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…

California Common Kit

Having been brewing basic kits for a while I had been thinking it was time to move on to dry malt extract. So when Séan kindly offered a dry malt extract kit it seemed like as good a time as ever to start, with a California Common Beer. …

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:…

Mapping the Lost Breweries of Ireland

Following a post on the forums from a member of ICB asking about old breweries, it occurred to me that given my career path -- firstly as a land surveyor working in an archaeological research institution, to developing Geographic Information…

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…

Tara’s Beer House Homebrew Competition 2008

Ask not what your country can do for you... There are times in our lives when we have to step up to the plate and do our duty. We may not like it, but sometimes it has to be done for the greater good. So it was in Tara’s Speciality Beer…

Bierhaus Cork Summer Beerfest 2008

The second Bierhaus Beerfest was held over the weekend of Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd June 2008. It was run in conjunction with the Shandon Street Festival which is a community festival held on the Saturday. While Dave, owner of the Bierhaus,…

If this is the House of Porter, why can’t I drink the walls?

I would imagine there are very few craft beer enthusiasts in Ireland who haven't heard of The Porterhouse. Not only did the Dublin microbrewery start a revolution in Irish beer, but it hasn't been slow to build upon its success. As well as owning…

Beer Destination – Edinburgh

This town is hard on the feet with its many steep inclines and cobbled streets, but that is all the more justification for stopping off, resting your weary legs and having a restorative pint of life giving ale. This is not a straight forward…

Places that stock Irish Craft Beer

Finding beer from Ireland's craft breweries can be a daunting task. We are not yet at the stage where one can walk into any pub in Ireland and find something brewed locally. However, the beer is available and for the discerning drinker it…

Exactly how many things can go wrong in a brew day?

Since the disastrous house infection cost me two fermentors and huge quantities of beer, I have cooked up four batches to fill those sad empty cornelius kegs. Hops Sweepings Ale, Tettnanger Blond and Cascarillo Pale Ale are all in kegs now and,…