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Originally posted by dundon13 dundon13 wrote:

Originally posted by The White Cafu The White Cafu wrote:

Originally posted by t_rAndy t_rAndy wrote:

White Hag Brewing for me. Red IPA and New England IPA. So nice 

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Their mint chocolate chip and salted caramel pastry stouts are unbelievably good
I would certainly try one, I have had many a ridiculous beer, but that's f**king extreme hipster!LOL

They're actually 2 separate beers LOL and definitely not the most hipster beers I've had 
Ah! In that case I take it back. I'm also a bit disappointed as I was really tempted to try it.LOL
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Originally posted by dundon13 dundon13 wrote:

Originally posted by The White Cafu The White Cafu wrote:

Originally posted by t_rAndy t_rAndy wrote:

White Hag Brewing for me. Red IPA and New England IPA. So nice 

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Their mint chocolate chip and salted caramel pastry stouts are unbelievably good
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Last week I had a Salted Rhubarb Vanilla Cream Crumble Sour and by god it was delicious!
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Originally posted by dundon13 dundon13 wrote:

Originally posted by The White Cafu The White Cafu wrote:

Originally posted by t_rAndy t_rAndy wrote:

White Hag Brewing for me. Red IPA and New England IPA. So nice 

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Their mint chocolate chip and salted caramel pastry stouts are unbelievably good

Must give these a go LOL tough enough to find them in the shops even in Galway 
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Originally posted by The White Cafu The White Cafu wrote:

Originally posted by dundon13 dundon13 wrote:

Originally posted by The White Cafu The White Cafu wrote:

Originally posted by t_rAndy t_rAndy wrote:

White Hag Brewing for me. Red IPA and New England IPA. So nice 

White Hag Clap

Their mint chocolate chip and salted caramel pastry stouts are unbelievably good

Must give these a go LOL tough enough to find them in the shops even in Galway 

Thought the mint choc chip was done, haven't Sene it in ages, nice stuff 
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sooner the better pubs take on irish brewed craft beer the better. get rid of Heineken, Coor's, Carlsberg and all that other sh*te! 
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Originally posted by Yiksheemash Yiksheemash wrote:

sooner the better pubs take on irish brewed craft beer the better. get rid of Heineken, Coor's, Carlsberg and all that other sh*te! 
 
Why is this the attitude of so many craft beer drinkers? why cant you just you just enjoy some random fluid a hippy with a ponytail who couldn't hold down a full time job made in their bathtub and let other people enjoy the gorgeous beers of Heineken & Carlsberg. 
 
On a serious note I've dealt with plenty of craft breweries (albeit not for a couple of years now). c5 years ago while there was dozens of brands there were actually only a few mirco breweries in the country who were actually producing the product. Large capital investment required to start a micro brewery and far outside what any joe soap could do on their own. 
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The term 'craft beers is a load of wank to begin with. 'Artisan', 'bespoke' and 'craft' are the ABC of bollocksology. There's just good beer and stuff pumped full of chemicals. All most people want is a choice. I don't know what pubs are like at home now, but the choice was often either stout or something from the bleach cupboard like Heineken. It wasn't even proper Heineken at that!

As generalisations go, the one that Irish people have a fairly bland palate holds up, although it is thankfully changing. People want a variety. You can still drink a lager made in two weeks when it should take six if you want to and be given the choice to, but is nice to not have the choice made for you. I rarely know what I'm going to drink when I enter a pub here and it makes the experience much more enjoyable. 


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I just like a good pint and like trying new things and drank the other stuff for so long I am a little bored of it and they taste a bit bland for me. 

Still have no problem drinking any of them. Don't think there is one type of beer which I wouldn't drink I just tend to thing the ones from the 'craft' area tend to have more flavor and more hoppy which I prefer. 


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Originally posted by pre Madonna pre Madonna wrote:

The term 'craft beers is a load of walk, to begin with. 'Artisan', 'bespoke' and 'craft' are the ABC of bollocksology. There's just good beer and stuff pumped full of chemicals. All most people want is a choice. I don't know what pubs are like at home now, but the choice was often either stout or something from the bleach cupboard like Heineken. It wasn't even proper Heineken at that!

As generalisations go, the one that Irish people have a fairly bland palate holds up, although it is thankfully changing. People want a variety. You can still drink a lager made in two weeks when it should take six if you want to and be given the choice to, but is nice to not have the choice made for you. I rarely now what I'm going to drink when I enter a pub here and it makes the experience much more enjoyable. 

100% agree. When does a craft beer stop being a craft beer? When it reaches a certain sales threshold? There is a little brewery at home in Westport that does brews a nice drop that I like. If it were to suddenly become bigger than Guinness would it stop being "craft"?
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Originally posted by the_walls the_walls wrote:

Originally posted by pre Madonna pre Madonna wrote:

The term 'craft beers is a load of walk, to begin with. 'Artisan', 'bespoke' and 'craft' are the ABC of bollocksology. There's just good beer and stuff pumped full of chemicals. All most people want is a choice. I don't know what pubs are like at home now, but the choice was often either stout or something from the bleach cupboard like Heineken. It wasn't even proper Heineken at that!

As generalisations go, the one that Irish people have a fairly bland palate holds up, although it is thankfully changing. People want a variety. You can still drink a lager made in two weeks when it should take six if you want to and be given the choice to, but is nice to not have the choice made for you. I rarely now what I'm going to drink when I enter a pub here and it makes the experience much more enjoyable. 

100% agree. When does a craft beer stop being a craft beer? When it reaches a certain sales threshold? There is a little brewery at home in Westport that does brews a nice drop that I like. If it were to suddenly become bigger than Guinness would it stop being "craft"?
In the States they do actually have a limit on it by volume of production of the brewery as a whole. It's all pretty meaningless though. Just buzzwords.
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Originally posted by the_walls the_walls wrote:

Originally posted by pre Madonna pre Madonna wrote:

The term 'craft beers is a load of walk, to begin with. 'Artisan', 'bespoke' and 'craft' are the ABC of bollocksology. There's just good beer and stuff pumped full of chemicals. All most people want is a choice. I don't know what pubs are like at home now, but the choice was often either stout or something from the bleach cupboard like Heineken. It wasn't even proper Heineken at that!

As generalisations go, the one that Irish people have a fairly bland palate holds up, although it is thankfully changing. People want a variety. You can still drink a lager made in two weeks when it should take six if you want to and be given the choice to, but is nice to not have the choice made for you. I rarely now what I'm going to drink when I enter a pub here and it makes the experience much more enjoyable. 

100% agree. When does a craft beer stop being a craft beer? When it reaches a certain sales threshold? There is a little brewery at home in Westport that does brews a nice drop that I like. If it were to suddenly become bigger than Guinness would it stop being "craft"?
 
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Originally posted by sausy sausy wrote:

Originally posted by the_walls the_walls wrote:

Originally posted by pre Madonna pre Madonna wrote:

The term 'craft beers is a load of walk, to begin with. 'Artisan', 'bespoke' and 'craft' are the ABC of bollocksology. There's just good beer and stuff pumped full of chemicals. All most people want is a choice. I don't know what pubs are like at home now, but the choice was often either stout or something from the bleach cupboard like Heineken. It wasn't even proper Heineken at that!

As generalisations go, the one that Irish people have a fairly bland palate holds up, although it is thankfully changing. People want a variety. You can still drink a lager made in two weeks when it should take six if you want to and be given the choice to, but is nice to not have the choice made for you. I rarely now what I'm going to drink when I enter a pub here and it makes the experience much more enjoyable. 

100% agree. When does a craft beer stop being a craft beer? When it reaches a certain sales threshold? There is a little brewery at home in Westport that does brews a nice drop that I like. If it were to suddenly become bigger than Guinness would it stop being "craft"?
 
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If there was money to be made from it he'd do it in a heartbeat LOL
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Originally posted by the_walls the_walls wrote:

Originally posted by pre Madonna pre Madonna wrote:

The term 'craft beers is a load of walk, to begin with. 'Artisan', 'bespoke' and 'craft' are the ABC of bollocksology.
100% agree. When does a craft beer stop being a craft beer? When it reaches a certain sales threshold? There is a little brewery at home in Westport that does brews a nice drop that I like. If it were to suddenly become bigger than Guinness would it stop being "craft"?
Annual production of 6 million barrels or less, and no more than 25% of the craft brewery is owned or controlled by a Budweiser/Diagio
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Originally posted by the_walls the_walls wrote:

Originally posted by pre Madonna pre Madonna wrote:

The term 'craft beers is a load of walk, to begin with. 'Artisan', 'bespoke' and 'craft' are the ABC of bollocksology. There's just good beer and stuff pumped full of chemicals. All most people want is a choice. I don't know what pubs are like at home now, but the choice was often either stout or something from the bleach cupboard like Heineken. It wasn't even proper Heineken at that!

As generalisations go, the one that Irish people have a fairly bland palate holds up, although it is thankfully changing. People want a variety. You can still drink a lager made in two weeks when it should take six if you want to and be given the choice to, but is nice to not have the choice made for you. I rarely now what I'm going to drink when I enter a pub here and it makes the experience much more enjoyable. 

100% agree. When does a craft beer stop being a craft beer? When it reaches a certain sales threshold? There is a little brewery at home in Westport that does brews a nice drop that I like. If it were to suddenly become bigger than Guinness would it stop being "craft"?
Is this the Mescan brewery Walls?
I like their stuff. 
I prefer Belgian & German beers to most of the Irish Craft ones.
The Mescan guy sticks to their methods and taste.
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Originally posted by whitesideOnside whitesideOnside wrote:

Originally posted by the_walls the_walls wrote:

Originally posted by pre Madonna pre Madonna wrote:

The term 'craft beers is a load of walk, to begin with. 'Artisan', 'bespoke' and 'craft' are the ABC of bollocksology. There's just good beer and stuff pumped full of chemicals. All most people want is a choice. I don't know what pubs are like at home now, but the choice was often either stout or something from the bleach cupboard like Heineken. It wasn't even proper Heineken at that!

As generalisations go, the one that Irish people have a fairly bland palate holds up, although it is thankfully changing. People want a variety. You can still drink a lager made in two weeks when it should take six if you want to and be given the choice to, but is nice to not have the choice made for you. I rarely now what I'm going to drink when I enter a pub here and it makes the experience much more enjoyable. 

100% agree. When does a craft beer stop being a craft beer? When it reaches a certain sales threshold? There is a little brewery at home in Westport that does brews a nice drop that I like. If it were to suddenly become bigger than Guinness would it stop being "craft"?
Is this the Mescan brewery Walls?
I like their stuff. 
I prefer Belgian & German beers to most of the Irish Craft ones.
The Mescan guy sticks to their methods and taste.


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Mescan have some great stuff, very underrated. Very traditional belgianish type brewing. I'm taking part in a virtual craft beer festival next weekend which has Mescan involved and other similar more traditional breweries. 
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