The Crafty Brewing Company Irish Stout
https://ryeriverbrewingco.com/category/the-crafty-brewing-co/
Brewed by Rye River Brewing Company for Lidl
Style: Irish Stout
Dublin Rd, Celbridge, Co. Kildare
Lidl’s, the German Discount store, has partnered with Rye River Brewing Company to bring a range of craft beers to consumers under the brand of “The Crafty Brewing Co”. They have an offer a Lager, an Irish Stout and a Red Ale to be sold in 4-packs nationwide.
Operating out of Kildare, Rye River Brewing Company is one of the world’s most decorated independent craft breweries regularly achieving success at the World Beer Awards and other prestigious award ceremonies. At the 2018 World Beer Awards they won 19 medals, while at the same competition in 2019 they won an unprecedented 21 medals, an amazing achievement for an independent set up and only on the go since 2013.
The Crafty Brewing Company range (produced exclusively for Lidl and available in over 20 countries across Europe) is not the only brand they produce. Other award-winning Rye River brands include the Solas range, the Grafters range and the McGargles beer (a brand I did a big write up yonks’ ago), all, like Crafty Brewing, exported and sold throughout Europe, and all winning loads of medals in the World Beer Awards and in other prestigious award ceremonies.
Review: 500ml bottle of The Crafty Brewing Company Irish Stout 4.5% vol.
Sold exclusively in Lidl in stores right across Ireland. I have read they don’t sell this any more and the stout has been discontinued but I am not so sure about that…
A craft stout they say, whatever the fuck that is, does that mean its a wanky effort at a real stout? Anyway apparently this stout has won a big award, or at least Silver in the world beer awards for stout. Might be impressive but I wasn’t invited so……..and it won gold in The Irish Food Awards in 2021, as best Irish stout in the country, not bad, well lets see how it goes with me!
On pour I am getting a pitch black colour with a decent sized creamy tanned head. Looks ok, a bit bubbly but overall not a bad pour, which is very important for a stout. Head maintains throughout and with some good lacing, this stout is not bad at all on appearance.
Very good on the nose, a lovely aroma of chocolate and nuts, a very roasty smell, very nice. The dark roasted malts are really pleasant here.
The taste follows the nose, similar. Roasted dark malts, chocolate, coffee and nut taste, Not bad, initially anyway! Nice bitter coffee aftertaste, just right for a stout…..although might be a tad bit too sweet, but overall this is good.
Nice full bodied taste, nice to swish it all around in the mouth. I like this stout. Its not a Guinness or to be fair even near it, but its a bloody good effort.
Like a very nutty chocolate stout than anything else. Very good and filling, can easily see why it won awards. Good for a session. Recommended and a good alternative to Guinness.
It all started when a young and very eager Gabriel Hasler, at just 16 years of age was given his first craft beer kit. Excited he enlisted the help of his two good friends Reto Engler and David Paraskevopoulos, and set out on a quest to brew their first beer. After initially producing 20 litres in Gabriel’s parents’ kitchen, and then moving to Reto’s parents’ cellar, the young entrepreneurs soon needed extra space so that they could share their passion and talent with as many people as possible.
Available throughout Switzerland in supermarkets, restaurants and selected bars and pubs. I picked mine up in Coop in an Interesting looking bottle, which doesn’t look very dissimilar to a medicinal bottle! A strange drab looking IPA bottle if I am to be honest -orange and black perhaps not the best colours to mix together!
Its overall quite tough to drink at the start, but once it settles down it is very manageable and drinkable, definitely a slow burner as I started to enjoy it the more I drank of it. In fact by the second glass, I found it not bad at all, and it went down much smoother over time, balancing out, and with me getting much more used to the bitterness. Experiencing malts, citrus, herbal hops and an orange zest.
Formerly known as Singha Light, comes in cans and bottles. Mine is a none descript can, with the lettering of M-Y standing out, all very boring.
Typical lagery taste I am getting, ok I guess, not bad at all and pretty smooth to drink.
Boon Rawd Brewery is a Thai brewery based in Bangkok and was created in 1933 by Phraya Bhirom Bhakdi (Boonrawd Sreshthaputra). Their best-known product is the pale lager Singha, found up and down the length of Thailand and popular with ex-pats especially. Other well known beer brands it produces are Leo, U, Snow, and Asahi. It also produces soft drinks and bottled drinking water.
On cracking open the can I immediately get the smell of fruit……. very strong on the nose, coming at you straight off the bat! Of fruits and citrus.
Full Moon Brewwork, opened since 2010, is a micro-brewery and restaurant situated in Patong, on the resort island of Phuket, southern Thailand. They produce German lagers, English style bitter ales, and classic Belgium “weiss” beers amongst some more novelty brews and craft cocktails, all at the same time as running a fully functional restaurant and bar on site of their brewery. 
Coming in a very nice and colourful strawberry red can, doesn’t look much like a beer at all but more a can of soda. 
The taste was disappointedly bland. For all the talk of strawberry there was not so much of that at all to savour or taste.