From Wednesday 13th March right through the St. Patrick’s Day holiday weekend there’ll be an opportunity to sample a wide range of Irish craft beers at the Craft Beer Village on George’s Dock in Dublin’s IFSC. It will be open daily from 12 noon, closing at 10pm on Wednesday and Thursday, 12.30am Friday to Sunday, […]
The recent surge in craft brewing and specialist pubs in London means that the Borough of Southwark is perhaps not the standalone beer mecca it once was. That said, it remains home to such luminaries as The Rake, Brew Wharf, The Market Porter and The Dean Swift, as well as more understated beery excellence down […]
Now that the days are beginning to get longer it’s time to look forward to some of the beer festivals coming your way over the next few months. Cask and Winter Ales Festival, Cork, 15-17 February At the opening event of the 2013 Irish beer calendar, The Franciscan Well will be hosting a celebration of […]
Kildare-based microbrewery Trouble Brewing have just launched the third beer in their regular line-up: Sabotage IPA. This is a 5.5% ABV India Pale Ale which makes extensive use of Galaxy hops, a variety prized for its tropical fruit flavours. Trouble was founded in 2009, originally in Allenwood, Co. Kildare. 2013 will see the brewery move […]
The past 12 months has been a bumper year for Irish beer. Once again, Beoir wishes to take stock of the many wonderful brews available and we need your help picking the best of the bunch. Voting is now open for the 2013 Beer of Year: the only beer competition in which every beer brewed […]
With the festive season upon us, several Irish microbreweries have released winter beers for the dark evenings. For the second year in a row, Eight Degrees has a dark spiced beer called A Winter’s Ale. This is 7.5% ABV and available bottled and on draught. The spices are a special blend provided by the Green […]
Ahead of Budget 2013, Beoir has made a submission to the Department of Finance requesting a re-think on the minimum pricing issue. As an organisation, Beoir stands behind any genuine effort to tackle problem-drinking in Ireland. However, Beoir does not back the current proposal to introduce minimum pricing as it has already been historically proven […]
The team behind award-winning Dublin pubs L. Mulligan. Grocer and W.J. Kavanagh’s have recently created their own beer brand. Titled The Brown Paper Bag Project, the emphasis will be on innovation and experimentation, covering a wide range of beer styles, methods and ingredients and brewed at a variety of different breweries. The first in the […]
The 13th Belfast Beer and Cider Festival, organised by the Northern Ireland branch of the Campaign for Real Ale, opens at the Ulster Hall on Thursday 22nd November and runs through to Saturday 24th. Over 100 beers and ciders from all around Britain and Ireland will feature during the three days, representing styles as diverse […]
Beoir has become the newest member of the European Beer Consumers Union, Europe’s umbrella group for organisations which promote beer culture and drinkers’ rights. The unanimous decision was made by the delegates of the EBCU’s existing member organisations at their most recent biannual meeting in Copenhagen on November 3rd 2012. The EBCU was founded in […]
