Shepherd’s Warning
Whiplash Brewing
- From:
- Whiplash Brewing
- Ireland
- Style:
- Oatmeal Stout
- ABV:
- 7.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.98 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 26, 2026
- Added:
- Mar 26, 2026
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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A collab born from bleary-eyed mornings and the kind of coffee that snaps the world into focus. Brewed alongside our pals at Dublin’s own 3FE, this is our ode to the brewers of the early hours: a viscous, indulgent breakfast stout stacked to the rafters with creamy, silky oats and built for slow sips.
Smooth. Vicious. Hug-in-a-mug indulgent.
Malt: Smoked Beech Malt, Chocolate Malt, Maris Otter, Golden Promise, Flaked Oats, Crystal, Carafa Special II
Hops & Coffee: Magnum, Centennial, Yellow Caturra (Coffee)
EBC: 9
IBU: 17
ABV: 7.5%
Smooth. Vicious. Hug-in-a-mug indulgent.
Malt: Smoked Beech Malt, Chocolate Malt, Maris Otter, Golden Promise, Flaked Oats, Crystal, Carafa Special II
Hops & Coffee: Magnum, Centennial, Yellow Caturra (Coffee)
EBC: 9
IBU: 17
ABV: 7.5%
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by StJamesGate from New York
3.98/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
3.98/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
Jet black with pocked taupe foam that rims; cold strong coffee with fig, bark, and sarsparilla root; salted licorice, treacle, espresso, hints of black currant, ash; smooth, medium, drying.
4 4 4 4.25 3.75
Smells of straight coffee from the jump; only as it opens do the layers come out.
Same can’t quite be said of the palate, which presents a monochrome curtain of the dark flavours + never wavers. Bitterness is at FES levels, oats smooth it out to a satiny texture, and it hides its heat well. But there needs to be more than a punch of dark roast happening, and there kinda isn’t.
I’ve given Whiplash some stick in these reviews over the past two years as I’ve seen quality become inconsistent. However, Whiplash remain giants on the local craft scene who grew the sense of what a brewery could be in Ireland, as well as one of the best IPA makers in Europe. That is a testament to founder + head brewer Alex Lawes, who we lost yesterday.
Godspeed, friend; you made us proud.
Whiplash are better than most on a bad day.
Mar 26, 20264 4 4 4.25 3.75
Smells of straight coffee from the jump; only as it opens do the layers come out.
Same can’t quite be said of the palate, which presents a monochrome curtain of the dark flavours + never wavers. Bitterness is at FES levels, oats smooth it out to a satiny texture, and it hides its heat well. But there needs to be more than a punch of dark roast happening, and there kinda isn’t.
I’ve given Whiplash some stick in these reviews over the past two years as I’ve seen quality become inconsistent. However, Whiplash remain giants on the local craft scene who grew the sense of what a brewery could be in Ireland, as well as one of the best IPA makers in Europe. That is a testament to founder + head brewer Alex Lawes, who we lost yesterday.
Godspeed, friend; you made us proud.
Whiplash are better than most on a bad day.
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