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Dean Carroll: Three caffeine-influenced beers to try this month

This month, coffee tasting influences Dean Carroll’s beer recommendations

“It put me in mind of beer and how each individual mug of this coffee was like a whole beer style in itself,” says Dean Carroll in this month’s beer column. Picture: Getty

I was recently taken to a very nerdy coffee tasting experience at a café in Inchicore where I was served one coffee across three different mugs, each of which had a different mineral makeup. What resulted was the same brew tasting like it had been split into three different versions of itself.

It put me in mind of beer and how each individual mug of this coffee was like a whole beer style in itself. ...