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…

Revenge is a dish best served at cellar temperature

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…

Put your stout where your mouth is?

Could you name four draught stouts if you were not told what each was? People on the Irish Craft Brewer site were pretty confident. Rossa: myself and a friend did the 3 main stouts before in a hotel bar in cork. easy enough to tell them apart Sbillings:…

ICB Tasting: Dublin, July 2008

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…

ICB Munster Meet-Up: Saturday 16th February 2008

We had an ICB Meet up at the Bierhaus on Saturday afternoon, 16th February. Indications in advance were that we would have a small attendance but we felt that what was lacking in quantity we had in quality!!! The ever-modest people that we…

Auf Wiedersehen, ‘deptus

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…

Munster ICB Members Meet-Up, December 2007

We had our second Meeting of the Munster Members of ICB, on Thursday 6th December, in the Franciscan Well. Those who attended on the night were Rebel (who had done most of the background organising for the evening), oconn, Beeristhereason (making…

ICB Tasting July 2007: A Brewer’s (and Beer Drinker’s) Perspective.

The long awaited, second Irish Craft Brewer tasting session took place on the 19th of July, in the Bull and Castle Beer Hall. With almost 30 people in attendance, I am very glad that it took place in this excellent pub and not in my kitchen,…

ICB Tasting July 2007: A Beer Drinker’s Perspective.

Such was the anticipation felt by many for the second IrishCraftbrewer.com “Meet and Taste” session that many of the attendees turned up before the appointed hour of 7pm. The venue was the Bull and Castle Beer Hall and the area for the event…