Entries by John Coote

As seen on TV

Recently there’s been a lot of new people coming to the website with an interest in home brewing and craft beers. This is great to see and long may it last. Irish Craft Brewer has been going from strength to strength and a few of our members are going to be appearing on the show […]

OghamBrew Brewing Festival Samhain 2008

I would like to thank Séan Billings for affording me the opportunity to write an article for the ICB website on the OghamBrew Festival Samhain 2008. The Festival, which took place in Na Fianna GAA on Mobhi Road, Glasnevin, had 15 teams of homebrewers in attendance, all competing for the, by now, coveted awards of […]

Beer Destination – Wiesbaden

I’ve been in Wiesbaden a number of times over the past several years on short vacations visiting in-laws, so when I was there this August after visiting Adeptus in Münster I decided it was high time I put forward an article for the ICB travel section. Especially since some of you may have heard of […]

Getting Slugs Drunk

One morning I found a pile of slugs having an orgy where my marigolds used to be. I considered humane ways to get rid of them. But then I read this: “A commonly seen practice among many slugs is apophallation. The penis of these species is curled like a cork-screw and often becomes entangled in […]

Beer Destinations – Vienna & Bratislava

I recently went to Vienna and Bratislava spending a few days in each city. Flew from Cork to Bratislava and bussed directly to Vienna. Spent two full days there seeing the sights and sampling what Vienna had to offer, then took a ferry to Bratislava on the Danube (very pleasant 75 minute trip!) and spent […]

California Common Kit

Having been brewing basic kits for a while I had been thinking it was time to move on to dry malt extract. So when Séan kindly offered a dry malt extract kit it seemed like as good a time as ever to start, with a California Common Beer. Compared to most kits we are used […]

Put your stout where your mouth is?

Could you name four draught stouts if you were not told what each was? People on the Irish Craft Brewer site were pretty confident. Rossa: myself and a friend did the 3 main stouts before in a hotel bar in cork. easy enough to tell them apart Sbillings: I would say I could do the […]