Brewery Nooze🍺🍻 with Kinnegar, 9 White Deer, Eight Degrees, Rye River, Torc, Bierhaus, Dead Centre, Crew, Wicklow Wolf, Dundalk Bay Brewmaster, Hope

Brewery Nooze🍺🍻

with Kinnegar, 9 White Deer, Eight Degrees, Rye River, Torc, Bierhaus, Dead Centre, Crew, Wicklow Wolf, Dundalk Bay Brewmaster, Hope

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Kinnegar Brewing

Drifting quietly into the autumn landscape just like the leaves: Bucket Brigade, our seasonal Red Rye IPA is back. Don't delay... **********

9 White Deer Brewery is in County Tipperary.

'The Smoothest Stout in Ireland'

WORD OF MOUTH ⁣

So Gordon and Donal went up to Borrisokane, Co. Tipperary to install our Draught Stout at The Green Bar.⁣

We’re especially pleased, because when The Green Bar were looking for a craft beer, our name came up a number of times . ⁣

⁣Including from the builder who refurbished the bar

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As a famous author once put it, “compliments pass when the quality meet”

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⁣And the Green Bar offers both excellent brunch & lunch through the @greenfaircafes and hosts live music sessions

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⁣Do tell them we sent ya

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EightDegreesBrewing

Now available in our online webshop! To celebrate the arrival of our new can four packs, we’ve put together this very special case of cans with 3 x 4 packs Full Irish IPA and 3 x 4 packs Citra SHIPA. https://eightdegrees.ie/product/special-mixed-case-24x440ml/…

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Rye River Brewing Co.



We are so excited for the arrival of 2 brand new fermentation vessels to the brewhouse!

These new FVs have a 10,000 litre capacity each, bringing our tank farm total capacity to 3,075hL between 25 FVs and 7 BBTs. We are proud that our brewhouse and our entire tank farm are 100% Irish manufactured stainless steel.

The journey for these new tanks started on Friday in Cork and they arrived bright and early this morning! The whole brewery was buzzing with excitement.

Rye River Brewing Co.

@ryeriverbrewing

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We are ecstatic to announce that we are the world's most decorated brewery for the second year running! This is a historic achievement for an independent Irish craft brewery and puts us distinctly on the world stage of craft beer.

@WorldBeerAwards

#WorldBeerAwards

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Interested in the story of whiskey, or whisky in this case? Check out very interesting (from the archives) article "Reinventing a great distillery" on Mark Reynier's time at Islay in Sept 6th edition of the New Yorker (a food and drink special). No link, sorry but if you are a member of your local library, you can find it via the Libby service. #Whiskey #whisky

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Torc Brewing 

Torc Brewing Company

IT'S HERE!! We're delighted to finally announce the launch of #HARVESTFEST21 Saturday, 25th September 2-6pm in the Killarney Distillery! Get your name on the list and RSVP by direct message, or click attending on our Facebook event!

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Bierhaus Cork is at Bierhaus Cork.

#sourfest21 first brewery we will be featuring is @land_and_labour - the beer is- Coolship (2018) we’ve squirreled this one away @grandcrubeers HQ since 2019 it’s time to release it to the masses! Untappd https://untp.beer/4lX00

Bierhaus Cork is at Bierhaus Cork.

6Snorhe  · Cork  · 

Next brewery that is set to feature - a first pour for @bierhaus_cork @guezuetilquin - Belgian lambic beer blendery based in Bierghes, Brussels, founded in 2009 by Pierre Tilquin. Tilquin is the only lambic blendery in the mainly French-speaking, southern region of Wallonia. Tilquin also is exclusively the only blendery that is allowed to blend of one, two, and three-year-old lambics with wort acquired from Boon, Lindemans, Girardin, and Cantillon breweries.

Wana to taste some really high end Sours? Book your spot now via DM on FB or Instagram - Thurs 23rd 8pm or Sat 25th 6pm - places are limited- get in early! @hopcraftntale will guide you through a high end top shelf tasting! #staysour #Sourfest21 #bhcsf

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Dead Centre Brewing

OKTOBERFEST 2021 On October 23rd, we'll have Bowtie from 6pm. They'll be followed by the incredible Keller Beer Brass Band from 8pm - 10.30pm. To close the show, DJ Keith Marshall will be playing until 12.30am! LAST FEW TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: https://bit.ly/3jRSlnq

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Crew Brewing Company

@crewbrewco

We're turning 1 on Friday! Granted, we were closed for over half of it but we still want to celebrate with you all while raising some money for the amazing

@RapeCrisisMWest

as a thank you to everyone for your support since we arrived in Limerick and (finally) got open!

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Wicklow Wolf Tomahawk Kit!

Get your hands on this extremely limited Bujo x Wicklow Wolf Tomahawk Kit. The limited kit includes two dry aged Tomahawks, Four Bujo Burgers, Four Cans of Elevation Pale Ale, Two Brewery tour vouchers, a Wicklow Wolf x Bujo Boston Glass and a screen printed Bujo Apron. Get yours now before they're all gone! 

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At Dundalk Bay Brewery & Distillery we pride ourselves in being part of a greener, brighter future in brewing & distilling and in business. We set the standards for breweries and distilleries operating all over Ireland to reduce waste, minimise carbon emissions and overall reducing their environmental impact and being aware of same. Read more from the producers of Brewmaster beers here.

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Hope Beer

Exit through the gift shop! Brewery tours are available to book again and if you don’t get the chance to visit anytime soon you can check out our full range of merch here: http://hopebeer.ie/cool-stuff

CORK’S BALLYMALOE FOODS SCOOPS MAJOR FOOD AWARD

 CORK’S BALLYMALOE FOODS SCOOPS MAJOR FOOD AWARD 

Ballymaloe Foods Beetroot product picks up Great Taste Award 

 

Ballymaloe Foods has received a one-star award at this year’s prestigious Great Taste international awards for its Ballymaloe Sliced Pickled Irish Beetroot. The Great Taste awards, run by the Guild of Fine Food in the UK, are known as the world’s most trusted food and drink awards.  

 

The entire range of Ballymaloe Sliced and Diced Irish Beetroot will now be able to display the unmistakable black and gold logo, a stamp of excellence that is recognised by retailers and consumers alike. 

 

All the beetroot used by Ballymaloe Foods is planted, pickled and packed locally in East Cork making it the only 100% Irish locally produced beetroot available nationwide. Two farmers, Joe Hartnett and Darren Allen, have set aside 24 acres to grow the purple vegetable every year.  

 

General Manager at Ballymaloe Foods, Maxine Hyde said the company is delighted with the Great Taste Award, “We are over the moon to get such great news about Ballymaloe Sliced Pickled Irish Beetroot. Our beetroot is a lovely example of a farm to fork journey, showing traceability, sustainability, and the benefits of using local produce to create something special.  We are very proud that this product has been awarded 1-star in the Great Taste Awards in 2021 and we share this honour with our two local farmers Joe and Darren as without their hard work this product would not be on shelves and in kitchens around Ireland.” 

 

The award judges described Ballymaloe Sliced Pickled Irish Beetroot as: “Darkly jewelled red with a translucency in the pieces of beetroot that vary in size and shape. Tender to cut but with good integrity so that there is a bite to them. Great flavour with sweetness then sharpness from the vinegar that then meld together with the typical beetroot earthiness. Versatile and probably delicious in a goat's cheese tart.  We enjoyed these pickles.”

 

In total, 5,383 products were given awards from more than 100 countries. 

 

The Guild of Fine Food’s Great Taste awards was founded in 1994 and are seen as a stamp of excellence for food products. There are 355 judges and they include food critics, chefs, restaurateurs, retail buyers, cooks, producers, food writers and journalists. All products are removed from their packaging before being tasted. 

press release

 

Taste of the Week. Stonewell Tawny.

Taste of the Week

Stonewell's Tawny Cider.

At a discussion, featuring three cidermakers, on Beoirfest earlier this year, Stonewell’s Daniel Emerson was asked how his stunning Tawny came about. Through a collaboration with local brewer/distiller Sam Black was the answer. “El Dorado hops added complexity and helped balance the extra sugar. “ 

Tawny is truly special. It is a rich, opulent and viscous apple wine, dark in colour and possessing complex bittersweet flavour. Tawny can be consumed as a slightly chilled aperitif or it also performs excellently as an accompaniment to cheese or desserts.

It has been compared to sweet wine and sherry. Stonewell advise using it as “a slightly chilled aperitif but equally as cheese or dessert accompaniment”. 

At the Ballymaloe LitFest 2016, expert Pete Brown (author of World’s Best Cider) was impressed after tasting it and said it reminded him of a Canadian Ice Cider, “beautiful’.

“A well-produced cider can stand shoulder to shoulder with good wine,” says Daniel . “The reaction has been extremely positive, I haven’t heard one negative comment so far. It won a prestigious Pomme d’Or award at the Frankfurt Apfelwein Welweit."

It keeps well and has an abv of 15%. It is described as “an opulent complex cider with chewy tannins and hints of fruit. Delightful as a slightly chilled aperitif but equally as a cheese or dessert accompaniment”.

Natural flavours provide glistening glory for Ireland at Great Taste. Updated to include all Irish winners

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Natural flavours provide glistening glory for Ireland at Great Taste  

 

A diverse range of products from Ireland have shone at Great Taste, as this year’s list of award-winners was announced on Tuesday 21 September 2021. Out of the 5,383 products worldwide to receive a Great Taste 1-, 2- or 3-star accolade from the largest and most trusted food and drink awards on the planet, 377 are based in Ireland and these include; Ballyhoura Apple Farm’s Great Taste 3-star award-winning Glazing Syrup, an apple-based syrup made in Kilfinane, Limerick; Carlingford Oyster Company’s Great Taste 3-star award-winning Louet Feisser Select Carlingford Oysters; and Wexford Home Preserves’ Great Taste 3-star award-winning Seville Marmalade, a bright and lively marmalade packed full of Seville oranges grown on a family-run farm in Spain.  

Full results here now! See all the Irish winners.

                                 

Following 86 socially-distanced judging days in London and Dorset, Great Taste, which values taste above all else, has unearthed the very finest food and drink from every nook and corner of the UK and beyond. Regardless of branding or packaging, each product is judged on a level playing field, according to its texture, appearance, composition and of course taste. Food critics, chefs, restaurateurs, retail buyers, cooks, producers and a host of food writers, journalists and social media influencers are among the 355 esteemed palates to have rigorously blind tasted and judged the 14,113 entries from 108 countries, while providing detailed written feedback for the producer. 

 

Every Great Taste award-winning product will now be able to display the unmistakable black and gold logo, a stamp of excellence that is recognised by retailers and consumers alike. A wide range of these winning products are already available to buy in delis, farm shops and independent retail outlets across the country.  

 

All Great Taste 3-star award-winning products will be re-judged to find this year’s regional Golden Fork Trophy winners and the Great Taste Supreme Champion 2021. These final results will be announced at the Great Taste Golden Fork Reception on Sunday 17 October, set to be held at the Yorkshire Event Centre in Harrogate following the first day of Fine Food Show North, a trade-only exhibition organised by the Guild of Fine Food.  

 

A Quart of Ale± #69. On the craft journey with a session of Hope (on the double), Galway Bay and Ballykilcavan

A Quart of Ale± #69

On the craft journey with a session of Hope (on the double), Galway Bay and Ballykilcavan

Hope Handsome Jack IPA 6.6%, 440 can

This full-flavoured, citrusy and double dry hopped IPA has an orange colour with a touch of amber, hazy enough too, though you can see fountains of bubbles rising towards the quickly diminishing white head. Orange notes too in the aromas and onto the palate where you’ll find it a well-balanced and smooth juicy experience. The hop character is matched by the malty body and, even with the high-ish abv, the character of the beer shines through.

Recommended pairings are burgers and roast meat, pizza, Indian dishes, strong, salty cheese and carrot cake.

They say: Handsome Jack IPA is a balanced, smooth, intense and citrusy dry hopped IPA in the American west coast style.  It is well balanced between the high level of bitterness, thanks to unusual combination of American and Japanese hops, and the sweetness provided by Irish Pale malt.

A Tall Yarn: Jack Criss, the 17th century Irish pirate, was tall and handsome with blonde hair and eyes green as the sea. He set sail from Ireland, plundering his way to Spain and Italy. He didn’t die in battle but was stabbed to death in a Naples hotel. Probably by one of his four wives. Some bachelor!

The beer, by the way, has much more credibility than the yarn!

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Hops: Magnum, Cascade, Sorachi Ace, Simcoe, Citra

Yeast: American Ale

Malts: Minch Hook Head Ale, Weyermann CaraMunich II, Weyermann CaraPils, Weyermann Acidulated 

Hope Underdog Hoppy Lager 4.8%, 440 can

This modern hybrid style lager has a gold colour, lots of bubbles on show, with a delicate slow fading white head. Hops make their presence known in the nose. Very impressive introduction on the palate, with a terrific mouthfeel, richer than the normal craft lager, malt sweetness and hop bitterness get along very well indeed. It is deeply refreshing, full of flavour and persistent. 

The first tasting for me was at the back end of 2020 and I found it a big and pleasant surprise for me and one to note for sure. Not so much of a surprise this time and still one for the short list.

They say: The malts and the yeast we use are traditional, but the hops are not. We use lager malt and other European malt such as Munich malt for flavour, and we use a classic German lager yeast: a strain originally isolated from the oldest brewery in the world. We also use modern American hops for flavour, such as Citra, El Dorado, and Mosaic, furthermore we use the dry hopping technique which is associated with IPAs rather than lager. Underdog hoppy lager is the result.

When it comes to food pairing it’s a brilliant all-rounder, great with BBQs, pizza, spicy foods like curries and for anybody who doesn’t like wine with their food.

Malts: Lager, Munich, Melanoidin, Carapils, Acidulated.

Hops: Magnum, El Dorado, Mosaic 

Yeast: German Lager

IBU 25

Galway Bay Slow Lives Helles Lager 5.0%, 330 can CraftDirect

Slow Lives comes in a hazy gold robe and an attractive head that is not for hanging around. Aromas are fresh and a bit yeasty, bread-y. First contact on the palate is malt influenced; it  promises refreshment and that is delivered. Clean and crisp, excellent body and some hop bitterness on the finish. Quite a mix of German tradition and Irish skill from the crew at Galway Bay. Very satisfying indeed, with second can appeal, and a lip-smacking finish.

They say: Brewed with German Pilsner malt, Saaz hops, Galway water and our favourite lager yeast. Beautifully clean and crisp with classic bready malt.

Helles, meaning light and bright, is a bottom-fermented beer of Southern Germany. Pilsner (pils) typically has a distinct spicy hop taste. The Saaz hops used here is named after a Czech village and, like the Germans, the Czech make some excellent Pilsners.

Ballykilcavan Millhouse Session IPA 3.5%, 440 can CraftDirect

Ballykilcavan introduce this as “A light, refreshing session ale, double dry hopped for maximum flavour.”

It has a slightly hazy orange colour with a soft white head that flops slowly, no shortage of bubbles underneath. Citrus notes prominent in the aromas. There is a punch from the hops on the palate and the finish itself is refreshing.

The Millhouse, a Session IPA, is Double Dry Hopped with Citra, Amarillo and Mosaic. Organic Oats from Merry Mill, a nearby farm, is also used.