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Autumn at The Bull and Castle

The Bull & Castle in Dublin is running a two-month long autumn festival for all of September and October. A range of special and seasonal beers will be available on rotation during the event including, appropriately enough, Eight Degrees Ochtoberfest Bock, one of the stars of the 2015 Irish Craft Beer Festival at the RDS. There will also be a new beer from local outfit Five Lamps, a Dark IPA of 6.9% ABV.

And there'll be a selection of infused spirits, cocktails and something called an Orange & Nutmeg Bourbon Hot Chocolate. BUT the real action is at the handpump. On the cask roster is:

  • Rascal's Wunderbar German IPA (6% ABV)
  • Rascal's Big Hop Red (5% ABV)
  • Dungarvan Seaweed Saison (6.5% ABV)

The latter of these, a collaboration brew with Norwegian craft beer pioneers Nøgne Ø, went down a storm at the RDS and has been in very short supply around the country. A cask in Dublin is a coup; €4.50 a pint makes it unmissable.

All beers are available for a limited time while stocks last. Click here to see the full festival menu and keep an eye on the Bull & Castle's Twitter and Facebook for updates on what's on when.

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Irish Craft Beer Festival 2015
The Irish Craft Beer Festival 2015 is almost here. For three days, dozens of breweries and hundreds of beers will be taking over the RDS in Dublin, alongside whiskey, cider, food, music and debate. It's the perfect opportunity to explore Irish craft beer under one roof, and try beers from breweries you've never met before.

But there's also the chance to taste one-off and rare beers not usually available at all. We've decided to compile this list of the specials we know about to whet your appetite ahead of the festival. It's not complete, it may not even be accurate, but it should get your mouth watering.

Don't forget to bring your Beoir membership card for half price admission at the door!

Blacks of Kinsale
Sour Brown Ale
Jester Brown

Dungarvan
Imperial Red Ale: 7.3%
Porter: 5.1%
Strong Ale: 10.4%
October Ale: 7%
Copper Coast aged in Sherry barrels: 4.3%
Raspberry Black Rock: 4.3%
IPA: 7.2%

Eight Degrees
Ochtoberfest Boch: 6.4%
Millennium Imperial IPA: 10%

Kinnegar
Hilly Head Farmhouse Red Ale
Crossroads: American Style IPA, 6.2%
Geuzberry: Gooseberry kettle sour, 5.2%

Mountain Man
Hillbilly Heaven: American bourbon oak aged ale
Hairy Nuts: IPA with pecan nuts
Broken Hipster: Ginger beer
No Country for Owl Men: Irish whiskey oak aged Ale
Beard of Zeus: Raspberry Ale
Bruce's Bluenoser: 4% blueberry ale
Year of the Goat: 4.5% coriander & anise ale
Vincent Van Coff: 4.6% coffee & vanilla ale

Northbound
No-Name IPA
33: Sticke Altbier

O Brother
IPA
Brutus Double IPA

O'Hara's
Rhubarb and Strawberry Wheat Beer
Hop Heavy IPA

Radikale
Curious Brew: Brewed with gin botanicals

Rascal's
Chardonnay Aged Saison
Big Hop Red infused with 250 Square Coffee
Sim Simma: Hemp ale

Rye River
Triple Decoction Doppelbock
Baltic Porter
Rye River Saison
Smoked Belgian Dunkelweizen
Double Decoction Marzen
Vienna Lager
Oak Aged Keeping Red
Hipster Hopped - TNT
Hipster Hopped - Azacca
Hipster Hopped - Experimental Grapefruit
Watermelon Wheat Ale
Sexy Lacto Flanders
Sticker Junkie: IIPA
Belgian Single w/ Nelson Sauvin
Farami: coffee stout
Lemondrop Berliner

Simon Lambert
Lapsang Souchong Porter 5.4%
Smoked Pale Stout 7.5%
Sweet Stout 4.8%
Lager 4.1%
Pale Ale #1 4.8%
Pale Ale #2 6.1%
Stone Belly IPA 6% (Yellowbelly Stone Barrel Collab)
 
West Kerry
Bitter Sable: Black APA
Blue Rose: Cascade hopped pale ale
Black Elder: Dry hopped black ale

White Gypsy
Cream Ale
Helles

Wicklow Wolf
Simcoe IPA
Elevation Pale Ale
FreeRanger IPA
Belgian Brown

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Beoir launches a new awards programme at the Killarney Beerfest this June!

 
Are you a commercially viable brewer on the island of Ireland?
Then give your beer the praise it deserves with an award from Beoir.
 
 
The Awards are part of the Killarney Beerfest which take place over three days, June 5th - 7th in Killarney.
There will be also be, beer master-classes, beer tastings, a food village & live music with Picture House, The Swing Cats and Jerry Fish.
 
 
We are flying in a number of experienced international judges as well as utilising our own experienced judges in Ireland.
 
Competition categories include:
  • Pale Ale
  • Belgian Style Ale
  • Dark Ale
  • Lagers
  • Porter/Stout
  • Wheat Beer
  • Speciality
  • Sour Beer
 
Entry deadline is the 29th of May. For all Terms & Conditions and the Beoir judging process email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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The 2015 Dublin Craft Beer Cup was awarded to Coisbo Beer of Denmark for the second year in a row, this time for an imperial Russian stout aged in sherry barrels.

It appears the competition might have been fiercer and the judging more stringent this year. In previous years, it seemed that almost everyone got medals. Not this year, those qualifying for at least a bronze medal were few and far between compared to last year. sure, we got more than last year but we have a lot more breweries and they had a lot more beer to enter than last year so to have over 30 Irish winners among so many world class entries is something we can be proud of.

This year, we had two Irish breweries take home a gold medal. Congratulations to Carlow Brewing for their barrel aged Lean Folláin and also to Manor Brewing for their Mont Irish Mountain Lager.

Like last year, I've taken all of the Irish medal winners from the list and I'm listing them off here. A big congratulations to all of the medal winners. I think you can be even more proud when you consider how many beers didn't get medals this year.

We also had Cider added to the competition this year.

Gold
 
  • Carlow Brewing Company - O'Hara's Barrel Aged Leann Folláin
  • Manor Brewing Company- MONT Mountain Lager
 
 
Silver
 
  • 5 Lamps Dublin Brewing - 5 Lamps Lager
  • Kinnegar Brewing - Black Bucket
  • Kinnegar Brewing - Yannaroddy
  • Rascals Brewing Company - Chocolate Ginger Porter
  • Rascals Brewing Company - Wit Woo
  • Blacks Of Kinsale - High Vis
  • Blacks Of Kinsale - Black IPA
  • Hilden Brewery - Hilden Irish Stout
  • Metalman Brewing - Metalman Heatsink
 
Bronze
 
  • 12 Acres Brewing Company - 12 Acres Pale Ale
  • Wicklow Wolf Brewing Company - Black Perle Porter
  • Kinnegar Brewing - Devil's Backbone
  • Eight Degrees Brewing - Hurricane IPA
  • James Brown Brews - Chocolate Orange Stout
  • Dungarvan Brewing Company - Mine Head
  • Dungarvan Brewing Company - Mahon Falls
  • The 5 Lamps Dublin Brewing - Phoenix Dark
  • Carlow Brewing Company - O'Hara's Leann Folláin
  • Blacks Of Kinsale - RocketShip IPA
  • Kelly's Mountain Brew – Revenge
  • Black Donkey Brewing Ltd - Sheep Stealer
  • The Porterhouse Brewing Company – Porterhouse Red Ale
  • The Porterhouse Brewing Company - Wrasslers 4X
 
Cider
 
Silver
 
  • Dan Kelly's Cider - Fiona's Fancy
  • Dan Kelly's Cider - Dan Kelly’s Cider
 
Bronze
 
  • Carlow Brewing Company - Falling Apple
  • MacIvors Cider Co. – MacIvors Medium Cider
  • MacIvors Cider Co. – MacIvors Traditional Dry Cider
  • dj's juice and cider- Tempted? Dry Cider
 
 
 
I hope I didn't miss anyone this time. A full list of winners can be found here on the Alltech site, though even that list is incomplete. It's more complete than yesterday when it only showed 16 Irish winners.