Come and meet the Irish Craft Brewer team, this Saturday, for one day only, at The Franciscan Well in Cork. All your homebrew questions answered, free tastings, and equipment and ingredients for sale, courtesy of The Homebrew Company. Whether you’re interested in starting your own home brewery, or want to improve on past results, this […]
The results of the third annual Irish Craft Brewer Awards were announced at the 2009 Franciscan Well Easter Beer Festival on Saturday 11th April. In a radical change from procedures in 2007 and 2008, voting was opened to all members and every one of the ninety or so beers brewed and sold on the island […]
The polls have now closed! Thanks to everyone who voted, and stand by for the results! The third annual Irish Craft Brewer Beer of the Year awards will be announced in April. In 2009, for the first time, we are opening the selection process to all members of ICB and every beer brewed and available […]
The world is a very small and lonely place when there’s just you, the pub table, five small glasses of beer and a blank piece of paper. Those flavour characteristics you were sure would stand out a mile in each beer have inexplicably fled, and your confidence and bravado have gone with them. You’ve had […]
Craft brewing was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of company assets showed industrial machinery and chemical apparatus far beyond what any craft brewery would reasonably possess. Groogan compiled it and Groogan’s name was known and respected wherever large scale brewers met and discussed their trade. Groogan knew […]
Having read a couple of nightmare accounts of the Great British Beer Festival I hadn’t been planning on going any time soon. CAMRA’s headline event is held in the vast Earl’s Court exhibition hall and the sessions closer to the weekend are famous for being packed full of sweaty-beardy-farty Real Ale aficionados mixed with loud […]
Thursday 10th July saw the third Irish Craft Brewer homebrew tasting event in the Bull & Castle Beerhall, Dublin. A record number of brewers — almost twenty — brought a variety of beers (and two ciders) to the party, which called for a more free-form format than previous tastings. With the admission that not everyone […]
I would imagine there are very few craft beer enthusiasts in Ireland who haven’t heard of The Porterhouse. Not only did the Dublin microbrewery start a revolution in Irish beer, but it hasn’t been slow to build upon its success. As well as owning five pubs in two countries, its beers are a regular fixture […]
For the second year, members of Irish Craft Brewer attending the Easter Beer Festival at The Franciscan Well in Cork selected their favourites from among the Irish craft beers exhibited. (Results for 2007 are here.) The contenders included cask beers from Carlow, Franciscan Well, Hilden, Hooker and White Gypsy (Messrs Maguire). All brought keg beers […]
The imminent departure of Site Admin Adeptus (Barry M) for Germany prompted the Bull & Castle management to suggest a tasting night / going-away party in the Beerhall. And so it was on 7th February that about twenty brewers and drinkers gathered to share some homebrew and assorted commercial beers of interest. The house laid […]
