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…

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…

Trouble Maker – Brewing Competition

For those who weren’t at the ICB brewery tour at Trouble HQ recently, we announced a tentative plan to hold a brewing competition. The competition will select a home-brewed beer to be scaled up to a commercial batch size in our Allenwood brewery…

Offline Payment Instructions

If you have applied to join Beoir online and have chosen the off-line payment option, or if you simply want to join Beoir without registering as a user of the website, you have a few options.   Credit Transfer To pay directly from your bank…

A Visit to Bateman’s of Wainfleet

I made the tour but missed the food - though luckily due to a few people being absent we got our tour given by the very knowledgeable Dave Phillips. The tour starts in the reception and a quick history of the brewery is given. This began with…

Review: Clone Brews (2nd ed.)

It's twelve years since Tess and Mark Szamatulski published the first edition of Clone Brews, a slim volume containing detailed instructions on how to recreate 150 different beers from around the world. The book was a hit with homebrewers,…

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…

Beer Destination – Copenhagen

If Carlsberg were in charge of tourism for the city of Copenhagen, “Probably Eastern Denmark’s Best Beer Destination” might be the slogan that they would choose to advertise to the rest of the world. Even though Carlsberg (and Tuborg)…

ICB Awards: Rated by Members 2010

On Saturday April 3rd, the fourth and final Irish Craft Brewer Beer of the Year Awards were announced at the Franciscan Well Easter Beer Festival in Cork. As with 2009, voting had been open to all members of the community and every beer brewed…

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…