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Brew 181: Raspberry Turbo...
Preface: Most of his post was written long before SOURFEST took place. To my delight this beer took first place in the home brew category in Ireland and overall...aka Imperial Berliner with...
View ArticleBoundary Set to Enter Second Round of Funding
Matthew Dick, founder, part-owner and head honcho at Boundary Brewing Co-op is quite a remarkable chap. Anyone who knows Matthew will know that he has a great knowledge and appreciation of beer, an...
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Brewing Irish Sour Beers in Belfast
On November 17th I packed up the car and headed to Belfast on an invitation from Matthew in Boundary to brew a couple of my own recipes in collab. You may have seen the pictures on Twitter, now here's...
View ArticleGolden Pint Awards 2015
Better late than never, my take on these popular awards.Best Irish Keg Beer: Tough one as it's such a moving target. Some stalwarts have dropped in quality, and at the same time there are some great...
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Quare 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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Flanders 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...
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Chloe 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...
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Lambic: 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...
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Review: 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...
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Beer 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...
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Experimental 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...
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Brewing 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...
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What 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...
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Lambic 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...
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Crackaway: 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...
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Liked 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...
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US 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...
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International 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 ArticleAll Irish Sour Beers Ranked - December 2016
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Golden 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...
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