People realize beer in Ireland isn’t green right? It’s beer colored.
If a brewery wants to do an homage to Ireland put out a good Stout and Red Ale. Jesus.
Good fucking luck finding a decent red ale in the US. Mostly it's just Killians, and if you're lucky a craft version of Killians. Occasionally you can find a well made, balanced red ale, though.
Im a cellarman at a place that just cranks out high ABV IPAs and at every quarterly meeting when they ask if anyone has any beer ideas I’m always like “oh you know like a nice Irish Red or Oktoberfest or Amber” and management is always like “those don’t sell dickhead”.
We need an Amber Ale bot that just delivers a beer any time you mention a style that isn't "IPA"
"WE GOT A TRIPLE IPA THAT'S 17 ABV!"
Jesus at that point you should just drink fucking Whisky. They also fucking suck to make cuz they're Truby as shit everything they touch takes twice as long to CIP.
Careful, you're going to usher in something called a "Triple Dry Hopped Islay Scotch"
Jesus Christ tell me about it. I love reds but Yanks can only make a "lite brown"
I'm (ashamedly) a "Yankee" through a few definitions of the term. But goddamn, just make a decent red ale.
Surprisingly, Sam Adams had a great one, but then they changed the recipe, bottled it, and started distributing it.
Best I've had lately was Fred from Upper Pass out of Vermont.
Not a lot of Irish reds but plenty of breweries do decent Ambers in the US. I've always prefered flanders reds to Irish reds but they tend to be pricier in the US unfortunately.
Flanders are so good, but also completely different compared to Irish reds and American ambers.
I also think there are a ton of mediocre amber ales in the US craft scene, and many of them are mislabeled brown ales.
I mean there's tons of mediocre everything in the American craft scene. Also tons of awesome beers.
It's actually chlorophyll to hold the Irish over until potato season. That's why they are so pale: maximum light absorption
cause everyone thinks that to celebrate properly you need two things-
- green
- drunk
and what's better than combining both at once!
I mean you can have those things without putting green food dye in fucking beer.
Just wear green and drink normal beer you fucking heathens!
The spectacle should be listening to some nice Gaelic folk music and drinking good beer
Drinking good beer with no fucking food dye in it is super fun and enjoyable. Just do that. And listen to some Celtic mandolin music that’s also fun.
Cheap beer is fine just don't put fucking green food coloring in it
Seriously, this site has become so insufferable with this kind of shit
I guess I live under a rock. I had no clue places were dong green beers, that is so fucking ridiculous lol
if you hate green beers, just wait till you see what they're doing in chicago
If you're chugging 9s and 10s all night you might as well
The Smokey tastes of whisky overpowers the alcohol if you water it down a bit
The Irish just have a congenital defect to the eyes where they can't see that their beer really is colored green
It's science, this defect affects anyone with even a single drop of Irish blood
Idk I think it's kinda fun, it's beer but green! Also nobody cares what the Irish think, it's an American holiday
It's cheaper to give people the same pisswater they usually drink, but green
Meanwhile, I will be enjoying a nice Mexican Chocolate Stout while I welcome the coming Spring weather
I saw a post from this guy bragging how his dad is from Ireland, he then wished everyone a happy “St. Patty’s Day” and shared a picture of a sandwich he made from corned beef and soda bread 🤮
I'm Irish and this is the first I'm hearing of green beer.
Irish americans really have no idea what real Irish people are like
