This month I visited my new favourite beer festival. A week after the superb ABV in Belfast, it was the turn of London to do its inimitable thing. For various reasons, I don’t usually get the chance to attend beer festivals outside of Northern Ireland but when acclaimed London brewery Beavertown announced in January they were…… Continue reading Beavertown Extravaganza 2017
So good, so good, so good! (Sorry, got carried away in a football frenzy there) Following a random Instagram post by a local bar before the summer, my interest was piqued by a new Belfast brewery whose wares could be on shelves soon. Very frustratingly, little information was forthcoming from any quarter until Paul and…… Continue reading # Sweet Norn Iron, good times never seemed so good #
Fans of Hillstown Brewery should be pleased to know that Nigel, Jonny and Ali have had another man/brewery join the team. Barrahooley’s one-man-band Sam Birkett has left behind his Martinstown brewing kit and full time job in Belfast and taken the plunge to join the Hillstown gang after reading a tweet! The affable Scotsman explained…… Continue reading Barrahooley Sam’s Yer Man at Hillstown
Converted churches. God bless ’em. Isn’t it ironic that following all the religious hatred and fighting in Northern Ireland over the past decades a church should bring so many people together. (Off at a tangent) Ten days ago I enjoyed a great night’s craic in such a building in Westport, County Mayo. Snippets here – it’s…… Continue reading Church, Jesus and Me
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