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What beer are we drinking this week, too?

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    #1082
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    the beer revolu wrote: »
    Beoir #1, very nice sipper. I think it's a beer I'd prefer in bottle at home but it's a cracking beer. Maybe not as hoppy as it thinks it is.

    Very much my thoughts. Sitting at the bar in Farrington's right now.
    It's not like it's not hoppy, it's just not as hoppy as I was expecting. Tastes hoppier than it smells though. Massive malt backbone here meaning it's pretty sweet on the nose.

    All in all a cracking beer and Ireland's second "proper" DIPA gets a thumbs up from me. Especially at 3.50 a half.

    Barman told me he'd sell me a pint too if I wanted it.


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    #1083
    the beer revolu
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    Seaneh wrote: »
    It's not like it's not hoppy, it's just not as hoppy as I was expecting. Tastes hoppier than it smells though. Massive malt backbone here meaning it's pretty sweet on the nose.

    All in all a cracking beer

    Pretty much exactly what I thought of it.


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    #1084
    Seaneh
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    slayerking wrote: »
    A few nice beers today....
    A Chocolate Truffle Stout, followed later that day by a Beoir #1(in Farringtons). And then two of the Founders beers on tap in Farringtons - All day and Centennial IPA.
    So many good beers knocking about right now.

    Just to add to this they (Farrington's) also have Founders Porter on at the min.


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    #1085
    Lovely Bloke
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    You still in Farringtons? Just arrived in for a Beoir. Its my wedding anniversary so I had to steer us here subtly haha


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    #1086
    Seaneh
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    Baldy Conscience wrote: »
    You still in Farringtons? Just arrived in for a Beoir. Its my wedding anniversary so I had to steer us here subtly haha

    In porter house having a chocolate stout. You staying there for a bit?


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    #1087
    BaZmO*
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    AleSmith Grand Cru. Another cracking beer from AleSmith.


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    #1088
    Ipso
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    Had Total Domination IPA by Ninkasi from Oregon. Not impressed, just a bitter taste (and not in a good way).


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    #1089
    Lovely Bloke
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    Seaneh wrote: »
    Just to add to this they (Farrington's) also have Founders Porter on at the min.

    didn't get to have a Founders or a Odell's Cutthroat, we left after I had a Metalman Yerba (tough choice, but at least I'd had the other 2 in bottle before).

    On the Beoir, liked it better than OFAF, because it's not as hoppy. Would compare it to O'Hara's controversial (round here) beer. I quite liked it for a DIPA, smells very malty and that's there in the taste. My wife also liked the small sup she had. It's not "packed full of hops" as the tap says, but there are enough there to back up the malty sweetness to ensure it's not too sweet.

    On to the Yerba. Nice beer. Has a little something strange (good strange) in the finish. It's lighter than it looks, lovely malt sweetness and some bitterness from the darker malts in there. The sweet orange mate tea can be detected too, and it brings the finish all the way back from the dark roast malt back into light almost lagery territory. Complex in a light way.


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    #1090
    adamski8
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    slayerking wrote: »
    I got two half's and it was €7. Pretty good value by my books!

    So it was 5.75e for 400ml in the headline but for a half pint 3.50???? That has to be the wrong price in farringtons. the beer in there is always the most expensive too! You got a sweet deal. I wouldnt have stopped at two halves ;)


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    #1091
    Seaneh
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    The metalman yerba is one of those beers I'm really glad I didn't buy a pint of and definitely won't bother trying again.


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    #1092
    Lovely Bloke
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    I also paid 3.50 for a half pint (one of them stemmed "craft collection" half pint glasses) which I thought was a grand price.


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    #1093
    adamski8
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    Seaneh wrote: »
    The metalman yerba is one of those beers I'm really glad I didn't buy a pint of and definitely won't bother trying again.

    Yeah it really is bad.


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    #1094
    Seaneh
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    adamski8 wrote: »
    So it was 5.75e for 400ml in the headline but for a half pint 3.50???? That has to be the wrong price in farringtons. the beer in there is always the most expensive too! You got a sweet deal. I wouldnt have stopped at two halves ;)

    To be honest, even at €3.50 if I can get a half of Founders Centennial or Porter for the same price (which I did this evening), I don't think I'd have many of the Beoir #1, it's good value for money but I couldn't drink much of it.


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    #1095
    BaZmO*
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    Sh1t just got serious!


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    #1096
    drumswan
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    I really enjoyed the Yerba, had it on cask at The Headline


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    #1097
    BaZmO*
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    In other news, I was up at Johnnie Fox's Pub on Saturday and I was pleased to see that they are now doing a small selection of craft beers on tap. They had Galway Hooker, Carrig Lager and Five Lamps Lager.


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    #1098
    Seaneh
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    BaZmO* wrote: »
    In other news, I was up at Johnnie Fox's Pub on Saturday and I was pleased to see that they are now doing a small selection of craft beers on tap. They had Galway Hooker, Carrig Lager and Five Lamps Lager.

    They have a few o'haras too.


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    #1099
    Seaneh
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    BaZmO* wrote: »
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    Sh1t just got serious!

    Where is stocking those?


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    #1100
    Losty Dublin
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    drumswan wrote: »
    I really enjoyed the Yerba, had it on cask at The Headline

    Had one last night and was suitably impressed with it. Deceptively light and mild tasting for what it is, it definitely went down well with me.


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    #1101
    drumswan
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    Seaneh wrote: »
    Where is stocking those?

    Drinkstore


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    #1102
    BaZmO*
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    Seaneh wrote: »
    They have a few o'haras too.
    Bottles though?

    Seaneh wrote: »
    Where is stocking those?
    It's on the picture. ;)

    I'm just excited that I'll have a fairly decent selection of canned beers for Electric Picnic this year. :)


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    #1103
    Seaneh
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    BaZmO* wrote: »
    Bottles though?



    It's on the picture. ;)

    I'm just excited that I'll have a fairly decent selection of canned beers for Electric Picnic this year. :)


    Draught. Pale ale and stout. Think the red is there as well.


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    #1104
    BaZmO*
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    Seaneh wrote: »
    Draught. Pale ale and stout. Think the red is there as well.
    Wow, didn't notice. But then again I didn't notice the others until I had ordered a Guinness and was sitting down waiting for our table. I've been there a few times over the last couple of years and just assumed that it was just a Guinness type of place. Delighted to see the choice there now. Sign of the times I suppose.


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    #1105
    irish_goat
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    Metalman Windjammer is back according to their Facebook. :D:D

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    #1106
    RasTa
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    Local was doing 4 of these for €6

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    Also doing these for €1 a bottle
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    http://www.martinsofflicence.ie/beer/innis-gunn-scottish-pale-ale/

    I had gotten quiet used to them, now they are sold out and am probably going to cry.


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    #1107
    MonkstownHoop
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    RasTa wrote: »
    Local was doing 4 of these for €6

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    Also doing these for €1 a bottle
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    http://www.martinsofflicence.ie/beer/innis-gunn-scottish-pale-ale/

    I had gotten quiet used to them, now they are sold out and am probably going to cry.

    That's pretty cheap for them I like Innis & Gunn


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    #1108
    Grayditch
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    Innis & Gunn Irish Whiskey Cask for €1. I'd buy the lot.


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    #1109
    RasTa
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    Yeah we cleared out most of their stock. Don't like having that many strong beers lying around.

    T'was out of date in beer terms hence the price.


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    #1110
    Ravelleman
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    BaZmO* wrote: »
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    Sh1t just got serious!

    I bought one of these in Devenney's at the weekend - €2.79 and quite delightful.


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    #1111
    Grayditch
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    I think Amber Ella tastes nicer from the bottle, rather than poured into a glass. Weird.


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