What beer are we drinking this week? Episode 3

VW 1

Picked up a 200 fathoms and KBS for the weekends supping. Excited.

the beer revolu

An File wrote: »

Question: is this year's 200 Fathoms coming out this week?

Pouring in Abbot's Ale House in Cork

Trond

VW 1 wrote: »

Picked up a 200 fathoms and KBS for the weekends supping. Excited.

Snap! About to open my first ever KBS. Took it out of the fridge 20 mins ago...

Insect Overlord

the beer revolu wrote: »

Pouring in Abbot's Ale House in Cork

Wonder how long it'll last there! I should be in Cork for a weekend in May, but I don't know yet which weekend. :P

Zaph

VW 1 wrote: »

Picked up a 200 fathoms and KBS for the weekends supping. Excited.

Got my supply of 200 Fathoms on the way home from work. Molloy's in Clonsilla have a good bit in stock, and also plenty of KBS, if anyone's looking for either.

BaZmO*

BeerNut wrote: »

I thought it was pretty good. Much smoother and mature-tasting than the 2016 was when it was released.

I really didn't rate the 2016 version. It was extremely harsh with an in your face alcohol/whiskey kick without having much body or complexity for for an Imperial Stout. I thought it would improve with age, unfortunately the one that I had last week didn't. Real pity as the 2015 was incredible.

snowblind

gilberto_eire wrote: »

Its one of my favourites and a great bang for your buck at e3.

I tried their Double Banging last week.

Its different enough to this one, it mentions grapefruit, and that was a good indicator as to it's dominant tone.
Its probably not worth buying at e3.60 though when you can get Francis for e3 though it was nice enough that I'd at least add it into a 3 for e9 should they drop it down.

I don't consider Francis that good, but the Double is really nice actually. A very west coast style ipa well executed. They are 3e in Tesco right now actually

VW 1

Zaph wrote:

Got my supply of 200 Fathoms on the way home from work. Molloy's in Clonsilla have a good bit in stock, and also plenty of KBS, if anyone's looking for either.

Molloy's Finglas village for me. Had a few knocking around, only came in this morning according to the gentleman I was speaking yo

Trond

Latest batch of White Rabbit isnt up to much imo. Had it last year and it was far superior.

Having a couple of Black Bettys as a build up to my first KBS. Decided to go with room temp for the KBS.

Passenger

Lagunitas 12th of Never Pale Ale

Pretty nondescript pale ale tbh. Light body, good carbonation, crisp and citrusy, fairly thin mouthfeel. 5.5% ABV. Only €3.20.

Bus Boy

Trond wrote: »

Latest batch of White Rabbit isnt up to much imo. Had it last year and it was far superior.

Having a couple of Black Bettys as a build up to my first KBS. Decided to go with room temp for the KBS.

Grabbed a couple of bottles of this years KBS, probably do the same and try it at room temp.

SlipperyPeople

Would anyone know if Lagunitas hop stoopid is coming back to ireland? Lagunitas themselves have told me it's a seasonal release for ireland, I've tweeted who I think is the Irish distributors (GrandCrubeers) a couple of times but no response.

Bus Boy

hungoverbunny wrote: »

Would anyone know if Lagunitas hop stoopid is coming back to ireland? Lagunitas themselves have told me it's a seasonal release for ireland, I've tweeted who I think is the Irish distributors (GrandCrubeers) a couple of times but no response.

I'll find out for you...

More than likely but will depend on some other variables.

mikeecho

Had some
Two Hundred Fathoms on draught

Seriously tasty




(Pic.. from beernuts blog)

Passenger

2017 Two Hundred Fathoms is delicious. Better then 2016 imho. It's smoother and more rounded in the flavour department. Had it on draught too.

VW 1

2016 200 fathoms. Beautifully smooth, the whisky flavor more distinctive than I remember from this time last year. Wonderfully smooth mouth feel. Fantastic beer.

mikeecho

Had it in the "abbots ale house" it was just in on Friday.

Not cheap, but still good value.

Passenger

mikeecho wrote: »

Had it in the "abbots ale house" it was just in on Friday.

Not cheap, but still good value.

€7.25 in The Beer Market anyway, which is par for the course with the quality of beer you're getting imo. I think it's lovely this year.

MonkstownHoop

Seems to be a bit of controversy of the new KBS release over here, a different abv and bottle.

the beer revolu

Passenger wrote: »

€7.25 in The Beer Market anyway, which is par for the course with the quality of beer you're getting imo. I think it's lovely this year.

For how much?

matrim

Had a bottle of 200 Fathoms last night. Much nicer than last year but I don't think it is as nice as the 2015.

The underlying body is balanced with plenty of chocolate, coffee and some vanilla and it thens ends with a decent whiskey hit. As you get into it and it warms up this mellows and the underlying flavours come out.

Also had a Wood Key, The Hunted Deer during the week. I wasn't a fan of this a bit to sweet and syrupy for me

Zaph

MonkstownHoop wrote: »

Seems to be a bit of controversy of the new KBS release over here, a different abv and bottle.

I actually couldn't find the abv on the label at all

gandalf

Don't normally drink stout but got talked into trying a couple of bottles of two hundred fathoms at the local offie after we had a big conversation about whiskey. I'm damn glad I did what a great drink of full flavoured liquid happiness!

mikeecho

Passenger wrote: »

€7.25 in The Beer Market anyway, which is par for the course with the quality of beer you're getting imo. I think it's lovely this year.

€6 for a half pint in abbots ale house

VW 1

Zaph wrote:

I actually couldn't find the abv on the label at all

I looked at last years and this years the other day, 11.9 and 12.4 but can't remember right now which one was the higher.

quadrifoglio verde

My 2015 bottle us 11.2
The bottle I got last week are 11.9

BaZmO*

I thought they changed it every year? Last years was 12.4% which was about 1% stronger than the previous year?

MonkstownHoop

BaZmO* wrote: »

I thought they changed it every year? Last years was 12.4% which was about 1% stronger than the previous year?

It's officially 11.8 this year but the bottles we got are 11.9, there's a 2016 version on untappd that's also 11.9, also the BB dates on the bottles seem to suggest Nov 17 very strange.

Bus Boy

Had a little 200 Fathoms this evening in Brew Dock, didn't disappoint.

ben.schlomo

Tempest Saison in Santander tonight, really good Saison IMO, lightly sour,refreshimg, a touch happy, overall very drinkable.