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

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…

National Homebrew Festival

This Saturday, our friends at the National Homebrew Club will be hosting what is probably Ireland's first homebrew beer festival. This is a completely free event both in terms of entry and beer. In fact, it has been worked out that there are…

Kilkenny Cat Laughs…

Every year I travel to Kilkenny with a group of friends to attend the Cat Laughs comedy festival. It has always been a great festival; and add to that some fantastic restaurants and pubs and a good time is had by all. However, there was always…

Meet The Brewer at Against The Grain

Against The Grain (11 Wexford Street, Dublin 2) are running a 'Meet The Brewer' series every Friday for the next 6 weeks (and possibly longer). Go along and meet brewers from Carlow Brewing, Hooker, Fischer and more. The current calendar is: 3rd…

Irish Craft Beerfest 2011

Friday: It starts with a trade session. A good number of people come through the door. Many are pubs looking for new options for their customers. They've picked the right place to come. With the major exceptions of Hilden, Dingle and Clanconnel,…

The Year in Beer

Coinciding with the growing number of microbreweries in Ireland, and the pubs that serve their beers, there’s also an increasing number of special events around the country where Irish craft beer can be tried. Often, the brewers use these…

White Gypsy Opening Party

Cuilan from White Gypsy is not what I would picture as a champion of fair-trade eco-aware local produce. But behind the Munster jersey is a very clear vision of where Irish brewing should go. And I mean vision. Here is a brewery that avoids…

Brew It Yourself 2009 — Cork, 18th April

When The Franciscan Well offered ICB the opportunity to stage a live event in its back yard, the membership leapt at the opportunity. Five months of planning ensued, and at 2pm on sunny Saturday 18th April the doors opened on Ireland's first…

Stark Bier Festival, Munich

Last weekend I jetted off to Munich for various reasons one of which was to attend the Stark bier festival. This is the strong beer festival and is a fairly hush-hush affair (see how few hits on Google). We landed Saturday morning and after…

OghamBrew Brewing Festival Samhain 2008

I would like to thank Séan Billings for affording me the opportunity to write an article for the ICB website on the OghamBrew Festival Samhain 2008. The Festival, which took place in Na Fianna GAA on Mobhi Road, Glasnevin, had 15 teams of homebrewers…

The Wessex Beer Festival and the Great British Cheese Festival 2008

How could I justify yet another trip to the UK in the same year? I had been once in May, another for the christening for a friend's child in early September. Another trip within the space of a month?! This needed another reason to go and I didn’t…