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Br\u00fa have been knocking around for years, I actually attended a food and beer party at the brewery in 2014 which as I recall involved a lot of stout and chocolate ice cream pairing. Yeah sure, there were other pairings but the stout and ice cream was the winner for me.<\/div>\n
The one thing that always struck me about Br\u00fa in the past was that they were great at contract brewing beer for other brands but never really pushed their own beyond the core range.<\/div>\n
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In late 2019, Br\u00fa and Carrig Brewing merged. Carrig operations moved from Drumshanbo to the larger Br\u00fa facility in Trim and with Carrig came some venues such as the brilliant Bar R\u00faa in Dublin and the restaurant next door.<\/div>\n
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Br\u00fa splits their range into two groups, the Urban Jungle range which is your more adventurous stuff and then the core range which is your more traditional, recognisable and accessible styles.<\/div>\n
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I’ll start with the Urban Jungle series as I was able to pick these up at the Londis across the street. They seem to have a random selection of the Urban Jungle series in stock recently so when I see them, I grab some.<\/div>\n
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Kicking off this Hop Bomb<\/b>, a 5.5% IPA. This beer has what they describe as a rotating hop profile. This can has a 2 printed on the hop symbol and best before Feb 22 so I imagine it was brewed in February 21. The can has a Hoppy and Malty slider printed on it and in this case, the hops are all the way to the right and the malt all the way to the left. That’s bang on actually. In bittering terms, it reminds me of the super dry hopped IPAs we used to get years ago. There’s no escaping it and I love that in your face bitterness. There’s little attempt to have a malt backbone, just a bit of biscuit and the barest hint of caramel. There’s just no messing around here. Personally I would like just a little more body, a tiny bit more malt just to balance it out . There is sweetness to provide balance but it’s not particularly malt driven.<\/p>\n

Too many hops? Don’t be ridiculous, there can never be too many hops!<\/p>\n

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Next up is a 7% pastry stout called Panda Nero<\/b>. While I like pastry stouts, I can only stomach them in small doses due to the sweetness but I was pleasantly surprised that a beer described as a tiramisu dessert stout<\/i> was rather more like a relatively bitter coffee stout with a bit of steamed milk thrown in.<\/p>\n

I really enjoyed this one and if the battered can is anything to go by, there was either a huge rush at the Londis to grab this one or else it was accidentally included in a shipment of something else. Either way, it was the only can there when I picked it up. If I see it again*, I will certainly be grabbing one. <\/p>\n

*Just to be clear, the local Londis is for emergency beer, that’s not where I shop when restocking my beer fridge.<\/p>\n

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By far my favourite of the Urban Jungle range so far is Osiris<\/b>, a 6.2% IPA. This is more of your modern NEIPA-esque IPA except there’s plenty of bitterness to balance out that juice. Just buy and drink it if you see it.<\/div>\n
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The next three are the core range that have gone from bottles to cans recently. These were kindly sent to me to sample by the brewery.<\/p>\n

Br\u00fa Lager<\/b> is your typical 4.2% lager on the face of it. Slightly biscuity with a bit of a spicy character. There’s no head beyond a brief fizz which is the only odd thing. It reminded me of a Kolsch actually and that’s high praise to be honest. I very much forward to getting back to Cologne for Christmas markets when normality returns. I expect I’ll be picking up more of these over the summer.<\/p>\n

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Br\u00fa Red Ale<\/b> is again a typical 4.2% Irish red ale. The malt is delivered with a slight biscuit and caramel note and then it’s a little more bitter than most. It’s decent and clearly aimed to tempt Smithwicks drinkers to something more interesting but still in their comfort zone.<\/p>\n

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And finally the Br\u00fa IPA<\/b> which is again a fairly typical 5% using mostly traditional American IPA hops like cascade and Centennial. The result is familiar and nostalgic. Bitter up front with a whack of grapefruit and pine. It reminds me of the IPAs we all drank 10 years ago and I often miss them due to all of the cloudy fruit bombs we get these days.<\/p>\n

That said, if I’m going for an IPA myself, I’d probably pick Osiris at the moment.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Bru for sending on the core range to try. <\/p>\n

Oh, if you’re wondering about the title, Hey Bru is a South African greeting with Bru simply meaning Bro\/brother.<\/p>\n

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