https://open.spotify.com/episode/5LyLKHn7IJFFE9atohXtUH It appears 2024 was mostly a Year of Collaboration for breweries in Northern Ireland. Beer Hut, Boundary, Modest, Bullhouse, Lacada, Our Brewery, Out of Office, Mourne Mountains, Rough Brothers and likely others I’ve missed were involved in some sort of joint effort this year. The quality of many of these collaboration beers was very…… Continue reading Northern Ireland Golden Pints 2024
https://open.spotify.com/episode/53mkIyLfcdvA2bDdxMEusT It was a time pre-Covid, pre-Ukraine war, pre-Liverpool winning the Premier League. It was also a time when you could get a decent beer in Belfast for well under £7. That time was 2018 and that’s when the last Belfast Beer and Cider festival took place – until now. For reasons we won’t go…… Continue reading Why The Belfast Beer & Cider Festival Matters
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0vOBeiWkoq9c9wjpbYz6oD Some things are great to see – such as the hypnotic Northern Lights dancing over Icelandic skies, Liverpool thumping Man Utd 7-0 and when restaurants pair up with local breweries. There are some brilliant connections between our eateries and brewers, the result is usually having local bottles or cans being offered on the menu…… Continue reading Six Appeal – Our Brewery x Sleepy Hollow
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1rCyIDVsor77RloR2TPTlQ Ah the heady days of 2011, I remember them well: Darren Clarke won the Open golf, Game of Thrones premiered, Gaddafi and bin Laden exited this world and Ards Brewing came into being. The Greyabbey outfit is one of Northern Ireland’s oldest craft breweries and although it falls well behind 1996 for Whitewater and…… Continue reading Stash Killing: Ards Brewing
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1k9vbeSAdPwAlhM5mBPWQ7 If you think I’d pay a fiver for four or five samples of quality beers in a brewery’s taproom while the brewer feeds me information about each one of those tasty beers, you’d be damned right. If you think I’d do that while surrounded by over forty other like-minded beer fans on a Thursday…… Continue reading OoO, a Beer Club!
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