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Enigmatic one 9 Jun 2011 | 07:29 am
Kölsch. Surely the must elegant of beers. The most refined. Hence the fancy stemware. Apparently an ale but taste a lot like lager. Kind of lagery on the nose with a bit of sulphur and yeast. Pale as ...
Redeemer 2 Jun 2011 | 08:19 am
Every so often a beer comes along that makes you sit up and pay attention. The experience of a deep draught catches you by surprise and induces you to hold the glass before you at arm's length and sta...
To the Darkside 28 May 2011 | 07:26 am
It's always nice to find a twist in the mundane. I long ago started overlooking Krombacher Pils when gazing into pub fridges or perusing shop shelves. Many other lagers do exactly what it does and som...
Limp Kiwi 24 May 2011 | 07:20 am
When I glanced at this beer on the shelf I initially dismissed it on the strength of the 'west coast' printed on the label. I thought it to be another American pale ale of the hop driven variety, that...
One wants more flavour 19 May 2011 | 09:13 am
Foolish notions of pouring the 'perfect pint' were beamed around the world this week thanks to the ever resourceful PR people at Diageo. It is unfortunate that such guff was attached to The Queen's vi...
Hello old friend 14 May 2011 | 11:00 pm
In the past on my walk home from work I was fortunate to have the option of two off licences selling good beer in the days when good beer wasn't all that common in Dublin. Closest was Sweeney's, a sma...
St Petersberg. Leningrad. A stout by any other name.... 11 May 2011 | 07:48 am
Stout, but with more. Even the bottle means business. It is pointy and purposeful, swathed in foil and adorned with strange, dark Gothic symbols. In short, it's an attractive bottle fully worthy to ho...
Get your Freon on 9 May 2011 | 07:19 am
I wouldn't want to hazard a guess at the the finishing gravity of this beer. It is a big, big beer tasting all of the 10% abv crammed into the equally imposing bottle. The good people at the Cigar Cit...
Nice stout. Pity about the label 1 May 2011 | 11:50 pm
Stout in a clear glass bottle is curious thing. It is never seen. In much the Oirsh. To be sure. same way paler ales are alluring in flint - and no doubt this is why brewers do it - the black bottle...
A big, busty, boozy babe 24 Nov 2010 | 10:05 am
I haven't had much luck with strong Italian beer. Most of the time it is merely a stronger version of a bland thirst slaker that curiously manages to taste of just as little. I picked up this 'Birra ...
