Old news, but who is the third? The article only mentions Wetherspoons and Greene King?
http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/retail-and-services/three-british-pub-chains-scouring-for-dublin-acquisitions-1.1529745
Brewdog?
Quote from: Hop Bomb on September 30, 2013, 03:33:57 PM
Brewdog?
They're not really a "major" British pub chain though.
I presumed it was punch taverns.
I think Punch are in a bit of a spot of bother with their debt (like nearly all of the pub company chains, except JD Wetherspoons).
Wetherspoons don't do any decent nitro stouts either though.
Hardly decent though, in Wetherspoons it's 4.1% "super chilled" Guinness as well. Even blander than the regular stuff.
I had a nice pint of cask Hobgoblin in a Wetherspoons in Consett near Newcastle the other day. It's far superior to the bottles, I started to understand why it has such a large following in the UK. Only having tasted bottles previously I was underwhelmed.
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Quote from: Il Tubo on October 01, 2013, 02:22:37 PM
A lot of English ales are bland in bottle but super on cask. Try Wychwood Scarecrow on cask if you can get it.
A lot of english ale swings that way. Often better on bottle than keg, and better on cask than bottle.
It can be dramatically different at different temperatures too.
Hobgoblin in the bottle is 5.2% compared to 4.5% on cask. I've always thought it suffered on cask and lacked the malty mouthfeel the bottle has.
It pops up on cask in Dublin a good bit but like a lot of English casks that come in (excluding the stuff W.J Kavanagh's buy) a pallet load will arrive and every cask pub will have it on at the same time. Another problem too is that a lot of English casks that come over here are pushing very close to their best before date. I'm not sure how long the best before date is after racking but I've never tried Hobgoblin when it was particularly fresh.
Quote from: Il Tubo on October 01, 2013, 03:42:11 PM
Never like Hobgoblin in bottles, and on that basis I've never tried cask.
I never liked the bottles, so wanted to give it a chance and I have to say I'm glad I did.
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Quote from: Il Tubo on October 01, 2013, 02:22:37 PM
A lot of English ales are bland in bottle but super on cask. Try Wychwood Scarecrow on cask if you can get it.
English ales bland? Never! ;)
Quote from: Dunkel on October 01, 2013, 05:51:02 PM
Quote from: Il Tubo on October 01, 2013, 02:22:37 PM
A lot of English ales are bland in bottle but super on cask. Try Wychwood Scarecrow on cask if you can get it.
English ales bland? Never! ;)
Have you ever had a pint on cask in an English pub with the brewery out back?
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Yes.
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Quote from: Dunkel on October 01, 2013, 06:16:37 PM
Yes.
Fair enough, horses for courses I suppose. I can't stomach 95% of the Belgian beers I've tried. IPA is also a style I find hard to stomach, at least the modern hop monsters.
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If travelling from Heathrow to Ireland, the Bridge bar in Terminal 1 has Hobgoblin permanently on cask. Well worth trying and way better than the bottle IMO.
Fullers ESB on cask is a lovely beer. Not fond of it as a bottled beer though. Don't like stout on cask prefer nitro. :)
http://www.independent.ie/business/commercial-property/riverside-pub-goes-on-market-for-200k-29630473.html
would make a nice little brew pub and new HQ for the Liffey brewers.
Hooed a thunk! A pub in Dublin.... ish, for 200k..... ish!!