Ireland are the grand slam six nations champions as well and Tripple crown winners

I'm very proud to be Irish today, what a game. Ireland clearly deserved to win. We had the possession, we were the better team. Wales had a fantastic defence in fairness but we got there in the end. The last 10 minutes were nail biting, Wales managed to get the drop goal I had been fearing putting them just in the lead.

We responded with a drop goal of our own from Ronan O' Gara. Then in the last few moments, we gave away a penalty and thankfully Stephen Jones was just short. Fantastic stuff.

Im celebrating with a beer I got in an off-license in Enfield. La Trappe Quadrupel is a Trappist beer from the Netherlands. It comes in a corked 750ml bottle and at 10% it is pretty strong but not a barley wine by any measure.

I am not one for sweet beers and at first I was unsure but I have decided I like this a lot. Off the nose I am reminded of a Heffe-Weissen and that surprised me as I should not have been. Do I detect some Banana?
It has some nice carbonation and a very sweet but not overly sweet background and then leaves you with a nice 10% buzz you get from a good wine. Some slight spice notes in the background also.
All in all, this seems to have got the right combination of everything right for my tastes. I would rather have a hoppy IPA but this works well.
I had two other beers in between some Brooklyn lager that I will mention tomorrow. Neither were what I hoped for and one I poured down the sink.