Attention all beer drinkers in the UK, especially those living outside of Northern Ireland. How many brewery taprooms do you have nearby? One? Maybe two or three if you’re in a city? Unlike any other British brewery, Northern Irish breweries are gagged from having their own permanent taproom alongside the brewhouse. The archaic licensing law…… Continue reading Licensing Limbo
Ardglass. It’s not somewhere I’d been to before (I think) and I don’t recall it being on the list of ‘101 Places to Visit Before You Die’. The small village is known primarily for its fishing port and is set in an area of County Down known as Lecale, which spans from Strangford to Downpatrick…… Continue reading Local Lecale
What kind of first birthday party have you been to where there’s been over thirty beers from local breweries on offer? A damned good one, that’s for sure. That was the case last weekend with Galway Bay Brewery’s only Northern Irish pub, Northern Lights on the Ormeau Road in Belfast, reaching the one year milestone…… Continue reading A One Year Old’s Party, Norn Iron Pub Style
A year ago if you mentioned the word ‘brut’, I’d have assumed you were talking about champagne or a dodgy aftershave. But this ain’t no 2017, it’s the back end of 2018 and it’s a time when everyone’s talking about Brut IPAs, right? But what is it and does it have potential to be the…… Continue reading The Sparkling Rise of Brut IPA
I’m a generous man. A new feature for the blog today in the form of a first guest post, that honour going to Portrush man Erol Bucukoglu. We recently had a conversation about beer festival glasses and he asked if I was going to write on the issue. Erol (@shakesbeer9) regularly travels to London and has…… Continue reading Guest Post: Beer Festivals – A Glassy Experience
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