Halloween and the Scary Beer Trio

With Halloween now upon us I decided to scour the shelves and fridges of Molloys to find out if we had any truly scary beers.  Three beers made the grade and they were all from the Wychwood Brewery in Oxfordshire.

The first one up is Hobgoblin Beer.

Traditionally craft brewed with Chocolate and Crystal Malts and a blend of Styrian, Golding & Fuggles Hops to produce a full-bodied Ruby beer that delivers a delicious chocolate toffee malt flavour,  balanced with a rounded moderate bitterness and an overall fruity, mischievous character.  It comes in a 500ml bottle and is 5.2% ABV.








Number 2 on the list is Scarecrow Ale.


Traditionally craft brewed in Oxfordshire using organically grown English Barley Malt and Organic Target Hops.   Scarecrow is a wonderfully refreshing English Ale evoking lazy, hazy days of summer in golden meadows and ripe barleyfields.  A winning combination of tart, citric fruit flavours perfectly balanced by a rich biscuity maltiness and rounded off with a spicy bittersweet finish.  It comes in a 500ml bottle and is 4.7% ABV.








Last to make our scary list is Wychcraft Blond Beer.

Traditionally craft brewed using an innovative blend of 3 hops and 3 malts, Wychcraft delivered a pale straw coloured, crisp,dry, ‘blond beer’ to savour.  A seductive blend of Pale, Lager and Cara Malts give a light and gentle base of delicious dry, biscuit flavours while the addition of English Fuggles, Styrian Goldings and Cascade Hops create a wonderful aromatic and fragrant, zesty character for a highly refreshing beer. It comes in a 500ml bottle and is 4.5% ABV.


As they say down the brewery - What’s the matter Lagerboys….. afraid you might taste something ???

Sierra Nevada Beers from California

We've some new additions to our Beers of the World range from the United States. From Sierra Nevada in Chico, California we now have the Pale Ale, Torpedo, Kellerweis, Stout, Porter, Bigfoot, Summerfest and the brilliantly named Southern Hemisphere Reserve in a 75cl bottle. They start from €2.50 a bottle and really are delicious beers.  

The positive reviews keep coming!

More Great Wine Reviews

Our new range of wines, EXCLUSIVE to Molloys, have been getting more reviews, see these two online mentions here  and here.

One of our organic wines, Clearly Organic Rose, got 2 reviews in the Mail on Sunday and the Sunday Business Post in the one week, so we're chuffed with that.

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Dungarvan Brewing Company

We've recently listed the 3 beers produced by Dungarvan Brewing Co and they've been selling well.  The three beers are all in 500ml bottles and sell for €3.29 each. Here's more info on them - 

Black Rock Irish Stout

A good, old-fashioned bottle of stout. Robust, full-bodied with roasted barley flavours that give a slight coffee taste that is nicely complemented by notes of vanilla and aniseed.  Has been described as “how stout used to taste”! This stout can be enjoyed with robust meat dishes or on its own ‘from the shelf’.  Can even work as a “dessert beer”.

Copper Coast Red Ale
This is a smooth, fruity ale with a small amount of hop bitterness but more of a caramel taste  that makes it a lot easier to drink than the blonde ale. A lot of lager drinkers have said how they didn't *think* they were ale fans, but liked this one. Perfect accompaniment to any roasted meats as the caramel character of both complement each other nicely. 

Helvick Gold Blonde Ale

A refreshing, citrusy blonde ale but with a stronger bitter hop flavour.  More of a challenging drink than the others, appeals to people who are ‘into their beers’, but for someone not as used to trying other beers the red may be a better choice.  A good ‘sunny day’ drink. Works very well with spicy food .

New Wines getting rave reviews

We've just launched a range of wines exclusive to Molloys (click here to see the full range).

Our Caude Val Sauvignon Blanc and Merlot have been reviews in the Evening Herald and Mail on Sunday.

    

While our Chateau Boucaret Cote du Rhone got reveiwed on the wine blog sourgrapes.ie

Festival Fever

Oxegen is nearly upon us.  All festival goers are looking for the best value in beer and spirits so here's what we have to offer

Heineken 50cl Can - 24 cans for €24         Capt Morgan 70cl - €19.99
Bud 50cl Can - 8 cans for €12                   Smirnoff Ltr - €23.99
Bulmers Ltr Btl - 3 for €10                         Bacardi 70cl - €15.50
Kopparberg 4pk 50cl Can - €7.99            Gordons Gin 70cl - €18.39