Reports and articles about Beoir members meet-ups, tastings and other events.

Help Us Find Europe’s Best Airports & Railway Stations for Beer!

Are you a beer-loving traveler? Have you ever been pleasantly surprised by a great beer selection while waiting for a flight or train? At EBCU (European Beer Consumers Union), we want to find out which European airports and railway stations…

Two Saturdays

The traditionally quiet New Year period was not so for the beer fanatics of Beoir. Circumstances led to two brewery visits being arranged for consecutive Saturdays in January, making for early starts, long days and in one case, actual hard…

Beoir Brewday at Black’s of Kinsale

As a reward in a successful Indiegogo campaign 12 homebrewers from Beoir paid a visit to Black's of Kinsale craft brewery in Co. Cork, Ireland on 8th March 2014, to take part in a brew day. The beer, a double IPA will be where ever great beers…

Short hops: drinking by DART

It seems that every few months there's news of a new Dublin pub stocking Irish craft beer, either as a specialist or alongside the mainstream offerings. Trying to keep up with them all, especially the suburban outliers, is an impossible task.…

Is Irish Pale Ale a new style?

Is there a new beer in town? A purely Irish drink from the Irish craft breweries that we can claim as our own? The BeerNut first described Galway Hooker with "The makers claim 'Irish Pale Ale' is a new genre, which I was a bit sceptical about…

Kit vs. Extract vs. All-Grain III: Battle of the Blondes

After the inconclusive previous rounds of testing for Kit v Extract v All-Grain (round 1; round 2), it was decided to have a third round, for the purpose of answering such crucially important questions as: 1) Can you tell the difference between…

The Irish Red Paradox

It's a style that is quintessentially ours, yet is recently evolved from a foreign progenitor. It has been a mainstay of dumbed-down Irish macrobeer for decades, yet has seen a revival at the hands of newer craft breweries. Just what is the…

Kit vs. Extract vs. All-Grain II: The Stoutening

All did not go according to plan. The post-mortem of the first Kit/Extract/All-Grain blind comparison decided that the brewer's proficiency with the various methods was affecting the outcome. It was therefore decided that for round 2 there…

Kit vs. Extract vs. All-grain Brewing

Experiment: To compare the flavour profiles generated from different brewing methodsThe premise for this experiment is to investigate the link between how beers rate in flavour when produced in three different methodsa) Kit beer, where hopped…

Lager in the Park

TheBeerNut scuttles past me whispering 'cops' and I'm 16 again, hanging round with my mates in a world where having a beer is an adventure. I was just about to open the first bottle for an al fresco taste test when the guy who minds the park…

The Oslo ICB Tour – Galway, Feb. 2010

Flushed with success from our first meeting in Connaught we spent some time talking to the nice people in The Oslo about a tour of the brewing operation and a chance to meet the brewer. It wasn’t long before they put us in contact with John…