Beoir would like to offer a heartfelt congratulations to Seamus O’Hara on his appointment as the new Chairperson of the Irish Brewers Association (IBA). Seamus set up the Carlow Brewing Company in 1996 which celebrates its 20th birthday this year. To say that Seamus was a pioneer of the craft beer industry in Ireland wouldn’t […]
Here’s the full list of entries and their places. If your beer isn’t listed, it might not have scored high enough for a medal. Scoresheets with feedback will be posted out by the INEC. Brewer Beer Medal Category Place Overall Place O’Brother Brewing Bonita Silver O’Brother Brewing The Dreamer Silver O’Brother […]
This weekend saw the first Killarney Beer Festival take place at the magnificent INEC. Beoir was heavily involved in getting it set up and primarily in running the Killarney Beer Awards as well as educational talks and tasting sessions. For the awards, we invited 6 international judges from around the world to complement our own […]
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 […]
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 […]
Alcohol Licensing Laws Ireland’s licensing laws are archaic and a throwback to British rule. There is a finite number of licences. In order to get a licence for a new pub, one must extinguish an existing licence. As a result of this, pub licences are notoriously expensive to purchase and this is artificially so. It […]
Beer Labelling Regulations Currently, alcohol labels in the European Union must include the following information: – The name under which the product is sold – The net quantity of pre-packaged beverage in metric units – Indication of the acquired alcoholic strength – Date of minimum durability (“best before”) – Instructions of use, where appropriate – […]
That’s right, Beoir now has a YouTube Channel called BeoirTV. Get on over and take a look. If you would like to produce a video for BeoirTV, contact admin@beoir.org for guidelines/logo use.
For a small (but growing) consumer organisation made up of unpaid volunteers, we can count some very talented people among our ranks. A number of well-known writers & journalists, web/app developers, IT people, artists, photographers and now an independent film maker. Beoir member Sean Monaghan (tallstorymedia) is an independent film maker as well as author […]
Beoir Magazine was envisioned as biannual publication aimed at tourists and the general public to inform them of what’s happening in the Irish Craft Beer scene. The 32+ page digest sized magazine had an initial print run of 7000 printed copies and officially launches at the Irish Craft Beer & Cider Festival at the […]
