Supporting craft breweries

Taste is a personal thing but beers made not to my taste are poor quality and horrible! Lol.

Look, I'm not a fan of English Ales, generally. If I was immature and insular, and unable to really understand beer, I might say they are things like - bland, watery, underhopped, grassy, undercarbonated, under attenuated, etc.

But I understand that there are many different styles of beer and they are not all to my taste. I accept that many beers which are not to my taste are well made examples of their stlye - just not for me.

This poster shows as much knowledge about beer as a Guinness drinker who thinks every other beer in the world is muck.

I've beer drinking craft for over 20 years, and know little of the brewing process tbh!

The poster has been brewing for 40 years sand seems to know what they're on about.

fwiw they have a point, there are a good few sub par brews on the market.

The English style beers were the only ones available 40 or so years ago (i'd imagine) so it stands to reason that's the style they'd be into.

I vote with my wallet too, and tend to stick with my favorites, or with recommendations from people I trust.

He doesn't know what he is on about because he has that stupid attitude I used experience all the time where customers bitch and moan that their tropical DIPA is "off" or "end of the barrel mate" because it's cloudy.

It's just wrong. Not a matter of opinion or any of that because if you believe clarity is a sign of beer quality you are 100% wrong.

The "proper/real" ale vs craft ale is just an ideological load of absolute bllsht that is common in England. Just "virtue signaling" that your not some arty hipster.

And I've brewed beer too both cloudy and not with macro established breweries and craft breweries because it seems our CV is important to this argument.

But those obscure ingredients are hardly the staple of Irish Craft beer? They're generally limited run specials as far as I'm aware anyway?

The last paragraph is the important bit. Enjoy what you like and don't worry about the rest.

Every few weeks the craft beer threads get some lad "showing off" what a big proper man he is because he only drinks Heineken or Doombar or whatever.

I think White Hag often use these boxes to get rid of stuff that is so bad, it just doesn't sell. Maybe I'm just being cynical.

Same reason I would rarely buy these kind of mixed boxes. I'll buy, and drink, what I know I prefer.

I'll often try styles I know I generally don't like, in case I find something interesting. But I want to know I'm choosing that.

I remember infuriating conversations with a German guy who had a taste for lager (or whatever sub set of lager term he was using for his favoured lager).

He'd go on about how he liked, valued and appreciated craft beer and IPAs and such but sometimes (which was actually all the time) he just wants a "proper" beer. Drove me nuts!

Using the term, "proper" to describe your preferred style is real ass hat stuff.

Likewise a woman in a bar saying that while the stemless wine glass she was served her wine in was lovely, she does like a "proper" wineglass! Arrrgh! 😡

Really interesting views here. What I fail to comprehend is those who dont like a certain beer summarise by the conclusion that the same drink is crap.

For me? I despise sours but just cos I dont like them doesnt mean that they are bad. Just not my taste.

I have a relation who will always pick the most expensive gin on the menu if Hendricks is not available. Is Hendricks bad? I dont know, is the most expensive gin better? Who knows.

Let people off to drink what they want but like religion and all the various movements we have going on....if you try to push your agenda on someone (in this case beer I dont like is **** beer) then you can **** off.

Did anyone manage to get one of the extra white hag guest boxes? Back to school It’s called. I got the email at 8am but sold out by 10am on the day. Seems a bit odd it sold so fast.

Never tried that but it has some pretty bad reviews.

If its anything like the St Patrick's Day beer, it's awful.

Anyway, Bran and Sceolan back in stock so 2 cases on the way.

Bradleys have posted they've taken a delivery of Post Card Brew Co and Farrington Brewery.

The former I've seen here or there, the latter are totally new to me but their labels stand out from the rest.

Is there a consensus on the either of them?

New poster here 👋 wasn't a fan myself, but generally speaking I do love what The White Hag has to offer. Ninth Wave being my particular favourite.

Thanks. Your blog is where I had seen Post Card, but didn't realise the co-location with Farrington's. Appreciate it.

Yeah, they have a bar setup there. I visited for the open day during the Summer. Well worth a look, and close enough to the Dart station to get to easily.