What are people like?
I like Pearlenbacher, a wheat beer from Lidl in 500ml cans, Brasserie in 250ml bottles from Aldi and a pint if Guinness in the Pub.
Praga. 1.55 a Bottle in Tesco..savage tack. Any of the Kinnegar craft ales. Delicious, especially their craft stout.
Cheers, I'll look into them. Pearlenbacher is €1.19 in the west of the country/€1.29 in the east.
Brasserie is €4.99 for a pack of 10 bottles.
I had a bottle of Monthy Pythons Holy Grail golden ale last night for the first time, it was nice, I'll be getting it again.
If I'm in the pub having one or two I'll drink Guinness, if it's at a proper night out though I'll drink a jameson ginger & lime (depending on the price).
At home I like changing it up but I buy Franziskaner a lot.
At the moment I'm drinking a Guinness Foreign Extra which is amazing.
For me it's Guinness Foreign Extra followed closely by Guinness Golden Ale. Both super tasty drinks, in particular the Foreign Extra. Regular Guinness tastes so watery by comparison. Their Milk Stout aint half bad either although I find it leaves me with a headache like a kick in the balls.
Also the Barefoot red wines, in particular the Malbec and Merlot. The Yellow Tail reds still get good mileage too.
O Briens have 6 Budvar for a tenner. Unreal price, although still 3 times what you'd pay for it in a Prague supermarket.
Have been drinking my own Stout brewed for christmas. Going down way too easy but it came out like O Hara's Leann Follain which I'll take as a win.
Have been drinking Sheep Stealer from Black Donkey and the Mescan blonde lately. New craft stuff comes and goes but I tend to stick with what I like these days, unless Im feeling flush enough to take a gamble on something that might be shite.
There is already a king of beers, it's called 'Bud' so why bother with all of this pish brewed by peasants in their 'workshops'?
I love Guinness Extra Stout and that is my usual sup but Lidl were selling two crates of regular Guinness yesterday for €30 So myself and Miotal Trom went halves. It'll be mahogany shites for the next week.
those bottles of pablo red wine that are usually 20 euro are going for a tenner in a shitty off license. stocked up on a few of them for tomorrow. tbh ill drink almost anything thats put in front of me, im not fussy at all, once it gets me locked im happy.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on December 24, 2018, 10:27:33 AM
I love Guinness Extra Stout and that is my usual sup but Lidl were selling two crates of regular Guinness yesterday for €30 So myself and Miotal Trom went halves. It'll be mahogany shites for the next week.
Can't ever seem to get a deal on the Extra Stout anywhere, and I just can't substitute with the draught shite. It will be 24 cans of excelsior for me this year because I'm poor
Love the extra stout meself but the price is a killer for christmas bulk drinking. I drink a lot of cheap lager because it doesn't give me even a fraction of the hangover stouts and ales do, so I ended up with 48 grolsch for €40 this morning. Can't argue. Usual choice is Karpackie, Prazsky, or Bavaria but I'm not picky. Mostly just very fond of cans.
Local spar was doing a deal on Peroni so stacked up on that fir Christmas. Doesn't really have much of a taste to it so I end up lashing through them
Quote from: Caomhaoin on December 24, 2018, 09:36:34 AM
There is already a king of beers, it's called 'Bud' so why bother with all of this pish brewed by peasants in their 'workshops'?
Budweiser is some of the most disgusting piss out there, mislabelled too.
I have no problem supporting someone's entrepreneurial skills if the price is right.
Quote from: livingabortion on December 24, 2018, 10:50:17 PM
Quote from: Caomhaoin on December 24, 2018, 09:36:34 AM
There is already a king of beers, it's called 'Bud' so why bother with all of this pish brewed by peasants in their 'workshops'?
Budweiser is some of the most disgusting piss out there, mislabelled too.
I have no problem supporting someone's entrepreneurial skills if the price is right.
Bud gives me the nastiest hangovers ever.I always wake up with a raging headache after drinking it.
Big fan of German and Belgian beers. Schöfferhofer in Aldi is top stuff. Lidl have 750ml bottles of Leffe and Hoegaarden in at the moment so picked up a few for the Christmas Day supping.
Sometimes pick up a few bottles of La Chouffe, little bottle of rocket fuel.
For nights out Guinness and Jameson would be the staples.
The 750ml leffe from lidl for €3 are indeed lethal. Look proper fancy too.
Quote from: astfgyl on December 24, 2018, 12:41:08 PM
Quote from: Eoin McLove on December 24, 2018, 10:27:33 AM
I love Guinness Extra Stout and that is my usual sup but Lidl were selling two crates of regular Guinness yesterday for €30 So myself and Miotal Trom went halves. It'll be mahogany shites for the next week.
Can't ever seem to get a deal on the Extra Stout anywhere, and I just can't substitute with the draught shite. It will be 24 cans of excelsior for me this year because I'm poor
Is it Guinness Foreign extra that both of you talking about or something different? I know the foreign extra use to be called something different. I love the Foreign extra myself it's been my favourite drink since I first tasted it about 10 years ago. The only issue with it is that's so expensive and never goes on sale, over 50euro for a 24 box of 330ml bottles
I find it very hard to drink cans of draught these days just pure piss compared to a decent pint of Guinness. I know pints are always going to be better than cans but for me the difference in the draft is just too much.
Guinness West Indies is decent tack too but I'd go for O'Hara's Leann Folainn ahead of it all the same.
If I'm ever out in Spain again I must pick up a few bottles of Barcelo and Zacapa rum. Cacique too actually. Seriously easy to drink stuff. Couldn't look at the likes of Captain Morgan after it.
O'Brother's Red Ale is the nicest beer I've had recently. O'Hara's do a really nice Red UPS as well.
It would be great if they did beers like the cereal multi-packs and you got a shot of each one so you could try them to see what they're like.
Quantity and price over quality for me!! Best bet is get 4 good quality ales, neck them, then just hit an 18 pack of cheap lager, with a few vodkas or whisky.
Job done. Wee 330ml cans of craft beer at around £2 each is a joke.
That Hallows and Fentimans ginger beer has become a go to curer. Tastey stuff, 4euro per bottle in the offo though.
Prazsky is 8 for €9 almost everywhere at the moment, delicious can. That and Karpackie leading the pack for me lately on crispy cold cans but the Karp is €12-€14 for 8 in most spots, the Prazsky still has the edge on it and the hangover is less vicious.
Also been enjoying a few Lomza exports, You'll get 4 for €8 50cl bottles on special in Spar. Goes down like silk, not too bubbly, great flavour. A tap pricier than my usual cheap favourites but worth it. The Friday go-to has been 4 of these and the 8 Prazsky now for me for a while.
Rebel Red if I'm in the pub (which is handy because it's one of the few beers in Cork that everywhere seems to have).
I'm just blowing cash, the White Hag's "An Puca" is the best thing ever. Sour lemon, ginger and hibiscus. Glad this stuff wasn't around in my early 20s as I'd be both broke and an alcoholic by now.
Rebel red for me also.
Rebel Red and Chieftain are both delicious but give me easily an absolutely clinical grade hangover. Galway Bay's Full Sail was a favourite of mine for a long time, one of my real favourites, but again it uses my body for cruel tasks after about 6 of them.
The worst hangover iv got in more recent times has been after drinking Peroni!,didnt even drink a huge amount of the stuff,about 6 pints.
Has anyone tried the Carlsberg unfiltered that seems to have come on the market lately?
Had a couple of cans of it recently and it went down the hatch grand.
I'd buy them again.
Quote from: ochoill on February 06, 2019, 12:47:29 AM
Rebel Red and Chieftain are both delicious but give me easily an absolutely clinical grade hangover. Galway Bay's Full Sail was a favourite of mine for a long time, one of my real favourites, but again it uses my body for cruel tasks after about 6 of them.
Chieftain wrecks me too but I can lash away at Rebel Red all night (autocorrect originally wrote that as Rebel Wilson, FFS 😁)
Quote from: Born of Fire on December 25, 2018, 04:34:07 PM
but I'd go for O'Hara's Leann Folainn ahead of it all the same.
The Leann Follain is outstanding. It's nearly too good in that I find Guinness to be utterly insipid in contrast, and that would ordinarily be my drink of choice on a night out.
People can be rather dismissive of the whole craft beer scene as a bit "hipster", and true, there are those elements. But there is such a wide variety of excellent stuff out there, and most pubs seem to have an least a small selection, that I just can't fathom how people stick to the likes of Carlsberg, Miller, Heineken or, worst of all, Budweiser on a night out.
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Quote from: Born of Fire on December 25, 2018, 04:34:07 PM
. But there is such a wide variety of excellent stuff out there, and most pubs seem to have an least a small selection, that I just can't fathom how people stick to the likes of Carlsberg, Miller, Heineken or, worst of all, Budweiser on a night out.
yeah,id drink any of them if they were put in front of me,but they are all piss water once youve experimented with other beers.On a heavy night out i will start off with something like Rebel red or some craft beer,but no way could i stay on it for the night without getting utterly comatosed,might end the night with a bottle or two of miller.
This time of year on a night out it's Guinness and whiskey all night long.
In the warmer months I'll try whatever isn't Heineken, Carlsberg or pissy American shite.
At home I'll drink whatever's a decent price in the offie or supermarket.
Guinness Golden Ale here tonight. Super tasty beer.
Was at the Zealot Cult gig last night in Limerick. Nothing interesting me on the taps in the bar, ended up chancing a Rockshore to try it out. Not the worst, stuck on it for the night. Easy to drink, fiver a pint, but very very fuckin tame, has to be one of the lightest and most tasteless pints I've ever had. It's not a bad taste when you get it mind, it just doesn't really have one. Feeling good today after a skinful so i'm assuming it's made decent enough.
Budweiser - gets my vote for one of the worst beers going. Gassy horrible shite.
Peroni is the good stuff, crisp and tasty.
Bottles of Lomza are great craic too.
I'll always be a Bucky fan. I don't really have a preference for the green or brown bottle, but it has to be said that the green bottles are more likely to smash if you drop them :laugh:
I do love creamy pints of Guinness, but they give me awfully sticky shits. I've been drinking Hophouse recently and it's well tasty and doesn't seem to come with headaches the day after.
If I'm going to a festival I'll always bring cans of Carlsberg, which is a bit odd cos I'll never order a pint of Carlsberg at a bar.
Oh and a bottle of Captain Morgan/fanta combo is a nice refresher in the early hours.
Drinking Dot Brew's Back to Black at the moment. Class black IPA, probably the best one I've had since Carrig Brewing's Coal Face (which is a good bit cheaper at 4 for 10 in tesco).
Tried the Boyne Brewhouse Imperial Stout at 10.8% earlier on watching the rugby. Packs a punch but I've had better. Was like pouring molasses into a glass, in a good way.
Drinking some Leffe's at the moment, 4 bottles for 6 quid, can't beat it.
Quote from: Slaughterday on March 10, 2019, 07:26:30 PM
Tried the Boyne Brewhouse Imperial Stout at 10.8% earlier on watching the rugby. Packs a punch but I've had better. Was like pouring molasses into a glass, in a good way.
I haven't tried that one, but their oatmeal stout is very good and probably not as heavy going. Actually, most of their stuff is pretty decent.
Wheres the 4 leffe for 6 quid deal? Thats a class price.
Quote from: Slaughterday on March 11, 2019, 07:58:18 PM
Wheres the 4 leffe for 6 quid deal? Thats a class price.
I'd imagine they are the 330ml bottles.
Lidl has the Leffe corked 750ml bottles for €2.99 (£2.49). Great value.
Yeah, it was 4 of the 330 ml for 6 quid in Dunnes.
I think Supervalu are doing them for 6.50 too.
Brace your arse holes! Dismember beer on the way folks!
Of late, I've not been out to the pub much. Beers at home with a few records does me fine.
Went out last Saturday afternoon for a few half pints - literally a few half pints - you can taste more of the fancy stuff that way. My wife was in tow and we were having mighty craic inside one of our regular haunts in the city when our next door neighbours walk in. They've lived next to us for about two years but I've had very little interaction with them beyond "How's the form?", sticking a Christmas card in the letterbox and the odd quick chat about music or something else.
Turns out it's your man's birthday. I'm about 3 beers in and now have a lip on me and the half pint/taste more of the fancy stuff has given way to a "fuck it all, live for tonight, we built this city on rock n' roll, Aces High, burn the city to the ground" type of mindset. "Away to fuck!" says I "I'll get a round in there for your birthday" and off I go to the bar. On my return his missus and mine are discussing holidays, cushions, paint colours and so on & so forth. So I start chatting to your man who it turns out is actually dead on, if a bit socially awkward but he soon warms up.
"Another round?" he asks.
"Sure why not" says I. While he's at the bar my missus says to me that she thinks she'll head away home cos we're having people out the next day for a bit of grub and she fancies doing prep/cleaning but you look like you're having the craic so work away just don't go too nuts. Yer man's missus says she's not really feeling it either and offers to share a taxi home with my better half.
"Mind himself for me" his missus says as they leave.
"Not a bother" says I as I waved them off and head back inside to where my new best mate has guzzled half of his pint of 7% stout.
"Fuckin' right!" I think to myself.
Cue the A-Team theme song.
We go from pub to pub, having a chat, swigging pints and being all round sophisticated socialites. At closing time both of us remark on how remarkably sober we both are - enough so that it should be remarked upon as it definitely remarkable. "Sure we'll get food and go back to my house, I have beer and you don't have far to fall when we're done." says himself.
"Top man" says I as my arm shoots out to hail a cab and take us on the road. Jumped into a cab and gave your man the address.
"Fuck off outta that" says our friendly cab driver "that's only around the corner". I had forgotten or ignored the fact that I had fashioned our crawl into a walk home. Back out of the cab, chip shop, ordered way too much food - we've all been there, don't fuckin' lie to me.
Back to his house which, as mentioned earlier, is next to my house. I have a moment of clarity and decide that discretion is the better part of valor here and say "You know what? It's been a long day, I don't want to be getting in your way".
"Not at all" he says to me. "We'll have a night cap and call it quits". To be be fair, he was talking sense - we all know that finishing your night on an odd number of drinks rather than an even number is what causes hangovers.
Into the kitchen we go, he grabs some plates and heads over to the table. "Eh... the jacks?" says I bursting for a piss. He points in the direction of a door and off I head. Wizz completed I go to flush but it won't. Fuck. A bead of cold sweat trickles down my left temple.
I start to wonder if it's one of those if it's mellow let it yellow households. You know the type I mean? All Birkenstock sandals, quinoa, kale juice and fetid piss lingering the jacks but who still drive a Range Rover to a shop that's 3 minutes walk away.
"What am I going to do?" I panic think as, unbeknownst to me, my hands have lifted the top off the cistern and I'm peering over the porcelain reveal. Aha! It's the same type of toilet as we have, instead of a handle, there's a two button type thing. It came loose in ours before and given my engineering background I was able to fix it. That was in the day-time though, not langersed drunk in someone else's house at 0100hrs. But, credit it where it's due, I fixed it. FLUSSSSSH. Wash the hands, back out into the kitchen.
No sign of your man, food is still there and two beers with glasses unopened on the table. How fucking long was I gone? Christ! I stand stock still, I can't hear anything. What am I going to do? I spy my chips and decide I leaving. So I grab my bag and quietly but quickly get to the front door. Only to find it locked from the inside and there's no sign of a key. "Oh sweet suffering Christ" I silently plead as I turn the handle once more. Why the fuck has he done this? What has he done with the keys? I don't know what to do now so I head back into the kitchen to see if he's re-appeared. No go. Fuck. I think of texting my missus to get her to ring the doorbell but I dismiss that out of hand. I sit dejectedly in the dimly lit kitchen-diner thinking of ways to get out of the house. Could I jump over our back wall...? No... the back door is locked and I don't have the key for it on me. I resign myself to the fact that I'll have to wait for yer man to come back, maybe he went to the jacks upstairs. I open my chipper bag and start eating. Fuck it, it was going cold.
About 5 minutes I hear the stairs creaking. Yes! His missus walks in. No!!! She doesn't spot me and opens the sliding door that splits the dining room and the living room. There he is, lads - spark out on the couch. "Ah for the love of God!" says she. He starts making some pissed mumbles and attempts to get off the couch. "Time for bed" she says.
"Yeah, I better be doing the same myself " says I from dining room.
Now... I'm not sure if you're all tough guys or what but - if you heard a deep voice emanating from a 6' 2", 18 stone shadow dressed in a black hoodie and holding a plastic fork in your dimly lit kitchen - I think it's fair to say that you might get slightly anxious.
"It's me!" I says to her before she freaks out. Then I think "Fuck it. I've rarely spoken to her. 'It's me' is going to mean nothing". Your man spots me over her shoulder and goes "Wahey!" - the cat nap has brought back the party humour to this cunt. She recognises me and says "Oh... I think you'd better head off..."
Her fella (my new best mate) shoots past us and up the stairs. I can hear puking and I try to wrap up my chippy as fast as I can, not easy when you have taco fries, battered sausages, spice burger and garlic mayo all in play. Like I said - we've all been there, don't fuckin' lie to me. Finally get my stuff together and decide I'll make this a jovial explanation departure. "Ah yeah, I was heading out but himself disappeared, I didn't know where and he'd locked your front door with a key after we came in, sure what could I do?". She has a quizical look on her face.
"Locked the front door? With a key?"
"Yes"
"It doesn't lock with a key from the inside" and then she turned the handle the OPPOSITE way to the way I'd been doing it. Oh for fu.... Still the strains of a gawk orchestra from upstairs. "Right so" says I "I'll be off". And hop over the front wall into my own house. I get in the front door and I'm tring to put my chips down somewhere the only place is a little table that I put stuff on the previous week and, despite numerous requests from the wife, I didn't clear up. The alarm is BEEP BEEP BEEPing for the code in the background. FUCK IT! I drop the chips to the ground and just as I hit the panel the thing starts going off WOOOOOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW with blue and white flashing lights (an optional extra - I like to treat myself). I am thumping the code into the control box but it's not working, then I remember that it's a different code, I've been mashing the keys with my ATM number. Reset the bastard and turn back to my food. NOT ONE SINGLE CHIP has come loose from the scrambled packaging. At this point I decide that I've taken enough risks and sit cross-legged on the hall floor eating my dinner. I look up the stairs as my jewel of a wife appear at the very top. "Didn't drop a single chip!" I say to her - this is my "Yo Adrian" moment - I can see in her eyes that she's never been prouder of me. She's so overcome with emotion that she goes straight back to bed.
The next day I'm up and about at around 1000hrs. Not feeling 100% but not bad. She asks me to do the prep in the yard - chairs, tables, parasol etc. "Not a bother" says I. About 20 minutes later she finds me sitting on the one chair that I'd brought out so far. The sweat is pouring out of me faster than I can get water in.
Do you lads have any idea of what hell is? I do.
Standing in front of a pizza oven in your back yard knocking out pies for 12 people and their shitbag kids who keep coming over and saying things like "I didn't want onion" and "I'm a coeliac" at you.
Looking forward to a few pints tonight. I'll tell you that for nothing.
😂
Fantastic!
:laugh: I'm hoping you invited him over the next day!
Fucking brilliant ;D
Quote from: Trev on May 17, 2019, 08:24:21 PM
:laugh: I'm hoping you invited him over the next day!
No. Unfortunately not. That would have been some craic. Alas I didn't see him again until Friday afternoon when I got home from work and was fiddling with the dodgy front brake on my bike in the drive. I gave him a wave and thought that we would resume the usual niceties but no - he walked over towards me. "Some night the other night!" he laughed. "I was raw til about Wednesday. Missed a family birthday lunch with her folks and all on the Sunday, puking and the fear all day. She nearly ate the head off me."
"Oh right" says I "You won't be doing that again in a hurry."
"Why not? I'll do what I want!" says he.
I'd have found this more believable if he didn't turn and look behind him or lower his voice before he said he can do what he wants.
"Cool enough, give us a shout if you want to go for a few pints."
"Yeah." and he turns away. Then turns back and looks at me at my bike - "Em..... did you fix the flush on the downstairs toilet?"
"I did"
"Nice one. She's been on about that for weeks. The only reason I noticed though was that I puked in that jacks at some point and the fear was so bad I freaked out at the thought of getting the puke out of the broken toilet. Then the flush worked. And I nearly started crying."
Anyone know how this is going to work?
https://www.irishlegal.com/article/minimum-unit-alcohol-pricing-to-come-into-effect-within-a-year
Are the government proposing that all products are increased or just cheap, loss-leaders? Anything outside of standard beer is already expensive in the off-license.
I don't think that increasing the price of drink to discourage binge drinking is a surefire way to get results. It would be far more beneficial to educate young people about drinking and respecting the booze.
I travel to Germany a fair bit for work, I see kids 16 and up getting a single beer from kiosks and chilling with their friends in the park and then recycle the bottle. And look how much a case of high quality beer costs there. €16.99 plus the three quid deposit on the bottles.
https://shop.rewe.de/p/augustiner-hell-20x0-5l/5244382
In Ireland you'd spend your time worrying if the kid was going to throw their can in the river or wrap the bottle around your head when they were done.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on July 01, 2019, 05:29:31 PM
Are the government proposing that all products are increased or just cheap, loss-leaders?
Judging from that article just cheap cans will be effected as anything dearer will already by above the minimum price per unit of alcohol.
In reality, what will happen is if now dutch gold costs the same as a good beer then offos will up the ptice of good beer too.
Punk IPA is in Aldi for €1.49. Down from €2.49 for a 33cl bawtle.
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Quote from: stevie-0 on September 07, 2019, 04:26:59 PM
Guys..PRICE OF THE PINT IN DUBLIN !
Whats that all about ? How can they charge so much for a pint of Guinness for example in city center when the stuff is brewed a stones throw away ? Its what ? over 7 euros in some bars in temple bar and not much lower in other parts of the city. I was in remote West Donegal recently, middle of nowhere, the few bars I went to charged no more than 4.50 - 4.70 a pint
Yeah it's a joke, I never drink in Temple Bar but was in the Underground a while ago for a mates gig and was sickened when I was told it was nearly 7 quid for a pint of Guinness.
Pleasantly surprised though when I went in to the Clock on Thomas Street and it was 3.90 for a pint of Beamish.
Quote from: stevie-0 on September 07, 2019, 04:26:59 PM
Guys..PRICE OF THE PINT IN DUBLIN !
Whats that all about ? How can they charge so much for a pint of Guinness for example in city center when the stuff is brewed a stones throw away ? Its what ? over 7 euros in some bars in temple bar and not much lower in other parts of the city. I was in remote West Donegal recently, middle of nowhere, the few bars I went to charged no more than 4.50 - 4.70 a pint
Try The Snug on Stephen Street Upper (just at the junction of South Great George's St and Aungier St). Pints of Guinness and Smithwicks for the fair old price of €3.70 each.
We always head there when down in the capital.
Good aul juke box in it too.
https://www.totallydublin.ie/food-drink/bars/barfly-the-snug/
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I'd be a stout, brown ale, red, amber etc kind of guy. I like my British style beers - cask ale, bitter, Scottish ale and so on. While generally a fan of the craft beer movement I find the vast majority of it is focused on the pale and hoppy side. I like that stuff too, but 9 times out of 10 I'll go for a deep malty ale rather than a bitter hoppy one.
If I'm out (rare these days) I'll drink whatever alternative or craft is going - rebel red, chieftain (common now as Fran Well is macro owned), o haras etc. Occasionally I'll find myself in a specialist beer geek place and fill me belly. Locally, Athlone has a great new option in Dead Centre, though its very hop focused. If I'm caught somewhere with no choice I'll go back to Guinness but it's a major major limp tasteless inspid disappointment after years of real ale/craft beer. Lager is for holidays and if you drink bog standard Irish pub lager by choice you do not actually like beer.
Luckily I homebrew now the last few years. Always have some stout or brown or scotch on the go. Call them something metal and make up a bad ass necro label for the craic and get the tunes on!
Anyone know about Sinha Stout or Lion Stout I think is what it's called in Europe? It's from Sri Lanka it's best drink I have ever had.
Is it available in Ireland?
Recently discovered Rossini Italian lager in Aldi.
It's branded like Peroni, it's one of those "specially manufactured for Aldi" jobs, it's the same proof as Peroni and heck, it tastes like Peroni.
€1.79 for a loose 500ml bottle, not a bad sup at all.
Brown Bear IPA (Pearse Lyons brewery Dundalk) is in Aldi for 99c a bottle at the minute.
Don't think it will ladt long at that price so hurry up.
Tasty tipple it is too.....
Quote from: Ducky on October 11, 2019, 01:11:38 AM
Recently discovered Rossini Italian lager in Aldi.
It's branded like Peroni, it's one of those "specially manufactured for Aldi" jobs, it's the same proof as Peroni and heck, it tastes like Peroni.
€1.79 for a loose 500ml bottle, not a bad sup at all.
Must try this one. Cheers....
Quote from: mickO))) on October 10, 2019, 08:18:57 PM
Anyone know about Sinha Stout or Lion Stout I think is what it's called in Europe? It's from Sri Lanka it's best drink I have ever had.
Is it available in Ireland?
I think the Abbot Ale House in Cork used to have bottles of that stuff back in the days before they got rid of the off-license. Christ knows what you'd find in there some days.
Be cafeful with SE Asian beers like Sinha, Singha, Chang, Tsing Tao, Snow, Asahi etc. - they contain adjuncts like rice, corn and so on in place of malted barley that can lead to banging hangovers and/or puking.
Thanks I am lucky in the way I don't really get hangovers. I have been drinking stuff for about a year and have no issues the next day after even 10 bottles. Guinness foreign extra was always my favourite drink but this stuff is even better it's one of the few alcoholic drinks I really enjoy the taste of.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on October 11, 2019, 10:33:07 AM
Quote from: mickO))) on October 10, 2019, 08:18:57 PM
Anyone know about Sinha Stout or Lion Stout I think is what it's called in Europe? It's from Sri Lanka it's best drink I have ever had.
Is it available in Ireland?
Be cafeful with SE Asian beers like Sinha, Singha, Chang, Tsing Tao, Snow, Asahi etc. - they contain adjuncts like rice, corn and so on in place of malted barley that can lead to banging hangovers and/or puking.
Didn't realise that. I'm a big fan of Asahi. Probably wouldn't drink enough of them at a time to induce puking though. Wouldn't notice the difference in hangover either. I die regardless.
Quote from: Grim Reality on September 09, 2019, 09:35:53 PM
Locally, Athlone has a great new option in Dead Centre, though its very hop focused.
Dead Centre isn't bad but I find it a bit soulless at times. Too bright in there or something. Surprisingly enough, The Shack has a fairly ok beer selection and is a class spot for winter boozing. Malt House has a good selection too but they always have some shit band playing far too loud. More often than not it's full of scummy looking hen parties too. It would be a much better spot for drinking if every pub didn't insist on 'live entertainment'.
On the booze front, Lidl have been unreal the last few months for beer selection. Some steampunk looking Imperial stout at 8.5%, four 500ml cans for 6e. Class deal. Their crafty range is still going strong too. That brown ale of theirs is savage. They often have the 6 pack sampler of Belgian beers too (gulden draak, piraat) from time to time.
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Anyone know about Sinha Stout or Lion Stout I think is what it's called in Europe? It's from Sri Lanka it's best drink I have ever had.
Is it available in Ireland?
I think the Abbot Ale House in Cork used to have bottles of that stuff back in the days before they got rid of the off-license. Christ knows what you'd find in there some days.
Be cafeful with SE Asian beers like Sinha, Singha, Chang, Tsing Tao, Snow, Asahi etc. - they contain adjuncts like rice, corn and so on in place of malted barley that can lead to banging hangovers and/or puking.
Asahi and Super Bock are the two worst offenders for this. If it's warm you can actually taste the corn syrup!
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Quote from: Grim Reality on September 09, 2019, 09:35:53 PM
Locally, Athlone has a great new option in Dead Centre, though its very hop focused.
On the booze front, Lidl have been unreal the last few months for beer selection. Some steampunk looking Imperial stout at 8.5%, four 500ml cans for 6e. Class deal. Their crafty range is still going strong too. That brown ale of theirs is savage. They often have the 6 pack sampler of Belgian beers too (gulden draak, piraat) from time to time.
Not often enough! Savage pack, good value
I recently discovered Nine Monks. It's like an Irish Buckfast. It's tasty, and only €9.
Quote from: livingabortion on February 15, 2020, 05:20:16 AM
I recently discovered Nine Monks. It's like an Irish Buckfast. It's tasty, and only €9.
I seen that the other day. "Warning, high caffeine content" :laugh:
Is it worth buying? I can get Buckfast for the same price just over the border.
It has more caffiene than buckfast. I drank a bottle of it last year. Didn't like it. Never drank it again cos I can get bucky cheaper over the border.
Like a bit of stout, but the one I pick up whenever I see it is Galway Bay Buried At Sea .... severe smoky indulgence. Never a smoker, but I dig a smoky milk stout.
Quote from: Nail_Bombed on February 16, 2020, 02:20:45 PM
Like a bit of stout, but the one I pick up whenever I see it is Galway Bay Buried At Sea .... severe smoky indulgence. Never a smoker, but I dig a smoky milk stout.
I used to be a big fan of
Buried At Sea myself. Hadn't had it in ages but cans of it cropped in Bradley's last week so I bought a few. They've changed the recipe since I had it last, not for the better in my humble opinion. Stuck with a few cans of it now.
If you like milk stout then I highly recommend Third Circle's
Needs More Cowbell served cool but not cold. Brewed in Dublin. Currently on offer in a lot of places at 4 for €10. And at 6.5% - a lovely winter warmer.
(https://www.martinsofflicence.ie/cms/images/360x510_p1574625512696_ihw6ppaq.jpg)
Do Lidl to do any beers like Paulaner?,those kinda cloudy beers?
They do but I couldn't tell you what it's called.
Quote from: Paul keohane on April 22, 2020, 11:30:39 PM
Do Lidl to do any beers like Paulaner?,those kinda cloudy beers?
Patronus Wheat Beer 5.5%
Perlenbacher Weissbier 5%
Franziskaner Wheat Beer 5.0%
I can recommend them all for taste and they're all under €1.50 for 500ml as far as I remember.
Well, the Franziskaner is if it's on multi buy offer....
4x Gulden Draak 9000 for a tenner in lidl, and the 6x Belgian beer sampler for 15 quid. I predict a weekend of yeasty farts ahead.
Quote from: Paul keohane on April 22, 2020, 11:30:39 PM
Do Lidl to do any beers like Paulaner?,those kinda cloudy beers?
Aldi do Schöfferhofer which, even with it's cheap price-tag, is fairly bullet proof. They also do Spaten which is a helles style and well regarded in Germany.
Recently Aldi have also had Einseidler which is brewed in Chemnitz near enough the Czech border. It's a helles beer but the Czech influence is definitely apparent - liberal use of a biscuit malt in the grain bill. Kind of a Augustiner/Urquell hybrid.
I know that none of you asked for a lecture but fuck it.
Nice one! cheers lads.
Quote from: Paul keohane on April 23, 2020, 03:02:07 PM
Nice one cheers
No bothers, kiiiiiiid. :abbath:
Lads, while I'm here - is there any chance of resurrecting the old MI "The Fear" style stories in this thread?
I put one in this thread going back a few months ago and I'm more than willing to share other stories of fuck-acting.
I remember Hemlock on MI had a class one about trying to eat Jamón ham directly off the bone in a tent and losing a tooth.
Who knows, might cheer us up a bit.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on April 23, 2020, 03:09:54 PM
Quote from: Paul keohane on April 23, 2020, 03:02:07 PM
Nice one cheers
No bothers, kiiiiiiid. :abbath:
Lads, while I'm here - is there any chance of resurrecting the old MI "The Fear" style stories in this thread?
I put one in this thread going back a few months ago and I'm more than willing to share other stories of fuck-acting.
I remember Hemlock on MI had a class one about trying to eat Jamón ham directly off the bone in a tent and losing a tooth.
Who knows, might cheer us up a bit.
If ever a "FEAR" thread should be started by someone, then it should be by someone with a username like StoutAndAle..... :laugh:
That was an amazing thread. Jaysus, some awful horror stories. It's an awful shame it can't be resurrected.
There was some fuckin unreal stuff in that thread. I hadn't too many to contribute but I thoroughly enjoyed reading them.
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on April 23, 2020, 03:27:53 PM
If ever a "FEAR" thread should be started by someone, then it should be by someone with a username like StoutAndAle..... :laugh:
Go back a few pages and see what I did to myself a while ago.
Yeah just had a read of it there, and it put me in mind of a quick one sort of involving myself but I wasn't the victim.
A fella I knew and his bird were supping on a few cans with me in mine and they decided to head off to the nightclub. I wasn't in the form for that so I stayed home on the cans and tunes. Anyway yer man was fairly buckled heading off and his bird was already starting to give him shit over how bad he was. They lived out of town and I said I'd leave the back door open for them if they couldn't get a way home later just let yourselves in I'll leave blankets etc.
Next morning I get up no sign of either of them grand job they must have got a taxi. Around an hour later his woman calls down. Well how'd ye get on last night? says I. She tells me he is still in the cell down town. Turns out he was so polluted she told him where to go when he wasn't allowed in to the nightclub so he staggered back down to mine and in the back door. I was long gone to bed so he fell around the kitchen for a bit trying to see if there was any drink in the place and sat down at the table when he couldn't find any. Few minutes later he looks up and some woman he'd never seen before is telling him to get the fuck out of her house who is he what is he doing. In a full state of confusion he goes out the door, to be met 2 minutes later by the Gardai who do him the service of throwing him to the cell and charging him when he sobered up the next day.
Not your ideal Saturday night.
Just picked up 4 x Gulden Draak 9000 in Lidl, I find myself mostly buying online of craftcentral.ie, all cans and great selection of mostly IPA's and a lot of good Irish stuff,
Had an imperial stout from 8degrees last week, 11.2%, some of the stuff is pricey but they do have some good deals of 4 for 10 etc.
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Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on April 23, 2020, 03:27:53 PM
If ever a "FEAR" thread should be started by someone, then it should be by someone with a username like StoutAndAle..... :laugh:
Go back a few pages and see what I did to myself a while ago.
Quote it and let it be the first post in the new "FEAR" thread... :laugh:
Some nice beers landed in Lidl today....
https://www.lidl.ie/en/c/craft-beer-specials/c1132/w1
Goulden Draak Quadruple at 10.5%? Guess that's my Saturday night sorted
I don't think iv ever tasted a beer higher than 6%.
10.5%!,are you buckled after 2/3 bottles or what?
The Perlenbacher Weissbier is the business. Would be my go to cheap can, outside Guinness. Just make sure to have it chilled as it's fairly cuntish at room temp.
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on April 23, 2020, 05:21:41 PM
Quote it and let it be the first post in the new "FEAR" thread... :laugh:
Right so.
Forgot how malty the Brown Bear Indian Pale Ale is, hmm 🤔
Just at the end of my first bottle now, it's tasty stuff alright.
Edit: Downed 5 of them and have moved onto Guinness West Indies. Black Bear is far too nice and drinkable.
Of course I'll stock up next time I'm in Aldi.
Aldi could do with changing up their selection every once in a while. Although the Einsedler mentioned a few posts back was fucking class. I cleaned the local Aldi out of it not so long ago, but they haven't restocked it since. Grand to get Spaten there for under €2 though. Class summer beer.
The Brown Bear stuff has improved a lot since it first came out, I think it's made up in Newry at Station Works.
Quote from: Slaughterday on April 25, 2020, 06:31:13 PM
Aldi could do with changing up their selection every once in a while. Although the Einsedler mentioned a few posts back was fucking class. I cleaned the local Aldi out of it not so long ago, but they haven't restocked it since. Grand to get Spaten there for under €2 though. Class summer beer.
The Brown Bear stuff has improved a lot since it first came out, I think it's made up in Newry at Station Works.
It's brewed in the Pearse Lyons Brewery in Dundalk. In the old McArdle's Brewery plant....
Really nice bang off it, love the stuff.
As for Aldi. Have you tried their Helles beer? Same price as the Brown Bear IPA, €1.99.... Delicious stuff....
Right I know we are all proper connoisseurs here, but what is anyone's favourite of the dirt cheap shite? The proper jakey stuff I mean. Or being the sort who is above such low standards what is the worst you have drank? Fancy beers included.
Favourite shit stuff is Excelsior.
Worst good stuff is (I'm so cheap I'm struggling here) I dunno, I actually don't.
For dirt cheap Tesco lager isn't too bad, once you have it cold it's no worse than any other cheap lager
To be fair the old tesco 4 cans for 2.50 is as grand as any of them if you happen to be scaldy enough to drink it. I often let back 12 of those cunts. The small can is a bit of a bastard though. No sooner have I the first slug gone out of it I am ready to open the next one and I end up drinking them right fast.
I've mostly moved on from the cheap stuff but jayziz, I spent many a year only able to afford that stuff. My old reliable before going out was a bottle of bucky and 2 cans of Dutch Gold. Even went through a phase of a 3 litre bottle of Devil's Bit cider. Think that was £3 at the time. Aldi do a decent drop, St. Etienne. For summer festivals a slab of that was cheap but was actually lovely. Then in college a case of the 24 stubby bottles of headache beer always did the job.
Ah the fuckin 3 litre of Devil's Bit was some ordeal, the spit used to be welling up under my bottom lip from the very first mouthful but because of the price it was all I used to drink for my first few years at it. I still enjoy the Dutch Gold as well but I can't hack the cider at all.
Jaysus the flagons of devils bit...Christ. Myself and three others drank one each after the Junior Cert marks came out, and it put me off cider for life. Linden Village was also god awful shite but when you were underage you took what you could get. Myself and a buddy once robbed a bottle of Remy Martin cognac from his mother's cabinet, but far too young to appreciate it. We ended up getting into a ruck afterwards whilst listening to 'Dry Kill Logic', who we thought were cool at the time.
Ah the good auld cheap stuff! The offie near me used to do a deal every second week or so of 10 cans for €8 on one of the usual suspects, Bavaria, Tuborg, Karpackie, Prazsky, Oranjeboum, Hackenberg...good times, at least the bits I remember. No way I'd be able for that now
Did any of ye ever come across the plastic bottles of Martens Pils before? They used to sell em in Costcutter near me, 6 x 500ml for 4 quid. 5% as well if i remember correctly. They weren't the best but they'd get you there. Also the same brewery used to make Damburger. Came in a red can at 5% and a green can at 4%. The green can was actually nice but I haven't seen it anywhere in years.
I completely forgot about Oranjeboum as well but that's probably for the best. I went on a right buzz of drinking Holsten Pils when Dunnes used to sell it at 4 for 6 quid. I remember it being lovely but again I haven't seen it in years.
Quote from: astfgyl on April 26, 2020, 06:35:52 PM
Did any of ye ever come across the plastic bottles of Martens Pils before? They used to sell em in Costcutter near me, 6 x 500ml for 4 quid. 5% as well if i remember correctly. They weren't the best but they'd get you there. Also the same brewery used to make Damburger. Came in a red can at 5% and a green can at 4%. The green can was actually nice but I haven't seen it anywhere in years.
I completely forgot about Oranjeboum as well but that's probably for the best. I went on a right buzz of drinking Holsten Pils when Dunnes used to sell it at 4 for 6 quid. I remember it being lovely but again I haven't seen it in years.
The Brouwerij Martens in Kaulille (Belgium) was right behind the apartment I was living in during the 90's.
We used to go up to the brewery and buy crates of 24 bottles. Cheap as chips too....
Grand stuff out of a glass bottle but when I had it here in those plastic bottles it was never the same (obviously).
Hackenberg! Jaysus, haven't heard that name in a long time. The last time I drank that was coming down on a bus from Dublin to Limerick. This was before the days of the motorway and no toilets on buses. The journey would have been 3 hours easily. As my bladder filled, I'd to swally the cans so I had a receptacle to piss in. Leaving the bus with a small bag leaking with piss-filled cans wasn't too pleasant. Still, better than leaving em on the bus for some other poor fucker to deal with.
Oranjeboum was a tasty sup but the hangovers were horrendous from even a moderate amount of it. Grand if you're of the 'the morn takes care of the morn' school of philosophy.
Whenever I have visitors here in madrid from home, they are astounded by the cheap beer in the supermarkets. You can get the equivalent of 6 cans for less than 2 beans. And it's probably better than most of the cheap stuff you can buy in Dunnes etc.
Oranjeboum, jesus, there's a name I haven't thought of in absolute years!
Quote from: Caomhaoin on April 26, 2020, 07:04:00 PM
You can get the equivalent of 6 cans for less than 2 beans. And it's probably better than most of the cheap stuff you can buy in Dunnes etc.
Ah jaysus I'd be finished if beer got that cheap
Quote from: astfgyl on April 26, 2020, 12:57:09 AM
Right I know we are all proper connoisseurs here, but what is anyone's favourite of the dirt cheap shite?
Lidl do a "craft beer" range from Hatherwood Brewing - Plunged Orange, Twisted Knot and Bitter Iron. All decent for €1.29 a can. They currently have a beer from Finland by Pynikkin Brewery called "Pacific" - last time that I had it, it was good tack.
I've actually drank the three of those and they were all nice. I must try the Pacific this evening. I do love me cheap shite but I'm not averse to something with a flavour every now and again. Speaking of good stuff I'm actually thinking of getting White Gypsy to deliver me a keg for the bank holiday weekend. Well a small keg because it will only be me drinking it but an oul treat is in order every now and again and it works out around 2 quid a pint which is not bad at all.
Quote from: astfgyl on April 27, 2020, 03:07:37 PM
I've actually drank the three of those and they were all nice. I must try the Pacific this evening. I do love me cheap shite but I'm not averse to something with a flavour every now and again. Speaking of good stuff I'm actually thinking of getting White Gypsy to deliver me a keg for the bank holiday weekend. Well a small keg because it will only be me drinking it but an oul treat is in order every now and again and it works out around 2 quid a pint which is not bad at all.
Do they supply everything or do you have all the necessary equipment? I like the sound of €2 pints!
No he supplies the gas and tap as well. I dunno what his range is, but it would be worth getting on to him and see. A mate had a keg delivered last week but he is only 10 miles from the brewery.
Just had a bottle of The Crafty Brewing Company's (from Lidl) brown ale and it was proper tasty. Nice pang of toffee from it, not at all malty (I'm not a fan of the malt). Grabbed a few different beers of the same brand so not 100% on the price, but it cost between €1.79 and €1.99 for a 500ml bottle.
Up next, their lager.
Edit - had the two lagers, there's are pretty decent.
I'm probably elsewhere in this thread extolling its virtues but Karpackie is the business and is my go-to for drink. Used to be a complete whore for a jetpack of devil's bit years ago but not any more. Two flagons for a tenner, disgracefully drunk.
Used to adore IPAs and drank many a wild variety of them but they tear the stomach off me now so ai don't often go after them anymore. Happy to try any variety of lagers and pilsners though. My actual favourite at the moment is Staropramen, I find them to have a lovely flavour without being overly heavy or hard to drink. Very crisp out of the bottle. You'd get a good deal on them often too, there was 4 660ml bottles in Dunnes the other week for a tenner. Peroni is decent too for the first one or two but the flavour is a bit weak, they're just easy bottles. Moretti is cracking too but I find it way better on tap than out of a bottle.
Picked up a couple of O'Shea's beer from Aldi, their 'Cold Dark Heart' Stout and an IPA.
Anyone had them?
Supping on the stout now and it's decent enough.
Minor query for any of ye on bottled stout. Do ye drink straight from the bottle? I do all the time but have gotten some funny looks off a few heads. The likes of foreign extra have a scuzzy looking head anyway so best not be looking at it :laugh:
Quote from: Wiseblood on May 15, 2020, 10:01:40 PM
Minor query for any of ye on bottled stout. Do ye drink straight from the bottle? I do all the time but have gotten some funny looks off a few heads. The likes of foreign extra have a scuzzy looking head anyway so best not be looking at it :laugh:
I'd always drink bottled stout straight from the bottle. Find it much nicer.
Would also sup stout from the bottle.
Had a feed of White Hag's "Róc" earlier. For such a small brewery they pump out a hape of good stuff.
I went into the pub one day for a quick pint and I asked for a large bottle of Guinness. Here he says, Pint Glass or Half? No you're grand, I'll take it from the neck, I said. His reply was that if I'm drinking it in his pub, I'll drink it out of a glass or not at all. Prick. I would have walked out but there wasn't another pub anywhere near the courthouse and I only had a few minutes.
Nowadays I do use a half pint glass in the pub but at home I drink it from the neck it's much sharper like that.
He said that to you? Fuckin' hell, that's ballbag stuff. To a paying customer?! You'd have been all within your rights to tell him to fuck off.
Quote from: ldj on May 15, 2020, 09:09:30 PM
Picked up a couple of O'Shea's beer from Aldi, their 'Cold Dark Heart' Stout and an IPA.
Anyone had them?
Supping on the stout now and it's decent enough.
Chanced their helles lager yesterday, was very tasty indeed.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on May 16, 2020, 03:15:22 PM
He said that to you? Fuckin' hell, that's ballbag stuff. To a paying customer?! You'd have been all within your rights to tell him to fuck off.
I haven't darkened his door since but he is a known cunt anyway. It was a one off for me to go near the place anyway.
Eight cans of 500ml Rockshore forn10 euro, sound.
Anyone familiar with White Hag brewing company? They pop up on my FB feed. 24 cans (330ml) for €60. Not cheap by any stretch. It galls me if I have to pay more than €2 for a 500ml bottle in Lidl/Aldi or if Tesco/Dunnes don't happen to be doing their 4 for €10. So, are they tasty enough to have as an odd treat? I'm clueless as regards malt, hops n all that jazz, I just like what I like.
Worked in pubs for years. Never seen anyone wanting to drink stout from the bottle.
I'd always have it in a pint glass, never tried it from the bottle. I will now, out of curiosity.
Quote from: hellfire on May 17, 2020, 02:22:06 PM
Worked in pubs for years. Never seen anyone wanting to drink stout from the bottle.
I agree it isn't the done thing in general but it does keep the pint a bit sharper for those who are into that sort of thing. I mean if it's ok to drink a longneck of Bud from the neck why not the large bottle of stout other than the fact it looks a bit unconventional?
Quote from: Emphyrio on May 17, 2020, 02:11:45 PM
Anyone familiar with White Hag brewing company? They pop up on my FB feed. 24 cans (330ml) for €60. Not cheap by any stretch. It galls me if I have to pay more than €2 for a 500ml bottle in Lidl/Aldi or if Tesco/Dunnes don't happen to be doing their 4 for €10. So, are they tasty enough to have as an odd treat? I'm clueless as regards malt, hops n all that jazz, I just like what I like.
Yep, absolutely love most of their stuff. Their brewery is just out the road from me here in Sligo and they pump out a great selection for such a small spot. Most pubs around here too would have something of theirs on tap as well, so it's pretty popular. I've seen their IPA (Little Fawn) on tap in quite a few spots in Cork too. On tap they're the normal pint price.
Their lemon and hibiscus sour is my all time favourite beer (to be fair most people either seem to love or hate it and sours in general). Could drink it 'til I drop. Had a feed of cans of their Róc lager the other evening. Nice and refreshing, goes down almost too easy. Atlantean IPA is savage too.
Price-wise it is a bit saucy, but a friend of mine down in Cork ordered the 24 pack for €60 the other week and she said the P and P was free at least.
Nice one, Ducky. I think I'll treat myself so.
Quote from: Emphyrio on May 17, 2020, 02:11:45 PM
Anyone familiar with White Hag brewing company? They pop up on my FB feed. 24 cans (330ml) for €60. Not cheap by any stretch. It galls me if I have to pay more than €2 for a 500ml bottle in Lidl/Aldi or if Tesco/Dunnes don't happen to be doing their 4 for €10. So, are they tasty enough to have as an odd treat? I'm clueless as regards malt, hops n all that jazz, I just like what I like.
Most of The White Hag's stuff is excellent - Atlantean, Ninth Wave, The Phantom, Little Fawn, Dark Druid and Bran & Sceolan are all very tasty. I'm not sold on sour beers - I'm of the opinion that if you got a beer that smelled/tasted that way 10 years ago then you would have handed it back - so I can't really comment except to say that the ones I've had from The White Hag weren't that nice.
You're better off seeing if you can get a mixed case - you'll either get bored of the same one or get stuck with 23 beers that you don't like if the first one is bad.
Quote from: Emphyrio on May 18, 2020, 03:30:08 PM
Nice one, Ducky. I think I'll treat myself so.
No worries! As Stout & Ale says, have a gawk if there's a sampler slab available.
I know my brother had one a few years back, although he does know someone working there and wanted to try a few different ones out, so I dunno if they sorted him out or if it's a regular thing.
They do super limited 750ml bottles of interesting gear for their birthday (which is usually celebrated with "Hagfest" - tour of the brewery and get sloshed, then the short train journey back to town) and Christmas. I had the Christmas brew one year and it was like drinking syrup. Was about 10% (which I didn't realise) so got rat arsed in no time at all. The bottles are nice for collecting as they're sealed with wax.
Ya, ideally I'd be looking at one of those sampler packs. Seems to be slabs made up of 3 or 4 beers at the moment. I'm sure I'd cope.
Beercloud.ie
Set up recently by dead centre in Athlone. They do a few sampler mixed cases. Prices are a bit steep but that's craft for you. St Mels is decent value for very solid beer. Their brown ale is amongst the best beer in the country in my opinion.
Quote from: Emphyrio on May 18, 2020, 07:38:29 PM
Ya, ideally I'd be looking at one of those sampler packs. Seems to be slabs made up of 3 or 4 beers at the moment. I'm sure I'd cope.
Do try out the sours if you see them in Tesco, you'll either love or hate them but they're an experience for sure.
Quote from: Grim Reality on May 18, 2020, 11:20:29 PM
Beercloud.ie
Craft Central is better than Beer Cloud in my opinion. Bigger inventory and plenty of 4 for €10/4 for €12 offers so you can make a mixed case including single cans if you want to try something that you're 50/50 on.
https://craftcentral.ie/
I'll have a look there too.
For anyone doing their Tesco shop, these are on offer atm, 4 cans (440ml) for €10...these are absolutely fantastic, as is the single malt ipa.
https://www.eightdegrees.ie/may-2016-limited-edition-citraipa/
I can safely say there is no way in hell, other than maybe being on holidays and having to drink the local piss or being in a pub with limited choice, that I could go back to 'bog standard' beers or lager. Was doing a barbecue last week, ran out of the good stuff and had to resort to bottles of Heineken. Absolutely insipid stuff. I have completely reconciled myself to becoming a beer snob and will gladly pay silly money for something that actually tastes good!!
I swore I wouldn't turn into one of them cunts too but there really is a world of difference.
Whisky and wine 'snobbery' are viewer as considerably more legitimate than the beer equivalent. As long as one doesn't act arrogantly or pompously , who cares?
I did enjoy Gavin McInnes mini rant about not understanding why anyone drinks anything other than Budweiser though - 'there's already an established King , I don't care about your fruity hops, stick with the King'.
Inevitably there's twats with opinions on anything, but it goes the other way too. I said to someone before I don't really like malty beers, and I got called a pretentious twat. That's like getting called a pretentious twat for saying you don't like spicy food or you prefer coffee without sugar.
I got drunk twice in my twenties, and I realise my aversion to beer back then was precisely because it all tasted like swill. No moral high ground, no health reasons, it just all tasted like pish.
I dunno lads, I like the taste of the fancy stuff and all but rakes of cheap cans of lager is where it's at for me.
Sometimes on payday I'll treat myself and buy 8 cans of Dutch Gold.
Quote from: astfgyl on May 19, 2020, 03:05:19 PM
I dunno lads, I like the taste of the fancy stuff and all but rakes of cheap cans of lager is where it's at for me.
Sometimes on payday I'll treat myself and buy 8 cans of Dutch Gold.
A few fancy ones is grand but no harm finding some cheap lager you actually enjoy and getting four of them alongside them. Even though last weekend I went right for five mixed large bottles of various european pilsners and the four karpackie and thought that i was going to have a nervous breakdown or sweat myself to death the next morning. Usually it takes a few more than that but they hit me like a fuckin truck
I find if I have a stack of the cheap stuff I'll batter it and get wrecked, but the same money on a few posh cans and I'm content with that (that's obviously my lack of self control more than anything, but that's the reality for me).
But as John Kimble says, those Eight Degree brews are savage. I think the single malt is 6% so you can have a good session on them too.
Quote from: Emphyrio on May 19, 2020, 10:03:09 AM
I'll have a look there too.
You should. Just put in an order with them for some savage stuff. Few nice bargains too.
Quote from: Emphyrio on May 19, 2020, 11:01:04 AM
I swore I wouldn't turn into one of them cunts too but there really is a world of difference.
Ah here!
Quote from: StoutAndAle on May 19, 2020, 04:41:30 PM
Quote from: Emphyrio on May 19, 2020, 10:03:09 AM
I'll have a look there too.
You should. Just put in an order with them for some savage stuff. Few nice bargains too.
Quote from: Emphyrio on May 19, 2020, 11:01:04 AM
I swore I wouldn't turn into one of them cunts too but there really is a world of difference.
Ah here!
Ah you know the type. Went to a craft beer pub in Galway a few years ago and it was full of them. I'm still hopelessly uneducated on the subject but I've sampled pretty much 90% of the various brands in all the supermarkets. I've actually had to take note of the ones that I really like for repeat purchases.
Spent €80 on fuckin paint today so I'll have a sconce at all those recommendations and put in an order.
I'm pretty much the same in that I'm only familiar enough with whatever I've tried from the supermarkets or off-licence. Some of the lads I work with are very into the whole thing and are subscribed to getting samplers every week etc. I just know what I like really. Must try something like this, though it's not cheap
https://www.thebigromance.ie/shop/growlers
Having a Brown Bear IPA now after 2 bottles of Carlsberg while doing a spot of painting. Not sure if it's only Aldi that do them. Absolutely marvellous stuff.
Quote from: Emphyrio on May 19, 2020, 04:52:39 PM
Ah you know the type.
I definitely do. I was only having the craic. There's a few lads I know that can't understand how I still spend money on records but the same lads are buying beers for €12 and "aging" them.
Get some Kinnegar stuff if you like pale ale - Big Bunny and Scraggy Bay are super fresh at the minute. Barely canned a week or two.
Never been much of a wine drinker, but started hitting the wine cupboard since lockdown started. Whenever I'd get a bottle off the neighbours at Christmas , or if people are coming over to the gaf and bring one, it'd get thrown up out the way and forgotten about, must've been about 15 bottles there
I've come to the conclusion that wine isn't too bad, and it all tastes the same
Quote from: StoutAndAle on May 19, 2020, 05:33:59 PM
Quote from: Emphyrio on May 19, 2020, 04:52:39 PM
Ah you know the type.
Get some Kinnegar stuff if you like pale ale - Big Bunny and Scraggy Bay are super fresh at the minute. Barely canned a week or two.
Kinnegar Limeburner is mighty stuff.
Quote from: Emphyrio on May 19, 2020, 05:32:08 PM
Having a Brown Bear IPA now after 2 bottles of Carlsberg while doing a spot of painting. Not sure if it's only Aldi that do them. Absolutely marvellous stuff.
Went in to the little shitter in under the stairs lately "Sure no bother Babe I'll have that painted up in a few minutes"...
2 hours later fucking poisoned staggering out with 1 very see-through coat done..
"How can you not say to me that isn't the fuckin best NIN? Fuckin state of what you do be putting on it isn't even music that you're into, only shite"
😂
Ordered a mixed-24 box (picked by myself) from Craft Central on Tuesday lunchtime, arrived yesterday morning. Less than 24 hours door-to-door. I'd been hearing about them suffering delays due to DPD being overwhelmed but obviously not in my case.
With special offers I saved nearly 30 quid off list prices.
As jakey as I am, I'm tempted to join in on the Craft Central buzz just the once, looking at the site here
Edit: there is one here called Breakfast Stout :laugh: I'm in (well it's out of stock but there are so many more)
Edit 2: They can fuck off a bit with their shitty small cans for a lot of them as well though. Just because it's 13 percent doesn't mean I don't want the full can
Quote from: astfgyl on May 21, 2020, 09:02:42 PM
As jakey as I am, I'm tempted to join in on the Craft Central buzz just the once, looking at the site here
Edit: there is one here called Breakfast Stout :laugh: I'm in (well it's out of stock but there are so many more)
Edit 2: They can fuck off a bit with their shitty small cans for a lot of them as well though. Just because it's 13 percent doesn't mean I don't want the full can
Breakfast stouts can be class. The "breakfast" bit comes from the use of oatmeal to add extra sugar (i.e. more alcohol) to the mash for natural sweetness. It has a lovely by-product of giving it a silky smooth texture without nitroing it.
They have a beer called Astral Grains from Lineman brewing on there. 4 x 440ml cans - €12, 7.7% Imperial stout. I think they've made an error on the pricing. It's €6.50 a can in my local offie.
Beware - anything that has Imperial or Breakfast before the word stout = lunatic soup. Don't crush it like a Guinness.
EDIT: Just to be clear - Craft Central are offering 4 cans of Astral Grains for €12 in total. Not €12 each.
Quote from: astfgyl on May 21, 2020, 09:02:42 PM
Edit 2: They can fuck off a bit with their shitty small cans for a lot of them as well though. Just because it's 13 percent doesn't mean I don't want the full can
Lidl have these 6% orange pale ales and they're tasty as fuck. At first I was wanting them to be in big cans, but I don't mind the smaller ones now. I'm not so much of a jakey, and I have a bad habit of leaving half a can down and forgetting about it, and then having to drink the horrible flatness.
I don't have this issue with small cans!
Quote from: StoutAndAle on May 22, 2020, 08:55:08 AM
Quote from: astfgyl on May 21, 2020, 09:02:42 PM
As jakey as I am, I'm tempted to join in on the Craft Central buzz just the once, looking at the site here
Edit: there is one here called Breakfast Stout :laugh: I'm in (well it's out of stock but there are so many more)
Edit 2: They can fuck off a bit with their shitty small cans for a lot of them as well though. Just because it's 13 percent doesn't mean I don't want the full can
Breakfast stouts can be class. The "breakfast" bit comes from the use of oatmeal to add extra sugar (i.e. more alcohol) to the mash for natural sweetness. It has a lovely by-product of giving it a silky smooth texture without nitroing it.
They have a beer called Astral Grains from Lineman brewing on there. 4 x 440ml cans - €12, 7.7% Imperial stout. I think they've made an error on the pricing. It's €6.50 a can in my local offie.
Beware - anything that has Imperial or Breakfast before the word stout = lunatic soup. Don't crush it like a Guinness.
EDIT: Just to be clear - Craft Central are offering 4 cans of Astral Grains for €12 in total. Not €12 each.
Every day is indeed a school day. I will endeavour to forget the true reason for the name when I'm drinking it at 10 in the morning though to convince myself that it is actually acceptable to get stuck in at that hour!
I reckon my best bet there is to get a slab of something to absorb the delivery price. Fucking monthly pay dictates that I wait until next week though but at least it will be grand for the bank holiday weekend
Quote from: Giggles on May 22, 2020, 09:38:30 AM
Lidl have these 6% orange pale ales and they're tasty as fuck.
I've had those and can confirm they're very nice. Unfortunately for me I'm a pig and by the time I have the first mouthful down, it's time to be cracking open the second can
Having Peroni this weekend. Four of those 660ml bottles in Tesco for ten quid is deadly.
Quote from: Ducky on May 22, 2020, 04:34:01 PM
Having Peroni this weekend. Four of those 660ml bottles in Tesco for ten quid is deadly.
Yup, had those a few weeks ago. Lovely jawb boss..
Would you not be better getting a dozen or so? So we can all regale in your alcohol adventures over the next week or so.... :laugh:
Nope, because I'm a man of self restraint and the only adventures of be having with all those bottle around the house would be "got me stomached pumped" :laugh:
O'Shea's seem to have given fancy new labels to their stuff in Aldi. Still top notch. Had to pick up a few as my delivery from the White Hag didn't land on today.
Been ordering of craftcentral.ie for the last few months, Put in the order Wednesday evening or Thursday morning to have delivered Friday morning, usually just get 10 or 12 at a time, 4 for 10 euros, 4 for 12 euros and maybe get one or two of the dearer ones. Always go for the high % ones as well.
Your FB stuff is pretty much all beer related. In fact I should probably blame you for getting into this ordering beer lark.
Cheers for the recommendation on craft central. Some unreal deals there.
Quote from: Slaughterday on May 23, 2020, 03:51:20 PM
Cheers for the recommendation on craft central. Some unreal deals there.
Such as?
Any of the 4 for 12 deals for anything over 7% really!
Picked up a few 8 Degrees Full Irish and Grafters Kolsch style beer from Tesco tonight.
The Grafters was very tasty particularly, would go down a treat on a hot day.
My White Hag delivery arrived....after 6 fuckin days. Only tried 2 last night cos I'd to put out, Atlantean and Little Fawn. The latter is a bit bland but Atlantean is lovely. Having a Ninth Wave now and it's also lovely. The Bran and Sceolan up next. 7.2%.
For what you get I'd have to say it's pricey. 330ml Cans at €2.50 each. I've had tastier, cheaper and bigger quantities from Tesco, Aldi etc but apart from the delay, it's nice to have beer delivered.
Love the Bran and Sceolan, I've one in the fridge, enjoying a Hope Handsome Jack at the moment 6.6% IPA, perfect garden drinking sauce on this lovely evening.
Roasting hot day, Rheinbacher Weissbier in the garden. Perfectly good for the price.
Wrong thread
A few bottles of McGargle's double IPA cooling in the fridge. Slab of Guinness for the evenings. Life could be worse.
I never drink Guinness at home and rarely drink it out, but it's a go to when theres nothing else interesting in a place. But christ with this lockdown I'm craving a good pint of it in some random rural west cork pub. Might just have to buy a can
I rarely drank it bar in a couple of pubs I'd be into the odd time, one in Galway (The Ol'55, best pint of Guinness in the city) and one at home. Since this lockdown started though, I've gotten into the habit of a couple of cans of draught most nights. Helps me sleep, but it's a bit heavy in the hot weather.
Jaysus lads I dunno how ye can drink cans of draught Guinness. They are awful. Then again I wouldn't be mad about pints of it either. It's Extra Stout all the way for me
Drinking one now. When they're freezing out of the fridge they're grand. Plus handiness comes into it - it's a lot easier to throw a slab into the boot of the car once a week than to be filling bags with bottles, and I'm a lazy cunt anyway.
The extra stout never goes down in price either. I've never found a slab of it on offer anywhere. They must know once we go black we can't go back
Can of draught Guinness in a pint glass is the business, ya madman!
I dunno, I get a bad buzz off it. I would drink it if it was all I had, but I would rather a can of excelsior straight from the can if I had both. Have you sampled the delights of the extra stout? I used to live on the draught until I tried the large bottle. It's something special.
I can only get the small extra stout bottles here. I buy it from time to time, but it's damn expensive round these parts.
I can't figure out why it's the one beer that never goes on offer anywhere ever. The price is the price and that's it. 4 large bottles for a tenner is the best I've seen. Now to be fair, 20 quid would have me broke up so not a bad result either I suppose
On another note but connected, remember the 330ml bottles of Draught that were supposed to be drank from the neck, for lads in the nightclub? I was always so locked drinking them that I can't remember if they were good or bad but I remember they didn't stay on the market for long is all
Can of draught in a glass is great! It's a bit lighter than a pint, goes down (and more to the point, settles) much more easily.
Controversial booze opinion - I'd choose a pint of Murphy's or Beamish one hundred times over a pint of Guinness.
Quote from: Ducky on June 06, 2020, 12:05:49 AM
Can of draught in a glass is great! It's a bit lighter than a pint, goes down (and more to the point, settles) much more easily.
Controversial booze opinion - I'd choose a pint of Murphy's or Beamish one hundred times over a pint of Guinness.
Beamish is underrated
Quote from: Ducky on June 06, 2020, 12:05:49 AM
Can of draught in a glass is great! It's a bit lighter than a pint, goes down (and more to the point, settles) much more easily.
Controversial booze opinion - I'd choose a pint of Murphy's or Beamish one hundred times over a pint of Guinness.
I'd place them all on an equal footing but none of them give me the koi no yokan
Beamish is too sweet, but I did go through a phase of drinking it in my youth. I also went through a phase of drinking cider too, but I'd drink my own piss before drinking that piss again. Bottles of Murphy's are nice.
Right with you on the Cider, I was weaned on it but never again. It just isn't worth the cramps
Quote from: astfgyl on June 06, 2020, 12:57:59 AM
Right with you on the Cider, I was weaned on it but never again. It just isn't worth the cramps
is that not a sulphites thing
It's the only drink I know that warns me about sulphites
Quote from: astfgyl on June 06, 2020, 01:54:00 AM
It's the only drink I know that warns me about sulphites
that just means the others are lying to you. to be fair I can drink cider like it's water, no bodily effects but there's a weird sulphite depression that comes about a week later that's kind of terrifying, didn't know about it until researching and hearing other peoples accounts. Never get it with any other booze
Having seen the bags of shit that goes into cheap ciders (very specifically Devil's Bit) you would be amazed if they don't absolutely cut the guts off you. Now that said, even after seeing a man kick piles of some sort of additive into a vat with the same boots he was standing in a puddle smoking a fag in not five minutes earlier, I still continued to drink flagons of the stuff for years out of some poorly placed local pride. ...I'd still take a whoosh of a flagon if it was going to be fair.
Quote from: ochoill on June 06, 2020, 12:31:49 PM
Having seen the bags of shit that goes into cheap ciders (very specifically Devil's Bit) you would be amazed if they don't absolutely cut the guts off you. Now that said, even after seeing a man kick piles of some sort of additive into a vat with the same boots he was standing in a puddle smoking a fag in not five minutes earlier, I still continued to drink flagons of the stuff for years out of some poorly placed local pride. ...I'd still take a whoosh of a flagon if it was going to be fair.
what's the story behind this, did you get a job in a brewery- actually I shudder to think about what goes on/into a lot of our beverages and food items
Quote from: mugz on June 06, 2020, 01:45:07 PM
Quote from: ochoill on June 06, 2020, 12:31:49 PM
Having seen the bags of shit that goes into cheap ciders (very specifically Devil's Bit) you would be amazed if they don't absolutely cut the guts off you. Now that said, even after seeing a man kick piles of some sort of additive into a vat with the same boots he was standing in a puddle smoking a fag in not five minutes earlier, I still continued to drink flagons of the stuff for years out of some poorly placed local pride. ...I'd still take a whoosh of a flagon if it was going to be fair.
what's the story behind this, did you get a job in a brewery- actually I shudder to think about what goes on/into a lot of our beverages and food items
They used to bottle Devil's Bit in Gleesons, Borrisoleigh - I worked there for a while about 16 years ago. Same place also did Tipperary water, score, cadet, finches, country spring, and the majority of the house brand drinks for tesco and dunnes. Where they were all mixed on site, the cider was fermented in a brewery nearby then sent in a large truck to a vat on site to be bottled there. They'd add a variety of bags of stuff in but I have no clue what most of it is, I assumed sugars and preservatives since bags of the same stuff got loaded into the other drinks machines. Not much else hectic there, pure line work, most stuff was made exactly how you would expect with nothing surprising, bar of course whatever was on the bottom of that lad's shoes. I did laugh at any childhood memory I had of "which is better - score of cadet?" when I saw them simply swap the bottles and labels but use the same drink to fill it. Dunnes bottled water was Tipperary water too, all they did was change the bottle, for anyone who would convince themselves otherwise. Don't know if it still is since the line is closed down know as far as I know. Was once given the job of removing the dates and labels off of out of date 3 litre bottles of country spring with a bottle of acetone so they could be just re-labelled and re-dated through the machines.
Did drink two flagons straight off the line on an evening shift one time and got fucking poisoned, I was giving my notice the week after so I didn't care. I know another lad who worked in the distribution center there too around the same time who took home countless rolls of those airline shots, they were like little condom wrappers filled with miscellaneous spirits. If some were broken on a strip they would be written off to be thrown out, so obviously the lads would just take them. There must have been hundreds. We would put them in everything just to use them. Having a few cans? Drop a vodka into each one sure. Having a coffee? There's no milk bit sure have a double whiskey. Some craic
On the Guinness and Middleton Very Rare 2017 Vintage Release my daughter got for my birthday two years ago. Still 3/4 full, lolz.....
Beautiful stuff.....
Quote from: ochoill on June 06, 2020, 08:37:41 PM
Quote from: mugz on June 06, 2020, 01:45:07 PM
Quote from: ochoill on June 06, 2020, 12:31:49 PM
Having seen the bags of shit that goes into cheap ciders (very specifically Devil's Bit) you would be amazed if they don't absolutely cut the guts off you. Now that said, even after seeing a man kick piles of some sort of additive into a vat with the same boots he was standing in a puddle smoking a fag in not five minutes earlier, I still continued to drink flagons of the stuff for years out of some poorly placed local pride. ...I'd still take a whoosh of a flagon if it was going to be fair.
what's the story behind this, did you get a job in a brewery- actually I shudder to think about what goes on/into a lot of our beverages and food items
They used to bottle Devil's Bit in Gleesons, Borrisoleigh - I worked there for a while about 16 years ago. Same place also did Tipperary water, score, cadet, finches, country spring, and the majority of the house brand drinks for tesco and dunnes. Where they were all mixed on site, the cider was fermented in a brewery nearby then sent in a large truck to a vat on site to be bottled there. They'd add a variety of bags of stuff in but I have no clue what most of it is, I assumed sugars and preservatives since bags of the same stuff got loaded into the other drinks machines. Not much else hectic there, pure line work, most stuff was made exactly how you would expect with nothing surprising, bar of course whatever was on the bottom of that lad's shoes. I did laugh at any childhood memory I had of "which is better - score of cadet?" when I saw them simply swap the bottles and labels but use the same drink to fill it. Dunnes bottled water was Tipperary water too, all they did was change the bottle, for anyone who would convince themselves otherwise. Don't know if it still is since the line is closed down know as far as I know. Was once given the job of removing the dates and labels off of out of date 3 litre bottles of country spring with a bottle of acetone so they could be just re-labelled and re-dated through the machines.
Did drink two flagons straight off the line on an evening shift one time and got fucking poisoned, I was giving my notice the week after so I didn't care. I know another lad who worked in the distribution center there too around the same time who took home countless rolls of those airline shots, they were like little condom wrappers filled with miscellaneous spirits. If some were broken on a strip they would be written off to be thrown out, so obviously the lads would just take them. There must have been hundreds. We would put them in everything just to use them. Having a few cans? Drop a vodka into each one sure. Having a coffee? There's no milk bit sure have a double whiskey. Some craic
the Score/Cadet identity swap broke my heart a bit, not gonna lie
Cadet fizzy drinks!
Do we have a nostalgia thread, jaysus.
Do it! It will be like The Return of The Fear but way more depressing lol
Been rationing my White Hag stuff with bottles of Carlsberg. Down to 5 cans of Bran & Sceolan. Think I'm gonna give Craft Central a go this week.
4 bottles of 500ml Franziskaner for 6 euro in Lidl at the moment, probably the tastiest beer out there!
Bah, none in my local Lidl! However! They do have those big fuck off bags (450g) of KP peanuts for €3.69 and sure I have a few 660ml bottles of Moretti already ice cold in the fridge.
Sorted for snacks and sups this evening :abbath:
Picked up a few Brown Bear and Roadworks IPAs in Aldi. Doing an experiment in the name of science to see which I prefer.
Quote from: Emphyrio on July 17, 2020, 01:18:46 PM
Picked up a few Brown Bear and Roadworks IPAs in Aldi. Doing an experiment in the name of science to see which I prefer.
Uffffffffff, both are delicious. The BB just shades it fo me though? Serious bite to it, both in taste and strength. :abbath:
And for the princely sum of €1.99.... :abbath:
Brown Bear for me too. Their double IPA is lovely too but would blow your head.
Brown Bear is beautiful stuff! The double would blow the skull off you alright, though. I like putting away decent volumes before getting proper pissed. Siege level, pint-between-sets type beer drinking. You can't do that for long with strong stuff. Still a nice treat.
Aldi's the best at alcohol. You're spoiled for choice on cheap, tasty stuff without needing to resort to their Galahad, like me. Again I'm just a fan of gulping beer that isn't too strong in taste or percentage, I find it enjoyable.
Their Rheinbacher is unbelievable. Best can for the price in the country.
I'm another in the Brown Bear camp. The Crafty Brewing Company Red is decent and I'd happily put away a hape of the RheinbacheR weissber too.
What's the story with Galahad? Is it one of those nondescript lagers? Seen a lad freaking out one evening as they had none left :laugh:
Quote from: Ducky on July 17, 2020, 04:04:12 PM
I'm another in the Brown Bear camp. The Crafty Brewing Company Red is decent and I'd happily put away a hape of the RheinbacheR weissber too.
What's the story with Galahad? Is it one of those nondescript lagers? Seen a lad freaking out one evening as they had none left :laugh:
G'had is pure bottom shelf, sort of has a sherbet buzz off it instead of being fizzy, you'd put them back no hassle and get a minimal hangover offnit so they're alright for a session but fairly low tier all the same. I say this as a lad who is fond of cheap multipacks of crispy cold lagers.
Gone back to the Bavaria lately, they were 8 for 10 lately again, still hits the spot. Bit less sore on the head than the few Karpackie. Good summer drinking in them.
I wish I was still able for the IPAs for the variety available but they absolutely cut the stomach off me and I get an absolutely amplified hangover from them too. Even 3 or 4 bottles would leave me feeling way rougher than the lager. Still get a few nice bottles of lager here and there but a few Karps / Prazky / Bav / Stella do the trick
Agreed on the rheinbacher pilsner. 4 cans of quality pilsner for less than a fiver, it's like being in Munich.
Best supermarket beers around currently - in my humble opinion - are the Crafty Brewing Company's American Wheat Pale Ale (red/blue label) and their IPA (green label). Their American Brown Ale (yellow/brown) is good too and their Lager (blue). At less than €2 a good, not to be passed on. I wake up with a slightly iffy head after a relatively small amount of these.
Spaten in Aldi is also top notch - as previously mentioned.
My local SuperValu is doing three cans of Beamish for a fiver too. From a can I think it's the best of the "Big Three".
On the other end of the scale I currently can't get enough of Whirl Domination by To Øl (about €20 a six-pack) and Ace Of Haze DDH Cryo from Black's Of Kinsale (€24 - €28 a sixer).
Been enjoying a few Boyne Brewhouse pale ales lately. 4 for €10 in Tesco, sound.
In Tesco today so picked up a Foxes Rock American Style IPA, Sam Adams, Smithwicks Pale Ale and some other red ale I've yet to open. The former two are spot on, the Smithwicks is only ok.
Sam Adams is awful stuff IMO, tried it the other night. The others are grand alright. Having a Fuller's London Pride now, nice.
I had Sam Adams years ago, before I ever really ventured outside of regular beer and liked it. Seems I still do.
Is Blue Moon available in Ireland? I had that in America years ago, a weiss and they put a slice of orange on top. Delicious if you like the wheats.
Quote from: Emphyrio on July 22, 2020, 10:10:38 PM
I had Sam Adams years ago, before I ever really ventured outside of regular beer and liked it. Seems I still do.
Sam Adams Boston Lager (the most popular beer in the range and what we know as Sam Adams) - the US imported version (355ml bottles) is mighty tack. The UK version (usually pint bottles) brewed by Shepherd Neame in Faversham is a dull over-carbonated mess.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on July 23, 2020, 12:03:55 PM
Is Blue Moon available in Ireland? I had that in America years ago, a weiss and they put a slice of orange on top. Delicious if you like the wheats.
Blue Moon is readily available in Ireland now, it's owned by Molson-Coors/Miller-Coors. You can get 4-pack for €8 - €10 in most supermarkets. It's decent for a macro beer.
Quote from: Emphyrio on July 22, 2020, 10:10:38 PM
I had Sam Adams years ago, before I ever really ventured outside of regular beer and liked it. Seems I still do.
Sam Adams Boston Lager (the most popular beer in the range and what we know as Sam Adams) - the US imported version (355ml bottles) is mighty tack. The UK version (usually pint bottles) brewed by Shepherd Neame in Faversham is a dull over-carbonated mess.
Sam Adams Summer Ale is well worth checking out if you can find it.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on July 23, 2020, 12:03:55 PM
Is Blue Moon available in Ireland? I had that in America years ago, a weiss and they put a slice of orange on top. Delicious if you like the wheats.
Blue Moon is readily available in Ireland now, it's owned by Molson-Coors/Miller-Coors. You can get 4-pack for €8 - €10 in most supermarkets. It's decent for a macro beer.
Ah, it was a pint bottle of Sam Adams that I had, and it was indeed muck. I'll look out for the proper one then.
Quote from: Carnage on July 23, 2020, 12:38:03 PM
Ah, it was a pint bottle of Sam Adams that I had, and it was indeed muck. I'll look out for the proper one then.
The US version has the size in imperial fluid ounces on the label rather than ml.
Sam Adams is a behemoth of a brewery now - a far cry from where it was 20 years ago. I was in Boston 2 years ago and it was as prevalent as Guinness in Dublin.
I always think of this old Dave Chappelle sketch when I hear Sam Adams.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ji1-BqaLaE
Been drinking Brewdog punk IPA (4 pack of stubby cans) over the summer,really like the stuff.
Quote from: Paul keohane on July 23, 2020, 04:47:09 PM
Been drinking Brewdog punk IPA (4 pack of stubby cans) over the summer,really like the stuff.
Jaysus lad, you're a slow drinker :laugh:
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on July 23, 2020, 07:22:24 PM
Quote from: Paul keohane on July 23, 2020, 04:47:09 PM
Been drinking Brewdog punk IPA (4 pack of stubby cans) over the summer,really like the stuff.
Jaysus lad, you're a slow drinker :laugh:
:laugh:
Am just having some kickass Croatian home made Rakija Sljivovica.
Steam Brew Red and IPA are in Lidl at the moment.
€1.99 a pop, tasty stuff and strong (7.9%)....
https://steam-brew.com/en/
Quote from: warhead on July 23, 2020, 07:59:04 PM
Am just having some kickass Croatian home made Rakija Sljivovica.
Proceed with caution, moj brate hrvatski!
Quote from: Caomhaoin on July 23, 2020, 09:02:53 PM
Quote from: warhead on July 23, 2020, 07:59:04 PM
Am just having some kickass Croatian home made Rakija Sljivovica.
Proceed with caution, moj brate hrvatski!
hahaha, for sure!! it is lethal stuff. let me know if you want to join :)
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on July 23, 2020, 08:23:08 PM
Steam Brew Red and IPA are in Lidl at the moment.
€1.99 a pop, tasty stuff and strong (7.9%)....
https://steam-brew.com/en/
This weekend's liver damage - sorted.
Quote from: Ducky on July 23, 2020, 10:23:22 PM
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on July 23, 2020, 08:23:08 PM
Steam Brew Red and IPA are in Lidl at the moment.
€1.99 a pop, tasty stuff and strong (7.9%)....
https://steam-brew.com/en/
This weekend's liver damage - sorted.
Get in quick. It doesn't last long on the shelves.
They had none. All the shelves are full and faced off. I think my local Lidl is just a bit pants for brews.
No matter, went to Aldi and got six cans of Lough Gill Brewery Native Red. 5.5%, very tasty sup :abbath:
Manislav from Tesco this evening. Very good Pilsner Urquell worship for 1.50 a bottle.
I'm enjoying Beamish out of a can more these days than Guinness.
Just having a Hobgolin now for the first time in a few years. Have they changed the recipe or something? I used to love it but this one isn't going down well at all TBH.
Quote from: livingabortion on July 29, 2020, 09:33:29 PM
I'm enjoying Beamish out of an more these days than Guinness.
Definitely. I said as much a few pages back - Guinness on draught is the best of The Big 3, Beamish when it comes to cans. If you feel like stepping up - try a Left Hand Milk Stout Nitro - the black can. Left Hand make some incredible stouts - Intergalactic Cowboy, Hard Wired Nitro, Peanut Butter etc. - but the original nitro is still the best.
By Christ, I'd murder a pint of Guinness from my local in Cork now but seeing as it only fits about 30 people into on a good night, I can't see it opening very soon - if ever - again.
Quote from: Carnage on August 09, 2020, 08:42:38 PM
Just having a Hobgolin now for the first time in a few years. Have they changed the recipe or something? I used to love it but this one isn't going down well at all TBH.
Yeah, since Marston's took full control of Wychwood, it's definitely gone to the dogs. All the re-branding and fancy new bottles/artwork is like putting pearls on swine. Marston's themselves were bought by Carlsberg recently - this may improve things. Or may just mean that Carlsberg use Marston owned pubs in the UK as a sluice to pump their own products through.
That'd explain it so. I have another 2 or 3 to get through, I'll have to wait til I'm 'suitably refreshed' before hitting them.
Disappointing, it used to be a lovely drop.
I used to date a girl with one leg who worked at a brewery.... She was in charge of the hops.
Pyynikin Black Lager from Lidl is very tasty
Stephen "Trampolines" Donnelly has put a halt to our gallop, lads.
No more topping up your shopping in Dunnes with a cheeky 4 pack to get over the €50 to get a tenner off.
No more 4 for a €10.
No soup for you!!!
Ahhhhh, the joys of living on the border. ;D
Shoplifting increased quite a bit in Scotland when they brought it in. Might keep lads off the white lightning and shite like that I suppose.
Is that sold in the republic?
From what I can tell - it doesn't affect the sale of cheap drink. Flagons/cans of gut rot and lunatic soup will still be the same price.
The Tesco 4 for €10 on the nice bottles of Guinness will be gone, so. Feck and shite.
I'm sure the shops will figure out some way around it.
Sure as shit they will... :abbath:
Quote from: Caomhaoin on January 11, 2021, 04:18:47 PM
Shoplifting increased quite a bit in Scotland when they brought it in. Might keep lads off the white lightning and shite like that I suppose.
Is that sold in the republic?
No unfortunately. It's some tack.
Someone should shove Donnelly's egg head up somewhere eggs come out of. The fried bastard.
Brandeberg for me tonight. Bit watery but it's a school night
Just having a look at drink prices in Spanish supermarkets would make your average Irish tourist laugh. If you're not fussy, you can get the equivalent of 12 cans for 3.50-4 quid. And the Don Simon jakey juice is even more economical.
Ah stop man you're breaking my jakey little heart
Quote from: Caomhaoin on January 11, 2021, 09:26:20 PM
Just having a look at drink prices in Spanish supermarkets would make your average Irish tourist laugh. If you're not fussy, you can get the equivalent of 12 cans for 3.50-4 quid. And the Don Simon jakey juice is even more economical.
I need to get back to Spain if only to pick up some savage rums for fuckall at the airport.
Good deal here whether you're a connoisseur, a lush or just a fuckin' martyr for the sauce.
https://www.blacksbrewery.com/shop/try-anuarymegadeal1/
I'm not much of a spirits drinker but I've been told the gin and rum are good.
'Say hell no to dry January and say hello to Try January'
Amazing 😂
Dry January is only an aul cod anyway. How else are you supposed to deal with the misery of the month at all.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on January 11, 2021, 09:26:20 PM
Just having a look at drink prices in Spanish supermarkets would make your average Irish tourist laugh. If you're not fussy, you can get the equivalent of 12 cans for 3.50-4 quid. And the Don Simon jakey juice is even more economical.
Think I was seeing a bottle of Absolute vodka for around 12E in some shops in Spain, the last time I've been there around 4-5 years ago. Would this be something like a
regular price, or I was just stumbling onto some kind of a promotional price?
As a proud owner and drinker of a collection of 60+ bottles & a couple of whiskey ageing barrels of fine Irish and Scottish whisk(e)y.....
This video is pure pure pure unadulterated liquid porn...
https://youtu.be/CN2wtU5Y4xU
Quote from: warhead on January 15, 2021, 04:47:54 PM
Quote from: Caomhaoin on January 11, 2021, 09:26:20 PM
Just having a look at drink prices in Spanish supermarkets would make your average Irish tourist laugh. If you're not fussy, you can get the equivalent of 12 cans for 3.50-4 quid. And the Don Simon jakey juice is even more economical.
Think I was seeing a bottle of Absolute vodka for around 12E in some shops in Spain, the last time I've been there around 4-5 years ago. Would this be something like a
regular price, or I was just stumbling onto some kind of a promotional price?
Yes, it's around that price.
I paid 3 or times that for a 'fancy' bottle of Rakija from a Tempo supermarket in Belgrade!
On the Peroni since christmas, it's going down a treat. Had to pack in the cider cause the heartburn was killing me.
Quote from: Buer on January 15, 2021, 11:59:43 PM
On the Peroni since christmas, it's going down a treat. Had to pack in the cider cause the heartburn was killing me.
D'oul cider would cut the guts out of you. Tastes grand at the time though
Quote from: Caomhaoin on January 15, 2021, 08:10:32 PM
Quote from: warhead on January 15, 2021, 04:47:54 PM
Quote from: Caomhaoin on January 11, 2021, 09:26:20 PM
Just having a look at drink prices in Spanish supermarkets would make your average Irish tourist laugh. If you're not fussy, you can get the equivalent of 12 cans for 3.50-4 quid. And the Don Simon jakey juice is even more economical.
Think I was seeing a bottle of Absolute vodka for around 12E in some shops in Spain, the last time I've been there around 4-5 years ago. Would this be something like a
regular price, or I was just stumbling onto some kind of a promotional price?
Yes, it's around that price.
I paid 3 or times that for a 'fancy' bottle of Rakija from a Tempo supermarket in Belgrade!
That seems a bit expensive. The best rakija is homemade anyway. The one you can find in small villages that the locals would sell you for 5-7 Euros a bottle if you pester them long enough.
Speaking about Spain, I miss Patxaran. It is probably not crude enough drink, but I love the taste.
I remember devouring insane amounts of Queimada. The locals couldn't believe what they saw.
Patxaran is from the North. Homemade Galician Orujo can be of good quality, although it's years since I had any.
I tried homemade Rakija way back in 2004 when I was on erasmus, when I had a flatmate from Sarajevo. His friends brought it, tasted like what I imagine petrol tastes like! I bought a bottle from a monastery in southern Serbia as a souvenir. They said it was made from the monastery's own still, but I'm probably over romanticising it like I did with the Buckfast Abbey and the solemn wine making between early morning prayers...
Quote from: Caomhaoin on January 16, 2021, 03:01:12 PM
Patxaran is from the North. Homemade Galician Orujo can be of good quality, although it's years since I had any.
I tried homemade Rakija way back in 2004 when I was on erasmus, when I had a flatmate from Sarajevo. His friends brought it, tasted like what I imagine petrol tastes like! I bought a bottle from a monastery in southern Serbia as a souvenir. They said it was made from the monastery's own still, but I'm probably over romanticising it like I did with the Buckfast Abbey and the solemn wine making between early morning prayers...
Yeah, guess patxaran is from the Basque country.
Rakija from the monasteries has a reputation as some of the best ones you could get. But yeah, you are over romanticising it. I love it, but it is just a gut wrenching drink :-)
Serbian rakija is great, but we make it with a little bit higher percentage of alcohol in my country.
There is a huge variety of that stuff to choose from. Serbian prices in pubs (maybe not the kafanas, that got very messy and very expensive) are perfect for Irish visitors compared to Croatia or Ljubljana. 80c for a pint of that Jelena and 2€ for a glass of the higher end Rakijas, and that's in Belgrade. Send a few of the booze hounds from here down to Nîs (a total shithole but still) with a few hundred euros for a weekend, they'll be the new Prince Lazar!
Spain is a wine lovers paradise of course, and none of that minimum price carry on. The bums here love their boxín of wine god bless them, and you can't go wrong at 70c a litre :)
Quote from: Caomhaoin on January 16, 2021, 05:00:48 PM
There is a huge variety of that stuff to choose from. Serbian prices in pubs (maybe not the kafanas, that got very messy and very expensive) are perfect for Irish visitors compared to Croatia or Ljubljana. 80c for a pint of that Jelena and 2€ for a glass of the higher end Rakijas, and that's in Belgrade. Send a few of the booze hounds from here down to Nîs (a total shithole but still) with a few hundred euros for a weekend, they'll be the new Prince Lazar!
Spain is a wine lovers paradise of course, and none of that minimum price carry on. The bums here love their boxín of wine god bless them, and you can't go wrong at 70c a litre :)
I too prefer partying in Serbia than Croatia or Slovenia. The prices are cheaper, and the people are more relaxed. Croatians and especially Slovenians are too uptight, generally speaking.
I love Nis buddy!! Yes, it is a total and complete fucking shithole. But the girls are great looking, everything's cheap and the small fast food bbq selling food huts are amazing. I could eat that food 3 times a day, everyday, for the rest of my life. Hhahaha, you said it well :-) You're not just a king, but a freaking king of the kings with a couple of hundred euros in the pocket over there.
Red wine is my favorite drink, when talking about drinking without the intention to get yourself unconscious fast, and it is just one of the things I love about Spain.
Yeah if you go outside Belgrade and Novi Sad you get extremely good bang for your dinar! What did that Momo Kapur say, bringing your girlfriend to Serbia is like bringing a bottle of piss into a Rakija distillery :)
Serbs have a reputation but the myth and the reality are totally different, and the attitude to drinking and letting tomorrow look after tomorrow is just like us Irish. Apart from a few hooligans singing 'ubi shiptare' at the basketball and football, they just hate Vucic and UEFA :) In fact, as you know, loads of Croatians come to Belgrade for the session.
Don't drink red wine in Serbia unless it's imported from France or somewhere though, get that good Apricot and plum liquid into you instead :)
Quote from: Caomhaoin on January 16, 2021, 08:28:16 PM
Yeah if you go outside Belgrade and Novi Sad you get extremely good bang for your dinar! What did that Momo Kapur say, bringing your girlfriend to Serbia is like bringing a bottle of piss into a Rakija distillery :)
Serbs have a reputation but the myth and the reality are totally different, and the attitude to drinking and letting tomorrow look after tomorrow is just like us Irish. Apart from a few hooligans singing 'ubi shiptare' at the basketball and football, they just hate Vucic and UEFA :) In fact, as you know, loads of Croatians come to Belgrade for the session.
Don't drink red wine in Serbia unless it's imported from France or somewhere though, get that good Apricot and plum liquid into you instead :)
Had to google that Momo fellow :-)
Serbia has a certain reputation, as you've said, that is just medias doing what they do best. Many things we're seeing on the tv and reading about in newspapers are different in reality(not just when it comes to Serbia, but in general).
I wasn't going over there for sessions specifically....was going for some concerts first, than at a later time was playing with my own band and then travelling with other smaller bands gigging over there. It always ended up in a blur :)
Red wine in Serbia?? Didn't even knew they have that over there ;)
I don't know if this will make you feel good or bad or nothing at all, but the most precious, sought after thing among the serb guys I know is Croatian 'pićka', they are obsessed with it, and they claim it's mutual because even Serb women can outdrink any guy from Zagreb:)
The swearing is absolutely spectacular in your language too, congratulations :)
Quote from: Caomhaoin on January 16, 2021, 09:45:31 PM
I don't know if this will make you feel good or bad or nothing at all, but the most precious, sought after thing among the serb guys I know is Croatian 'pićka', they are obsessed with it, and they claim it's mutual because even Serb women can outdrink any guy from Zagreb:)
The swearing is absolutely spectacular in your language too, congratulations :)
Swearing is brought to another level over there. It is not even possible to explain how many bad words we have.
About the picka, well, I can fully understand that, guess there is a big feeling of victory when getting some from the other side of the border :-)
Guys from Zagreb are mostly sissies, even the rest of Croatia are making fun of them :-)
I'm going through Croatia for my honeymoon for a week or so in August in the way to Greece, Plitvice and Dubrovnik, maybe Split (as long as this false metal virus fucks off sufficiently in time, I guess you would say cachu ti jarca or however you say it) so if you have any hidden gems to see apart from them, please enlighten me :)
Quote from: Caomhaoin on January 16, 2021, 10:10:00 PM
I'm going through Croatia for my honeymoon for a week or so in August in the way to Greece, Plitvice and Dubrovnik, maybe Split (as long as this false metal virus fucks off sufficiently in time, I guess you would say cachu ti jarca or however you say it) so if you have any hidden gems to see apart from them, please enlighten me :)
Ah, Greece is amazing. Plitvice and Dubrovnik are 2 out of 3 of the most beautiful places in Croatia. The third one are Slapovi Krke, near Zadar. Lokrum island near Dubrovnik is a beautiful place too, if you'll have some time to spare.
Don't forget to spend a day or 2 in Bosnia and Macedonia too, if you're on the way to Greece already.
Wish you all the luck in the world in making the trip actually happen :)
Yeah I'm going through Bosnia, (Velika 😂) Serbia and Macedonia, not going to wreck the car on Montenegrin or, gulp, Albanian roads :)
Thank you for the tip, I have a month to travel starting in booooring Ljubljana because that's the airport destination so I'll fit it in.
My hopes are not particularly high though, we shall see :)
Quote from: Caomhaoin on January 16, 2021, 10:27:30 PM
Yeah I'm going through Bosnia, (Velika 😂) Serbia and Macedonia, not going to wreck the car on Montenegrin or, gulp, Albanian roads :)
Thank you for the tip, I have a month to travel starting in booooring Ljubljana because that's the airport destination so I'll fit it in.
My hopes are not particularly high though, we shall see :)
Yeah, Ljubljana is SO boring. But guess it is good enough to land at and rent a car to fuck off there as soon as possible :-)
I'll think of some other places worth visiting and suggest them to you before the Summer comes.
Quoteguess it is good enough to land at and fuck there as soon as possible ;-)
Quote from: astfgyl on January 17, 2021, 02:41:16 AM
Quoteguess it is good enough to land at and fuck there as soon as possible ;-)
Well, to land somewhere and fuck as soon as possible is always a good thing, right hhahahahahahahahhahaha
8 cans of hop house for 8 quid in tesco. I'm coming up in the world
Quote from: astfgyl on January 21, 2021, 08:31:29 PM
8 cans of hop house for 8 quid in tesco. I'm coming up in the world
That's a class deal. Might pop in tomorrow, Hop House is well tasty.
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on January 21, 2021, 09:04:34 PM
Quote from: astfgyl on January 21, 2021, 08:31:29 PM
8 cans of hop house for 8 quid in tesco. I'm coming up in the world
That's a class deal. Might pop in tomorrow, Hop House is well tasty.
Tis clearance so get in quick. Very nice cans
A tasty drop alright. Had many pints in an unwelcoming aul-fella-pub pretty close to the Olympia after AiC. What I wouldn't give to be unwelcomed to a pub again.
Won't be too long now I can feel it in my bones.
I often went for the hop house if a place had no large bottles of Guinness. Great times
Quote from: astfgyl on January 21, 2021, 10:59:05 PM
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on January 21, 2021, 09:04:34 PM
Quote from: astfgyl on January 21, 2021, 08:31:29 PM
8 cans of hop house for 8 quid in tesco. I'm coming up in the world
That's a class deal. Might pop in tomorrow, Hop House is well tasty.
Tis clearance so get in quick. Very nice cans
Checked their website, it's €13 for 8 cayans.
Must be just your local store then. Oh well...
https://youtu.be/Z-C6p-GwHfA
Had all the appearance of something they wouldn't be restocking like it's not going out of date or the likes but I don't know how localised that is. Ah well
I used to work in an offy as a teenager on Saturdays, and one of my duties was to take a Brillo pad to the dates on the bottom of out of date cans and whack them out under the guise of AMAZING DEALS! So have a quick look at the arse of them.
Not sure how much of a difference it makes anyway after you've got a few into you.
Drank many a stale can over the years and never noticed any difference. Not saying there wasn't anything wrong with them but I was cheap enough to ignore it
Quote from: Caomhaoin on January 22, 2021, 06:14:00 AM
I used to work in an offy as a teenager on Saturdays, and one of my duties was to take a Brillo pad to the dates on the bottom of out of date cans and whack them out under the guise of AMAZING DEALS! So have a quick look at the arse of them.
Not sure how much of a difference it makes anyway after you've got a few into you.
Worked in Gleesons years ago, they made stuff like Finches, Score, Cadet, Devil's Bit Cider, Tippersry Water, Country Spring, and practically every in-house brand soft drink for supermarkets. One job I was given in my last week there was to use acetone to take the dates off of about 10 pallets of Country Spring Orange 3 litres, and rip the labels off the bottles, so they can be redated and labelled on the line. I have plenty of stories about that place but that one stands out to me.
The Abbott's Ale House in Cork used to have the off licence downstairs and the pub upstairs (the downstairs has since been converted to a cosy little pub, no off licence any more).
Fairly commonly known as The Gone-Offie cos they always had loads of drink that was past its date at very nice prices.
Myself and my friends took advantage regularly, never came to any harm off it, I've heard some people claim they got sick from it once but I don't really believe tbh. I think it's safe enough, it'd wanted to be badly gone, like beyond drinkable, before it'd be harmful. That's my relatively uninformed opinion, YMMV, but gatt on, I say
Forever ago they used to sell crates of Labatt Ice in the Superquinn in Castletroy that were either on the verge of going off or just past the date. It was 24 bottles for less than a tenner - think it was €8 at the peak of it. Completely stupifying price, we bought heaps of the stuff.
Used to drink the St. Bernard lager at one point too, it was about 60c a can back then so it was worth it for being cheap and going on a rip. Also worked in Dunnes at the time so many an evening was spent getting battered on Dunnes' lager in a Dunnes' uniform, after a dinner of Dunnes' pizzas. What a fuckin existence
Quote from: ochoill on January 26, 2021, 12:53:26 PM
Used to drink the St. Bernard lager at one point too, it was about 60c a can back then so it was worth it for being cheap and going on a rip. Also worked in Dunnes at the time so many an evening was spent getting battered on Dunnes' lager in a Dunnes' uniform, after a dinner of Dunnes' pizzas. What a fuckin existence
Jesus
Quote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on January 26, 2021, 12:02:02 PM
The Abbott's Ale House in Cork.
The Abbot is one of my regular haunts in Cork. Between there and The Bierhaus - you can't go wrong.
The Abbot reminds me of a great story. It used to be called Rumpelstiltskin's back in the 90s. Same layout as now but a lot more rough and ready (like the first version of the Abbot).
They used to put on bands upstairs way back when in Rumpel's. A band that I was in at the time played a support gig there to a full room, the gaff held about 40 people but it felt like Knebworth.
In between us finishing and the main band setting up there were two fellas lurking about the place. Right scobey-looking fuckers in a tracksuits. "You being served there?" asked the barmaid.
"Just hanging around" says one.
"You'll have to go" she says.
"Bunch of faggots!" roars one of the boys and the two of them help themselves to whatever handbags, packs of smokes, jackets etc that was nearest to them on tables and run back down the stairs and through a door.
Unfortunately for them, in their hash/glue haze, they'd only run down one flight of stairs and had run though a door on the landing - not an exit but rather the ladies toilet.
When they emerged meekly the kicking that they received was substantial - to the point where people who were only arriving to the pub joined in.
Ahahaha, Metal Militia justice: New Rocks & Docs... :laugh:
I was in Dunnes after work last Friday evening getting the shopping - popped into the beer/wine section for a few tipples.
Spotted a rough enough (possibly traveller) lad in there wearing his mask under his chin. Basket of shopping in front of him blocking my path.
"Fuck sakes" I thought "another looper".
Then I copped that the reason the mask was off was because he was downing cans of Murphy's stout. He was two into a four-pack.
Our eyes locked.
"Murphs... way eaaaasier to drink - no fizz". says he.
He was still at it when I left through the cowboy saloon doors that all supermarkets have in the off-licence section now.
What a man. Better than popping a few grapes going through the fruit and veg section.
That 18 x 500ml Hop House 13 deal in Lidl is excellent value. That's about €1.35 a can.
It's the perfect mix of a craft beer and a lager beer. Nice and hoppy but crisp and fresh so no bother drinking 10 or a dozen of an evening...
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on March 01, 2021, 03:38:13 PM
It's the perfect mix of a craft beer and a lager beer.
Aye, a tasty drop alright.
My mate bought me one of those wee home beer tap thingys....
Easy to set up and top notch beer enjoyment....
And here I was, all champion-like after getting 6 bottles of Guinness extra stout.
Quote from: astfgyl on March 02, 2021, 07:51:14 PM
And here I was, all champion-like after getting 6 bottles of Guinness extra stout.
Man, that's the breakfast, dinner and tea of champions.
This thing is grand for pimping up cans alright, but Guinness extra is special.
Thanks man, I needed that. It is indeed the nectar of the gods and I love it.
Still like the cut of that little tap's jib. Would it pimp out cans of extra stout is the next logical question I reckon. Was it pricey?
Quote from: astfgyl on March 02, 2021, 08:55:58 PM
Thanks man, I needed that. It is indeed the nectar of the gods and I love it.
Still like the cut of that little tap's jib. Would it pimp out cans of extra stout is the next logical question I reckon. Was it pricey?
Extra stout is perfect as is man. Now I'd say it would be a good job on those cans of Excelsior or whatever Lidl and Aldi sell for 80c a pop.
I'm after putting two cans of Weiss Bier and a can of Hop House 13 through it. Absolutely great wee job and the head steps nicely down the glass.
I'll ask my mate for a link to the site. He just gave it to me as a gift today. I doubt they're expensive.
There's an insulator inside the main body to ensure that the beer stays cold throughout. Can't fault it...
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on March 02, 2021, 09:47:22 PM
Quote from: astfgyl on March 02, 2021, 08:55:58 PM
Thanks man, I needed that. It is indeed the nectar of the gods and I love it.
Still like the cut of that little tap's jib. Would it pimp out cans of extra stout is the next logical question I reckon. Was it pricey?
Extra stout is perfect as is man. Now I'd say it would be a good job on those cans of Excelsior or whatever Lidl and Aldi sell for 80c a pop.
I'm after putting two cans of Weiss Bier and a can of Hop House 13 through it. Absolutely great wee job and the head steps nicely down the glass.
I'll ask my mate for a link to the site. He just gave it to me as a gift today. I doubt they're expensive.
There's an insulator inside the main body to ensure that the beer stays cold throughout. Can't fault it...
Sound, I'm sold. Throw up a link when you get one
Quote from: astfgyl on March 02, 2021, 10:47:25 PM
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on March 02, 2021, 09:47:22 PM
Quote from: astfgyl on March 02, 2021, 08:55:58 PM
Thanks man, I needed that. It is indeed the nectar of the gods and I love it.
Still like the cut of that little tap's jib. Would it pimp out cans of extra stout is the next logical question I reckon. Was it pricey?
Extra stout is perfect as is man. Now I'd say it would be a good job on those cans of Excelsior or whatever Lidl and Aldi sell for 80c a pop.
I'm after putting two cans of Weiss Bier and a can of Hop House 13 through it. Absolutely great wee job and the head steps nicely down the glass.
I'll ask my mate for a link to the site. He just gave it to me as a gift today. I doubt they're expensive.
There's an insulator inside the main body to ensure that the beer stays cold throughout. Can't fault it...
Sound, I'm sold. Throw up a link when you get one
He said he got it from DID Electrical but they're currently sold out. He didn't tell me what price they were with them....
I checked eBay and seen the black version of the one I have....
It's a bit pricey I think but here you go....
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Single-Home-Beer-Draught-Tap-Dispenser-Foam-Pump-Black-Beer-Tower-Party-Gift-UK-/184502325946?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49292
Ah grand, at least I know what I'm looking for now I'll have to have a scoot around on price, but if it alleviates the pain of living it will pay for itself
I was in the local supermarket last night getting milk and, as always, I strolled through the beer bit on the way out. See what's new etc.
Stopped at the craft beer section and noticed that, since the recent change in pricing laws, all the O'Hara's stuff that was 4 for €10 is now priced at €3.50 each and the Sierra Nevada stuff that was 4 for €12 is now €4 a go.
There was a lad stacking the shelves who asked me if I wanted help with anything. I asked how come the beers are now so dear.
"Government stopped us doing deals. Can't do four for a tenner now."
"Yeah but why not make them €2.50 each?"
"Sure you'd make nothin' off of a single €2.50 can"
"Do you mean to tell me that you get people in a supermarket in Ireland buying just a single can? What kind of animal...."
"Winos and stuff."
I left thinking to myself that if I see a wino panhandling whilst skulling a can of Founder's Pale Ale then he'll have a hard time getting that euro for a "phone call" from me.
Mods - is there a way of deleting double posts?
The can tap there reminded me of this. I think that these are only available in the UK and possibly on the border though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTvBLHfuVUE
I have an industrial sized ultrasonic cleaner in my workshop. The size of a bath. Hmmmm. :abbath:
This craic with the no deals on drink is a sickener. Well, they say they're not allowed do deals, but I got a case of Budvar reduced to €14 in Tesco last week, and they have ads up everywhere for cases of Staropramen for €17. Not amazing deals but alright all the same.
If anyone from Limerick is here too, the Fine Wines near the roundabout in Corbally has an unreal selection of stuff, it's the best one I've came across yet in the city. No unique deals but heaps of variety.
I thought it was just Tesco that had done away with the 4 for €10. That's a balls. I wouldn't pay full price for them, unless I was treating myself and happened to be in there. The craft beer in Aldi is easily as good luckily, and €1.99 a 500ml bottle.
Aldi is fucking great for beer, best quality to price ratio imo. Even their cheap pish is perfectly drinkable.
Absolutely. I've tried probably 90% of the ones in Dunnes and Tesco but that Brown Bear in Aldi is still my favourite.
The double IPA would blow your head though. Worth it, it's lovely.
Keep an eye on Tesco lads, since the changes came in, they've had different ones reduced to €2.50 every week in our local one. Picked up 4 Guinness West Indies Porter for a tenner the other day.
Quote from: Emphyrio on March 04, 2021, 02:33:25 PM
Absolutely. I've tried probably 90% of the ones in Dunnes and Tesco but that Brown Bear in Aldi is still my favourite.
TBH I think the best thing is you can't really go wrong, there's various nice lagers, weissbier, good stout, and a rake of IPAs, all of them at least drinkable and most quite tasty. Brown Bear is gorgeous alright, the Native IPA in the cans is top notch too.
I spotted that about Tesco alright, didn't realise they were rotating around. They've definitely reduced prices on some from before.
I would have to say that the Lidl "Crafty Brewing Company" selection are better than the Aldi ones. Made by Rye River (who also make that McGargle's piss but let's not discuss that).
All of them are decent specially the three in this photo - not the can - and their bottled stout. €1.89 a pint bottle. Thirsty now.
(https://quareswally.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/20200106_133111.jpg?w=663)
Ya, the Crafty Brewing stuff is pretty good. I'd still prefer Brown Bear or O'Shea's stuff in Aldi.
I buy the Crafty Stout from time to time and it's lovely.
18 x 500ml cans of Hop House 13 in Aldi for €20 atm.
Exceedingly good value for money that.... hic!
Feck, the missus was there yesterday and picked me up a few Brown Bear. She never informed me of this offer.
Send her back lad....
Quote from: Emphyrio on March 06, 2021, 03:31:21 PM
Feck, the missus was there yesterday and picked me up a few Brown Bear. She never informed me of this offer.
I can't imagine why..
She's out for the day so managed a wank. Doesn't quite balance out but I'm not one to complain.
Would you rather she caught you mid-autocoitus or with 18 empty caníns strewn around the roomand you in your underpants singing along to the Next Generation theme in a very loud voice?
Quote from: Caomhaoin on March 06, 2021, 08:15:19 PM
Would you rather she caught you mid-autocoitus or with 18 empty caníns strewn around the roomand you in your underpants singing along to the Next Generation theme in a very loud voice?
While the latter could lead to no discernible good, if porn has taught me anything, the former could lead to a bit of harmless tomfoolery.
Slabs of Guinness 20 euro in Lidl at the moment, back of the net!
Quote from: Born of Fire on March 11, 2021, 06:06:36 PM
Slabs of Guinness 20 euro in Lidl at the moment, back of the net!
500ml ones?
I've still got 5 since the 2 slabs for €33 deal before Christmas. I bought 10 of the feckers... :laugh:
Yep 500ml ones, Guinness branded pint glasses and coasters on sale too for all your home boozing needs :abbath:
edit - double post
Ha, when my Croatian mate moved here a couple of years ago he bought a pair of Guinness pint glasses on his first visit to Dublin.
He landed in to our gaff all proud as punch that evening with one of them for me. I opened the kitchen cabinet and showed him the finest pint glass selection this side of the River Liffey.
"We don't buy pint glasses in this country son" ;D
On a selection of Svysturys beers tonight. For some bizarre reason the offy in town has an extensive range of Lithuanian beers. Would never have taken Lithuania for a beer loving country but these are absolutely quality. Dortmunder, Ekstra, Baltijos...all as good as your standard regional German beers if you ask me.
What offy is that?
I got them in my local offy in Ballinasloe but if there's a Polonez near you they should have them.
Cool, might keep an eye open when I'm out n about.
Anyone see the O'Hara's stout nitro cans in shops yet? Not really interested in ordering beer online, prefer to just get it in person, and this stuff is delicious from the bottle so I'd be eager to try the creamier version
The O'Hara's stuff I've tried is all fairly middling. The Hop Adventure is the nicest one I've tried but the Irish Pale Ale is absolutely mank.
Have you had the Leann Folláin? 6% stout. Fucking lovely, one I get frequently if I just want a nice rich stout
That O'Hara's Stout in a bottle is absolutely divine.
Quote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on March 12, 2021, 11:44:31 AM
Have you had the Leann Folláin? 6% stout. Fucking lovely, one I get frequently if I just want a nice rich stout
I have, and I know it's considered one of the better stouts, but I prefer the Solas, Galway Hooker or even O'Shea's ones. Was big into stouts for a coupla years, not so much the last while, but a simple pint of Guinness in an aulde man's pub can't be bate.
Quote from: Slaughterday on March 11, 2021, 10:15:45 PM
On a selection of Svysturys beers tonight.
I have been drinking beer for a long time and very few things have put me on my ass like Svyturys did. It has a slap like a loose barn door in the wind off if it.
Lovely though.
Quote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on March 12, 2021, 10:53:31 AM
Anyone see the O'Hara's stout nitro cans in shops yet? Not really interested in ordering beer online, prefer to just get it in person, and this stuff is delicious from the bottle so I'd be eager to try the creamier version
You're in Cork, right? The Bierhaus has it a €3.20. It's in those 440ml cans though. O'Hara's along with making great beer had yet to fall into that small can hipster bollix.
I'm looking forward to it myself. Leann Folláin is one of
the great stouts.
Quote from: Emphyrio on March 12, 2021, 11:40:54 AM
The O'Hara's stuff I've tried is all fairly middling. The Hop Adventure is the nicest one I've tried but the Irish Pale Ale is absolutely mank.
I had the opposite thought about their single hopped Hop Adventure series. I found them boring and or incomplete.
The Irish Pale ale, in my opinion, is pretty solid and does what a pale is supposed to - malt driven sweetness with a little bit of bitter hop. It would blow the taste buds off you like a lot of things on the market now but these are more modern styles that have been dry hopped to fuck to make them as bitter as possible.
Hah, and there I'd not rate the Solas one at all at all, for whatever reaosn! Taste is mad. The draught pint from a pub stands alone alright though. Even there, while I'd always enjoy a Guinness, Beamish would be my top choice.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on March 12, 2021, 11:57:39 AM
Quote from: Slaughterday on March 11, 2021, 10:15:45 PM
On a selection of Svysturys beers tonight.
I have been drinking beer for a long time and very few things have put me on my ass like Svyturys did. It has a slap like a loose barn door in the wind off if it.
Lovely though.
Quote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on March 12, 2021, 10:53:31 AM
Anyone see the O'Hara's stout nitro cans in shops yet? Not really interested in ordering beer online, prefer to just get it in person, and this stuff is delicious from the bottle so I'd be eager to try the creamier version
You're in Cork, right? The Bierhaus has it a €3.20. It's in those 440ml cans though. O'Hara's along with making great beer had yet to fall into that small can hipster bollix.
I'm looking forward to it myself. Leann Folláin is one of the great stouts.
Excellent. Had been thinking of checking Bradley's after work. The Beamish in the last post gives away the Cork if nothing else :laugh:
Haha, I'd actually lean towards Murphy's given the choice but Guinness is more readily available. Taste is indeed mad.
Quote from: Emphyrio on March 12, 2021, 11:53:46 AM
I have, and I know it's considered one of the better stouts, but I prefer the Solas, Galway Hooker or even O'Shea's ones. Was big into stouts for a coupla years, not so much the last while, but a simple pint of Guinness in an aulde man's pub can't be bate.
O'Hara's make that.
Quote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on March 12, 2021, 12:01:41 PM
Excellent. Had been thinking of checking Bradley's after work. The Beamish in the last post gives away the Cork if nothing else :laugh:
Noddaboddabiy.
I'll be heading to the Bierhaus myself after work. Stock up. Tuck in. Space out.
Interesting. Of the ones I mentioned, I think that was my favourite.
Quote from: Emphyrio on March 12, 2021, 12:18:10 PM
Interesting. Of the ones I mentioned, I think that was my favourite.
Horses for courses and all that. Plus - as mentioned - taste is a weird thing. For example;
Rye River in Kildare make some a lot of good beers (and some muck) under their own name.
Rye River make McGargles - all of which are piss.
Rye River make The Crafty Beer Co. stuff for Lidl which, broadly speaking, are all very good.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on March 12, 2021, 11:57:39 AM
Quote from: Slaughterday on March 11, 2021, 10:15:45 PM
On a selection of Svysturys beers tonight.
I have been drinking beer for a long time and very few things have put me on my ass like Svyturys did. It has a slap like a loose barn door in the wind off if it.
Lovely though.
Well that's all the sales pitch I need to hear :laugh: must hunt down a couple of these to try out.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on March 12, 2021, 12:26:28 PM
Quote from: Emphyrio on March 12, 2021, 12:18:10 PM
Interesting. Of the ones I mentioned, I think that was my favourite.
Horses for courses and all that. Plus - as mentioned - taste is a weird thing. For example;
Rye River in Kildare make some a lot of good beers (and some muck) under their own name.
Rye River make McGargles - all of which are piss.
Rye River make The Crafty Beer Co. stuff for Lidl which, broadly speaking, are all very good.
I should probably pay more attention to the brewers as opposed to the brands. Continuing taste being a weird thing, I like both McGargles and Crafty. Will look out for Rye River's own brand stuff.
Quote from: Emphyrio on March 12, 2021, 01:34:38 PM
Quote from: StoutAndAle on March 12, 2021, 12:26:28 PM
Quote from: Emphyrio on March 12, 2021, 12:18:10 PM
Interesting. Of the ones I mentioned, I think that was my favourite.
Horses for courses and all that. Plus - as mentioned - taste is a weird thing. For example;
Rye River in Kildare make some a lot of good beers (and some muck) under their own name.
Rye River make McGargles - all of which are piss.
Rye River make The Crafty Beer Co. stuff for Lidl which, broadly speaking, are all very good.
I should probably pay more attention to the brewers as opposed to the brands. Continuing taste being a weird thing, I like both McGargles and Crafty. Will look out for Rye River's own brand stuff.
Yeah you can't go wrong with the beer coming out of there imo.
The macgargles bangin ipa and the DIPA are good value!
Your man even started Whiplash in that brewery didn't he!
Quote from: pete on March 12, 2021, 02:32:11 PM
Yeah you can't go wrong with the beer coming out of there imo.
The macgargles bangin ipa and the DIPA are good value!
Your man even started Whiplash in that brewery didn't he!
Like I said - horses for courses - I've had only bad experiences with McGargles - a lot of diacetyl issues with their beers, oxidation problems, etc. so I choose not to spend my money there.
I think both Whiplash lads started in Rye River. Alex definitely did.
Whiplash are next level - in fact they're 10 levels above nearly everyone else in Ireland.
They are on the same podium as the likes of To Øl, Mikkeller, 3 Floyds, Left Hand, Solemn Oath etc. Probably the only brewery on the island of Ireland that can match them are Boundary in Belfast.
Just looked at their site. Saucy.
Quote from: Emphyrio on March 12, 2021, 03:20:54 PM
Just looked at their site. Saucy.
In both senses. You'll get a great beer but be paying a fairly hefty price for it. Rye River are the same for their own brand.
I was in the main craft off-license in Cork last week doing my beer shopping - some of the Whiplash cans are up to €8 a throw. https://www.thebeerclub.ie/products/whiplash-fatal-deviation-barrel-aged-imperial-stout-440ml-can?_pos=15&_sid=9a4cc69b5&_ss=r&variant=37566011179158
They had a special by Mikkeller too that was nearer €15 too. For a can.
I'd nearly adopt the tactic of my buddy in Dunnes from a few pages back after seeing that. :laugh:
Had a look at the Whiplash site there. Their prices are prohibitively ridiculous. Hard pass.
I don't mind paying a bit extra in a pub (mmmm pub) but paying pub prices for a can at home, for 440ml at that.... !
Maybe one or 2 and balance it out with 8 cans of Excelsior.
Yeah the bourbon barrel aged fatal deviation was 15euro when I bought it. To be fair to them, it's without doubt the best bourbon barrel aged in a warehouse in ballyfermot imperial stout I've ever had.
They were saying they've a few aging at the moment for later in the year.
Quote from: Emphyrio on March 12, 2021, 03:39:12 PM
I don't mind paying a bit extra in a pub (mmmm pub) but paying pub prices for a can at home, for 440ml at that.... !
Maybe one or 2 and balance it out with 8 cans of Excelsior.
Just in to approve of the Excelsior
Whiplash can phuck right off with those prices for shitty wee cans.
Hipster shite. It's all about the look of the can and the brand. I've had two cans before, my mate got me them. Decent beer alright, but €5-€9 for a can? Nah!
Wondering now was it Astfgl or Emphyrio in Lidl Ennis the other day buying the box of Excelsior :laugh:
Tasting notes: hipster shite
Quote from: Born of Fire on March 12, 2021, 06:51:23 PM
Wondering now was it Astfgl or Emphyrio in Lidl Ennis the other day buying the box of Excelsior :laugh:
While I'm loathe to pay 6 quid a can for fancy stuff, I don't hate myself enough to hit the Excelsior. I presume it's a step or two below Dutch gold.
Well it's not really fair comparing it to something as fancy as the Dutch Gold, but in its' own bracket, it's a winner.
Hitting the Brown Bear double IPA now. Y'know the bit in The Wrath Of Khan where Khan maroons Kirk on the asteroid ("buried alive... buried alive..."), where he says to him "Ah Kirk, my old friend..." - the relish in his voice reflects this moment perfectly.
...
...
...
Caaaaaaan!
I bought a bottle of Craft Stout to soften the blow of another night on the Excelsior. Took one swig out of it, realised I was actually thirsty and went back to the warm embrace of me oul favourite
Quote from: astfgyl on March 12, 2021, 09:16:01 PM
I bought a bottle of Craft Stout to soften the blow of another night on the Excelsior. Took one swig out of it, realised I was actually thirsty and went back to the warm embrace of me oul favourite
Gawd bless you and your stomach of steel brrrrooootherrrrr.....
Currently drinking some Bushmills. Forgot how tasty it is.
Quote from: Blackout on March 12, 2021, 10:54:03 PM
Currently drinking some Bushmills. Forgot how tasty it is.
Beautiful stuff. Had a nice 12yo & 18yo in that distillery.
https://youtu.be/tjVzGYZLhvo
:laugh: the best way to drink whiskey
Quote from: Blackout on March 12, 2021, 10:54:03 PM
Currently drinking some Bushmills. Forgot how tasty it is.
It's lovely so it is
I've actually recently replaced standard Jameson for Blackbush as my "basic" whiskey. Find the latter a much more interesting sip...although, over the years, I may simply have consumed too much Jameson, so it's perhaps become too predictable to my palette. Either way, Blackbush, for only a couple of quid extra a bottle (over here anyway) is a grand old bottle to turn to as a regular as opposed to special occasion uisce beatha.
Agreed. I'm a dirty fenlan yet the golden liquid produced by "them 'uns" is preferred over the nationalist jamie.
I prefer whiskies like Bushmills, powers etc which have a sweet edge to them.
The whole Protestant thing is supposedly nonsense anyway, especially now that Jameson is owned by Pernod.
Nothing nicer than Powers in a hot whiskey.
Quote from: Carnage on March 13, 2021, 06:52:55 PM
Nothing nicer than Powers in a hot whiskey.
It's amazing with a few cloves and honey. Hmm I might venture to supervalu for cloves.
Just suppin' on an O'Hara's session IPA now. Melon, lemon & lime flavoured. Tasty drop.
Jaysus I dunno, I can't drink the Powers at all. Do like the Bushmills and the Jameson. I'd drink either of those neat no bother
I'm not a whiskey drinker at all, it ruins my stomach (once puked blood after a single Paddy's), a hot Powers in the winter is as close as I'd get.
Well if I'm being honest I usually only turn to the whiskey after having a good few cans already, I wouldn't be a connoisseur of any description. Can't handle 90 percent of the whiskey.
Powers, Paddy, Bushmills, Blackbush, all whiskeys in fact, have one thing in common.
They all turn me into a raving, dangerously violent, fucking lunatic.
Can't touch the stuff at all, same with brandy.
Quote from: son of the Morrigan on March 14, 2021, 01:08:49 AM
Powers, Paddy, Bushmills, Blackbush, all whiskeys in fact, have one thing in common.
They all turn me into a raving, dangerously violent, fucking lunatic.
Can't touch the stuff at all, same with brandy.
I'm like that on vodka. Whiskey makes me haopy and giddy.
I find it amazing how certain spirits drive us all quare but others don't, even with the same %. What sort of interaction goes on there between the alcohol, the other ingredients and the person drinking it?
Quote from: astfgyl on March 14, 2021, 02:47:07 PM
I find it amazing how certain spirits drive us all quare but others don't, even with the same %. What sort of interaction goes on there between the alcohol, the other ingredients and the person drinking it?
I don't know the hell, its a funny one allright. Brown spirits, like whiskey and brandy, turn me paranoid and vicious, and I'm usually a very happy go lucky kinda lad like.
I can drink clear spirits like vodka, gin and me auld friend poitin till they come out me ears and I would't say boo to a goose.
I do often hear people saying gin depresses the life out of them, I'm the opposite, half a bottle of Gordons and I'm the life of the fecking party
Buckfast was the one that drove me mental. The last time I drank a bottle, I was told the following morning, by a good mate, that I had a good right hook. Apparently I took umbridge to something he said and decked him, I had no memory of it. The same night I was apparently jumping over a bonfire and and pointed a (thankfully unloaded) shotgun at another mate as he walked in the door, scaring the bejeesus out of him. That was about 25 years ago.
Spirits never had that effect on me, rather beer makes me belligerent, argumentative and fucking stupid.
Happy Sint Patti's Day folks.....
Hitting the cayans soon..... :abbath:
Cans of water, I hope
It's pointless being off Paddy's Day with work the next day. Twould be handier finishing early on Paddy's, go on the lash and recover the next day. Bah humbug.
Just start drinking now and get so wasted you pass out around 8 or so, stay in a coma for 12 hours, and you'll be fresh as a daisy for work tomorrow!
While I'm a fan of that in theory, it never pans out like that in practice. And, even stopping at 8, enough damage could be done that 12 hours sleep wouldn't cut it. Too long in the tooth to be heading in in the morning with a head on me.
If you wake up with a head on you after it, just drop a yoke with your morning coffee. Fresh as a daisy!
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on March 17, 2021, 11:32:23 AM
If you wake up with a head on you after it, just drop a yoke with your morning coffee. Fresh as a daisy!
Ahh, to be 21 again...
:laugh: I know, simpler times, wha!
I could only handle that in my dreams nowadays
Saving my drinking until Friday but I'll have a Jameson and a Guinness for the evening that's in it I suppose.
Seeing as Tesco persist in not doing their offers, I picked up a few 660ml bottles of Estrella instead. Brings back memories of breakfast in Barcelona.
Quote from: Emphyrio on March 26, 2021, 05:17:34 PM
Seeing as Tesco persist in not doing their offers, I picked up a few 660ml bottles of Estrella instead. Brings back memories of breakfast in Barcelona.
Not a fan, assuming it's Damm you are on about.
Now Estrella Galicia on the other hand... :-*
Aye, tis the Damm alright. Defo tastes nicer sitting outside a pub in sunny Spain. I've a few Brown Bear too so I'll be grand.
I find two Brown Bear is plenty. Especially if you plan on drinking further into the evening/night.
Alhambra is the best spanish lager :)
Quote from: Caomhaoin on March 26, 2021, 06:20:20 PM
Alhambra is the best spanish lager :)
By a golden mile. The Especial edición in the gold can is some jawb lad.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on March 26, 2021, 06:20:20 PM
Alhambra is the best spanish lager :)
I do like a litre bottle of Mahou too
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Quote from: Caomhaoin on March 26, 2021, 06:20:20 PM
Alhambra is the best spanish lager :)
I do like a litre bottle of Mahou too
Why, of fookin why? It's the Spanish version of Budweiser only worse..... :laugh:
It's like making love in a canoe. It's fucking close to water!
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on March 26, 2021, 08:03:59 PM
Quote from: Doctor Crippen on March 26, 2021, 06:48:15 PM
Quote from: Caomhaoin on March 26, 2021, 06:20:20 PM
Alhambra is the best spanish lager :)
I do like a litre bottle of Mahou too
Why, of fookin why? It's the Spanish version of Budweiser only worse..... :laugh:
It's like making love in a canoe. It's fucking close to water!
Each to their own really, I judge no man on what they drink
Quote from: Doctor Crippen on March 26, 2021, 08:21:37 PM
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on March 26, 2021, 08:03:59 PM
Quote from: Doctor Crippen on March 26, 2021, 06:48:15 PM
Quote from: Caomhaoin on March 26, 2021, 06:20:20 PM
Alhambra is the best spanish lager :)
I do like a litre bottle of Mahou too
Why, of fookin why? It's the Spanish version of Budweiser only worse..... :laugh:
It's like making love in a canoe. It's fucking close to water!
Each to their own really, I judge no man on what they drink
Well then, may I recommend a nice ice cold bottle of Solan de Cabras the next time you need to fix your quench.
I drink plenty of water horse and plenty of different beers
Strana from Aldi tonight. Very decent for €1.29 a bottle. Not a million miles away from Staropramen.
Quote from: Slaughterday on March 26, 2021, 08:50:20 PM
Strana from Aldi tonight. Very decent for €1.29 a bottle. Not a million miles away from Staropramen.
I saw that earlier today and didn't take a punt, I think I will now
I am making my way through some Hop House tonight, they really are tasty
Hop house is gorgeous but the after effects are not.
Quote from: Blackout on March 26, 2021, 09:08:53 PM
Hop house is gorgeous but the after effects are not.
Yeah i have to behave myself with nearly all beers now, my hangovers are chronic
Would you blackbelts have any recommendation on decent stout alternatives to Guinness and Murphy's, I like both of them a lot but haven't dabbled much outside of that
Leann Foláin seems to be a popluar one. Solas Irish Stout, Galway Hooker stout & O'Shea's Irish Stout are ones I'd rate slightly higher but I'd be in the minority there.
Quote from: Emphyrio on March 26, 2021, 09:24:31 PM
Leann Foláin seems to be a popluar one. Solas Irish Stout, Galway Hooker stout & O'Shea's Irish Stout are ones I'd rate slightly higher but I'd be in the minority there.
I never even heard of Leann Folain i will try that if i can find it
Ah you should find Leann Foláin in most shops, just look for the O'Haras bottle with the white label. In the Guinness family their West Indies and Foreign Extra stouts are both great shouts. Cold Dark Heart in Aldi is daycent too.
Quote from: Born of Fire on March 26, 2021, 11:37:39 PM
Cold Dark Heart in Aldi is daycent too.
That's O'Shea's rebranded right? They changed their Irish Lager to To Helles and Back too. Dunno what their IPAs are called now. Suppose if I picked up a few bottles I'd find out.
Quote from: Born of Fire on March 26, 2021, 11:37:39 PM
Ah you should find Leann Foláin in most shops, just look for the O'Haras bottle with the white label. In the Guinness family their West Indies and Foreign Extra stouts are both great shouts. Cold Dark Heart in Aldi is daycent too.
Thanks for that i will give all them a go 👍
Quote from: Emphyrio on March 27, 2021, 08:38:59 AM
Quote from: Born of Fire on March 26, 2021, 11:37:39 PM
Cold Dark Heart in Aldi is daycent too.
That's O'Shea's rebranded right? They changed their Irish Lager to To Helles and Back too. Dunno what their IPAs are called now. Suppose if I picked up a few bottles I'd find out.
I believe so yes. Tried To Helles and Back, didn't think much of it. Think the IPA is called Trick of the Light. Haven't tried that yet. The pale ale is decent enough but that stout is easily the best of the range.
Leann Follain for sure. Not too cold though. Needs to be only a little cool or you kill the coffee and vanilla notes. My beer of choice at BYOB gigs.
With the macro breweries - forget Murphy's and Guinness in cans. A can of Beamish plain is your only man.
Had a few from the back step last night. Ambrosia. :abbath:
Quote from: Born of Fire on March 27, 2021, 09:36:44 AM
Quote from: Emphyrio on March 27, 2021, 08:38:59 AM
Quote from: Born of Fire on March 26, 2021, 11:37:39 PM
Cold Dark Heart in Aldi is daycent too.
That's O'Shea's rebranded right? They changed their Irish Lager to To Helles and Back too. Dunno what their IPAs are called now. Suppose if I picked up a few bottles I'd find out.
I believe so yes. Tried To Helles and Back, didn't think much of it. Think the IPA is called Trick of the Light. Haven't tried that yet. The pale ale is decent enough but that stout is easily the best of the range.
You are correct, those names actually do ring a bell. I thought they were lovely.
Right lads, I haven't had a few beers since New Years and am looking for some this Friday. Can anyone recommend a nice fresh beer (not fucking Heineken please), or IPA? I used to love the brown bear yellow bottles, but any nice non IPA beers ye'd recommend to enjoy this Friday?
It's gonna be sunny, I reckon some crispy German lagers should hit the spot. You can't go too far wrong with them to be honest. I know some people have strong opinions on various brands but I find them all at least decent. Augstiner Helles & Edelstoff are both delightful, Tegernseer make lovely stuff too, Chiemseer.........Bavarian is usually a safe enough bet! Rothaus Pils is another cracking lager
Quote from: Necr0rceN on March 30, 2021, 09:49:40 PM
Right lads, I haven't had a few beers since New Years and am looking for some this Friday. Can anyone recommend a nice fresh beer (not fucking Heineken please), or IPA? I used to love the brown bear yellow bottles, but any nice non IPA beers ye'd recommend to enjoy this Friday?
Are you blowing out the whole IPA category as a non-runner?
Quote from: Necr0rceN on March 30, 2021, 09:49:40 PM
Right lads, I haven't had a few beers since New Years and am looking for some this Friday. Can anyone recommend a nice fresh beer (not fucking Heineken please), or IPA? I used to love the brown bear yellow bottles, but any nice non IPA beers ye'd recommend to enjoy this Friday?
astfygl would be the go to man for beer advice on the for. He's always bragging about beers I've never tasted nor even heard of.
Einsiedler Hell from Aldi is my go-to lager these days. Unreal stuff. Also anything Yung Led Zeppelin recommended above is spot on for good weather.
Got a box of beer coming from beerclub tomorrow hopefully. Complete mix of styles so I'm sure the resulting beer farts will be fairly septic.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on April 01, 2021, 01:17:10 PM
Quote from: Necr0rceN on March 30, 2021, 09:49:40 PM
Right lads, I haven't had a few beers since New Years and am looking for some this Friday. Can anyone recommend a nice fresh beer (not fucking Heineken please), or IPA? I used to love the brown bear yellow bottles, but any nice non IPA beers ye'd recommend to enjoy this Friday?
Are you blowing out the whole IPA category as a non-runner?
Anything lad really, not sure what the fuck I was typing there, I actually meant any IPA as well
Quote from: Slaughterday on April 01, 2021, 08:12:18 PM
Einsiedler Hell from Aldi is my go-to lager these days. Unreal stuff. Also anything Yung Led Zeppelin recommended above is spot on for good weather.
Got a box of beer coming from beerclub tomorrow hopefully. Complete mix of styles so I'm sure the resulting beer farts will be fairly septic.
That Einsiedler Helles is very enjoyable alright, great that it seems to have become regular stock. I find it very light and clean, it goes down almost too easy, but again, perfect for sunshine gatting
Nice few suggestions there I must try.
Had a bottle of Smithwicks Blonde Ale yesterday evening, goes down a treat in warm weather. Got me thinking about years ago on a sunny down in Tralee drinking lovely crisp pints of Creans lager. Ah Jesus I'm dying for a spin down to Kerry again.
Speaking of Smithwicks, got out of work way after curfew yesterday, and since I've been home alone this week, of course the cupboards are empty. So anyway, ordered a burger and the only beers the place had left was a red by the Normandy brand Kekette, and it was blackcurrant flavored too. I never go in for flavored beers, but I have to say last night that really nailed the refreshment spot between the eyes.
Well lads, the mrs ignored everyone's advice and bought a six pack of McGargles Francis' Big Bangin' IPA. The head was a bit sore this morning. All I know is I'm about to go through it again tonight. First beers since New Years have been savage tasty.
Having some Graffenwalder, or as my auld fella calls it Gene Wilders
Grabbed a can of Brewdog Punk IPA on the way home from work. Not a fan of IPAs generally, but this was perfect on this 27°C day.
You have to love auld lads and culchies just changing foreign stuff to more comfortable pronunciations.
In the local years ago I kept hearing these two old boys ordering pints of Ballycallan (a sráidbhaile in County Kilkenny).
Says I to the barman 'what are they on about, Ballycallan'?
'They are drinking Bavaria'
😂
He also has a liking for St Etienne from lidl or aldi which he calls St Ethna, its not high brow stuff but for an 80 year old what can you say
Not beer related but I used to work in a part of Madrid called Fuenlabrada and this Limerick Uber Culchie buddy of mine just couldn't wrap his gob around it.
'What's the fuckin' place you are in, Ballylanders ta fuck'
Pedrito will know exactly who I mean.
😂
😂
My mate left these 4 beauties here at Christmas. He's had over 3 months to come back out and claim them.
Mine now..... Sláinte mo chairde... :abbath:
Fair play for not 'flahing' (as they say in cork) before now!
I've invited him out plenty and they've been taking up valuable room in the aul koelkast.
Proost jongens \m/
Lidl have added a ton of good shit there in the past week, namely the Belgian stuff again.
Gulden Draak, 4 for a tenner. Bang for yer buck, gatt on ta fuck
Yeah the Belgian stuff in Lidl is unreal value. You rarely see those for under 4 quid each usually.
Yup, and even then they're so delicious I've never regretted paying up, lol
Just picked up a coupla cans of Porterhouse Wrassler's XXXX stout from Lidl, sure it'd be rude not to. Jaysus a pint of porter would go down well now.
Quote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on April 23, 2021, 02:37:53 PM
Yup, and even then they're so delicious I've never regretted paying up, lol
Gulden Draak is indeed delicious but you need serious willpower to not plough through them or you'll be in an absolute heap given how strong they are :laugh:
Had wicklow wolf today, or i think thats what it was called, grand like
That Sierra nevada stuff knocks the dick off ya.
Quote from: Carnage on April 23, 2021, 03:35:44 PMJust picked up a coupla cans of Porterhouse Wrassler's XXXX stout from Lidl, sure it'd be rude not to.
Tasty stuff it is indeed, I'll pick up a few more next time I'm in.
Had one of the those barrel aged O'Haras Leann Foillean stouts a few months back. Around 12 to 14 euro a bottle if I recall correctly. Fucking gorgeous.
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on March 06, 2021, 03:27:40 PM
18 x 500ml cans of Hop House 13 in Aldi for €20 atm.
Exceedingly good value for money that.... hic!
I'm sipping away at the Hop House 13 atm, very tasty. I bought 7 slabs that time in Aldi and still have 4 left. Can't bate a good bargain.
Hop house is delish but the hangover is horrible.
Quote from: Blackout on April 24, 2021, 07:06:28 PM
Hop house is delish but the hangover is horrible.
Thankfully I never get subjected to this pain...
Sipping the many colours of Brown Bear this weekend. Fully off the wagon now XD
Was in Lidl just now. The Dún Dealgan (West Cork Distillery) single malt whiskies are reduced to €20 from €26....
Exceedingly good value indeed, nabbed 3 myself (Stout, Sherry and IPA Editions)...
Quote from: Blackout on April 24, 2021, 07:06:28 PM
Hop house is delish but the hangover is horrible.
Same here, can't be doing with that fucking hangover.
In other news, if the govt get their way on the minimum pricing, I might have to finally move on from the Excelsior. I mean I love it and all but the 75c per can is the major selling point for me. Who knows, I might end up cleaning my act up altogether...
I know they've been humming and hawing about the minimum pricing for a while, but it is kind of gas that the week after nearly half the country was out buying offie drink for the good weather, it rears its head again. Quickly, they're enjoying themselves! Best tax them for it.
Yeah no bother if the drink is extortionate, sup away wherever. Grand. Keep it statesmanlike and get the tops off as well
I noticed that a 4 pack of Creamy Beams™ has gone from €7.90 to €8.50 in the space of a week.
Also - the place where I buy my beer is now selling Augustiner Helles and Edelstoff at €4.50 a bottle. Bargain... When I'm working in Munich I get a bottle of it with my lunch on a Friday for €0.95 from the kiosk outside the office...
Home brewing here we come!
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on April 27, 2021, 12:38:48 PM
Home brewing here we come!
Ive been threatening to do this for a long time but i lack the knowledge and confidence, i have a vision of drinking my own brew and ending up like henry sellers from father ted
I swear to god it's one of the easiest things you can do. All you have to be sure of is cleaning everything, and there's nothing difficult about that, just a case of being thorough. It's well worth it.
Got gifted a bottle of Glenfiddich which I look forward to supping this weekend.
Quote from: Blackout on April 28, 2021, 10:00:07 AM
Got gifted a bottle of Glenfiddich which I look forward to supping this weekend.
Really nice Speyside whisky that. Is it aged 10 or 12 by any chance?
Enjoy....
Quote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on April 28, 2021, 09:23:03 AM
I swear to god it's one of the easiest things you can do. All you have to be sure of is cleaning everything, and there's nothing difficult about that, just a case of being thorough. It's well worth it.
Indeed. Once you have patience and are somewhat methodical then it becomes a doddle. I've been home brewing for over a decade now. I even made 200 bottles of Helles and a Pale Ale to serve at my wedding.
The initial outlay can be costly but after you're up and running you can make some great stuff.
As YLZ said - cleaning and sanitising is of the utmost importance.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on April 28, 2021, 01:05:45 PM
Quote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on April 28, 2021, 09:23:03 AM
I swear to god it's one of the easiest things you can do. All you have to be sure of is cleaning everything, and there's nothing difficult about that, just a case of being thorough. It's well worth it.
Indeed. Once you have patience and are somewhat methodical then it becomes a doddle. I've been home brewing for over a decade now. I even made 200 bottles of Helles and a Pale Ale to serve at my wedding.
The initial outlay can be costly but after you're up and running you can make some great stuff.
As YLZ said - cleaning and sanitising is of the utmost importance.
Would you guys recommend any kits to start with, as I say I would love to do it but the knowledge I have about it you could write on the head of a match
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on April 28, 2021, 11:15:58 AM
Quote from: Blackout on April 28, 2021, 10:00:07 AM
Got gifted a bottle of Glenfiddich which I look forward to supping this weekend.
Really nice Speyside whisky that. Is it aged 10 or 12 by any chance?
Enjoy....
It's the 12 year.
Yeah I would also be interested in getting some good info on how to get going with the home brew. Made the wine before and while the taste was evil and the hangover excruciating, it was still good fun. Who knows someday I might be able to make my own Excelsior!
Quote from: Doctor Crippen on April 28, 2021, 02:09:48 PM
Would you guys recommend any kits to start with, as I say I would love to do it but the knowledge I have about it you could write on the head of a match
Quote from: astfgyl on April 28, 2021, 04:17:09 PM
Yeah I would also be interested in getting some good info on how to get going with the home brew. Made the wine before and while the taste was evil and the hangover excruciating, it was still good fun. Who knows someday I might be able to make my own Excelsior!
I'll give you a few pointers but there's quite a lot to mention. Even with my penchant for verbosity.
I never used an out of the box kit - the ingredients tend to be sub par and old. The key to a good beer is hops that are as fresh as possible and a dry malt bill - plus clean water obviously.
You can make an extremely passable American style pale ale as a beginner using only a few kilograms of medium or light spray malt extract (or a mixture of the 2), hops, yeast and a few other bits and pieces. This beer is not a match for all grain batches etc. but it is how I learned the process of how and what needs to be done and when. Also - I have made all extract beer that are better that some of the stuff I have paid cold hard cash for in pubs.
I'll send you both a message in a minute.
How bulky is the whole process? A friend of mine made stout in his shed years ago. My shed is full of crap currently.
Quote from: Emphyrio on April 29, 2021, 11:45:25 AM
How bulky is the whole process? A friend of mine made stout in his shed years ago. My shed is full of crap currently.
There's a fair bit of gear needed to do a brew - if you want to do it any way seriously. There are people that make box kits using the bare minimum - a pot, a bucket and some bottles but you run the risk of making 10 litres of ethanol, mucky piss or by the grace of dog - a decent beer.
I'll send you a list.
Thanks fot that pal.
This deserves its own thread. I'm going to take some quotes from this thread by YLZ and StoutAnd Ale if I may....
In anticipation of the forthcoming minimum pricing, picked up a couple of craft style things from lidl. Xxxx stout from porterhouse which has all the taste of stout but none of the viscosity and some shit that tasted like pineapples and was named something to do with fishing. Wasn't bad
Now with the taste buds gone on hiatus for the foreseeable future, time to move on to the Excelsior to round out the night
Quote from: astfgyl on April 30, 2021, 09:12:33 PM
In anticipation of the forthcoming minimum pricing, picked up a couple of craft style things from lidl. Xxxx stout from porterhouse which has all the taste of stout but none of the viscosity and some shit that tasted like pineapples and was named something to do with fishing. Wasn't bad
Now with the taste buds gone on hiatus for the foreseeable future, time to move on to the Excelsior to round out the night
Legend ❤️
I got a few more cans of that XXXX stout yesterday while I was in, lovely stuff. Enjoying a Guinness West Indies Porter at the moment, nice in this warm weather.
I'm on the Guinness atm, and I'll hit the Jameson Crested any moment now..... Then it'll be spliff time too. Love Friday nights.....
Have you read any of Ken Bruen's Jack Taylor books? In one of them, the way he describes sitting at the bar with a pint of Guinness and a shot of Jameson would make you pine for it yerself. Pure love. The two go together well alright, and I'm not a whiskey drinker at all.
Crested Ten was my old man's drop, I have one on his birthday every year in his memory.
Crested is a very tasty whiskey.
Meself and another lad tried drinking a bottle of power's after digging a grave a few years ago and it was poisonous.
You're lucky the crested ten is nice...
On the blue Brown Bear IPAs, savage tasty and strong enough. Feel fucked after only 4!!
Hot Powers is yer only man.
Which Brown Bear, the double IPA is fantastic but blows my head.
Had a few Tuborg earlier and found some Peroni in the fridge. About to have a hoot, play Doom, and listen to Godflesh until I pass out. Cheers
Quote from: ochoill on May 01, 2021, 12:01:06 AM
Had a few Tuborg earlier and found some Peroni in the fridge. About to have a hoot, play Doom, and listen to Godflesh until I pass out. Cheers
Enjoy lawd...
They have tuborg on tap in the local, killer of a hamgover from it but its cheap as chips
Picked up a few cans of Steam Brew Imperial Stout in lidl which are nice, a good kick at 7.5%.
500ml cans for 2 euro each so they're a good cheaper alternative to foreign extra too.
Quote from: ldj on May 02, 2021, 02:51:34 PM
Picked up a few cans of Steam Brew Imperial Stout in lidl which are nice, a good kick at 7.5%.
500ml cans for 2 euro each so they're a good cheaper alternative to foreign extra too.
Yep, very very tasty alright and good value. Hopefully they'll keep it in stock this time as they usually only have it in a couple times a year.
I like the sound of those. Must get on em today
Quote from: astfgyl on May 02, 2021, 03:26:32 PM
I like the sound of those. Must get on em today
I got on em. I got fucking buckled. I suffered very bad this morning but by god were they delicious. Went down and bought a few more today before they're gone again. What a bargain!!!
Quote from: astfgyl on May 03, 2021, 07:38:23 PM
Quote from: astfgyl on May 02, 2021, 03:26:32 PM
I like the sound of those. Must get on em today
I got on em. I got fucking buckled. I suffered very bad this morning but by god were they delicious. Went down and bought a few more today before they're gone again. What a bargain!!!
It really is two cans for the price of one. I always grab a few when I'm in doing my shopping.
I must say Lidl are after upping their game with the beers the last few months. They were miles behind Aldi in terms of variety for a long time but are doing quite well of late.
And it only took a single can of the stout to lift the pain in my head which was resistant to treatment all day.
I met this lad at a birthday picnic for an Irish buddy of mine, a Spanish lad with a bird from Kildare who had a bag of Lidl cans, a habit he must have picked up from his woman.
He goes to me 'you know, I was at the airport in Dublin there before the pandemic and I approached what I thought was a policeman, and says I'
'Are you police'?
'I am yes'
'Are you sure? You're not airport security or something'?
'No, I'm a policeman'
'Are you sure'?
'Yes, why'?
'It's just you have Guard written the back of your jacket'
Quote from: Caomhaoin on May 03, 2021, 08:42:05 PM
I met this lad at a birthday picnic for an Irish buddy of mine, a Spanish lad with a bird from Kildare who had a bag of Lidl cans, a habit he must have picked up from his woman.
He goes to me 'you know, I was at the airport in Dublin there before the pandemic and I approached what I thought was a policeman, and says I'
'Are you police'?
'I am yes'
'Are you sure? You're not airport security or something'?
'No, I'm a policeman'
'Are you sure'?
'Yes, why'?
'It's just you have Guard written the back of your jacket'
I'm after reading this Joycean prose 5 times - once out loud - and I still don't understand it.
What am I missing?
Most countries have police and we have guards
Government has signed off on Minimum Unit Pricing. Fair play to them on this initiative to revitalise trips to the north to stock up on booze.....
Yet another tax on the poor (working class) in this country. And all the while they have a free bar in the Dáil which was open when almost all others in the country were closed last summer. Pricks!
As I said before, we are an apathetic, pathetic nation when it comes to any kind of protesting of government policy. You need only look at the Housing Crisis and now the minimum unit pricing for alcohol. Unless people protest, the government will continue to treat people with contempt.
And even when there is protest, we will be treated with the same contempt. I think a lot of the bullshit would be solved if we all voted for independents and forced them to come up with some sort of national government which represents the interests of the citizens but many many people still see party politics as the solution. That's for another thread probably though.
The alcohol minimum pricing is something I simply can't see the logic of though. Maybe a simple ban on below-cost selling would help to prop up the independent offies and take it back a bit from the supermarkets? Would that be too sensible, or is it already done?
Basically it works like this. There can't be multi buy offers on booze anymore eg 3 craft beers for €9, but an item can be reduced for an offer. Not by much though. It is a shame as I like a few craftys
Quote from: Necro Red on May 10, 2021, 11:21:23 AM
Basically it works like this. There can't be multi buy offers on booze anymore eg 3 craft beers for €9, but an item can be reduced for an offer. Not by much though. It is a shame as I like a few craftys
I think, if anything, it'll be used by the retailers to pump up the price of beer even more. A few of the places I buy booze have dropped the price of their former 4 for €12 to €3 each but others have gone the other way and increased the price per beer.
Where does the extra cost go? I am not clear on that. If a can of Heineken which was €1.20 in a multipack/single last Christmas is now to be €1.97 per can - who gets the €0.77 - the retailer, the brewery (hardly), the government/the Revenue.
If it is the latter does this make it a tax?
However it works, it won't be good for the end user. Well maybe indirectly but generally it will feel bad.
Drank a pint of Guinness from a plastic cup yesterday and it was wonderful. The feeling of walking up to the bar and ordering it was great.
Gorbachev increased the price of vodka by 40% in the USSR in the 80's to tackle the severe alcoholism problem there, people just started making their own and started a serious issue with labelling homemade shite with counterfeit labels.
It seems it's more about generating revenue in this case rather than coddling the wayward boozer in Ireland. Alcohol is an issue, but as a nation of primarily beer drinkers, it's a mild form of what goes on in other places.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/every-brit-needs-drink-124-24104984
I'd be curious about the Irish figure, might try help. Then again with the LVA pushing to curb the offies I might drink the equivalent in overpriced cans....
Nightcrawler milk stout, €3 a can in Tesco. Very nice indeed.
It seems like one more tax for us working class really. I don't smoke anymore and I imagine the price of smokes has rocketed also?
Bushmills and Captain Morgan in Lidl for €20 a pop atm...
12 Budvar and 12 Grolsh, €15 each in Tesco. Not an amazing deal but very easy to drink bottles. Not much else in there on the good offer.
Are they the pint bottles of Budvar or do they have 330ml? Grand deal either way.
They're the 330ml's. Not a bad deal but yeah it would be much better on the tall bottles. The Budvar definitely the nicer of the two in general. They had the Birra Moretti on the same deal I think, but unfortunately not the Staropramen - €19 a case there. Finding Tesco's selection to have dwindled a fair bit in the last while too, outside of the lack of deals.
I was in Tesco yesterday to purchase a weekend sup and left. No deals, fuck all selection.
That Oettinger Pils in Lidl is very decent for €1.09 a 500ml can. Very drinkable and it's 4.7%....
Durlacher Hof in Dunnes of all places. It's lumped in with Tennents and all that other piss but it's a serious beer for the price.
Slab of Guinness 26 euro in Dunnes too, ends today I think.
Getting a few beers tonight and I saw a beer by White Hag called Black Forest Pastry Stout, I've always wondered about these gimmicky cake/milkshake flavoured beers so I picked up a can.
It smells and tastes like a gateau but way too sweet and nearly impossible to finish, so I expected them to be gimmicky shite and they are.
I'll stick with my bottles of Leffe :abbath:.
I didn't like it but I'm starting to get a taste for Heineken
Had a can of Connemara Ale yesterday, a new one from a new brewery I gather. Nice citrusy aftertaste, very summery & refreshing. €2.49 for a 330cl can in Lidl.
A bit pricey for a 330ml can, but I suppose it's an independent private brewery.
Yeah, I wouldn't normally go for that but I'd just read about them the day before and was curious.
Quote from: livingabortion on June 15, 2021, 07:06:55 PM
I didn't like it but I'm starting to get a taste for Heineken
Think there's a couple different versions of Heineken. Don't ever drink it here but I've quite enjoyed it abroad.
Is there a big difference do you know?
The version here is a little bit weaker anyway. Wouldn't be a big lager drinker to be honest, much prefer stouts and weissbiers!
Went to a pub in Dublin yesterday for the France match and they were charging 7.10 per pint. World's ending lads.
€7.10? Rip off. Temple Bar?
Quote from: livingabortion on June 16, 2021, 04:01:04 PM
€7.10? Rip off. Temple Bar?
Dame st so suppose near enough. They were good pints though.
Yeah, still that's steep.
€7.10? Fuckin' hell, twenty bar doesn't even cover three pints anymore. Grand if you're working on Google or an advertising executive but if you're up from 'the country' or a working stiff, that's too much.
Then again, I've been living abroad for more than a decade and I'm always taken aback at the price of the basics at home, outside of Lidl and Aldi. The mother insists on shopping in SuperValu (ha!), and smoking cigarettes, two very pricey habits in Ireland. She must be flogging yokes or buying flagons for young lads to supplement her income, her smoking alone costs 700 odd a month. For fags, like. I even bought her a vape kit, but the nose was turned up at it right and quick.
That is fuckin' outrageous. I'd walk right back out the door .Reaching for my hip flask.
€700 a month ??? I quit the fags when they were still under a tenner, and even then I thought it was a lot. I certainly wouldn't be able to afford it now.
7.10 for a pint is insane but not really that surprising given that pubs are probably trying to claw back whatever they can now. There'd be outrage around these parts if Guinness went over a fiver :laugh:
Place back home in Ennis used to do 3 pints for a tenner on Thursday nights back in 2010. 20 quid and you would be sorted.
€7.10 for a pint can fuck right off.
When I started drinking you could go into my local of an evening and get 3 Guinness out of a fiver (punts) and get 5p change. I've always said that I'd quit if the price of a pint went above a fiver and we're getting close to that as things stand.
You'd be mad not to charge it if people will pay it I spose!
What pub was it? And what was it a pint of?
Quote from: Carnage on June 16, 2021, 10:10:54 PM
€7.10 for a pint can fuck right off.
When I started drinking you could go into my local of an evening and get 3 Guinness out of a fiver (punts) and get 5p change. I've always said that I'd quit if the price of a pint went above a fiver and we're getting close to that as things stand.
I'd be the same but it was a year since I'd had one and I was easily persuaded.
I thought I'd be beating people out of the way to get to a pint but I haven't been bothered TBH. I've gotten used to the absence of the pub, I've saved about ten grand since lockdown started - which was a real wake-up call, I hadn't realised how much I'd been pissing away - and I just don't miss it anymore.
Quote from: pete on June 16, 2021, 10:23:54 PM
You'd be mad not to charge it if people will pay it I spose!
What pub was it? And what was it a pint of?
I would like to know the answer to this as well.
If I was to hazard a guess then I would say - the Mercantile or whatever it's called now (Mulligan and some other name) and
not a pint of Guinness...
Sure you'd have to save up to go on the lash in Dublin now.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-40316093.html
I'd imagine that would go down a treat with the young women. Looks like that pub in Waterford is not stuck in the dark ages and is in fact well ahead of the curve after all.
Quote from: astfgyl on June 18, 2021, 11:48:05 AM
https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-40316093.html
I'd imagine that would go down a treat with the young women. Looks like that pub in Waterford is not stuck in the dark ages and is in fact well ahead of the curve after all.
Good luck trying to make that stick :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Had about 7 cans of Wicklow Wolf Arcadia on Saturday and found it to be one of the nicest cans I've ever had. No real next day effects either. Will be replacing the usuals with this from now on.
Where is that available?
It was in my local eurospar.
Cool, must keep a look out.
Wicklow Wolf do lovely beers alright, yet to be disappointed by them, that Arcadia is delicious
Quote from: Emphyrio on July 06, 2021, 11:10:01 AM
Where is that available?
Fine Wines on Catherine St there has it. Actually they have a class selection at the minute, got a couple of those Loop Head Pilsners and Islander IPAs from Western Herd the other day there too and they were lovely, they had a few other fancy looking choices in the fridge, not a huge amount of stock but varied.
Quote from: ochoill on July 07, 2021, 04:18:05 PM
Quote from: Emphyrio on July 06, 2021, 11:10:01 AM
Where is that available?
Fine Wines on Catherine St there has it. Actually they have a class selection at the minute, got a couple of those Loop Head Pilsners and Islander IPAs from Western Herd the other day there too and they were lovely, they had a few other fancy looking choices in the fridge, not a huge amount of stock but varied.
Too many cunts in town, might have a look and see if they've similar stock in Raheen. Sound!
Oettinger Pils at €1.09 a 500mL can in Lidl. Good to see some continental style value in the midst of this minimum pricing bullshit.
Quote from: Slaughterday on July 07, 2021, 08:29:59 PM
Oettinger Pils at €1.09 a 500mL can in Lidl. Good to see some continental style value in the midst of this minimum pricing bullshit.
Mentioned it before. Class pilsner for the price. I always grab a few when I'm in Lidl, great value..
Quote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on July 06, 2021, 12:35:34 PM
Wicklow Wolf do lovely beers alright, yet to be disappointed by them, that Arcadia is delicious
Having some as we speak. It's so light yet has a good kick.
I'm enjoying Nine Monks as Buckfast alternative: https://lovindublin.com/sponsored/nine-monks-is-irelands-newest-variety-of-tonic-wine-heres-the-suss
It'll be paint stripper, no mixer if these lads win tonight.
Quote from: Slaughterday on July 07, 2021, 08:29:59 PM
Oettinger Pils at €1.09 a 500mL can in Lidl. Good to see some continental style value in the midst of this minimum pricing bullshit.
I laughed when I saw it tbh because it's the bottom of the barrel piss in Germany that people avoid even at the 30c -ish mark :abbath:
Had a few Wicklow Wolf. 2 of em were lovely, Mammoth and Avalanche, but the Eden Session IPA was poor. At €3.20 for a 440ml I'd still say there's better for cheaper but I do enjoy the learning process!
Those Steambrew Imperial Stouts (7.5%) are back in Lidl at €1.99 a pop. Grabbed a shlab, shure t'wud be rude not to.
One of them Steambrew beers, not the stout one, seem to give me high octane gassy shites the day after I drink them.
Quote from: Giggles on July 27, 2021, 06:05:14 PM
One of them Steambrew beers, not the stout one, seem to give me high octane gassy shites the day after I drink them.
I'd say it was the Imperial IPA that did it, lol....
The German Red is a tasty tipple too.
Been necking patronus, german tack from lidl, when cold it is very tasty indeed
They've a few of those little belgian bottles in Lidl at the minute if anyone is looking. Gulden Draak, Piraat.
Quote from: Doctor Crippen on July 29, 2021, 09:18:27 PM
Been necking patronus, german tack from lidl, when cold it is very tasty indeed
Is it comparable to any of the mainstream beers?
Quote from: ochoill on July 29, 2021, 11:16:02 PM
They've a few of those little belgian bottles in Lidl at the minute if anyone is looking. Gulden Draak, Piraat.
9 quid a pack as well, the VALUE!
Quote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on July 30, 2021, 07:53:02 AM
Quote from: ochoill on July 29, 2021, 11:16:02 PM
They've a few of those little belgian bottles in Lidl at the minute if anyone is looking. Gulden Draak, Piraat.
9 quid a pack as well, the VALUE!
A bit steep for my usual tastes but I'll offset the difference in Excelsior.
It's not cheap, but if you were looking to get the same anywhere else, the usual price is way higher. I take it as a win because I love the Belgian stuff.
Other side of it, and the thing I like about beer compared with other drinks, the best of the best is still within the budget of the average person. You don't have to get a mortgage to sample the highly-rated shit.
I lost my first house to Cognac debt.
Quote from: Blackout on July 29, 2021, 11:22:17 PM
Quote from: Doctor Crippen on July 29, 2021, 09:18:27 PM
Been necking patronus, german tack from lidl, when cold it is very tasty indeed
Is it comparable to any of the mainstream beers?
It's a weissbeer so maybe comparable to some of them but tasty I have to see, not unpleasant at all
Quote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on July 30, 2021, 10:31:25 AM
It's not cheap, but if you were looking to get the same anywhere else, the usual price is way higher. I take it as a win because I love the Belgian stuff.
They were lovely but they fucked me up good last night. Suffering.
Was in Lidl today. Seriously good value on alcohol, some beers half price and single malt whiskies for €20... get in before the new year price hike...
I bought a bottle of Baileys there for a tenner. 'Tis the season.
Damn you nanny state bastards to hell... :abbath:
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2022/0102/1269552-minimum-unit-price-alcohol/
Gorbachev did that, only on a greater scale, with vodka in the 80's. Increased the price by 40% overnight. He only achieved an explosion of home distilling and counterfeiting, and he eventually had to reverse the policy.
This is the Twitter, equity and just eat generation, so fuck all chance of lads having the ingenuity and doing the same in 2021.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on January 03, 2022, 05:06:07 PM
Gorbachev did that, only on a greater scale, with vodka in the 80's. Increased the price by 40% overnight. He only achieved an explosion of home distilling and counterfeiting, and he eventually had to reverse the policy.
This is the Twitter, equity and just eat generation, so fuck all chance of lads having the last ingenuity and doing the same in 2021.
Absolutely big mawn...
I'll be keeping my drinking to Fri and Sat nights mostly this year anyway. Maybe with the odd Wed night sprinkled in through boredom...
Not only is it Nanny State bullshit, it's going to affect primarily lower-income people, off license owners etc, and booze merchants along the border must be rubbing their hands together with glee. Everyone involved in this decision will be unaffected in any meaningful way. Cunts.
I saw there that a case of the rockshore was 15 quid the day before it came into effect, suddenly up to 28. All this after a long, unprecedented period of lockdown. If I had an offy or a shop or whatever I'd be fuming.
As far as I can tell... this is not tax, the extra revenue goes in the retailer's pocket. I don't think that the breweries/suppliers are upping their selling prices to shops. I'm open to correction on that but - from what I hear from a pub-owning buddy - this seems to be the case.
There are still some Christmas slabs of Guinness (full pint version) for sale in my local Dunnes. They were €20 for 24 cans last week. €38 now.
I can see offies/supermarkets increasing the price of craft beers beyond their already hefty price-point. Maximise the margin so that craft can't be associated with gut-rot even though they have moved into the same bracket now (on the lower end of the scale anyway). Much like they did with wine in this country a decade or so ago. Top-end "cheap" wine (something costing €15 - 20) and low-end "expensive" wine (something costing €25 - 30) separated not by discernible quality but by snobbish perception, point of purchase and €10 - €15 in the difference.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on January 05, 2022, 05:02:31 AM
Not only is it Nanny State bullshit, it's going to affect primarily lower-income people, off license owners etc, and booze merchants along the border must be rubbing their hands together with glee. Everyone involved in this decision will be unaffected in any meaningful way. Cunts.
I saw there that a case of the rockshore was 15 quid the day before it came into effect, suddenly up to 28. All this after a long, unprecedented period of lockdown. If I had an offy or a shop or whatever I'd be fuming.
I think off licenses seem to be in favour if it?
Noffla called for it. https://www.hospitalityireland.com/drinks/noffla-calls-next-government-prioritise-minimum-unit-pricing-87629
The issue they have seems to be supermarkets selling beer as loss leaders, which I guess they can't really compete with.
I mean the loss of trade for people crossing the border. The likelihood is that lads will stock up on other goodies while they are there.
I didn't realise until SAL pointed out that the extra revenue is going into the vintner's arse pocket. It's logical, if perhaps short sighted, that they are endorsing it. If it was a stealth tax, I doubt they'd be whistling the same tune.
There are a lot of YouTube channels with lads making their own scoops, they even make it in the 'joy, so get the fingers out boyz :)
Had a nosey in the offie aisle in Dunnes to see prices yesterday.
There's still offers on some beers - Staropramen, Spaten, Moretti, Peroni, 500ml and 660ml bottles - but they're up even from their lowest previous price by about 25c a bottle. The deals are reduced from ~€3 to €2.25 mostly.
Cans have already been altered to suit by the looks of it. 4 Prazsky for €6, but notably for 4x 440ml cans instead of 500ml, so you're at a euro more for a half can less total. Karpackie is 6 for €10, done similar - 440ml cans and 4.8% instead of the previous 5%, likely to keep the unit cost down to sell them at this price. Dutch Gold seems to have taken the maddest hit of them all so far, small cans again but 3.8% so they are still being flogged for 4/€5.
I noticed a load of the 440ml cans on the shelves yesterday too, are they doing away with 500ml along with the extra pricing?
Quote from: Trev on January 06, 2022, 10:26:10 AM
I noticed a load of the 440ml cans on the shelves yesterday too, are they doing away with 500ml along with the extra pricing?
It seems to be the way suppliers will alter their setups to still offer "deals" on it all. I doubt everyone will do it but a lot will if it means they can still flog the multipacks with it looking like a deal.
Have been thinking a bit about it there, lets look at a few I saw in the shops.
The irish unit is 10g Alcohol too, which is different to UK units, and works out to be about 12.66ml Alc per Irish Unit.
It's 10c per gram of Alcohol under new pricing, which is annoying to work with since 1ml Alc = 0.79g, so instead we will say it's €0.079/1ml Alcohol. A unit then is an even €1.00 going by the irish measure.
At this rate, the old 4 pack of Prazsky is €6.64 now minimum (4x500ml). But the new layout minimum is €5.84, so they round it up to €6.
Praszky has went up from €0.75/Unit to €1.02/Unit - 2c over the minimum, and a 36% rise in price.
Karpackie is at EXACTLY minimum unit pricing - the new 6 for €10 (440ml x 4.8%) works out as €0.999/Unit, and a 31% rise per unit over the old 4 for €6 (500ml x 5%, €0.76/Unit). So you're not getting bit as bad as the Prazsky for markup here but have to buy a larger pack. (Oh no! What will we do with these extra cans??)
Staropramen was €2.25 for 500ml yesterday. It's about that anyway but you could get them for €2 for a long while on special. It's 5% a bottle so is the extra 25c part of the minimum unit price? Nope. There's 1.97 units in a bottle - sure let's round it up to 2 - so minimum is €2.00. Spaten is the same. Any regular extra on top of that is a mark up outside the minimum.
If you were drinking fancier, let's say Treaty City "Out of Office" - because I have a receipt for 8 in my pocket - it was €3.75 a can, 440ml x 5.4%. That puts it well over the minimum (which would be €1.88 a can anyway) so anywhere that raises the price of these and says it's due to minimum unit pricing are lying to you.
Basically - if you were drinking cheap beer anyway, you're hooped, so just figure out which one you like the taste of and check the unit cost is matched, not marked up. If you were drinking anything fancier, like the local brews and the €3 cans of reasonable strength IPAs, you're still over the minimum anyway and will see no change.
(edited to add I think it is all a bag of shit too and won't stop anyone drinking).
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Great to see lads finding workarounds already!
Fuckin legends. Unfortunately, I can't see them setting a precedent as most will be more than happy to reap the profits.
I have a one litre oak barrel for my cheaper whiskies. I stick a bottle in and leave it for a month.
By Jaysus, what a beautiful difference it makes to it.
Just poured myself a nice double with a tiny splash of water... Sláinte......
Sounds great. I'd be too much of a miserable cunt not to drink it straight away but it's a nice idea
This very good IPA from Brú is in Dunnes Stores for €2 a can currently.
No idea how they're holding it at that price-point (beyond buying a tong of it from Brú). It's €3 plus in most places. https://craftcentral.ie/products/bru-citrus-ipa-440ml-can-5-5-abv?variant=31911876132899
Go on, yeh jakey fuckers - treat yourselves!
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Be rude not to. I'm still seeing relatively cheap stock on shelves in Tesco, Aldi, Lidl etc. Double IPAs have shot up though, but that was the point, I suppose.
Has anyone been in The Silver Penny on Lower Abbey St. in Dublin? Just wondering what the craic is, a mate was getting pints there for €1.95 the other day, that's '90s prices.
Jaysus!
Just after opening a 12 Acres Pale Ale. Very fuckin tasty. Never heard of that crowd before.
Mixed Sierra Nevada 12-packs and Sierra Nevada California IPA 12-packs - €20 in SuperValu currently.
Decent enough deal seeing as a 4 pack is normally €10.
Discovered something cool which will probably only apply to jakey bastards like me but the cans of Excelsior in Lidl say 440ml on the can but are in fact 500ml. Great stuff and tastes as cheap as ever
Are they still selling excelsior? That stuff is fuckin grim. It just tastes like it's own can.
Worst part of MUP is rendering the likes of Lidl's perlenbacher or Aldi's Rheinbacher pointless. That stuff got me through college at 6 bottles for 7 quid of a decent pilsner. Now you have shit beer at 1.95, good beer at 2.10 and great beer at 2.50. what's the point in having the shit beer on the shelf ? The 4 cans of Rheinbacher pilsner for 5 quid was an absolutely insane deal for the quality. Now it's about 8 quid. Cunts.
I agree it has mostly made the cheap shit pointless and were it not for the secret extra 60ml in the Excelsior (bringing it below the MUP) I wouldn't go near it either. It's 1.39 a can now so still a bit pricey but fuck it I do love to drink 12 cans of cheap shit lager when I can.
Normally, because of MUP I buy 4 large bottles of Guinness for a tenner and be happy enough with that. The new system has certainly changed my habits and reduced my overall consumption for better or worse
Quote from: StoutAndAle on June 20, 2022, 03:47:57 PM
Mixed Sierra Nevada 12-packs and Sierra Nevada California IPA 12-packs - €20 in SuperValu currently.
Decent enough deal seeing as a 4 pack is normally €10.
I hope this deal is still on when I get home
Quote from: astfgyl on June 25, 2022, 08:15:39 PM
Discovered something cool which will probably only apply to jakey bastards like me but the cans of Excelsior in Lidl say 440ml on the can but are in fact 500ml. Great stuff and tastes as cheap as ever
You'll still find the odd 4 for €5 500ml Prazskys being sold here and there in shops. It was very common there for a few weeks but now it's rare enough. Fine Wines obviously didn't give a fuck anyway and kept moving their old stock at the old prices.
Out in the Canaries at the minute and drinking my way through various cheap delights. Some good, some terrible, all documented as I go along in this twitter thread (https://twitter.com/ochoill/status/1539577347648749573?t=p68rSKFfEkZQpSSY5EkLZg&s=19). Enjoy
That Voll-Damm is nice alright, but take it handy on it:)
I recommend Alhambra or Estrella Galicia, both very solid lagers. The former has a few fancy variations, but if you find a pub with it on tap, you're in for the night.
Quote from: ochoill on June 26, 2022, 11:46:25 PM
Quote from: StoutAndAle on June 20, 2022, 03:47:57 PM
Mixed Sierra Nevada 12-packs and Sierra Nevada California IPA 12-packs - €20 in SuperValu currently.
Decent enough deal seeing as a 4 pack is normally €10.
I hope this deal is still on when I get home
Quote from: astfgyl on June 25, 2022, 08:15:39 PM
Discovered something cool which will probably only apply to jakey bastards like me but the cans of Excelsior in Lidl say 440ml on the can but are in fact 500ml. Great stuff and tastes as cheap as ever
You'll still find the odd 4 for €5 500ml Prazskys being sold here and there in shops. It was very common there for a few weeks but now it's rare enough. Fine Wines obviously didn't give a fuck anyway and kept moving their old stock at the old prices.
Yeah the local costcutter here just sold the drink at the old price until it was gone. The last thing left was the Carling.
I dunno why more companies don't just lie about what's in the can.
Also, that Twitter thread.. lol
Quote from: ochoill on June 26, 2022, 11:49:15 PM
Out in the Canaries at the minute and drinking my way through various cheap delights. Some good, some terrible, all documented as I go along in this twitter thread (https://twitter.com/ochoill/status/1539577347648749573?t=p68rSKFfEkZQpSSY5EkLZg&s=19). Enjoy
Excellent.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on June 27, 2022, 04:09:51 AM
That Voll-Damm is nice alright, but take it handy on it:)
I recommend Alhambra or Estrella Galicia, both very solid lagers. The former has a few fancy variations, but if you find a pub with it on tap, you're in for the night.
Going picking up a couple of the favourites for my last few days and the Voll-Damm is on the list. It is rocket fuel though. Also a shocking amount of belgian beer on the shelves over here. Have a Dino mart lager in the fridge for later, surely that will beat the Spar Lager for utter muck factor.
Didn't see the Alhambra but found the Estrella on tap in a few places and it was delicious. Amstel seems to be the go-to for pints in most places here, was surprised by that.
Is that Alpenfest wheat beer available in Lidl at home?
Saw it for 45c for a 500ml can the other day, which kind of makes it irrelevant if it's any use or not :)
Still, wouldn't mind hearing if any of ye have wet the whistle with it.
I think it is now. It seems to be a seasonal thing when they get it in. It isn't that cheap though. I couldn't get over how cheap booze is abroad
Quote from: Caomhaoin on July 14, 2022, 04:31:20 PM
Is that Alpenfest wheat beer available in Lidl at home?
Saw it for 45c for a 500ml can the other day, which kind of makes it irrelevant if it's any use or not :)
Still, wouldn't mind hearing if any of ye have wet the whistle with it.
Pretty sure I drank it last year and it was rotten but I wouldn't be a fan of the wheat beers anyway so maybe one of the lesser cheapskates will be better qualified to review it. I get an awful hangover off the wheat stuff
Aldi have a few Dot Brewing & Lough Gill crafts at the minute. The Dot Brewing beers are between €1.30 and €1.50 cheaper per can than my local craft offie. And they're fresh off the line this month.
They also have Einseidler and Spaten for less than anywhere else.
Beer snobs and jakey cunts; let our powers combine!
Yeah that Lough Gill extra special bitter and their witbier in Aldi are top notch. About 2 quid each as well.
Noticed Lidl also has the 5L mini kegs of Perlenbacher in stock for 20 quid as well. Not the greatest value but they're good for the novelty factor. Lidl have the Belgian 6 pack for 15 quid back as well if anyone is looking to forget most of the day.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on July 21, 2022, 02:40:41 PMAldi have a few Dot Brewing & Lough Gill crafts at the minute. The Dot Brewing beers are between €1.30 and €1.50 cheaper per can than my local craft offie. And they're fresh off the line this month.
They also have Einseidler and Spaten for less than anywhere else.
Beer snobs and jakey cunts; let our powers combine!
"I'm your powers combined, I am Captain Cans"
Captain Cans he's a hero he'll drink anything except for zero
Luton Plunder drinks the zero and the bastard is normalising it. That's his bang and we need to stop him by drinking the shit out of it. Cheap stuff, fancy stuff, fancy stuff at cheap prices get it the fuck into you
Coole Swan is far far nicer than Bailey's. Fucking nectar
Is it just me - or has the price of drink in pubs been on a jet-propelled upward trajectory since everything re-opened after the last Covid19 lockdown?
I met my brother for a pint last Saturday lunchtime. Two beers - a Guinness and a locally made pale ale (5.2% ABV - not rocket fuel or anything) - €13.70.
I didn't ask the barman for a price breakdown but I did ask "Is that right? For the two pints?" he checked the till, called the order back to me and nodded. Even conservatively speaking - if the Guinness was €6.00 (which would be high for Cork City Centre) that means the other beer was €7.70. I know it's "craft" and "artisanal" and whatever the fuck else but Christ above.
Went for a drink with my missus later that evening in a regular city centre haunt - Guinness and a Morgan's Spiced with Coke - €16.80 - pre-Covid this didn't top €12.
Beamish used to be €4.10 in my local last October - not in the city centre but not far out of it - now it's €5.00.
You're right it's gone very bad. The pubs will simply price themselves out of it going like this.
I've been very lucky where I am, a Guinness generally comes in at €4.50. Most of the pubs around have resisted raising their prices as footfall is still low after Covid. That'll change in a coupla weeks when Guinness raise their prices, but so far no cause for complaint around here. Sometimes small towns are the winners.
Fiver in Kilkenny over Christmas for Guinness. Mad to see Harp making a comeback, lots of pubs stocking it, someone told me the reason, something to do with a dispute with Heineken. 5.70 a scoop though, no thanks.
A lot of pubs gave Heineken the boot over the price hike a couple of months back. Pointless exercise as the other breweries were always going to follow suit.
I drank Harp until '94 and they ruined it with the 'celebration brew', that effectively killed it off bar in the North. They must have changed it back if it's making a comeback.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on January 17, 2023, 01:31:16 PMIs it just me - or has the price of drink in pubs been on a jet-propelled upward trajectory since everything re-opened after the last Covid19 lockdown?
I met my brother for a pint last Saturday lunchtime. Two beers - a Guinness and a locally made pale ale (5.2% ABV - not rocket fuel or anything) - €13.70.
I didn't ask the barman for a price breakdown but I did ask "Is that right? For the two pints?" he checked the till, called the order back to me and nodded. Even conservatively speaking - if the Guinness was €6.00 (which would be high for Cork City Centre) that means the other beer was €7.70. I know it's "craft" and "artisanal" and whatever the fuck else but Christ above.
Went for a drink with my missus later that evening in a regular city centre haunt - Guinness and a Morgan's Spiced with Coke - €16.80 - pre-Covid this didn't top €12.
Beamish used to be €4.10 in my local last October - not in the city centre but not far out of it - now it's €5.00.
They're taking the piss in the pubs in cork. Crazy money for pints now in any of the trendy pubs. My local in castlebar is 4.30 for a Guinness. And its gorgeous.
Got a top notch whiskey for Christmas, Green Spot Chateau Leoville Barton. Up there with Yellow Spot.
Quote from: Don Gately on January 17, 2023, 05:18:17 PMGot a top notch whiskey for Christmas, Green Spot Chateau Leoville Barton. Up there with Yellow Spot.
Price/Quality that's a great bottle.
Regarding prices, I spent two days in Dublin over Christmas as the Mrs wanted to see Trinners etc, the prices are absolutely comical. Two burger and chip with a pint each, 50 bar! Just in a run of the mill pub. Cunts.
Yeah it's gone brutal here too, you will not pay less than a fiver for a pint of anything except the Tuborg in Dolan's (which is lovely and only €4.20). Easily €6 - €6.50 for craft anything, and around €5.70 for most other lagers. I just don't even fuckin bother any more, horse in cans when we jam and drink Tuborg at gigs, rarely fire down for one or two guinness but not even getting four pints for 20 quid - that's dense craic.
Quote from: ochoill on January 18, 2023, 09:44:40 AMYeah it's gone brutal here too, you will not pay less than a fiver for a pint of anything except the Tuborg in Dolan's (which is lovely and only €4.20). Easily €6 - €6.50 for craft anything, and around €5.70 for most other lagers. I just don't even fuckin bother any more, horse in cans when we jam and drink Tuborg at gigs, rarely fire down for one or two guinness but not even getting four pints for 20 quid - that's dense craic.
It's getting too dear. I love going to the pub and I'm certainly not tight but I can't justify going on the scatter now at all.
Not as bad as the United States - yet. I paid a horrendous amount of money for very little beer in Boston 2 weeks ago.
Bear in mind that a US "pint" is 16 oz (475ml) - so each 4 oz there is
a quarter of a US "pint" plus a 12oz and a 16oz. That's about 4.5 US "pints" and two craft soft drinks there. Prices before tax - plus I left a $20 tip in cash not included on the receipt.
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Quote from: StoutAndAle on January 17, 2023, 01:31:16 PMIs it just me - or has the price of drink in pubs been on a jet-propelled upward trajectory since everything re-opened after the last Covid19 lockdown?
I met my brother for a pint last Saturday lunchtime. Two beers - a Guinness and a locally made pale ale (5.2% ABV - not rocket fuel or anything) - €13.70.
I didn't ask the barman for a price breakdown but I did ask "Is that right? For the two pints?" he checked the till, called the order back to me and nodded. Even conservatively speaking - if the Guinness was €6.00 (which would be high for Cork City Centre) that means the other beer was €7.70. I know it's "craft" and "artisanal" and whatever the fuck else but Christ above.
Went for a drink with my missus later that evening in a regular city centre haunt - Guinness and a Morgan's Spiced with Coke - €16.80 - pre-Covid this didn't top €12.
Beamish used to be €4.10 in my local last October - not in the city centre but not far out of it - now it's €5.00.
It's gone to Dublin levels very very quick. Still €4 a Beamish in Annie Mac's though. But it wasn't all that long ago you'd easily find it for less than €4.
I reckon the Dublin average for something halfway decent is probably about €6.50, it'll be €7+ by the end of the year. Pretty much given up on going for nights out in town at those prices
Quote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on January 20, 2023, 09:57:19 AMIt's gone to Dublin levels very very quick. Still €4 a Beamish in Annie Mac's though. But it wasn't all that long ago you'd easily find it for less than €4.
I actually walk past Annie Mac's to go to my local - Mok's.
The pint in Annie Mac's is fine, very good actually, but yer one running the gaff (the owner's daughter maybe?) is a fuckin' headbanger - not like the ones on here.
Went in there one Friday night with a few of my wife's friends who were down from Dublin. We had just jumped off the bus from town. It was 2300hrs. Ordered pints and G&Ts. Yer wan looked at the clock.
"Do you know what time it is?!"
"Eh, eleven?"
"Just in here for last call - where were ye all night? Just blowing in the door to top up."
Fuck me, I thought, last call isn't for another 90 minutes and we've all only had 2 or 3 pints, plus I used to go in there with my buddy Chuckles most Thursday evenings before heading across to Cissie's - but I was on the other side of a counter long enough to not cause undue scenes.
"Em, OK. Do you want us to leave?"
"I think that's the best thing that you could all do now. Out ye go."
I nodded. Looked around at the 5 lads in the bar all sitting in silence - and left - effectively halving their customer base.
Went down to Mok's where Don gave me a big roar and served us until... well - until we had enough.
Fuck sake, lol.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on January 20, 2023, 04:10:29 PMQuote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on January 20, 2023, 09:57:19 AMIt's gone to Dublin levels very very quick. Still €4 a Beamish in Annie Mac's though. But it wasn't all that long ago you'd easily find it for less than €4.
I actually walk past Annie Mac's to go to my local - Mok's.
The pint in Annie Mac's is fine, very good actually, but yer one running the gaff (the owner's daughter maybe?) is a fuckin' headbanger - not like the ones on here.
Went in there one Friday night with a few of my wife's friends who were down from Dublin. We had just jumped off the bus from town. It was 2300hrs. Ordered pints and G&Ts. Yer wan looked at the clock.
"Do you know what time it is?!"
"Eh, eleven?"
"Just in here for last call - where were ye all night? Just blowing in the door to top up."
Fuck me, I thought, last call isn't for another 90 minutes and we've all only had 2 or 3 pints, plus I used to go in there with my buddy Chuckles most Thursday evenings before heading across to Cissie's - but I was on the other side of a counter long enough to not cause undue scenes.
"Em, OK. Do you want us to leave?"
"I think that's the best thing that you could all do now. Out ye go."
I nodded. Looked around at the 5 lads in the bar all sitting in silence - and left - effectively halving their customer base.
Went down to Mok's where Don gave me a big roar and served us until... well - until we had enough.
You would have been a travelling bard in times past. Not many lads have the ability to tell a sceal like that.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on January 21, 2023, 05:42:50 AMYou would have been a travelling bard in times past. Not many lads have the ability to tell a sceal like that.
Cheers, man.
Unfortunately I am considered nothing more than a dopey travelling b(ast)ard in my own time.
Anyone tried going lower abv as the evening wears on?
Usually it's start on something handy and end up on the top shelf but I wonder if it would be smarter to start off hard and then maintain the drunkenness with something weaker like shit lager or such. What put it in my head was that I had a couple of cans of Pilsener but then I wanted more and what was left was a very watery substitute so I'm left in a sort of limbo here that's inadvertently turned into maintaining the exact same buzz instead of getting worse.
May have a smoke I suppose...
Quote from: astfgyl on February 09, 2023, 10:45:56 PMAnyone tried going lower abv as the evening wears on?
Usually it's start on something handy and end up on the top shelf but I wonder if it would be smarter to start off hard and then maintain the drunkenness with something weaker like shit lager or such. What put it in my head was that I had a couple of cans of Pilsener but then I wanted more and what was left was a very watery substitute so I'm left in a sort of limbo here that's inadvertently turned into maintaining the exact same buzz instead of getting worse.
May have a smoke I suppose...
I usually have a bottle of wine and then a few bottles of strong beer after.
I've cut back on smoking weed while I drink as I just get mangled way too soon.
Quote from: blessed1 on February 10, 2023, 08:38:40 AMQuote from: astfgyl on February 09, 2023, 10:45:56 PMAnyone tried going lower abv as the evening wears on?
Usually it's start on something handy and end up on the top shelf but I wonder if it would be smarter to start off hard and then maintain the drunkenness with something weaker like shit lager or such. What put it in my head was that I had a couple of cans of Pilsener but then I wanted more and what was left was a very watery substitute so I'm left in a sort of limbo here that's inadvertently turned into maintaining the exact same buzz instead of getting worse.
May have a smoke I suppose...
I usually have a bottle of wine and then a few bottles of strong beer after.
I've cut back on smoking weed while I drink as I just get mangled way too soon.
I was mangled all of 20 minutes later after a couple of pipes!
Those evil bastards at Jameson selling whiskey to the Russians.
I'm off out to get absolutely fuck-faced on powers and do my bit for Ukraine.
That'll show them.
Powers is the better of the two.
Quote from: open face surgery on May 03, 2023, 11:35:00 PMPowers is the better of the two.
That's not right. Powers is terrible. Way too peaty.
Otherwise not sticking up for the Jemmy either...
Bushmills is where it's at, regular or black.
I'm sure there's better boutique stuff but out of the commercial shite it's the best of that particular idea
I love the peaty stuff, even budget stuff like Connemara and Teachers. With that, have neve noticed any peatiness to Powers.
Got a lovely bottle of the quare stuff lately. Powered through it. Smooth and delicious. All the mushies I had for micro dosing ended up into the pot.
Enjoying the Lidl Belgian selection at the minute. Nothing touches the Belgians for beers.
Don't get me wrong, I would drink puke from a tinkers sock if I thought it would get me locked
I was joking above there.
If I drink whiskey there'll be an ambulance required, and not for me.
Fucking lunatic juice that stuff.
Powers is lovely, especially the Powers' Three Swallows, absolute silk of a whiskey, maybe my favourite.
Powers is deffo the best of the cheaper ones (though most are grand altogether), cannot for the life of me understand the bad reputation it has. That Three Swallows is absolutely divine alright, love spicy pot still stuff in general.
Only realised it when I was over at Roadburn and fancied a whiskey, and all they had anywhere basically was Bushmills, we're actually spoiled for whiskey here. Like even in the small pubs you generally have a good selection, and the cheap ones are all a decent drink.
Quote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on May 05, 2023, 11:40:07 AMPowers is deffo the best of the cheaper ones (though most are grand altogether), cannot for the life of me understand the bad reputation it has. That Three Swallows is absolutely divine alright, love spicy pot still stuff in general.
Only realised it when I was over at Roadburn and fancied a whiskey, and all they had anywhere basically was Bushmills, we're actually spoiled for whiskey here. Like even in the small pubs you generally have a good selection, and the cheap ones are all a decent drink.
Yeah you're right, anywhere you go in will always have a couple of brands going but if you're abroad you'll often just get what you're given (often Bushmills or Jameson) and would have to go to somewhere that does spirits/cocktails etc to get a fancier one or more choice. I would also drink any that are handed to me to be fair lol
https://youtu.be/tjVzGYZLhvo
Nothing like a hot Powers on a winter evening. Can't touch whiskey apart from that though, it destroys my stomach.
I haven't had a whiskey in over 20 years. It seemed to flip a switch in me that couldn't be turned off for the rest of the evening.
I'd go from being all about having the craic, telling jokes/stories to being horrible to people and ready to throw a slap for reasons that only my whiskied-up self could explain. So I decided that it didn't suit me at all.
I'm not much of a fella for the hard stuff really - most of my shenanigans are fuelled by beer and beer alone. A lot of beer, mind you.
These days I'll drink a Sailor Jerry (US version only), an Absolut or Grey Goose vodka and soda or a Jaegermeister with ice (if not served ice cold) if I go beyond the taps.
Thirsty now.
Spirits make total shit of me too but I am not an angry drunk so there is never that worry, maybe a few hugs too many and some utterly bizarre lines of questioning, but generally collapsible and just more poisoned. I often follow up a few pints with a Sambucca to kill the fullness and keep going. If I'm on stout, I will eventually put a whiskey beside it, if I didn't start out with both.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on May 05, 2023, 02:39:01 PMThirsty now.
I swore I wasn't drinking this weekend but can already feel the tide shifting. Gave myself deep fear last weekend, getting a solid 12 drinks in before 7pm on Monday evening then starting into a few bottles of Grolsch in the Supermacs on the dock road while abusing the hole off the other two (sober) lads in the band. Before practice. Had to turn up for Jury Duty on Monday and spent the day trying to not cry and eating Anadin. Fair happy I didn't get selected.
Im gone mad for those O'Haras 7.5% double ipas recently.
Quote from: ochoill on May 05, 2023, 02:55:50 PMIf I'm on stout, I will eventually put a whiskey beside it, if I didn't start out with both.
There is something to be said for a nip of Jameson with a pint. I don't do it often but the cut of the whiskey countered by the cream of a good pint us a grand feeling.
Ken Bruen wrote about it so lovingly that he must be a man with the affliction, I'll have to dig out the quote.
I'm exactly the same as Stout above on whiskey. Got into bother a few times with it when I was a young lad.
The last time I drank it, years ago, I was in the local with one of my best friend, had three or four powers and found myself seriously thinking about kicking the head off him for no reason whatsoever.
Luckily good sense took hold and I stood up and walked out of the pub and ran the 3 miles home.
never touched the shite again after that.
Anyone tried Aldi's whiskeys?
Picked up a bottle of their Highland Black scotch today and have to say at 22e, tastier than most budget whiskeys, wouldn't be a connoisseur by any chance but enjoy a tipple and it's going down nicely tonight.
Quote from: open face surgery on May 03, 2023, 11:56:22 PMI love the peaty stuff, even budget stuff like Connemara and Teachers. With that, have neve noticed any peatiness to Powers.
Got a lovely bottle of the quare stuff lately. Powered through it. Smooth and delicious. All the mushies I had for micro dosing ended up into the pot.
Enjoying the Lidl Belgian selection at the minute. Nothing touches the Belgians for beers.
When I used to drink whisky I loved the Peaty stuff aswell. I've been to Scotland hiking for 10 days a couple of times up in the hills and the variety of the stuff there is mental, every village, hamlet and bothy seems to have its own distillery. Every boozer has a lad who knows the stuff inside out.
Did a distillery tour in Glasgow, the Clydebank one, can't remember any of the shite they were saying, only the three nippy sweeties at the end to send the tourists 'hame' happy.
Had a couple of Laphroaigs last night before heading to bed!
I like the Talisker 10 in Tesco which is often 42 euro, my go to for a peaty whiskey that won't break the bank.
Quote from: jpm4 on May 14, 2023, 01:19:18 PMHad a couple of Laphroaigs last night before heading to bed!
I like the Talisker 10 in Tesco which is often 42 euro, my go to for a peaty whiskey that won't break the bank.
Have you tried the Connamara single Malt. Fairly strong turf smoke flavour.
Quote from: 91/30 on May 14, 2023, 09:21:53 PMQuote from: jpm4 on May 14, 2023, 01:19:18 PMHad a couple of Laphroaigs last night before heading to bed!
I like the Talisker 10 in Tesco which is often 42 euro, my go to for a peaty whiskey that won't break the bank.
Have you tried the Connamara single Malt. Fairly strong turf smoke flavour.
No I've never tried a peaty Irish whiskey myself,but sounds like my thing.
Anyone like the black barrell Jameson? It was a steal in Tesco recently reduced to 30, very nice to drink.
Only whiskey I like a lot really is regular bushmills. Don't like the black bush even
Edit: as for scotch, I'd take the eggs before the whiskey. Thoughts of it makes me shiver to my bones
Having a nice cold bottle of The Banker from Whitefield Brewery (ex White Gypsy. Name changed for the stupid reason you think).
Fuckin delicious.
In Aldi at lunchtime to pick up up a few burger buns for a BBQ this evening. Wandered down the booze aisle - as we all do.
Popped a few Einseidler's into my basket - €2.49 - great German helles. €3.79 in most "craft offies".
Wino/piss-head lad in the aisle next to me taking a rake of Galahad or some other gut-rot off the shelf with me looking at him and thinking "Christ, the state of this fool's sad life must be something to behold."
Got back to work, sat at my desk to continue typing up a presentation - looked out the window. Yer man is in the park across the road with a few of his pals - all laughing, smoking and guzzling beer in the sunshine.
Who's the fucking fool here?
Have been enjoying a few different Helles as I find them in various offies lately - those Einseidler's are scoff but I picked up a few Stiegl's in Tesco for €2.50 a pop that are lovely too. As usual though I meet you and the Wino half way, I always stick 4 or 8 Prazsky on lately, best of the cheap cuts. No reason to buy the G'had anymore with the minimum unit craic, but I like the few soft cheaps after my nice brews are gone.
Quote from: ochoill on June 01, 2023, 03:41:16 PMHave been enjoying a few different Helles as I find them in various offies lately - those Einseidler's are scoff but I picked up a few Stiegl's in Tesco for €2.50 a pop that are lovely too. As usual though I meet you and the Wino half way, I always stick 4 or 8 Prazsky on lately, best of the cheap cuts. No reason to buy the G'had anymore with the minimum unit craic, but I like the few soft cheaps after my nice brews are gone.
See... the thing is... the Einseidler
are my few soft cheaps after my nice brews are gone.
Yeh fuckin' disgrace, yeh. :abbath:
Stiegl is nice for sure. The local Dunnes does it in 500ml cans for €1.80.
Bitburger is another very fine drop at a reasonable* price point.
Lomza is a decent beer for this kind of weather and it's not too hard on the pocket.
*Reasonable at about €2.30 - but considering that Bitburger and its ilk in a German supermarket are €0.89....
Quote from: StoutAndAle on June 01, 2023, 04:11:34 PMSee... the thing is... the Einseidler are my few soft cheaps after my nice brews are gone.
Yeh fuckin' disgrace, yeh. :abbath:
Lol I am perpetually broke lately so I can't argue it, where I used to do a handy 20 quid on about 10 nice bottles, now it's 4 cheaps and 4 decent for the same damage in most places. And yeah even worse when you compare it to the continental prices...
Off to Bulgaria soon where there is a disgraceful amount of cheap filth. Can't even remember the name of what I had last time but you'd get 4 cans for a euro and it was a crisp lager. Staropramen was also insanely cheap there last time I was over.
Can't beat Germany and Eastern Europe for cheap scoops. Pint of Jelena lager in Belgrade won't even set you back a euro.
Got charged $19 CAD for a 16oz beer in Vancouver.
That's 473ml to you and me.
That's not even a pint to you and me.
I nearly killed a man.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on June 27, 2023, 02:32:07 PMGot charged $19 CAD for a 16oz beer in Vancouver.
That's 473ml to you and me.
That's not even a pint to you and me.
I nearly killed a man.
Jesus it was always rough but never that bad when I was there. Used to get decent local IPA 16oz in most bars for about $5 unless you went somewhere in the middle of downtown usually. Somewhere did charge me $9 for a Guinness in 2010 mind so I never bought it again until I moved home.
Quote from: ochoill on June 27, 2023, 02:38:14 PMJesus it was always rough but never that bad when I was there. Used to get decent local IPA 16oz in most bars for about $5 unless you went somewhere in the middle of downtown usually. Somewhere did charge me $9 for a Guinness in 2010 mind so I never bought it again until I moved home.
Going rate was somewhere between $9 and $11 in craft beer taprooms. Few places had happy hour 16 ouncers for $5/6.
It was what it was - but in this place (on 8th Ave just off Main St in Mount Pleasant) it was $19 for a pale ale (a decent one to be fair) and another $8 for my wife's (non-alcoholic) ginger ale. Plus tip. Brought it to just shy of $32CAD - which is about €22...
I am by no means tight and holiday money is not real money but that one certainly gave me pause.
Didn't stop the StoutAndAle express though.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on June 27, 2023, 02:47:53 PMQuote from: ochoill on June 27, 2023, 02:38:14 PMJesus it was always rough but never that bad when I was there. Used to get decent local IPA 16oz in most bars for about $5 unless you went somewhere in the middle of downtown usually. Somewhere did charge me $9 for a Guinness in 2010 mind so I never bought it again until I moved home.
Going rate was somewhere between $9 and $11 in craft beer taprooms. Few places had happy hour 16 ouncers for $5/6.
It was what it was - but in this place (on 8th Ave just off Main St in Mount Pleasant) it was $19 for a pale ale (a decent one to be fair) and another $8 for my wife's (non-alcoholic) ginger ale. Plus tip. Brought it to just shy of $32CAD - which is about €22...
I am by no means tight and holiday money is not real money but that one certainly gave me pause.
Didn't stop the StoutAndAle express though.
Yeah that's gone steep, but probably in line with how everything has gone up over there. Our go to was Fat Tug IPA, it was reasonably new at the time and from a local crew, and was a 5er a pint in most spots. Main Street Brewing (which would have bewn right near you) did growler fills for $10-$12 too IIRC.
What has almost definitely changed now is Storm Brewery, near commercial & hastings, which did off sales and growler fills but got around whatever bar sales licence was needed by having a "recommended donation" in a tip jar of $5 for whatever you wanted a pint of. It was a literal brewery too, no chairs or tables, just loads of people standing there and the alley horsing back whatever IPA they were finishing that week. Lethal
Picked up a couple of bottles of Lithuanian stout from Polinez today, 6% litre bottles for 4 odd quid each.
Going down pretty nice.
Hmmm. Might give that a lash
I hate how the MUP's changed the size and percentage of the cheaper cans. I don't mind paying the few squid more for it because it's still supermarket booze and I only indulge on weekends, but I used to love the little ritual of knowing exactly the amount I was getting for 8 Prazcky or Karpackie. Can't be doing with the tins that drop a few percentages or shave a bit of volume off the top.
Spaten and Stiegl are the go-to fancyboys now.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on June 27, 2023, 02:32:07 PMGot charged $19 CAD for a 16oz beer in Vancouver.
That's 473ml to you and me.
That's not even a pint to you and me.
I nearly killed a man.
Vancouver is the most expensive place in Canada but a lot of other cities aren't too far behind.
All dayers like you get here when lads go out for the half 12 game on a Saturday then stay out until the nightclub closes don't happen over there as you would literally end up spending hundreds of dollars. The price you mentioned above probably didn't even include the 20% tip that is demanded as well for the server bringing the pint from the bar to the table for you. It use be 15% but now they are trying to guilt people into paying 20% of the bill.
Quote from: mickO))) on July 04, 2023, 01:33:54 PMThe price you mentioned above probably didn't even include the 20% tip that is demanded as well for the server bringing the pint from the bar to the table for you. It use be 15% but now they are trying to guilt people into paying 20% of the bill.
I got an FB memory notification today, it is 13 years since I moved there (and 8 since I moved home) so a fair bit of what I experienced there was different to you, though it was always expensive it never seemed as bad as I have been hearing lately. E.g. we paid a grand a month for our flat in Kitsilano, just me and the wife in it, it seems the same place is over 2k now, fucked up when wages haven't went up with it.
Anyway - that 20% tip craic has been threatening since back then, but 10%-ish was the standard for food and drink. Used to drink in the Railway Bar a fair whack and they didn't do tabs so we would just stick whatever few coins looked alright from the change of a round onto the bar, nobody complained. Only time the 20% was forced on us was a large table out for dinner.
A gastropub effort opened at one point that refused tips, charged a tiny bit more on the bill, and paid their staff a living wage instead and it got fucking SLATED. It made it on the news and all one evening with even customers complaining that it wasn't what they were used to, other bars saying it's a dangerous precedent to set, basically only the staff saying they loved it of course. Whole idea was portrayed as ridiculous and impossible. I laughed for days it, clearly it stuck with me - what is just standard practice for a pub here (pay your staff and no tips) was absolutely alien to them.
Quote from: ochoill on July 04, 2023, 06:25:27 PMQuote from: mickO))) on July 04, 2023, 01:33:54 PMThe price you mentioned above probably didn't even include the 20% tip that is demanded as well for the server bringing the pint from the bar to the table for you. It use be 15% but now they are trying to guilt people into paying 20% of the bill.
I got an FB memory notification today, it is 13 years since I moved there (and 8 since I moved home) so a fair bit of what I experienced there was different to you, though it was always expensive it never seemed as bad as I have been hearing lately. E.g. we paid a grand a month for our flat in Kitsilano, just me and the wife in it, it seems the same place is over 2k now, fucked up when wages haven't went up with it.
Anyway - that 20% tip craic has been threatening since back then, but 10%-ish was the standard for food and drink. Used to drink in the Railway Bar a fair whack and they didn't do tabs so we would just stick whatever few coins looked alright from the change of a round onto the bar, nobody complained. Only time the 20% was forced on us was a large table out for dinner.
A gastropub effort opened at one point that refused tips, charged a tiny bit more on the bill, and paid their staff a living wage instead and it got fucking SLATED. It made it on the news and all one evening with even customers complaining that it wasn't what they were used to, other bars saying it's a dangerous precedent to set, basically only the staff saying they loved it of course. Whole idea was portrayed as ridiculous and impossible. I laughed for days it, clearly it stuck with me - what is just standard practice for a pub here (pay your staff and no tips) was absolutely alien to them.
When I was there 15% was what was expected and if you gave 10% it mean't something was wrong. Anytime someone gave 10% they were interrogated by the staff. I hate tipping mainly because I went over as a qualified Civil Engineer and one of the girls that came with us had a degree but decided to work in the bar instead. She did 24 hours a week all early weekdays and after tips she was earning more money than I was so the whole sob story you get about tips for the most part is bollox. I know a few other Irish girls that worked in bars as well over there and they all cleaned up.
I remember we booked a table in a place for about 25 of us for the first Mc Gregor v Diaz fight and I had to tell everyone after not to tip as nobody else had copped that an 18% gratuity charge had been added to everyone's bill.
What stopped me ordering Guinness over there apart from it tasting like piss was a few times I ordered a pint of it next of all the barman whips out a 473ml can of draught, pours it into a glass and asks me for $9.
Quote from: ochoill on July 04, 2023, 06:25:27 PMQuote from: mickO))) on July 04, 2023, 01:33:54 PMThe price you mentioned above probably didn't even include the 20% tip that is demanded as well for the server bringing the pint from the bar to the table for you. It use be 15% but now they are trying to guilt people into paying 20% of the bill.
I got an FB memory notification today, it is 13 years since I moved there (and 8 since I moved home) so a fair bit of what I experienced there was different to you, though it was always expensive it never seemed as bad as I have been hearing lately. E.g. we paid a grand a month for our flat in Kitsilano, just me and the wife in it, it seems the same place is over 2k now, fucked up when wages haven't went up with it.
Anyway - that 20% tip craic has been threatening since back then, but 10%-ish was the standard for food and drink. Used to drink in the Railway Bar a fair whack and they didn't do tabs so we would just stick whatever few coins looked alright from the change of a round onto the bar, nobody complained. Only time the 20% was forced on us was a large table out for dinner.
A gastropub effort opened at one point that refused tips, charged a tiny bit more on the bill, and paid their staff a living wage instead and it got fucking SLATED. It made it on the news and all one evening with even customers complaining that it wasn't what they were used to, other bars saying it's a dangerous precedent to set, basically only the staff saying they loved it of course. Whole idea was portrayed as ridiculous and impossible. I laughed for days it, clearly it stuck with me - what is just standard practice for a pub here (pay your staff and no tips) was absolutely alien to them.
So 13 years since I had one of the worst hangovers of my life then!
Quote from: astfgyl on July 04, 2023, 09:02:25 PMSo 13 years since I had one of the worst hangovers of my life then!
I remember very little of the week around when I left. There was a lot of drink taken. Some fuckin craic
Quote from: ochoill on July 06, 2023, 03:27:41 PMQuote from: astfgyl on July 04, 2023, 09:02:25 PMSo 13 years since I had one of the worst hangovers of my life then!
I remember very little of the week around when I left. There was a lot of drink taken. Some fuckin craic
You really need to add your last couple of days before Canada to the fear thread because that last one in particular was spectacular
Quote from: astfgyl on July 06, 2023, 05:51:45 PMQuote from: ochoill on July 06, 2023, 03:27:41 PMQuote from: astfgyl on July 04, 2023, 09:02:25 PMSo 13 years since I had one of the worst hangovers of my life then!
I remember very little of the week around when I left. There was a lot of drink taken. Some fuckin craic
You really need to add your last couple of days before Canada to the fear thread because that last one in particular was spectacular
When I had to get on the actual flight? Man I think about that every week without fail, honestly thought I was going to die for eight hours
Quote from: ochoill on July 06, 2023, 07:22:54 PMQuote from: astfgyl on July 06, 2023, 05:51:45 PMQuote from: ochoill on July 06, 2023, 03:27:41 PMQuote from: astfgyl on July 04, 2023, 09:02:25 PMSo 13 years since I had one of the worst hangovers of my life then!
I remember very little of the week around when I left. There was a lot of drink taken. Some fuckin craic
You really need to add your last couple of days before Canada to the fear thread because that last one in particular was spectacular
When I had to get on the actual flight? Man I think about that every week without fail, honestly thought I was going to die for eight hours
I regularly think of the time
New cocktail experiment from the weekend.
The Hipster Dude;
45ml Absolut Vodka (other vodkas are available)
25ml Kahlua
100ml cold brewed good quality coffee
Pour above over ice, stir gently.
Top up with oat milk to taste. Add more ice if needed. Stir. Imbibe.
Heading back to France after a few days home, manys a lovely pint of Guinness enjoyed. Most expensive was €6.10 in Greystones, cheapest €5.60 in Bray. Not so bad overall!
I think €5.20 is the going rate down this neck of the woods, it is that in my locals anyway.
Weather holding up, I will be piling at least four cans into meself in the park on the way down to see Full of Hell shortly. Can't wait lol
Fiver in my local and a couple of others in town, but I think thise days are short-lived. They're wary here of any new increase, the last one was by 50c and you could see the numbers in pubs drop overnight.
I can't understand why the pubs don't take the view of sell it as cheap as you can and get the arses on the barstools. Yeah you'll only make the same money but by god it would have to be less depressing than the same few gimps at the bar every night and of course then because the places look happening they might attract more to the establishment. Like if I was a lad out looking for beors or vice versa would I go to the depressing place with the expensive pint or the place with sex in it and it costs less? The married lads like me then can be happy to pay the extra 50c so we don't have to fraternise with those other cunts.
Everyone's a winner in that scenario but the landscape would have to change
Picked up 4 cans of brú lager in tesco this evening on clearance for 4 quid and I was fuckin robbed. This shit was meant to cost 9 for 4. S sweet Jesus it's worse than pretty much anything. Goes to show you can get away with all sorts once you let on there's some sort of craft or cool hops to something. I predict the arse to fall right out of this shitty market very soon. Fine for homebrew enthusiasts and collectors etc but fuck the commercial craft from a great height and good riddance as I see it
Ended up at 40th birthday party out in the sticks of Cork the other night. A fairly dry affair for one of my sister-in-law's brothers.
My own brother caught the bored look on my face and gave me the nod. I wandered over to him.
"Say nothin'" he says "just follow me in two minutes".
Two minutes later we're going through a dimly-lit courtyard, over a stream bridge and onto a pitch-black road.
"The fuck are you bringing me?!"
"Whist a second and all will be revealed" and 30 yard up the road, there's the light of a pub. Legend. In we go.
"Two pints of Guinness please".
Two Guinness duly handed over.
"That'll be €12.70 for the pair, gents".
"Quiet in here tonight" says I to the barman.
"Ah, the ould Covid killed it all, didn't it?"
"Killed what, the extortion racket that you're running here?!" says the brother.
"Hah! What did you say to me?"
"I said two more Guinness when you're ready" says the brother. He looks at me and shrugs "Fuck it. Might be dear but it looked like a rosary was about to break out at the house."
€6.35 for a Guinness, in the middle of nowhere? A hefty fuck that. Fiver in my local (which is pricey enough, but comparitively...). He said, jinxing it.
Quote from: astfgyl on September 01, 2023, 09:02:25 PMI can't understand why the pubs don't take the view of sell it as cheap as you can and get the arses on the barstools. Yeah you'll only make the same money but by god it would have to be less depressing than the same few gimps at the bar every night and of course then because the places look happening they might attract more to the establishment. Like if I was a lad out looking for beors or vice versa would I go to the depressing place with the expensive pint or the place with sex in it and it costs less? The married lads like me then can be happy to pay the extra 50c so we don't have to fraternise with those other cunts.
Everyone's a winner in that scenario but the landscape would have to change
A mate of mine who owns a pub had a poster of the breakdown of profit on pints. The governments share is excessive.
Quote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on May 05, 2023, 11:40:07 AMPowers is deffo the best of the cheaper ones (though most are grand altogether), cannot for the life of me understand the bad reputation it has. That Three Swallows is absolutely divine alright, love spicy pot still stuff in general.
Just reading over the past few pages and I agree 100%, the 3 swallows Powers is top notch for that price point, beats everything there under 50 euro I reckon - unless someone else can say otherwise, would like to hear suggestions :abbath:
I'm just looking forward to the Christmas offers again, picked up a couple of bottles of the Three Swallows for 30 quid a pop, savage value
Manislav in Tesco, Budvar clone, 2 quid a bottle. Not sure if they have changed the recipe or maybe it's the change from green to brown bottles helping the skunking, but it's hitting the spot lately.
Bought a case of Guinness West Indies Porter earlier this week. Haven't had it for years and had forgotten what a cracking beer it is. Lovely stuff
Quote from: 101_North on December 21, 2023, 08:06:15 PMBought a case of Guinness West Indies Porter earlier this week. Haven't had it for years and had forgotten what a cracking beer it is. Lovely stuff
It's lovely stuff so it is. Imo, there's no beating the original Extra Stout but the few variations that can be got are a good diversion
The milk stout was lovely, shame it was discontinued. That West Indies porter is grand too, I was pleasantly surprised that they had it in Vicar street last time I was there.
Speaking of foreign stout, if ye ever come across Guinness Bright don't touch it. It's complete cat.
Made for SE Asian market. Stout is popular in Malaysia every restaurant I was in had Guinness Extra and Royal Danish in the big bottles ; brewed locally, mighty stuff. But Guinness Bright on the other hand..
Just noticed they dropped leffe beer from 6.6% down to 6, even though I don't drink it that much anymore it's still annoying! I'd rather just pay the extra money.
Have seen that happening with a few beers, the percentage down. I'd also rather just pay the few pence and have it the same
Surely the likes of Leffe shouldn't be affected by minimum unit pricing since it was already pricey enough?
It looks like it's a UK thing - there is a new law about tying duty rates to alcohol strength:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/22730249/pints-weaker-beer-alcohol-prices/
Been off the booze for 5 months. I just got my Kris Kringle present: nothing but booze. A sign? :laugh:
Eoin McLove in a few hours:
https://youtu.be/6ntr2NjVtS4?si=HiqcrpziH9uIb9-B
Quote from: jpm4 on December 24, 2023, 10:35:59 AMIt looks like it's a UK thing - there is a new law about tying duty rates to alcohol strength:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/22730249/pints-weaker-beer-alcohol-prices/
Fuckin scabby cunts
Quote from: Carnage on December 24, 2023, 11:00:44 AMEoin McLove in a few hours:
https://youtu.be/6ntr2NjVtS4?si=HiqcrpziH9uIb9-B
He won't be alone :laugh:
:laugh:
Turns out O'Briens offie take a one4all voucher. Merry Christmas to me, grand little haul to get started:
(https://i.ibb.co/17fP2VH/IMG-20231223-130125.jpg)
I like the way you have the few Prazsky there as a sort of palate cleanser between courses
Best of the bunch is the fentimans ginger beer
Quote from: nukeabuse on December 25, 2023, 02:46:16 AMBest of the bunch is the fentimans ginger beer
Oh they're only there as mixers for whiskey.
That karpackie doesn't even deserve to be in the same room as the Augustiner :laugh:
Big yes to Mother Mac's Guinness, it is my local for a reason. I am just looking for a reason to exploit the renewed Image Upload Limit really.
Get in.
Quote from: ochoill on February 06, 2024, 11:34:43 PMBig yes to Mother Mac's Guinness, it is my local for a reason. I am just looking for a reason to exploit the renewed Image Upload Limit really.
Get in.
I prefer the Guinness in Tom Collins' - if I'm pushed - but Mother Mac's is solid.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on February 07, 2024, 09:12:40 AMQuote from: ochoill on February 06, 2024, 11:34:43 PMBig yes to Mother Mac's Guinness, it is my local for a reason. I am just looking for a reason to exploit the renewed Image Upload Limit really.
Get in.
I prefer the Guinness in Tom Collins' - if I'm pushed - but Mother Mac's is solid.
What are his large bottles like? Fuckin kills me when I ask for a large bottle of Guinness and the cunts say no we have the pints though, as if that's any consolation
Neither of them have the extra stout, unfortunately for you. I know that Fennessy's out by Mary I has it but other than that I couldn't tell you where you'd find it in town anymore.
I've never had a can of Karpackie in my life so, when the brother offered me a can of it 2 weeks ago at a BBQ, I greeted it with a little disdain.
"This isn't regular Karpackie" he explained "It's their pilsner - way nicer than the gutrot one in the red can". (This pilsner is in a green can)
Took one and gave it a go. It's solid tack (within the limitations of it being a cheap macro beer) - clean, crisp, drinkable - to the point that I've bought it again since.
And, at 3.5% ABV - it's not lunatic soup.
4 x 440ml cans for a €5 in Supervalu.
Get the proper Karpackie it is the grandest. I'm legally obligated to stand up for it though since I'm an astronaut for the stuff.
Since the playing field got levelled for all the cheap cans again lately anyway I am gone back to Tuborg and Bavaria. The Stiegl Hell is often on special in Tesco lately so I usually grab a few bottles of that too.
Both of the Stegls they have in Tesco are solid. Would opt for them or any of the German lagers if I'm just after a nice lager because there is no cheap options anymore. Like a 4 pack of Bitburger in Supervalu is the same price as any of the piss lagers. No-brainer.
I get this in Lidl, €2.19 love the stuff, its my go to tipple nowadays...
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Haven't had one of those in a while actually! Quite tasty stuff.
Decent alright. Brown Bear in Aldi is similarly tasty, the double IPA is dangerous stuff though.
Quote from: Carnage on August 23, 2024, 12:05:23 PMDecent alright. Brown Bear in Aldi is similarly tasty, the double IPA is dangerous stuff though.
The yellow label one is my go-to. I've tried a fair few types in the various shops and there aren't many as nice imo.
Had a few Wicklow Wolf Elevation yesterday. Another tasty drop.
The Crafty stout and lager are nice as well. Rye River brew that Crafty range, and they produce McGargles as well. Their Nocturne Export Stout is my new go-to stout alongside Guinness West Indies Porter. Both 6% and tasty as fuck.
Quote from: Carnage on August 23, 2024, 12:05:23 PMDecent alright. Brown Bear in Aldi is similarly tasty, the double IPA is dangerous stuff though.
Aye, used to love the BB double IPA but the headaches the following morning... it's heavy stuff. Currently enjoying the Kinnegar Scraggy Bay IPA. Has a decent kick at 5.3% but won't leave you in bits the next day.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on August 21, 2024, 12:35:51 PM4 x 440ml cans for a €5 in Supervalu.
What's all this, was there not a minimum pricing yoke brought in a while back where cans couldn't be cheaper than €2?
Quote from: Maggot Colony on August 23, 2024, 12:43:19 PMGuinness West Indies Porter. Both 6% and tasty as fuck.
Fucking lovely stuff so it is
Quote from: Giggles on August 23, 2024, 10:03:41 PMWhat's all this, was there not a minimum pricing yoke brought in a while back where cans couldn't be cheaper than €2?
No, sort of, there is a calculation for it where it's a euro a unit or something iirc, so most cheap cans reduced their size and percentage to get the minimum even. Most of them are 440ml and 4%. Dutch Gold and Karp Pils are 3 or 3.5, Karp red is now 4 instead of 5, Druids is gone right down too, anything that said 4.4 or 4.5 is rounded down, all sorts of other shit just to keep the cans cheap.
Ah it's a fucking nightmare for jakies like myself
I remember being in Aldi when the minimum pricing just started, some lad was buying his slab of Galahad, young one on the till scans, asks for payment and he says "ah sure what's the fuckin' point anymore" :laugh:
Quote from: Ducky on August 23, 2024, 10:55:37 PMI remember being in Aldi when the minimum pricing just started, some lad was buying his slab of Galahad, young one on the till scans, asks for payment and he says "ah sure what's the fuckin' point anymore" :laugh:
That's what happened me with the cans of Excelsior in lidl. I realised suddenly that their only good point was the price :'(
Lech pils is fucking delicious lads. Got it in supervalu it's in a gold can. 5.5% and goes down like silk
Guinness Zero, cheaper in Ballina, New South Wales than Castlebar, Co. Meigh Eo
I've recently come around to the idea that red ales are just as palatable at room temperature as they are cold.
I'd even say somewhere in between that is the sweet spot for them, on the room temperature side of cool. Too cold kills them as bad as it does stouts.
I don't really like any beer stone cold. The stone coldness is really only useful for masking a bad taste
Quote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on September 27, 2024, 02:15:39 PMI'd even say somewhere in between that is the sweet spot for them, on the room temperature side of cool. Too cold kills them as bad as it does stouts.
Yeah you're onto something there. Like I wouldn't be making a popsicle with them or anything, but one of the boys insisted we have one out in his shed (away from his missus and kids lol). He's got a collection of reds and oh my was it very palatable at room temperature.
I never put my beer in the fridge at home at all, even if I bought it out of one. Would drink the large bottle of Guinness off the shelf and all. Good beer only needs to be cool rather than cold
Ah jaysus, icy beer on a sunny day is hard beat. I am biased in that I love icy drinks of any variety. And I hate hot drinks. Have a handful of coffees a year, and wouldn't drink regular tea if you were paying me to do so.
Quote from: Ducky on September 28, 2024, 07:57:56 PMAh jaysus, icy beer on a sunny day is hard beat. I am biased in that I love icy drinks of any variety. And I hate hot drinks. Have a handful of coffees a year, and wouldn't drink regular tea if you were paying me to do so.
I work with a fella who likes the taste of tea and coffee but hates the fact that they are hot so you're not alone in that regard. I do drink cold beer but I prefer it just a little bit off room temperature for the most part. I think the cold kills the flavour but of course there are many exceptions, cider being the most obvious one where it's the cooler the better
Now to be fair I hate the taste of tea as well :laugh: I like a black coffee, but it's almost tepid by the time I drink it. Just cannot fathom the popularity of takeaway coffee, scalding the lips off yourself.
Aww Jaysus, I fucking miss cider big time, but diabetes makes it a strict no-go.
I like a cold pint myself but having stood outside at a match this evening, sometimes it's not the best option.
Ha, yeah fuck that weather. Like it's not necessarily bad, but the heat is well gone from it now.
I spent a lot of the day inside at a record fair, so a cold one went down nicely while inspecting my haul (which included err, Belinda Carlisle :laugh: )
Got the train from Belfast to Bangor last wknd for the sole reason of getting a Guinness in Fealtys bar. 2 taps of Guinness one keg room temp one keg cold. first pour room temp let it settle, top up with cold tap, let it settle and another top of cold tap. Dunno why it reacts the way it does but one of the creamiest screamers I've ever seen. Head a good half inch over the top of the glass without a spill. Finished product well above room temp.
Had an ice cold guin from my usual bar today and couldn't appreciate it after the fealtys pint.
Apparently that warm cold pour was how they did it everywhere till a few decades back but never seen it anywhere before even in rural trad guin bars
Quote from: Ducky on September 28, 2024, 11:37:52 PMHa, yeah fuck that weather. Like it's not necessarily bad, but the heat is well gone from it now.
I spent a lot of the day inside at a record fair, so a cold one went down nicely while inspecting my haul (which included err, Belinda Carlisle :laugh: )
Dude I have about 7 Belinda albums myself! I think Barney Greenway is a big fan too.
Quote from: nukeabuse on September 28, 2024, 11:52:49 PMGot the train from Belfast to Bangor last wknd for the sole reason of getting a Guinness in Fealtys bar. 2 taps of Guinness one keg room temp one keg cold. first pour room temp let it settle, top up with cold tap, let it settle and another top of cold tap. Dunno why it reacts the way it does but one of the creamiest screamers I've ever seen. Head a good half inch over the top of the glass without a spill. Finished product well above room temp.
Had an ice cold guin from my usual bar today and couldn't appreciate it after the fealtys pint.
Apparently that warm cold pour was how they did it everywhere till a few decades back but never seen it anywhere before even in rural trad guin bars
Something kind of like that was done when the extra cold became standard the first pour was being microwaved and the head finished extra cold. Fucking sacrilege basically
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Beyond savagery. The thought what a pint of guin spinning in a microwave is more repulsive than any piss grave cover
There was a lad who drank in Seán's bar in Athlone, asked for a 'warm Guinness'. Pint was pulled and let settle, then got put in the microwave for ten or twenty seconds. Wouldn't drink it any other way. Stomach churning.
Quote from: nukeabuse on September 28, 2024, 11:52:49 PMGot the train from Belfast to Bangor last wknd for the sole reason of getting a Guinness in Fealtys bar. 2 taps of Guinness one keg room temp one keg cold. first pour room temp let it settle, top up with cold tap, let it settle and another top of cold tap. Dunno why it reacts the way it does but one of the creamiest screamers I've ever seen. Head a good half inch over the top of the glass without a spill. Finished product well above room temp.
Had an ice cold guin from my usual bar today and couldn't appreciate it after the fealtys pint.
Apparently that warm cold pour was how they did it everywhere till a few decades back but never seen it anywhere before even in rural trad guin bars
Fealtys do a great Guinness. Was in on Friday on a quick visit back home. Always the first place I head
Quote from: Carnage on September 29, 2024, 11:49:43 AMThere was a lad who drank in Seán's bar in Athlone, asked for a 'warm Guinness'. Pint was pulled and let settle, then got put in the microwave for ten or twenty seconds. Wouldn't drink it any other way. Stomach churning.
Jaysus,my dad used to tell me that our neighbour where I grew up in Athlone would have his pint lashed into the microwave, think he called it a "soft pint". Was probably Brendan's or Tack room though rather than Sean's but could have been the same lad
Heating Guinness is nothing new, when the pubs had open fires they used to leave a poker in the coals and dip it in pints to warm them.
Quote from: M.Hopkins on September 29, 2024, 07:22:34 PMQuote from: Carnage on September 29, 2024, 11:49:43 AMThere was a lad who drank in Seán's bar in Athlone, asked for a 'warm Guinness'. Pint was pulled and let settle, then got put in the microwave for ten or twenty seconds. Wouldn't drink it any other way. Stomach churning.
Jaysus,my dad used to tell me that our neighbour where I grew up in Athlone would have his pint lashed into the microwave, think he called it a "soft pint". Was probably Brendan's or Tack room though rather than Sean's but could have been the same lad
Possibly. I'm not in Athlone myself but a friend who drank in Seán's was telling me this, it would have been 20+ years ago anyway.
Quote from: son of the Morrigan on September 29, 2024, 07:32:25 PMHeating Guinness is nothing new, when the pubs had open fires they used to leave a poker in the coals and dip it in pints to warm them.
I've no prob with the warm guin almost preferable. There's something about adding a microwave to the equation that's unsettling
Yeah can't imagine the Guinness quality control fellas asking them to see the publican's microwave technique.
Quote from: Thorn on September 29, 2024, 12:52:45 AMQuote from: Ducky on September 28, 2024, 11:37:52 PMHa, yeah fuck that weather. Like it's not necessarily bad, but the heat is well gone from it now.
I spent a lot of the day inside at a record fair, so a cold one went down nicely while inspecting my haul (which included err, Belinda Carlisle :laugh: )
Dude I have about 7 Belinda albums myself! I think Barney Greenway is a big fan too.
My man! :abbath:
It's only the Best of Belinda Volume 1 album, but it covers her 1987 to 1992 banger period. Would've heard a lot of Heaven and Earth, Runaway Horses when I were a pup.
Just making my lunch and realised I've unintentionally put Leave a Light On a few songs away from The Wolf I Feed. Maybe I can source a Belinda t-shirt for the Napalm Death gig next year :laugh:
Guinness West Indies porter 👌
Yep... but the fuckin' price of it these days.
Check out the price of a can of Extra Stout these days it's ridiculous
Quote from: astfgyl on October 09, 2024, 06:13:07 PMCheck out the price of a can of Extra Stout these days it's ridiculous
Bonkers, €3.25 in the SuperValu near me, was that stuff around €2.30 or something like that around 2 years ago.
Quote from: Ducky on October 09, 2024, 05:37:19 PMYep... but the fuckin' price of it these days.
It's like buying a Magnum ice cream as a kid, a rare treat indeed!
Guinness zero cans. Blow me down with a feather, they taste like the real deal. Let's see how the hoop is in the morning.
Quote from: Giggles on October 09, 2024, 07:55:15 PMQuote from: Ducky on October 09, 2024, 05:37:19 PMYep... but the fuckin' price of it these days.
It's like buying a Magnum ice cream as a kid, a rare treat indeed!
On the plus side, the local sells 4 large bottles of Extra Stout for a tenner for at least the last 5 years if not longer. Place has been through 3 or 4 franchises over that time and that offer has never changed. Same on large bottles of Smithwicks as well but I only go for those on a hot day, so very rarely, naturally
Actually this sort of a peeve as much as a nectar post but what is the fucking problem with selling single cans of things these days? It's all multipacks or nothing. Bottles no problem as singles, but I'm a can man
Was in the off licence on the way home from work there and what did I spot the lad packing out onto the unsuspecting (and I suspect soon-to-be-unused!) shelf?
TYSKIE 0.0
Quoteyou may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension
Imagine trying to explain that concept to the polski boys down the local sklep
:laugh: The end of the world really is nigh
Quote from: astfgyl on December 07, 2024, 03:35:16 PMActually this sort of a peeve as much as a nectar post but what is the fucking problem with selling single cans of things these days? It's all multipacks or nothing. Bottles no problem as singles, but I'm a can man
When the Government pushed through that increase on drink a few years ago under the guise of it being for health reasons was something not brought in then that single cans couldn't be sold anymore? They were trying to pass it off like when they got rid of 10 boxes of fags claiming it would make people give up because people who bought 10 boxes won't buy 20's instead and smoke more they will just give up.
I have definitely seen single cans for sale in places since then but nowhere near what you use to see. The only Guinness can that is nice is Nitro surge all the others are piss especially the draught cans.
In Canada you could get 330ml bottles of draught which were unreal and they didn't have a widget. I Have never seen them anywhere else.
Hapes of single cans in Dunnes and Tesco offies near me, albeit not the old name brands like Heineken, Bud, etc.
Wine, how long does it last? A mate turned up with a box (six bottles, not a carton like), it was only after he'd left that I noted the label said 2006. The labels are a bit manky, like they been left somewhere for an extended period, which they obviously had. Just wondering would it still be alright? Corked bottles.
I don't want to ask him as it'd come across as ungrateful. He's been in Hong Kong for the last 2½ years, might have had them stashed in his house here. I'm guessing he picked them up on his way to mine.
I know that it can last for decades if properly stored, I don't think this is anything that flash though.
18 year old wine. I'm not dying so far.
Brave man!
Quote from: Carnage on January 31, 2025, 08:02:39 PMWine, how long does it last? A mate turned up with a box (six bottles, not a carton like), it was only after he'd left that I noted the label said 2006. The labels are a bit manky, like they been left somewhere for an extended period, which they obviously had. Just wondering would it still be alright? Corked bottles.
I don't want to ask him as it'd come across as ungrateful. He's been in Hong Kong for the last 2½ years, might have had them stashed in his house here. I'm guessing he picked them up on his way to mine.
I know that it can last for decades if properly stored, I don't think this is anything that flash though.
Once the wine was in contact with the cork during storage and the ambient temperature didn't spike or crash too much, then there's no reason that it wouldn't be drinkable.
Obviously, most supermarket wines aren't intended to be kept for much longer than the spin home with them. Even some of the dearer wines that you'd buy from O'Brien's or whatever are generally meant to be drank (drunk?) within two or three years.
If it smells musty/mouldy/like vinegar - I'd leave it off.
Why is it that older wine is often more expensive, excuse my ignorance. My mother threw out about 5 bottles of wine before Christmas cos a neighbour said it only lasts a couple of years. Younger me would have thrown her into a home if I'd witnessed wine being thrown out like that.
Quote from: Emphyrio on February 04, 2025, 01:50:55 PMWhy is it that older wine is often more expensive, excuse my ignorance. My mother threw out about 5 bottles of wine before Christmas cos a neighbour said it only lasts a couple of years. Younger me would have thrown her into a home if I'd witnessed wine being thrown out like that.
:laugh:
Did she chuck them without opening them?!
It's a bit of a rabbit-hole to go down and I'm no expert but, from what I've learned over the years - the main things that will influence a wine's longevity would be tannic content, sugar residues and grape quality.
Tannins will (or at least should) mellow and give more life to a wine as it ages.
The grapes need to be at a certain... eh... ripeness, harvested at just the right time etc. and come from a place where the weather has been just right for that harvest. Then, as the picking season continues, and the grape quality decreases, so does the level of the wine etc.
Sugar is important as a preservative. For example - to put this in terms that I am
definitely more familiar with - if you have an high ABV imperial stout or ale, then the sugar is what gave that beer it's volume strength in the first place and now will mean that it can be aged (in a bottle, not a can)- most of your flavour profile is coming from the malt bill and the adjuncts with only minor hop inclusion (like Fuggles for example) for minor beer bitterness.
This isn't true of high-alcohol % IPAs, DIPAs and stuff though - you're better off not aging them but rather drinking them as fresh as possible (again this is what I've learned or do - your mileage may vary depending on what kind of pisshead you are) because the hops will fade out of them and leave you with strong sugary water/lunatic soup.
Oddly though - and I don't know why - LOWER % ABV wines store better for long periods than high volume vino and are more sought after.
We could be at this all day, I've read articles about the quality/weight of glass and cork used, gentle and periodic oxidisation (which would kill a beer immediately), storage techniques, terroir yada yada yada.
She didn't even test them or, better still, got me to test them.
It all seems very confusing but at least you did a lot of legwork investigation which now means I don't have to, so fair play!
I'm just going to pretend they had all turned to vinegar and she was right to throw them out. I don't think my conscience would be able for the alternative.
Quote from: Emphyrio on February 04, 2025, 03:08:43 PMShe didn't even test them or, better still, got me to test them.
It all seems very confusing but at least you did a lot of legwork investigation which now means I don't have to, so fair play!
I'm just going to pretend they had all turned to vinegar and she was right to throw them out. I don't think my conscience would be able for the alternative.
My rule with all of this is simple - does it taste nice? If it does, then drink it.
There are some miraculous wines available for less than €15 (even if the government are trying to ruin it for us).
If you have a dedicated wine shop near you - i.e. not a supermarket - go there, you'll get a better bottle for the same sort of money spent.
Ah I wouldn't be a wine expert or anything like it. Cheap Aldi stuff is fine for the likes of me. I just hate the idea of decent wine being fucked out. I'm happier experimenting with craft beers these days anyway.
Yellowtail Jammy Red Roo would turn ya into an alco, bejaysus.
The only Yellowtail I've tasted was muck. Can't remember what it was but I'll be avoiding the brand anyway.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on February 04, 2025, 01:45:59 PMQuote from: Carnage on January 31, 2025, 08:02:39 PMWine, how long does it last? A mate turned up with a box (six bottles, not a carton like), it was only after he'd left that I noted the label said 2006. The labels are a bit manky, like they been left somewhere for an extended period, which they obviously had. Just wondering would it still be alright? Corked bottles.
I don't want to ask him as it'd come across as ungrateful. He's been in Hong Kong for the last 2½ years, might have had them stashed in his house here. I'm guessing he picked them up on his way to mine.
I know that it can last for decades if properly stored, I don't think this is anything that flash though.
Once the wine was in contact with the cork during storage and the ambient temperature didn't spike or crash too much, then there's no reason that it wouldn't be drinkable.
Obviously, most supermarket wines aren't intended to be kept for much longer than the spin home with them. Even some of the dearer wines that you'd buy from O'Brien's or whatever are generally meant to be drank (drunk?) within two or three years.
If it smells musty/mouldy/like vinegar - I'd leave it off.
I gave it a go later that night, it was OK. It passed the smell test, I let it breathe for a while before pouring a glass, tasted a tad bitter but not overly so, it's certainly drinkable. The cork crumbled as I was removing it (though thankfully I avoided corking the bottle) which leads me to believe that it was stored upright.
I'm still standing anyway and haven't spent any longer than usual on the toilet so we'll see how it goes from here.
I should probably store the rest on its side 'til I get to it. 🤔
Quote from: Carnage on February 04, 2025, 04:06:54 PMI gave it a go later that night, it was OK. It passed the smell test, I let it breathe for a while before pouring a glass, tasted a tad bitter but not overly so, it's certainly drinkable. The cork crumbled as I was removing it (though thankfully I avoided corking the bottle) which leads me to believe that it was stored upright.
I'm still standing anyway and haven't spent any longer than usual on the toilet so we'll see how it goes from here.
I should probably store the rest on its side 'til I get to it. 🤔
That's good to hear. Most of the time, you'll be grand.
Corking the bottle doesn't actually mean bits of cork going into the wine. It's more that the contents which are essentially alive have reacted badly with the cork which was also alive. It can also be shorthand for an infection that found its way into the wine before the cork was put in place.
Best way to avoid splitting a wine cork, if in doubt, is to run a little bit of water on it and then use a waiter's key type of corkscrew (a 2-step one if you can) to get it out.
I have one of those alright, I shall note that for the next one, thanks for the tip of wetting the cork too.
Never knew that about corking (I know little about wine other than what I like), I assume the smell/taste test would let you know it it'd happened?
Quote from: Carnage on February 04, 2025, 04:28:55 PMI assume the smell/taste test would let you know it it'd happened?
Yeah, any seasoned wine drinker would know that something was off after a waft or a few tentative sips.
Unless it's one of those natural, low intervention wines that are en vogue currently - in which case all bets are off and I have no idea if that wine is good, bad, corked or whatever.
See also sour beers - I always say that if you were handed a beer that smelled like a sour/gose 15 years ago that you'd be telling the barman to pour you a different pint and clean his fucking lines.
I washed out the first bottle earlier, quite a bit of sediment came through - to be expected after 18 odd years, I imagine. Still, it was grand overall. Not spectacular, as I said there was a bit of a tang off it but it was drinkable.
I've set the other bottles on their sides, I'll leave them for a while to see if the corks soften.
Two weeks later I opened another (left them horizontal but the corks are only barely touched). Same taste, a bit bitter at first but a nice aftertaste. I don't know what's happening with it but it's going down well enough so I'm guessing that it's OK.