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…

ICB Awards: Rated by Members 2008

For the second year, members of Irish Craft Brewer attending the Easter Beer Festival at The Franciscan Well in Cork selected their favourites from among the Irish craft beers exhibited. (Results for 2007 are here.) The contenders included…

The most heartbreaking thing for a brewer to do

  What could that be? Dump beer down the drain. I, like many others in Ireland, ferment in plastic. The convenient and cheap polypropylene bucket is the workhorse of amateur brewing in the UK and Ireland. We know there…

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…

Drinking Big Apple

"They got bars in New York that never close And bars where the people take off their clothes And bars where the young folks dance all night And bars where a fella…

ICB Submission to the Government Alcohol Advisory Group.

If you have been following this thread in the forum you will know that I have made a submission to the Alcohol Advisory Group on behalf of the members of this website. Thanks to TheBeerNut for the idea and taking everyone's opinions, expressed…

A Weekend in Munich

I spent a recent long weekend on a visit to Munich. The following is not by any means a “Beer Guide to Munich” because we simply did not have enough time available to us to visit all the best places. But we did manage a number of…

The Niall Mellon Township Challenge (and Beer!)

Should you consider flying 12 hours non-stop from Dublin to Cape Town (longer in-direct) just to try a few beers? Definitely not! This is no London, Prague, or Bruges. This is SAB Miller country and what you are going to find in 99% of establishments…

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…

Alcohol consumption in Ireland.

Successive Irish governments have attempted to curb alcohol consumption by artificially inflating the price with alcohol duty. The logic behind this approach is that people tend to buy less of any commodity if the price increases. The recent…