The October Bank Holiday week-end has traditionally been known as the Jazz Weekend in Cork (are you goin’ jazzin’ boy?), but over the past few years I have also visited the Franciscan well this weekend. This year the Oktoberfest was my main focus and I must say I had a most enjoyable time. Being a […]
I started kits and malt extract in 1983 to save money for a mortgage. Once I got the house I tried all grain brewing in an effort to avoid that extract taste you used to always get. It appealed to my technical bent as my background is electronics and my work is mainly about temperature control […]
What can you say about a city in which the best lagers in the world are available on every street corner at a quarter of the cost of pub prices in Dublin? It’s a beer lover’s fantasy and I found it hard to believe I was really there, and this was before I discovered the […]
So how did it all start? Well, with those first few drinks, back in the 70s, growing up in Sussex, roughly 50 miles south of London. At somewhere about 17 years of age, my mates and I, like most teenagers, were mad to get into the pub. One of the few that would serve […]
Such was the anticipation felt by many for the second IrishCraftbrewer.com “Meet and Taste” session that many of the attendees turned up before the appointed hour of 7pm. The venue was the Bull and Castle Beer Hall and the area for the event had been well prepared with a large table reserved. There was another […]
Galway Hooker is one of Ireland’s newest craft beers, having only been on the market since the summer of 2006. It’s a style that hasn’t really featured on draught in Ireland before, a flavour packed hoppy pale ale. I recently visited Hooker brewery and had a chat with brewer Aidan Murphy.
Keep an eye out for the latest issue of Business & Finance magazine which will feature the Irish Craft Brewing industry. The issue hits the shelves on April 20th and will also be on their website www.businessandfinance.ie More details to follow…
The Franciscan Well’s Easter beer festival has proved, by all accounts, to be a very popular beer festival, gathering most of the craft brewers of Ireland under the one roof (or marquee). This was to be my first visit to the festival, and I was advised to arrive early. So shortly after lunch time on […]
Salzburg, the home of Mozart, and a UNESCO Cultural Heritage site, might seem like an unlikely place for a beer weekend, but is a beautiful city of manageable size. There is plenty to see; beautiful architecture, things Mozart-related, “Sound of Music” locations, the castle (Hohensalzburg), all-in-all it’s just a pretty place, divided by the river […]
This article was written by American Beer Writer George Lenker aka Beernut and originally appeared in ‘The Republican’ newspaper, Massachusetts. Keep an eye out for Business & Finance Magazine which will shortly feature his article on Irish Craft Brewing. You can view other articles by George at www.thebeernut.net [site now defunct – Ed, Feb. ’08].
