Entries by Saruman

Ireland Gets 18 Medals At The Dublin Beer Cup – 2014

Beating off tough competition from nearly 300 entries, we had 18 Irish medal winners out of the 125 medal winning beers at the second Alltech Dublin Craft Beer Cup. In fact, three of the twelve gold medals went to Irish breweries. While the cup itself went to a worthy Danish winner, we can be proud […]

Happy New Year – €5 Membership Now Available

We had a brilliant 2013 at Beoir. We exceeded last year’s total membership after only 6 months and we still have 6 months to go. Beoir membership runs from the 1st of July for one year. From January, membership drops to €5 to account for the shorter membership term and you can join here. You […]

The Good Craft Brewery Guide

A special for Christmas, The Good Craft Brewery Guide is a concise summary of Ireland’s emerging small scale brewing industry, it outlines the stories behind Ireland’s emerging craft brewers and details the styles and flavour characteristics of their beers. Tim O’Rourke, the author of the book has reduced the price of the book for Christmas. […]

Beoir Membership Benefits

By joining Beoir, you help us to raise awareness of Irish Craft Beer and we give you back far more than your joining fee in benefits. You can read more about joining Beoir here. Join Now  

It’s December

Christmas is coming and more importantly; not one but two Beoir Christmas parties. The main one is on the 13th of December at the Black Sheep on Capel street. Kicking off from 7pm with free finger food and if you are wise enough to be a full Beoir member, a free pint of Galway Bay […]

The BeoirFinder App

BeoirFinder is a free, handy geo-location tool for finding pubs, restaurants and breweries in Ireland that serve Craft Beer. There has been a major boom in Irish Craft Breweries in recent years; This App is vital for anyone who values choice when it comes to beer selection. Beoir is the Gaelic for beer and is […]

Brewing Resources

The best Irish resource for amateur brewing at home. The National Homebrew Club is an overall body that encompasses local homebrew clubs from around the country under one banner. It’s free to join and there is a full member option for €10 per year which entitles you to some impressive discounts, access to private group […]

Europe’s Beer Writers Coming To Ireland

On June the 27th, Dublin will host the 4th European Beer Bloggers Conference. As many of you know, I have attended all three so far and was successful in my attempt to bring it to Ireland to showcase Ireland’s growing beer scene. This will be the first time the conference has left the UK but […]

National Homebrew Festival

This Saturday, our friends at the National Homebrew Club will be hosting what is probably Ireland’s first homebrew beer festival. This is a completely free event both in terms of entry and beer. In fact, it has been worked out that there are roughly 500 pints of homebrew going for free. This isn’t any old […]