losty Dublin wrote: »

Had a bottle of it on Saturday evening; suitably impressed by it. Shame it's a wee bit on the dear side, though.

McGrath's stout is also very nice but they are very expensive indeed, perhaps arbitrarily.

Their beers have a quite distinctive malty character across the varieties, which, in my mind, ties them together.

homolumo

Just had some Goose Island 312 Urban Wheat Ale. Nice stuff.

Losty Dublin

Ravelleman wrote: »

McGrath's stout is also very nice but they are very expensive indeed, perhaps arbitrarily.

Their beers have a quite distinctive malty character across the varieties, which, in my mind, ties them together.

I have eyed up their range over the last year and I did enjoy the ale but when pitched on a shelf beside O'Hara's, Dungarvan, Franciscan Well etc, are they worth the euro a bottle more which they ask?

Heroditas

Just for those who might be interested, the Carry Out in Ashtown is still closed and there's a sign in the window:

"Dear customers, due to circumstances out of our control, the shop must remain closed today"

It's been shut for a whole week now. Starting to fear the worst.

Lovely Bloke

It was never busy when I was in it.

Heroditas

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

It was never busy when I was in it.

I was only ever in it at lunchtime.
TBF there's a big enough potential market on their doorstep - unless people were preferring SQ or Spar for cheap slabs.

Lovely Bloke

Heroditas wrote: »

I was only ever in it at lunchtime.
TBF there's a big enough potential market on their doorstep - unless people were preferring SQ or Spar for cheap slabs.

I never once bought beer in SQ, the craft choice was always brutal.

Heroditas

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

I never once bought beer in SQ, the craft choice was always brutal.

Agreed but I bet the slabs of bland make up the majority of the sales and if people are going to SQ/SV instead of Carry Out for that muck, then the place will struggle.
Having said that, I always got the impression that the lads in Carry Out had decent enough bargains for the fizzy muck.

Lovely Bloke

Did you ever make it to a tasting in there? I was down just before Xmas and they were doing McGargles - they had planned to do week on week off wine & beer - the woman running it didn't really know much about beer though, and was asking me what she should do with them, cooler or shelf etc. It was McGargles, but I hadn't the heart to tell her to sling it down the sink!

Anyway, I was going to ask them to let me run the tastings, alas it looks like I won't get the chance.