Revisiting Fransiscan Well Irish Red Ale.

[Greg2013]

Not a bad drop, four pack for 8 euro and the glass was free. Ok i admit it was the glass i really wanted but still a nice sessionable Irish Red Ale. 

It has a sort of dryness on the tail end of the swallow, i would not be surprised to find out there is a little rye malt in there somewhere. 

[Greg2013]

If you like Irish Red Ales i would definitely recommend you try this one,well worth the price 

[hopapotamus]

they are nice glasses in fairness , lovely weight to them , where did you pick them up? rebel red is lovely on draft

[irish_goat]

Always find Rebel Red a bit of a let down myself, prefer the likes of O'Hara's red which has a bit more going on and is a bit beefier.

Incidentally, was chatting to Paudie from Fran Well last night and he said the first batch of Rebel Red from the new Cork brewery should be out quite soon.

[Greg2013]

they are nice glasses in fairness , lovely weight to them , where did you pick them up? rebel red is lovely on draft

Walsh's Spar Dungarvan,think i got the last one,and yes they have a bit of heft to them.

[Greg2013]

Always find Rebel Red a bit of a let down myself, prefer the likes of O'Hara's red which has a bit more going on and is a bit beefier.

Incidentally, was chatting to Paudie from Fran Well last night and he said the first batch of Rebel Red from the new Cork brewery should be out quite soon.

O'Hara's Red is very nice also,and i would agree it does have the edge on this one though this is till a nice beer IMO.

[hopapotamus]

just had a look in my local spar , super value and off licence .....all doing 4 bottles for €8 ,but no free glass the feckers ..........i always feel naughty when i get home to find the glass fairy has put a glass in my bag 

[Greg2013]

just had a look in my local spar , super value and off licence .....all doing 4 bottles for €8 ,but no free glass the feckers ..........i always feel naughty when i get home to find the glass fairy has put a glass in my bag 

Same here with the bigger Spar shops and offies,all doing the 4 for €8 deal but no free glasses.Walsh's Spar are the only ones that seem to do the free glass with beer deals on craft beer.Sounds like i was lucky to find that Stein now(not gloating i swear)

[hopapotamus]

i have 2 of them , and 2 of the same shape and size but with an eched base , but when im realy thirsty i use a 1L messer*(sp) great for keeping in shape ...... welcome to the gun show lol  , brought it back from germany when i was 16 , with the scouts ....local bar owner was very impressed with our drinking abilitys over the week, the german kids 16+ would be drinking 500ml glasses of shandy or beer with coke (cola not the stuff you serve with hookers ) while we were downing dunkel , locals fucking loved it and kept buying us round after round . little did we know we were about 15 miles from dachau, it was never mentioned . but when we were leaving the bar owner gave us a crate of dunkel and a few 1L glasses to take away with us.......ahhhh happy days