Yesterday.
Herbert Park, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4
Scenes from the Big Grill – Europe’s largest craft beer and bbq festival – where meat-loving, craft chugging ‘revellers’ will gather until Sunday.
As they are perfectly entitled to do.
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Swine eating swine
Cow eating cow
You only ever eat humble pie right Pat?
as if ;)
Is that on tonight? I’m starving. Ice cold G+T to start and you can put all the cucumbers and radishes in you like. Nice lamb burger with wholegrain m’stard with gherkins and feta cheese. Do I have to pay in? I’ll write an article or instagram the hell out of it or write a Trip Advisor review or something.
I was in there last night, got a free pass as a Bodytonic member. Had a lovely couple of pints from a Donegal beer company called Kinnegar, highly recommend the 4.7% one. Also had some mead from West Cork that had me feeling a little tiddly
The rust bucket they do is the business,
4.7 is probably limeburner. kinnegar’s scraggy bay is imho the best Irish IPA around. can usually get it in obriens.
one to try so
Scraggy Bay is lovely but my favourite IPA is 8 degrees Big River, but it seems to be seasonal so if thats not available, they also have Full Irish single malt IPA which is great too.
used to love 8 degrees howling gale, but it was bought by Irish Distillers – all their beers have changed since. have given up on them.
galway bay is good too – full sail or foam+fury (if you’re hard)
I find them a bit sour in the aftertaste
for me the best Irish beers are from yer man in Laois
https://12acresbrewing.ie/
give it a shot, highly recommended
yeah, nice – but hard to get
I’ve tried to enjoy lots of these craft beers from interesting companies, but I’ve never found one that can hold a candle to a daycent pint of mass-produced, British-owned black protestant porter.
try Galway Bay’s stormy port, old boy
Or they’ve a stout brewed with milk sugars – Buried at Sea – that’s nice too
I think I had a few pints of that somewhere beside St Audeon’s a couple of years ago – very nice it was too.
yeah probably it – pub on high street that have both on tap
Dungarvan’s stout is pretty good too in fairness
second that Galway Bay one @BB
another nice one to try is called Coalface tis fairly chocolatey
Limeburner’s decent.
i don’t like rye ale, just so you know
Agreed
Nice. Will have a gander tomorrow. I see it’s 22 lids. Will that actually get me a bite to eat or is that just money for the promoters or a morsel of charcoal? Always expect these things to be ROI (Rip Off Ireland).
While you don’t get anything with the ticket as such, if you get there early enough it is worth it as I have found in recent years. You can get lots of small, cheap bites so you really get a great idea of what its all about.
Having said that, I went to the Taste one once and the portions were atrociously small but the beer was great!
Right-o thanks.
I’m on my way…………..
Carbon footprint hell from the “relaxed-fit”.
+1.5 degrees
I like Old Paddy Goblin’s Extra Pale Ballsack (4.9%) or Naas Haggard Bubo IPA (5.3%)
bit of an acrid aftertaste to the ballsack ipa
not necessarily bad thing, but find it a small bit revolting
Are these even real beers?
Someone out there is taking the piss.
I don’t think so but they actually could exist in small batches.
I love this one though – very real, very nice but very strong:
https://www.obrienswine.ie/trouble-fresh-prince-of-kildare-dipa-44cl-can.html
I remember having a beer in Barcelona recently and the label had a hand giving the finger with an eye on it and when you looked closer at the label it said ‘Fupp (spell that with a ck) the King, Fupp the Police’ on it.
Nice beer though.
i was put off by their marketing/packaging for a long time – seemed a bit ‘hard boy American’ (or ‘johnny green’ in local parlance), but quite good actually
-why are you letting me rent space in your head for free Bro,lmao:)
you amuse me, johnny
I have to admit to being a fan of their Sabotage ale label (and the beer itself), nice little bit of art on it.
have that on tap in o’neills, oddly enough