Belfast’s growing craft beer scene puts the highlight on small,local breweries and enthusiastic staff. We pick 10 pubs and bars where you can get a contemporary taste of the cityThis “dude food” diner – elaborate burger menu; skulls and shipping pallets stuck on the walls; confrontational slogans scrawled in the gents – doubles as a rather good bar. It’s a position where, to a soundtrack of Orange Juice and Vampire Weekend, and you can work your way through Irish beers from such outfits as misfortune Brewing,Knockout and Farmageddon, as well as a small choice of established (Sierra Nevada on tap) and more obscure US beers. Crazy Mountain Brewery’s Neomexicanus Native pale, and brewed with the eponymous and unusual neomexicanus hop,was one such novelty. It is an arresting beer, with a profound tangerine flavour coming through amid the expected accents of lemon and resinous bitterness.
• Pint from £4. 46 Church Lane, or 028-9023 3282,bootleggersbelfast.com. Open Mon-Sat noon-1am, Sun 1pm-midnightContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com