After an enjoyable day (aside good things come in paper products: This includes fish, chips, icecream) shopping for wedding bands, I arrived home in need of refreshment. I took some beer out of the cellar (possibly the only upstairs cellar in Ireland) and popped it in the fridge for 2.3 minutes whilst I emptied the car (of more beer, and some other stuff.)
One of these beers was a Dungarvan Brewing Company Helvick Gold (I called it blond in the twitter, but that's cos it's a blond ale, and I'm easily confused) which has been making its way up the "to drink" list for a couple of weeks now.
In short - beautiful. A very drinkable ale, with a lovely refreshing, moreish mouthfeel. It does, as it says on the packet, have a lively fizzy head, but this doesn't come through when drinking it, just the right amount of carbonation for this drinker. Flavour wise, it sits very well on the yummy side of the fence, nicely hoppy, and as above, very moreish. Label suggests citrus and pine overtones - I haven't got the most educated palette in the world, but yeah, on reflection I can see where they come from. I would suggest overtones of a most enjoyable beer. Would imagine that a few of these would go very well with a barbecue!
This is going on the "if you see it, buy it" list.
Pros: Irish, tasty, refreshing.
Cons: Still can't get quality beer like this in the local offy.....
I should post more about beer.
Edit: Just browsing briefly this morning I saw that the Dungarvan Brewing Company won the "Best New Producer" award at the 2010 Blas na hEireann awards for this very beer. Well-deserved!
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