What beer are we drinking this week, too?

ben.schlomo

A very surprisingly enjoyable Perlenbacher Schwarzbier from Lidl, i do love a Schwarzbier though so that may be clouding my judgement.

Mesrine65

A 750ml bottle of 'Duc de Coeur French Strong Pale Ale', ABV 7% from Lidl €2.99

Inoffensive offering, no hop bomb by any stretch of the imagination, but actually not that bad :eek:

matrim

Had a Bru Darkside IPA last night. I didn't read the bottle before buying this and has assumed it was a Black IPA. It's not and is more of an APA. It's a dark ruby colour with a strong fruity grapefruit hops and a nice bit of malt but not too much. Only slight downside is a slight sour twang that took away from the finish.

ciaran76

Was in Weatherspoons Blanch. Had Devils backbone which I think is fairly good IPA and then had a few amazing Bengali. I really like that and at 3.45 it's not a bad price in a pub.

Knifey Spoony

Back from a trip to Oktoberfest in Munich. Had my fill of Hofbrau, Augustiner Lowenbrau and Hacker Pschorr along with great big slices of meat. I feel like I should have nothing but vegetables and water for the next while after all that.

Lovely Bloke

Maybe Next Monday.

Maybe another one today. Good stuff.

BMJD

I had a bottle of Grafters IPA earlier, it's quite nice.

ben.schlomo

A tasty bottle of Affligem with dinner, forgot how solid it is.

Subcomandante Marcos

matrim wrote: »

Had a Bru Darkside IPA last night. I didn't read the bottle before buying this and has assumed it was a Black IPA. It's not and is more of an APA. It's a dark ruby colour with a strong fruity grapefruit hops and a nice bit of malt but not too much. Only slight downside is a slight sour twang that took away from the finish.

I've actually skipped over this a few times because I'm kind of "over" black IPA's at the moment, might give it a try now though!

matrim

Had a Siren Broken Dream last night. As usual another lovely beer from them.

Ravelleman

Some shops in Madrid are really pushing Oktoberfest at the moment. Spanish tastes tend to favour German beers and malty Belgians when buying anything other than local lagers, in my experience. I'm not complaining though. I bought four Hofbrau bottles for less than a fiver.

So far I've been enjoying their dunkel, though the Oktoberfest beer I had earlier in the week was also excellent.

slayerking

Went down to sweetmans for their Oktoberfest weekend, very disappointed. They advertised a new Oktoberfest beer... they had none, something about them having too much of their summer seasonal still available.
In fact they had nothing even remotely Oktoberfesty apart from a 'hotdog' on the menu.

Subcomandante Marcos

So, McGargle's new IPA is lovely. Picked some up after seeing positive reviews.
Still hate their branding and think the vast majority of Rye River's stuff is carbonated horse piss in bottles, but this and the new stout are really solid beers.

€8 for 4 bottle in Dunnes at the moment, great value for a beer of that quality, 7.1% abv and brim full of hops.

Subcomandante Marcos

slayerking wrote: »

Went down to sweetmans for their Oktoberfest weekend, very disappointed. They advertised a new Oktoberfest beer... they had none, something about them having too much of their summer seasonal still available.
In fact they had nothing even remotely Oktoberfesty apart from a 'hotdog' on the menu.

That would kill me. Why bother advertising it if it's not actually happening?

a_non_a_mouse

ben.schlomo wrote: »

A very surprisingly enjoyable Perlenbacher Schwarzbier from Lidl, i do love a Schwarzbier though so that may be clouding my judgement.

that the Schwarzbier can ?
Got one during the week to try and thought it was very nice as well, so picked up a half dozen yesterday. Very nice for the price. 1.49 for 500ml

Some bottles I had recently for the first time...

- Brewdog - Candy Kaiser. Got this because style is Alt Bier from Dusseldorf but maybe its just the rose tinted glasses, it didn't taste as nice as any of the Alt's I had over there. Not a bad beer, just not a great one.

- Bier Morretti - Italian larger, struggled to finish.

- Goudale - 6 pack from Aldi. Very tasty beer and great value. Will be keeping an eye out for this whenever its in stock in Aldi

- Williams Brothers - Fraoch (Heather Ale) Very nice, light, refreshing and very tasty. Will defo be purchasing again.

matrim

Had a Rascals Holy Schmidt Pale Ale at the weekend. Really nice and refreshing. It's a light enough body but just enough to setup the hops which aren't overpowering. A really nice session-able beer.

ben.schlomo

a_non_a_mouse wrote: »

that the Schwarzbier can ?
Got one during the week to try and thought it was very nice as well, so picked up a half dozen yesterday. Very nice for the price. 1.49 for 500ml

Some bottles I had recently for the first time...

- Brewdog - Candy Kaiser. Got this because style is Alt Bier from Dusseldorf but maybe its just the rose tinted glasses, it didn't taste as nice as any of the Alt's I had over there. Not a bad beer, just not a great one.

- Bier Morretti - Italian larger, struggled to finish.

- Goudale - 6 pack from Aldi. Very tasty beer and great value. Will be keeping an eye out for this whenever its in stock in Aldi

- Williams Brothers - Fraoch (Heather Ale) Very nice, light, refreshing and very tasty. Will defo be purchasing again.

Thats the one.

thesandeman

It's raining, so just got a few Kinnegar Crossroads from the local Centra. Good value for €3-50.

Grayditch

Samuel Adams Rebel IPA.

Nice enough. Not sure I'd go out of my way to get it again, though.

RasTa

Yup, this McGargles new IPA passes the test. Good value at 4 for 8 quid. 7.1%.

MonkstownHoop

thesandeman wrote: »

It's raining, so just got a few Kinnegar Crossroads from the local Centra. Good value for €3-50.

Lucky man, the best my local shop has is overpriced Paulaner

G rock

RasTa wrote: »

Yup, this McGargles new IPA passes the test. Good value at 4 for 8 quid. 7.1%.

Snap.

I like it. Very drinkable though, the four pack could disappear too quickly

Passenger

Kenmare Irish Porter

Watery, minimal carbonation, modest head. Tastes like there's some interesting flavours in this Porter but the dry, thin texture just doesn't allow them to shine. Picked it up in Tesco.

MonkstownHoop

Passenger wrote: »

Kenmare Irish Porter

Watery, minimal carbonation, modest head. Tastes like there's some interesting flavours in this Porter but the dry, thin texture just doesn't allow them to shine. Picked it up in Tesco.

I couldn't finish this, reminded me of drinking from a can someone had put a smoke out in years ago, hopefully it was just an off bottle but won't be buying again.

Mesrine65

Little Creatures Pale Ale bought in Tesco's Nenagh €2.99

Lovely, lovely, lovely

Trond

Against The Grain has Cocoa Wonderland on tap at the moment...

irish_goat

matrim wrote: »

Had a Rascals Holy Schmidt Pale Ale at the weekend. Really nice and refreshing. It's a light enough body but just enough to setup the hops which aren't overpowering. A really nice session-able beer.

Just having a pint now. Very refreshing and seasonable indeed. Lovely piney bitterness to it.

quadrifoglio verde

Porterhouse have schlenkerla rauchbier as The 4 Euro bottle of the day. I know what I'm drinking for the night
Tis a cracking good beer

oblivious

quadrifoglio verde wrote: »

Porterhouse have schlenkerla rauchbier as The 4 Euro bottle of the day. I know what I'm drinking for the night
Tis a cracking good beer

Great deal, enjoy

Subcomandante Marcos

€7.50 for a maß of Metalman. Perfect fodder after a long day in the office... The sooner thus rotating and I go back to the field, the better!