The Christmas Countdown Arrives !!!!

Hey Everyone, So tonight's post is going to be an introduction to a New Special Feature on the Genuine Beer Blog. December is now here, which means the cold winter nights are arriving thick and fast, as well as the Christmas Shopping and the major preparations that go into Christmas. The new special feature is called

"THE CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN"

The concept of this special feature is to talk about all things Christmas and the preparations that you will all be putting in place for the festivities to come. This feature will include a whole host of different blog posts ranging from

• The 12 Beers of Christmas
• Christmas Gift Ideas
• Reviews on the best places to go over the Christmas Period

As well as a whole lot more. Now the other main thing that I would like to get out of this new feature is all of my readers input. I want to know all about

• Your Favourite Xmas Beers
• Your Favourite things to do over the Xmas Period
• Your Favourite Places to go
• Your suggestions of places to go and things to do
• Tell us all how your Xmas preparations are going or if there is any advise that you would like
• Your Festive Pictures

It would be so good to try and get all of the readers of the Genuine Beer Blog talking about their individual experiences of Christmas and sharing them with each other. Now this will only work if you all get involved so don't be shy.

For all of your Xmas / Wintry Pictures please send them to

shaneraiseurglass@gmail.com, 

Put your Name and a Description of the picture and I will share them all with the rest of the Readers of this blog. 

For you suggestions you can either leave them in the comments section of the post or fill in the beer suggestion form that can be found here.

I hope your all as excited for Christmas as I am and want to share that with us all, I look forward to hearing from you all

Shane

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Rebel Red

Hey Guys and Girls, hope your all doing well and enjoying the blog. Today I have gone for an Irish Brewery. Hope you all enjoy :) !!!

Beer Name:
Rebel Red

Brewery:

Franciscan Well Brewery

Brewed and Bottled:
Franciscan Well Brewery
Cork City,
Cork,
Ireland

Alcoholic Percentage:

4.3% Vol

Measure:

500ml

Taste:

Slight Bitter, Slight Hops, Smooth, Refreshing, Crisp

Colour:

Red Hint, Light Brown

Odour:

Slight Malt, Slight Hops

General Thoughts:

Rebel Red is a nice crisp beer, smooth in texture. This beer starts of with a slight sweetness and then goes into a little bitterness, characteristically of the hops in the beer. This is also a nice refreshing beer. Rebel Red is a mellow tasting beer, with subtle flavours, rather than a full flavoured beer that really packs a punch. The overall flavour of this beer is great but not as full flavoured as other Red beers that I have tried in the past. I am as I have said before, someone that looks for a beer with rich, deep, full flavours that make you want to dive back into them, unfortunately this doesn't do that for me. However I do want to make it clear this is a nice beer, its not a bad beer at all, in fact it would be perfect for someone that isn't a huge fan of Hops. On the whole I think that Rebel Red is a nice, mellow, subtle flavoured beer, that you will find refreshing and crisp.  

Price:

€3 - €4 (Average Price, Probus Wines & Spirits 23/11/12)

Shane

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Mac's Hop Rocker Pilsener

Hey Everyone, hope your all enjoying the latest reviews that have been on offer, a varied selection. Also please don't forget to check out this weeks Friday Favourite here. Well on to today's review, hope you all enjoy :)

Beer Name:
Mac's Hop Rocker Pilsener

Brewery:

Mac's

Brewed and Bottled:
111 Carlton Gore Road
Newmarket,
Auckland,
New Zealand

Alcoholic Percentage:

5.0% Vol

Measure:

330ml

Taste:

Hops, Clean, Refreshing, Slight Citrus, Smooth, Slight Bitter After Taste

Colour:

Pale Orange / Yellow

Odour:

Slight Hops

General Thoughts:

Mac's Hop Rocker Pilsener is a very nice, refreshing beer, really pleasing taste. The first thing you get is this slight citrus notes from the hops that are used in this beer giving it its classic Pilsener taste. This is also a very smooth beer, not overly carbonated, but the most memorable thing about this beer is just how refreshing it is. It leaves you mouth with a feeling of all around refreshment which is a great characteristic in a beer. This is a really enjoyable, mellow beer that you would love to have sat there in the sun, sipping away. You would also have no problem going back for one after the next. I was hoping for this beer to pack a little more punch in terms of Hops. I do prefer a Pilsener to have that light, mellow feel but also to pack a punch with deep hops bitterness and flavour. On that note this beer is a little disappointing, however on the whole I was very happy to sit and drink this beer and would recommend this as a good starting point for someone that isn't used to the big powerful hoppy beers. All in all a great, light, mellow refreshing beer. 

Price:

€3.50 (Probus Wines & Spirits 23/11/12)

Shane

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It's Arriving........ Friday Favourites !!!!

Hey everyone so today's post is about a new weekly feature that will be coming to the Genuine Beer Blog, The Friday Favourites. 

This is a new weekly feature that will be running on the blog that will highlight the best aspects of certain areas each week. There will be a variety of different features each week including,

• Beer of the Week
• My blog choice of the week
• Readers Blog of the week

As well as others. This is my way of getting all of my readers of the Genuine Beer Blog involved in the blog and helping to highlight other great blogs that are out there and also other great beers that are available to us all.

So to kick off the Friday Favourites this week I will be looking at my beer of the week. This will give all the details of the beer, as well as the reasons I have picked it as my beer of the week and some other general information on the beer itself.

I would then like to look at doing Readers Blog of the Week, now in order for me to do this I need all of your Blog suggestions and reasons for the nominations. Once I have a fair few I will go through them all and pick one that stands out for me and will do a feature on that blog. I feel this would be a good opportunity to give your favourite blog some publicity. A Nomination Sheet follows below.

There are also a couple of other new aspects of the Genuine Beer Blog that I thought I would inform you all of. There is now a feedback button on the navi bar above. This will take you to a page that will allow you to do two things:

• Beer Suggestions
• General Feedback on the Genuine Beer Blog

From here you can suggest beers that you would like to suggest for review, or just to suggest your favourite beers that you think everyone should know about. This would be a huge help to me if you all get involved and suggest some great beers.

The second part is an opportunity to give general feedback on the Genuine Beer Blog itself. This would be really helpful for me to see areas that I can improve on or nice to hear things were doing right.

Finally I have recently written an article for The Drinks Business website, this is a great resource for all the latest news in relation to the drinks business, very good website. Here is a link to the article that I wrote. There will be more to follow.

OK so below is the nomination form as mentioned above. Thank you all for your support, its greatly appreciated : )

Shane

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