Inaugural Beoir Chamption Cider of Ireland Competition
I blogged about this back in February, but what I didn't mention is that Steve Lamond, Beoir's Cider Officer and author of Beers I've Known, had invited me to judge at it.So Friday evening last (21st...
View ArticleA Day Out in Leitrim!
Carrig Brewing Co (the only brewery in my home county of Leitrim) purchased the Wolf Trap in Tullamore late last year and are redeveloping and re-opening it as Tanyard Lane next month (March). To mark...
View ArticleCompeititon Time
I want to give Steve Lamond (BeersIveKnown) a bit of a leg up on this. Steve is Beoir's Cider Officer. It's a tough job but fair balls to him, he's gone and organised their first Cider Competition,...
View ArticleThe Best Irish Sour Beers of 2016
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View ArticleGolden Pint Awards 2016
Best Irish Keg Beer: White Hag's Little Fawn. A simple beer, which when fresh on tap is fantastic. Runner up goes to McGargle's Big Bangin' Francis. Worst beer name ever, and a beer I didn't like much...
View ArticleAll Irish Sour Beers Ranked - December 2016
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View ArticleInternational Stout Day 2016 - Brewing Murphy's XXX from 1916 - Part 1
A History LessonEarlier this year myself, Mark Nixon and Alain Dekoster visited the UCC Library to have a look through the Murphy's Brewery archives. As 2016 is the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising,...
View ArticleUS beer odyssey part 2 - Reno
Matt behind the bar at Imbib, foeder, and great beerWith sadness I left Utah early on a Monday morning, the 16th of August, sad because I was leaving Salt Lake City, which had been so wonderful to us...
View ArticleLiked Castaway? Good news! Read on
Castaway, the beer that was prototyped in my kitchen and subsequently brewed by myself and Mark Nixon with Delcan down in Yellowbelly, went down so well that we (well, Mark) decided we make it a...
View ArticleCrackaway: Going native in Wexford
Who knew Stone IPA tasted so good on the moveSome of you will know that I've relocated to Salt Lake City, Utah, for the summer. I had the pleasure of writing this piece on the train from Chicago to...
View ArticleLambic 2.0.1
Over the last while I've been brushing up on brewing lambics at home primarily as we'll soon be emptying our lambic barrel (currently resident in my garden shed) but also because I want to get a few...
View ArticleWhat do The Púca and Chloe Dancer have in common?
March 5th 2016 was Boundary Brewing's first birthday party. For any serious Irish beer lover there was only one place to be: Brewbot in Belfast. The best of the best was on show: a tap take-over...
View ArticleBrewing Row 2, Hill 56
SessionableSimcoe. A cat pissy, dank, hipster hop that is on nearly every page of BrewDog's DIY Dog. It's impossible to get off contract and even if you do have a contract it may not be entirely...
View ArticleExperimental Grapefruit Pale Ale
My glass of Elvis Juice atBrewdog BirminghamEver since I first achieved good results brewing with fruit I've been determined to brew with more fruit, fruit juices, purees, concentrates etc. And ever...
View ArticleBeer Ireland Micro Brewed Logo
The Beer Ireland – Micro Brewed logo is an initiative of Beer Ireland Artisan Brewers' Association. The logo was developed to identify and promote beer brewed by independently owned Irish...
View ArticleReview: Novax 20 B Brew Pump by Rover Pompe
Summer 2015 I started looking in earnest for a pump to replace my "solar projects" P.0.S that I blindly bought on someone else's (bad) advice. That pump has never been much use as show it a speck of...
View ArticleLambic: Brewing Up A Barrel - Part 1
One of the benefits of being involved with like minded people in the locality is that a project which is out of reach for one person is not necessarily out of reach for a group. In fact it might be...
View ArticleChloe Dancer @ Boundary Tap Takeover BrewBot March 5th
Boundary Brewing Co-op turns one this year and to celebrate the taps at BrewBot Belfast are being taken over for the evening by Boundary and friends, starting March 5th at 6pm, and I'm super excited...
View ArticleFlanders Red with Blackman F4 Yeast
Barrett Tillman is an award winning US homebrewer who took the unusual steps of finding someone to dry his yeast, lacto and pedio mixes and then release them commercially as dried sour mixes. I ordered...
View ArticleQuare Black IPA
Pac Man meets Wrasslers..Dave, from the Wexford Mountains, as previously mentioned managed to score himself a bottle of Black's Black IPA from his local SuperValu and was impressed enough to ask me to...
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