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…

Bill Published to Allow Direct Brewery Sales

Beoir welcomes the news today that the Labour party are to introduce a Bill aimed at boosting craft-beer tourism in Ireland by removing the major regulatory barrier for breweries, microbreweries, cider makers and distilleries. The Intoxicating…

Review: The Pub

English beer writer Pete Brown is probably better known for his matey-blokey beer history and travel books, like Hops & Glory (the definitive story of IPA) and Shakespeare's Local (a history of one not-so-well-known London pub). His latest…

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…

Micro Brewed Badge

Last month, Beer Ireland launched their Micro Brewed badge and it has since started to appear on bottled beer and possibly on pump clips too? I'm not sure about that one. For those that don't know, Beer Ireland is one of the two industry groups…

EBCU salutes the historic contribution of the Reinheitsgebot

The world’s longest lasting piece of consumer legislation, the Bavarian Reinheitsgebot, which aims to protect the purity of beer recipes, celebrated its 500th anniversary on Saturday, 23rd of April 2016. The European Beer Consumer Union…

Beer of the Year 2016

This is the fifth run of Beoir's annual awards, seeking to find the drinkers' favourites from among the beers produced in Ireland. Given the ever-growing number of breweries in Ireland, and the range of beers that the established players have…

Irish Brewers Association Gets A New Chairperson

Beoir would like to offer a heartfelt congratulations to Seamus O’Hara on his appointment as the new Chairperson of the Irish Brewers Association (IBA). Seamus set up the Carlow Brewing Company in 1996 which celebrates its 20th birthday…

A visit to Boyne Brewhouse

They don't go in for half measures at the Boyne Brewhouse. The 30hL Kaspar Shulz brewkit was commissioned last October and occupies just one part of the large facility based in a former car showroom by the M1 just outside Drogheda. When a…

Tis The Season…

It’s that time of the year when the evenings get shorter and the days get colder. Which means it’s time for the winter seasonals/Christmas beers. There’s been a massive increase this year with nearly half the Irish microbreweries producing…