As a young tourist in 1968 I fell in love with the now discontinued Phoenix Ale. Would anyone have a recipe for this wonderful ale? I'm a homebrewer and ran my own store and taught classes here in California.
Ron Pattinson has a recipe in his "Lets Brew" book. I'm a bit young to have ever sampled this one -
Recipe (https://books.google.ie/books?id=7r4yDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA95&lpg=PA95&dq=phoenix+ale+ireland+recipe&source=bl&ots=x3wERfYxEO&sig=ACfU3U1cCvb9yFxybc1WuzrnKxbAH0pAlw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiU1ciY8IPzAhUPhf0HHQ6nDeQQ6AF6BAgQEAM#v=onepage&q&f=false)
You probably have this already and ac13 has referred to Ron Pattinson who is mentioned here also...
http://beerfoodtravel.blogspot.com/2020/06/phoenix.html
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James, I joined the forum last week and when I saw your post I knew what I would use as an online name. Back in the day Phoenix was my go to bottle when in a pub when stocked :P . I snagged the three last bottles as take aways from a local after they stopped brewing it. Attached is a bottle I have had in the shed since the '90s :-X You cannot see attachments on this board.
Crack it open and taste it. You might be surprised. I recently had a bottle of beer that was 13 years past its BBE date and it was absolutely fine. Tasted rather nice, in fact. Still had loads of carbonation.