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The question of beer provenance has been a campaign point for Beoir since the beginning. In short, our position is that drinkers deserve to know which brewery produced the beer they buy and drink. At the moment, this isn’t a legal requirement, and it doesn’t necessarily need to be. We would like production brewers and client brewers to state the brewery of production as a matter of course, as a courtesy to their customers.
I would like to start collecting both good and bad examples of provenance information in practice. If you have any in mind, or encounter any on your beer-drinking journey, please post them to this thread. A couple of examples to start:1. Good practice: The Porterhouse. Since it changed from production to being a client brewer it has included the logo of its contract brewers on the tap badges.
2. Bad practice: Aldi Ireland. They used to name the brewery on their own-brand beers (eg Roadworks from Pearse Lyons) but they seem to have stopped. Recent releases Lotus and Zuki say only “Brewed in Ireland”. When I queried this they have said they do not name their contract breweries as a matter of course. Edit: Dundalk Bay have since claimed the beers.Quick update on this. The project has been renamed “Know Your Beer” and expanded to be an overall consumer guide to reading beer labels: what’s mandatory, what the commonly-used phrases actually signify, what sharp practices are common and what’s coming down the line in EU law. The plan is to launch the website in April.
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