I haven’t had a pint of it since Arthur’s Day, and to be honest I’d probably be happy if I never touched the stuff again. Much discussion surrounds the topic of the best pint to be found in such and such a city. To be fair a good percentage of the time the pubs known for the best pint usually serve up 568mls of heaven for you in 119 seconds. But to be honest what were bankers of pubs for great pints are increasingly becoming more and more iffy over the last two years in my opinion.
Noble establishments in Dublin like The Palace, Sackville Lounge, McDaids and Key Holes are increasingly pouring medicore pints and looking at the barmens skill, I honestly don’t blame the pubs, I blame Diageo, Guinness and the quality team for selling and maintaining what is fastly becoming for me a shite product.
Flano and El Gaupo will tell you I’m already gone off buying pints of Guinness in my local and I instead stick to the large bottles of extra stout because the product has become so bland and not worth the 4.20. I’m begining to conspire that diageo are purposely making the product more and more tasteless to get lager drinkers, Bud and the like off lager products and onto cheaper pints of plain in a ressession.
I’ve recently discovered O’Hara’s selection of stouts, ales and lagers and by God what a difference in taste, Carlow Brewing are doing something right. The problem, draught is only available in specialist boozers here because of Diageos grip on the Irish Pub trade. The reluctance of Irish barmen to embrace the cask (never mind the pear) is another serious stumbling block. Anyway I thought I’d recommend their drinks and any lager drinker should without a doubt give the wheat beer a try, beats the pint of yellow fizz that is Bud anyday.
I find the problem is the pints being served far too cold. Takes away so much from the flavour. I feel a bit sick of Guinness right now on a Monday evening but I can’t say I’m sick of it in general. I’ve had many lovely pints in several pubs all over the city and suburbs in the last few weeks. Too many, to be honest.
That O’Haras stuff is nice alright. Shit that you can’t get a good range on tap in every pub because it’s hard to build up a taste for something when you only have it once every few months.
Galway Hooker is lovely stuff too and I really like the message on the front page of their site:
www.galwayhooker.ie
Had a bottle of that O’Haras before and thought it was like drinking Cement. Guinness is usually too hit and miss that I’ll only drink it in places where I know it’ll be bearable. Have yet to find a single hotel in the country that serves a decent pint.
How do Beamish and Murphys compare in most peoples eyes? Always found Murphys easier to drink and Beamish to be far too harsh.
[quote=“Mac”]Had a bottle of that O’Haras before and thought it was like drinking Cement. Guinness is usually too hit and miss that I’ll only drink it in places where I know it’ll be bearable. Have yet to find a single hotel in the country that serves a decent pint.
How do Beamish and Murphys compare in most peoples eyes? Always found Murphys easier to drink and Beamish to be far too harsh.[/quote]
Used to drink a bit of Murphys when I lived in Cork. Thought it was on a par with Guinness down there but very hard to get a decent pint outside the city. Beamish was always terrible, couldn’t get a taste for it even though it was always cheaper than the other two.
Has anyone here tried Youngs Double Choclate Stout? Had some last week, very rich but very drinkable.
Has anyone here tried Youngs Double Choclate Stout? Had some last week, very rich but very drinkable.[/quote]
Yeah, a fine drop that is. Couldn’t drink more than a couple of them though.
All these craft beers and imported ales, they’re too expensive in the off-licence is the problem. Very hard to justify paying over 3 for a nice bottle of ale when a can of Amstel or something is about 1.30. How much is O’Hara’s? Not cheap I don’t think.
[quote=“Thrawneen”]Yeah, a fine drop that is. Couldn’t drink more than a couple of them though.
All these craft beers and imported ales, they’re too expensive in the off-licence is the problem. Very hard to justify paying over 3 for a nice bottle of ale when a can of Amstel or something is about 1.30. How much is O’Hara’s? Not cheap I don’t think.[/quote]
Its a quality v quantity thing Thrawneen. If you only having a few beers, its worth paying the extra, if you’re planning a session then stock up on the cheap stuff. A friend of mine owns an off-licence and he doesn’t make alot from the expensive beers, has to have them to offer a decent range.
[quote=“hannibal”]Used to drink a bit of Murphys when I lived in Cork. Thought it was on a par with Guinness down there but very hard to get a decent pint outside the city. Beamish was always terrible, couldn’t get a taste for it even though it was always cheaper than the other two.
Has anyone here tried Youngs Double Choclate Stout? Had some last week, very rich but very drinkable.[/quote]
Murphys is good, but is a fairly aquired taste. Beamish is a very aquired taste, but you’ll normally spend at least 30 euro less on a big day out if your drinking it.
