The Shannon Brewing Company’s
local representative, Sam McClelland, was at the Guadalupe store of Wheatsville
Co-op here in Austin last Friday.
I met him as I stopped in to get food for the long drive home down Lamar
Avenue. (I had other shopping to do that took me off route. And Austin City
Limits Live was enjoying their second weekend this year; so, traffic was worse
than usual.) A couple of sips of good beer helped, also.
I tasted their Irish Red and
Honey Porter. The Red was
flavorful, not hoppy, with a light grainy aftertaste. The Honey Porter was surprisingly light
and also not cloying the way other honey brews can be.
On their website, they say:
Lets face it, beer is mostly water so brewing with the
purest, best-tasting water we can find is a pretty good starting point. Shannon
Brewing Company shares 20 acres of land with Samantha Springs, a natural source of
exceptional drinking water. We secured the rights to brew our beer with pure
Samantha Springs water — straight from the spring, through our filtering
system, right into our brewing tanks — no chlorine, fluoride or any other
treatments…just pure spring water.
At Shannon Brewing, we prefer two-row barley — the plumper,
sweeter and usually more expensive version, which brings a full-bodied
sweetness to the beer. It also provides a larger and stronger husk that is
imperative to our natural filtration methodology. We will never compromise
great flavor to save a few dollars. --http://shannonbrewing.com/ingredients/
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