# dot brew brown ale — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover dot brew brown ale. Page: Feed: --- ## [#391: Disco Dancing](https://thedrunkendestrier.blogspot.com/2026/06/391-non-stop-disco.html) _2026-06-18 · Kill · La Vie en Gueuze_ I drank almost nothing of great interest (to this blog) during the month of May. An Orval here or there, sure. Sagres from the can in Portugal, grand. Plenty of house Pils of course. One outlier was pulled from under the stairs, but more on that in the next post. This lassitude - a hiatus of beery curiosity - continued into June until the appearance of Galway Bay's Disco Paradiso in the local this… ## [#390: Boredem](https://thedrunkendestrier.blogspot.com/2026/04/390-boredem.html) _2026-04-22 · Kill · La Vie en Gueuze_ I don't know who or what possessed me to pick up a great big bottle of tripel one Friday after work, but I do wish that daemon had exercised a little more better judgement than to guide my hand to Bornem Tripel . To be fair, it comes Van Steenberge, who bring us sugar bombs like Gulden Draak and old favourite Piraat among many other sweet and boozy pleasures, the best of which are a delight and… ## [#389: Browning](https://thedrunkendestrier.blogspot.com/2026/04/389-browning.html) _2026-04-03 · Kill · La Vie en Gueuze_ Since the seeming retraction of Newcastle Brown Ale from its position of near ubiquity in Irish offies, the style hasn't tended to be one at the tip - or indeed any section - of the tongue. In recent years, though, brown ales have resurfaced among supermarket own-brand ranges, a welcome and genuinely interesting prospect. There was a time when the pale ale among the red ale, stout, pale ale… ## [#388: Yearning](https://thedrunkendestrier.blogspot.com/2026/04/388-yearning.html) _2026-03-31 · Kill · La Vie en Gueuze_ Poperings Hommel Bier has appeared just once on this blog, and that just won't do. For the past three years or so it has been an essential purchase whenever I happened by Bradleys, the only local merchant I know to stock it. Recently the supply seems to have dried up, apparently the importing of the brand - at least latterly - was a temporary arrangement, which is of course devastating news if… ## [#387: Mescing](https://thedrunkendestrier.blogspot.com/2026/02/387-mescing.html) _2026-02-09 · Kill · La Vie en Gueuze_ At one point in time you might have referred to Mescan as Ireland's resident Belgophiles, but these days I can think of two or three other brewers who might count themselves as such a thing. Still, none other have opted for the stubby Duvel skittle bottles or have pitched themselves as something like a local village abbey brewery, and for that alone Mescan deserve some credit. And so, to celebrate… ## [#386: Decanting](https://thedrunkendestrier.blogspot.com/2026/01/386-decanting.html) _2026-01-13 · Kill · La Vie en Gueuze_ Some Irish miscellany from the Christmas break just past. Kinnegar is a producer I always hold in high regard, insterspersing their excellent core range with genuinely interesting and reliably good specials. The latest across my path is this barleywine, snappily named Brewers at Play 48 . I was impressed with no.28 in this series, also a barleywine, and this pours a very similar shade of slightly… ## [#385: The Debrief](https://thedrunkendestrier.blogspot.com/2026/01/385-debrief.html) _2026-01-06 · Kill · La Vie en Gueuze_ There's no beerier time for me than Christmas, and few times more in need of beer than the cold and grim depths of winter. In the sweet height of summer I will no doubt believe the opposite is true but from this vantage point with those garden beer days a long way away I can only see the succor of big, dark, strong beers pulled dusty and gratefully from under the stairs. Truth be told, there was… ## [#384: Not Like the Others](https://thedrunkendestrier.blogspot.com/2025/05/384-not-like-others.html) _2025-05-28 · Kill · La Vie en Gueuze_ Of Foam and Fury was a bit of a bombshell back in the day - rightfully scooping Beoir's Beer of the Year for 2013 (I think?) with it's proper heft and blast of hops. From my first draught pull I was impressed, but it's been years since I've gone back. Good timing then for a bit of a revival, albeit modernised and embellished with some Riwaka in celebration of its twelfth year. There's something… ## [#383: Bullish](https://thedrunkendestrier.blogspot.com/2025/05/383-bullish.html) _2025-05-23 · Kill · La Vie en Gueuze_ To break the monotony of German or German-inspired beer I've got some actually fresh IPA to chew through from the lovely Bullhouse Brew Co. First up is the NEIPA Merc Bro , which pours shockingly dark for the style, a shady orange as opposed to the usual pale yellow. The nose is immediately met with sweet strawberry and apricot jam, enticing and genuinely interesting, but the promise of this is… ## [Refer a Friend, Earn Rewards (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Xjj9chlXJKcB) _2025-05-23 · **Sponsored**_ Earn rewards when a friend signs up for the Graphite Business Card ## [#382: Gafflasch](https://thedrunkendestrier.blogspot.com/2025/04/382-gafflasch.html) _2025-04-29 · Kill · La Vie en Gueuze_ Gaffel Kölsch is a new one on me, and the style is another slightly mystifiying one for me. My only experience of a Kölsch is with the obviously ubiquitous Früh, which I fancy a pleasant pillowy quaffer even if I don't often get around to it. At the core of the Gaffel is a nice cereal sweetness, and this core expands almost to fill the whole experience of the beer. With a bit of diligence and…