Reports and reviews of festivals and events attended by Beoir members.

Cask Ales & Strange Brews 2020

The Franciscan Well Brewpub's annual winter beer festival, Cask Ales & Strange Brews, always features a most interesting selection of one-offs and special editions from Irish breweries. As is traditional at this stage, Beoir was invited…

Beoir Cask Competition 2017

  The 2017 Cask Ale & Experimental Brews festival over the weekend seemed like it had the largest number of cask beers available compared to previous years. In fact, there were only three kegged options on the main bar and about 23 casks…

Irish Craft Beer Festival 2016

  The Irish Craft Beer Festival is back this September and is bigger than ever with over 50 brewers, cideries and distillers. As usual, Beoir members receive a 50% entry discount at the door with a valid, in date membership card. If you…

Beoir Champion Beer of Ireland 2016 – Killarney Beer Awards

    Here are the results of the Killarney Beer Awards for 2016. We had 165 entries which was more than double compared to last year. Judging started on Saturday at 11am and the final round was completed by 7pm. A massive thanks to Kellie…

Autumn at The Bull and Castle

The Bull & Castle in Dublin is running a two-month long autumn festival for all of September and October. A range of special and seasonal beers will be available on rotation during the event including, appropriately enough, Eight Degrees…

Something special for the weekend

    The Irish Craft Beer Festival 2015 is almost here. For three days, dozens of breweries and hundreds of beers will be taking over the RDS in Dublin, alongside whiskey, cider, food, music and debate. It's the perfect opportunity to explore…

Killarney Beer Awards

Beoir launches a new awards programme at the Killarney Beerfest this June!   Are you a commercially viable brewer on the island of Ireland? Then give your beer the praise it deserves with an award from Beoir.     The Awards are…

Dungarvan Brewing Summer Series

Starting 11th July and running on most Friday evenings through the next two months, the Dungarvan Brewing Company will be holding a series of tasting sessions at the brewery. Participants will learn about the ingredients of beer, the brewing…

Win Tickets To The International Craft Brews and Food Fair

Beoir has a pair of tickets to give away for the Alltech International Craft Brews and Food Fair this weekend, it's essentially a beer and food festival.   I'm going to let this run for 24 hours and pick a random winner tomorrow at 15:00…

International Craft Brews and Food Fair: Dublin 7-8 February 2014

Kentucky-based brewer and distiller Alltech returns to Dublin this February for a second beer festival, following the first last July. Once again, Convention Centre Dublin is the venue and once again an international competition will be held…