tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12501248.post2295869533596210457..comments2024-03-28T07:02:44.451+00:00Comments on The Beer Nut: Lights by nameThe Beer Nuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14105708522526153528noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12501248.post-43653998812443863242010-11-21T20:49:52.700+00:002010-11-21T20:49:52.700+00:00I was there yesterday, and apparently it's mad...I was there yesterday, and apparently it's made by the owner in his back garden. Perfectly inoffensive drink.fnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12501248.post-66288060627196917252008-03-29T15:21:00.000+00:002008-03-29T15:21:00.000+00:00This isn't a rebadge. Perhaps unlike in the UK, no...This isn't a rebadge. Perhaps unlike in the UK, no mainstream brewer here would bring a lager to the market at 3.6% ABV. It's why, for example, our Becks Vier is .2% stronger than yours. Lucky us. There are no other beers of this strength on the Irish market. It has to be a special commission.<BR/><BR/>Google are publishing this on their domain, so I'll just forward the solicitor's letters. Anyway, you didn't name the brewery in question. Dublin Brewing Company used to send its experiments and wonky batches to the pub across the street from the brewery to be sold under hastily-invented badges.The Beer Nuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14105708522526153528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12501248.post-10926774531068182442008-03-28T22:24:00.000+00:002008-03-28T22:24:00.000+00:00A pub near us used to sell its "own" lager, which ...A pub near us used to sell its "own" lager, which turned out to be Coors, if I recall. Their brand was so bad at that time they could sell more by letting people rebadge than by pushing it with their own label. Is that libel? If so, are you legally responsible given that it's a comment on your blog? Hope so. Er, hope not, I mean.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12501248.post-8874431866052602372008-03-28T19:15:00.000+00:002008-03-28T19:15:00.000+00:00I knew you'd know the name of it...I knew you'd know the name of it...Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09734969599278020673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12501248.post-80653821997377179082008-03-28T18:32:00.000+00:002008-03-28T18:32:00.000+00:00I'd say so, and I reckon they have contracted the ...I'd say so, and I reckon they have contracted the distributor not to sell Fischer Stiftungsbräu Helles to anyone else.The Beer Nuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14105708522526153528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12501248.post-18541682132544685602008-03-28T18:25:00.000+00:002008-03-28T18:25:00.000+00:00Very interesting. I've heard of the place, but avo...Very interesting. I've heard of the place, but avoided it for the various reasons you outlined. It is indeed strange that this one unremarkable beer would turn up in a pub like that. Perhaps it is like the German helles on tap in Luigi Malone's of Temple Bar, which is fairly tasty, but completely unavailable elsewhere in bottle of draught. I think it is piggy backed in with on the Erdinger crate.Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09734969599278020673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12501248.post-70236671854500342032008-03-28T12:11:00.000+00:002008-03-28T12:11:00.000+00:00I work on the same principle, Knut: this is me try...I work on the same principle, Knut: this is me trying it once.<BR/><BR/>I can assure you I don't frequent this place. However, it's the only bar in the area with any decent beer on tap -- namely Hoegaarden -- so, when I'm in this part of town and want to stop in for a drink on the way somewhere else, I choose it to avoid being forced to drink Guinness/Smithwick's/Heineken/Carlsberg. It's definitely not somewhere I'd set out to visit.<BR/><BR/>I was far more interested in finding out the story behind Solas Lite than in tasting the beer. And I was more disappointed by not getting it than I was with the beer.The Beer Nuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14105708522526153528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12501248.post-9758170721312767522008-03-28T12:00:00.000+00:002008-03-28T12:00:00.000+00:00Even the ticker in me feels all right about abstai...Even the ticker in me feels all right about abstaining from this one.<BR/>Well. If it was available in Oslo, I'd try. Once.<BR/>But why do you frequent bars populated by tiger cubs? All in the name of research?Knut Alberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09330987617984777530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12501248.post-29460593136637526022008-03-28T09:34:00.000+00:002008-03-28T09:34:00.000+00:00Well I'm sorry it's not up to your standards, Boll...Well I'm sorry it's not up to your standards, Bolli-keks, but that probably has more to do with my lack of skill as a photographer than anything else.<BR/><BR/>It's populated by braying overmoneyed tiger cubs. That's what "upmarket" means in this town.The Beer Nuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14105708522526153528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12501248.post-88728657549630419032008-03-28T08:30:00.000+00:002008-03-28T08:30:00.000+00:00From the photos, that place looks about as hip as ...From the photos, that place looks about as hip as my arse... are you sure its upmarket, or just a very low rent take on a 1980s cocktail bar, of a type that litter provincial high streets in this country?Stonchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15927490011165896353noreply@blogger.com