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What beer are we drinking this week? Episode 3

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    #2402
    Trond
    Registered Users Posts: 1,972 ✭✭✭Trond


    Back to beer....

    Magic Rock Common Grounds - lots to like but ultimately not great, no finish and v watery. Nice flavour to begin with. Maybe a Nitro version is the solution ?


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    #2403
    L1011
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    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    You'd be in an awful state coming home though if you lived on beer, chocolate, and frites. :pac:

    I frequently go to a four day festival in .nl where I spend the entire time living on beer and frites met fritesaus.

    And yes, you are in an awful state after it!


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    #2404
    RasTa
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    Trond wrote: »
    My point still stands.....

    https://www.aluxurytravelblog.com/2015/05/25/bruges-belgiums-capital-of-fine-dining/

    What point? Those are all Michelin star places.


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    #2405
    BaZmO*
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    Wylam - 45:33

    An expensive one but pure perfection.


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    #2406
    limnam
    Registered Users Posts: 9,170 ✭✭✭limnam


    Omnipollo / Buxton Yellow Belly Peanut Butter Biscuit Stout. Still one of the best stouts I've ever had wish there was more availability in Ireland.

    How they manage to get those flavors without using any of the ingredients is just phenomenal


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    #2407
    poitinstill
    Registered Users Posts: 732 ✭✭✭poitinstill


    from lidl crafty brewing . american style brown ale. 1.99 a bottle very nice.


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    #2408
    UnknownSpecies
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    Had that at Christmas too. Very nice brown ale.


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    #2409
    RasTa
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    Yay, four corners are bringing Ballast Point over. Always wanted to try their stuff.


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    #2410
    Subcomandante Marcos
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    RasTa wrote: »

    Yay, four corners are bringing Ballast Point over. Always wanted to try their stuff.

    Time to mortgage the house, sell a child to traffickers and find a rich person who needs a kidney so.

    Ballast Point make some very good beers but they're not as OMGZAMAZEBALLS as some people make them out to be. I really like both grapefruit and pineapple sculpin though, make a love half and half too.


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    #2411
    Uncle_moe
    Registered Users Posts: 768 ✭✭✭Uncle_moe


    RasTa wrote: »
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    Yay, four corners are bringing Ballast Point over. Always wanted to try their stuff.

    Nice. Had Pineapple Sculpin this summer. Cracking beer


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    #2412
    BaZmO*
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    Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »
    Time to mortgage the house, sell a child to traffickers and find a rich person who needs a kidney so.

    Ballast Point make some very good beers but they're not as OMGZAMAZEBALLS as some people make them out to be. I really like both grapefruit and pineapple sculpin though, make a love half and half too.
    I’ve been lucky enough to try quite a few BP beers and you’re right, they make some fantastic beers, but just like most breweries nowadays they make some ok beers too. I think we’re spoiled nowadays, they gulf in quality isn’t there anymore the way it used to be, which is cool. More choices is always great though.


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    #2413
    RasTa
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    The best US stuff I've tasted is from Modern Times. I'd love if we could get some of their fresh cans over here.


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    #2414
    BaZmO*
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    RasTa wrote: »
    The best US stuff I've tasted is from Modern Times. I'd love if we could get some of their fresh cans over here.

    Yeah they do so great stuff alright. Although personally I’d rate Founders (and a few others for that matter) above them.


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    #2415
    Trond
    Registered Users Posts: 1,972 ✭✭✭Trond


    Alfies currently have as a big a range of To Øl beers on that I've seen before. Theres a 15% stout thats €11.50 for 300ml !!!!


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    #2416
    Ruben Remus
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    If they're bringing in Ballast Point beers I hope they don't forget Victory at Sea (imperial coffee/vanilla porter). Best beer I've had by them and should travel well given the strength/style.


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    #2417
    the beer revolu
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    Ballast Point won't be in for about 8 weeks.


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    #2418
    Insect Overlord
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    8 Degrees, Holly King. 9.8% abv. Imperial Stout aged in French oak wine barrels with Brett. C.

    Enjoyed slowly over the course of the last three hours. Bleedin' gorgeous.

    I had their Oak King Belgian style ale for New Year's Eve, but I was in the early stages of the flu and couldn't taste a thing. Will have to try and pick up another pair before they all disappear.


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    #2419
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users Posts: 11,210 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Revisiting an old friend......
    Hard to get here in Cavan, but the local supermarket got in a load and it didn't sell.
    Bargain for me!

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    #2420
    VW 1
    Registered Users Posts: 4,500 ✭✭✭VW 1


    Got a bigger pic? Can't quite make it out :D:P


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    #2421
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users Posts: 11,210 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    They are bigger bottles, 550ml :D


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    #2422
    Hotblack Desiato
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    Tried NBA once. Tasted like water wrung out of a dirty dishcloth.

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #2423
    BaZmO*
    Registered Users Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    Tried NBA once. Tasted like water wrung out of a dirty dishcloth.

    Which begs the question...... how do you know water wrung out of a dirty dishcloth tastes like?


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    #2424
    Insect Overlord
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    Has anyone tried the Boundary Brewing/Galway Bay collaboration yet? Harmonic Convergence. Barrel aged barley wine. 12%.

    I picked up a bottle in Bradley's in Cork last week and I'm tempted to open it tonight.


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    #2425
    jsa112
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    I didn't rate it at all


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    #2426
    Subcomandante Marcos
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    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    Has anyone tried the Boundary Brewing/Galway Bay collaboration yet? Harmonic Convergence. Barrel aged barley wine. 12%.

    I picked up a bottle in Bradley's in Cork last week and I'm tempted to open it tonight.

    It's ok. The spirit is overpower. Going by social media it's Jesus's second act after he turned water into wine but I found it hard to get through the 33cl class I paid the soul of my first born child for.


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    #2427
    Insect Overlord
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    Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »
    It's ok. The spirit is overpower. Going by social media it's Jesus's second act after he turned water into wine but I found it hard to get through the 33cl class I paid the soul of my first born child for.

    I'll let you know how I get on with 500 mls of the stuff. :pac:


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    #2428
    Subcomandante Marcos
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    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    I'll let you know how I get on with 500 mls of the stuff. :pac:

    I bought two bottles and have them hidden in the back of the wardrobe to try with a bit of age on them. I think they'll age well.


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    #2429
    L1011
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    Local sub-supermarket (it's the biggest and widest stocked Centra in the world basically) has gone on a craft kick after a few years of only selling macro and a few Lithuanian beers. So the weekend ahead is all the big names of Irish that I can now buy 5 minutes wobble away.

    Quite a lot of metalman and yellow belly has been bought and a strong recommendation to kinnegar has been made


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    #2430
    BaZmO*
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    Thornbridge - Eldon a Bourbon Imperial Stout. Beautiful stuff. Decent enough price for its 8%

    I also picked up a bottle of Jaipur for old times sake. Oh how my tastebuds have changed. It tasted like a lightly hopped lager. It wasn’t bad, just not what I remember having (and loving) the first time I had it.


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    #2431
    Trond
    Registered Users Posts: 1,972 ✭✭✭Trond


    Northern Monk Heathen - beautiful ipa. As good as I've had in a long time.


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