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"TheBeerNut":be5eyyuq wrote: It is just a one-batch beer though and won't be made again. When it runs out in Extreme Pizza it'll probably be replaced with Hooker Pils.[/quote:be5eyyuq]


I hate all these "special one-time only brew" things. It just adds such an element of elitism to it.

I like the variety.

"Alan Gold Label":1l7hxhvh wrote: I hate all these "special one-time only brew" things. It just adds such an element of elitism to it.[/quote:1l7hxhvh]

I disagree. Think of it from the brewer's perspective, particularly those that produce only one flagship beer. Imagine brewing the same beer day in day out all year round. would there be any difference between this and boring factory work? Seasonal beers and one offs keep brewer's excited and challenged, as well as providing usbeer drinkers with some much needed (and appreciated) diversity.

John Wilson gave the beer competition at the festival a nice, full page writeup in the Irish Times Magazine on Sat April 17th.

"Con Con":11ags07n wrote: John Wilson gave the beer competition at the festival a nice, full page writeup in the Irish Times Magazine on Sat April 17th.[/quote:11ags07n]

yea, but he complains the Irish micros just do stout and ale and an ood wheat. An then reviews two stouts from the porterhouse, headless dog and Belfast ale,

Could have easily looked at hop head, or Brainblasta for porterhouse and Clotworthy Dobbin from whitewater

Jaysis! the whole article isn't a complaint, in fact it's his only criticism.

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[quote:1plfk9tu]One criticism I would have of the bottled beers from Irish micro-breweries is their sameness. Most seem to make a fairly similar range of good, but not always terribly exciting, beers; a red ale, a lager, a stout and possibly a wheat beer. The range certainly seems more interesting in draught form. You cannot blame them for trying to appeal to a wide audience, but the experience abroad, in the US and the UK, would suggest that small quantities of interesting beers are the way to get publicity.[/quote:1plfk9tu]


Though I would say that Ireland is unlike the US and the UK greatly where diageo's and other macros aren't as dominant in the Catholic church sense ie. they're bloody everywhere and people view it as the only way - you either drink the yellow pissy fizzy shite or the bland too cold tasteless black shite. UK (and I assume US in parts) have their brew pubs, locally brewed beers in normal pubs and cask is a norm in both. In Ireland it IS the novelty isn't it? seeing anything other than a macro.

I kinda agree with him though, I wouldn't mind seeing some of the micros do something else. I'm also fuming I missed the Galway Hooker dark wheat beer.