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What beer are we drinking this week? Episode 3

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    #3422
    Ronan|Raven
    Registered Users Posts: 8,145 ✭✭✭Ronan|Raven


    Back yet again in Leuven. More lashings of cheap westmalle dubbel.


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    #3423
    Geuze
    Registered Users Posts: 13,381 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    I spotted some Samuel Smiths beer in an off-licence in a small town, unusual I thought.

    I bought some oatmeal stout and some organic chocolate stout.

    https://www.samuelsmithsbrewery.co.uk/bottles/

    The bottles are 550ml, which is odd.

    High ratings here, it seems:

    https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/samuel-smiths-oatmeal-stout/87/

    https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/samuel-smiths-organic-chocolate-stout/182774/

    Both beers seemed above average quality to me, I would buy again.

    A real strong scent/flavour of choc.

    I paid 3.40 / 3.65.


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    #3424
    Geuze
    Registered Users Posts: 13,381 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    Last week I had some 8 Degrees Blowhard.

    It is an imperial stout.

    I paid 5.00 in the Swagman pub, for what was described as "3/4 pint".

    Very strong stuff, 12%.


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    #3425
    BeerNut
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,842 Mod ✭✭✭✭BeerNut


    Geuze wrote: »
    The bottles are 550ml, which is odd.
    They're an odd brewery. Pete Brown wrote in one of his books about beer that if Willy Wonka made beer his name would be Samuel Smith.

    The owner seems to be a right piece of work. Swearing. The bridge. Short measures. Pensions.

    My beer blog | The Twitter | My other beer blog



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    #3426
    L1011
    Registered Users Posts: 68,659 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Their pubs are bloody odd too, the few I've been in


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    #3427
    Geuze
    Registered Users Posts: 13,381 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    BeerNut wrote: »
    They're an odd brewery. Pete Brown wrote in one of his books about beer that if Willy Wonka made beer his name would be Samuel Smith.


    Yes indeed.

    Odd to remove all SS branding from the external facades of the pubs.

    Odd that there's no maps/locations of the pubs on the brewery website.


    They have 20+ pubs in London, good value prices.


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    #3428
    Geuze
    Registered Users Posts: 13,381 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    BeerNut wrote: »
    They're an odd brewery. Pete Brown wrote in one of his books about beer that if Willy Wonka made beer his name would be Samuel Smith.

    The owner seems to be a right piece of work.

    Can I ask, even though the owner seems unpleasant, is the beer good quality?

    Are the the types to be cutting corners in production?

    The two bottles I had seemed good.


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    #3429
    BeerNut
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,842 Mod ✭✭✭✭BeerNut


    Geuze wrote: »
    is the beer good quality?
    In general, yes, even if they're not very exciting. I'm not a fan of the flavoured ones, but the lagers are pretty decent, likewise the porter, stout, imperial stout and winter warmer.

    My beer blog | The Twitter | My other beer blog



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    #3430
    L1011
    Registered Users Posts: 68,659 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Two cans of Boyne APA basically pouring, or going in to the mouth, as foam. Have to leave it up to ten minutes with repeat pours to get 330ml + head to fit in to a pint glass!


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    #3431
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users Posts: 7,762 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Just back from a work trip to Amsterdam so headed off in search of some affligem last night (I know it’s Belgian!).

    Anyway no luck so settled on a Chimay brown and linesman’s gueuze.


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    #3432
    penev10
    Registered Users Posts: 1,896 ✭✭✭penev10


    Shepherd and Neame's Christmas Ale, hunted down the last bottle in SuperValu on the quays yesterday. My favourite ale by a long margin. Only managed to find 3 bottles over the whole of xmas.

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    If anyone spots any more let me know :)


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    #3433
    GY A1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,248 ✭✭✭GY A1


    Lagunitas
    12 th of never
    Ale


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    #3434
    Losty Dublin
    Registered Users Posts: 13,110 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    Cracked open a bottle of Mescan's Beoir na Nollaig a while ago. Six months of conditioning and a transfer into whiskey casks for a finishing maturation has given this ale a subtle taste yet an amazingly warm and warming feel. It should be illegal to make beer this good so rarely; it's definitely getting my top vote in the Beoir awards.


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    #3435
    s3rtvdbwfj81ch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,691 ✭✭✭s3rtvdbwfj81ch


    L1011 wrote: »
    Two cans of Boyne APA basically pouring, or going in to the mouth, as foam. Have to leave it up to ten minutes with repeat pours to get 330ml + head to fit in to a pint glass!

    did you let the brewery know?


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    #3436
    L1011
    Registered Users Posts: 68,659 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    No, never really got in the habit of telling places directly when I probably should...


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    #3437
    s3rtvdbwfj81ch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,691 ✭✭✭s3rtvdbwfj81ch


    L1011 wrote: »
    No, never really got in the habit of telling places directly when I probably should...

    I'm not trying to needle you, please don't think I am, but in my experience Irish breweries really appreciate a bit of private feedback, be in a DM on twitter or an email or whatever.


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    #3438
    snowblind
    Registered Users Posts: 972 ✭✭✭snowblind


    Trouble Brewing definitely didn't! Unfortunate since buying their cans is too much of a diacetyl-gamble


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    #3439
    ben.schlomo
    Registered Users Posts: 12,107 ✭✭✭✭ben.schlomo


    snowblind wrote: »
    Trouble Brewing definitely didn't! Unfortunate since buying their cans is too much of a diacetyl-gamble
    Let alone most of their beers are below average anyway. Their cherry/chocolate type stout was woeful, had it a couple of months back.


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    #3440
    Uncle_moe
    Registered Users Posts: 768 ✭✭✭Uncle_moe


    Anyone know if 8 Degrees Hopsfume is still available anywhere. Had it last night and wished I had bought a few more bottles


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    #3441
    Beanstalk
    Registered Users Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭Beanstalk


    Vocation Love & Hate NIEPAs only £2 in Tesco in Derry!


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    #3442
    RasTa
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    Yeah had one last night. Canned 8th of November. Tastes like it has been sitting on a warm shelf for 3 months but not god awful.


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    #3443
    L1011
    Registered Users Posts: 68,659 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Drinking the Rye River "Just The Tipple" spruce tip saison currently. Its about as odd as you might expect (and rather expensive)


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    #3444
    sceach16
    Registered Users Posts: 910 ✭✭✭sceach16


    RasTa wrote: »
    Yeah had one last night. Canned 8th of November. Tastes like it has been sitting on a warm shelf for 3 months but not god awful.




    Fosters? :confused:


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    #3445
    laros
    Registered Users Posts: 867 ✭✭✭laros


    sceach16 wrote: »
    Fosters? :confused:


    Vocation Love & Hate NIEPA I would Imagine.... :)


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    #3446
    RasTa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,116 ✭✭✭✭RasTa


    Got two more cans of it today. Canned on 21st Jan and still cold, must have just being put out.

    £13 for below, serious value

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    #3447
    ianob7
    Registered Users Posts: 715 ✭✭✭ianob7


    RasTa wrote:
    Got two more cans of it today. Canned on 21st Jan and still cold, must have just being put out.

    RasTa wrote:
    £13 for below, serious value

    That's insane value ! I paid 4 euro something for a single can of the New England :(


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    #3448
    BaZmO*
    Registered Users Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    I must have somehow unsubscribed from this thread. I was wondering why I wasn’t getting any notifications!

    I love the Vocation stuff. I have fond memories of filling up the car with lots of their range @ £1.50 a can on trips to Newry. Always on offer in Tesco too @ 4 for €10, and often in SuperValu too.

    Just finished a can of Coco Joe from Kinnegar. It’s their Yannaroddy with coffee. The combination of coconut and coffee doesn’t do it for me. Tastes almost savoury.


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    #3449
    ciaran76
    Registered Users Posts: 4,694 ✭✭✭ciaran76


    Rascals Irish Coffee Stout bottle. Just didn't do it for me. Kinda sour and hardly if any whiskey taste. Coffee was almost non existent too. Shame as I usually like Thier beers.


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    #3450
    slayerking
    Registered Users Posts: 1,276 ✭✭✭slayerking


    ciaran76 wrote: »
    Rascals Irish Coffee Stout bottle. Just didn't do it for me. Kinda sour and hardly if any whiskey taste. Coffee was almost non existent too. Shame as I usually like Thier beers.

    I had that on the nitro and thought it was unreal, but then I got the bottle and totally agree, there was defo a strange sourness to it, almost lemon like.


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    #3451
    overthebridge
    Registered Users Posts: 531 ✭✭✭overthebridge


    penev10 wrote: »
    Shepherd and Neame's Christmas Ale, hunted down the last bottle in SuperValu on the quays yesterday. My favourite ale by a long margin. Only managed to find 3 bottles over the whole of xmas.

    13682.thm350.jpg

    If anyone spots any more let me know :)

    Not sure where you're based but Super Valu in Corbally in Limerick have a few of these in stock at the minute.


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