There’s an online thing that does the rounds in late December called Golden Pints or #goldenpints if you wanna be really nerdy. It’s where folk (usually English) who like beer enough to write about it vote for their favourites. But why should the English get all the glory? The Irish beer scene, north and south…… Continue reading Irish Golden Pints 2016
In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s that time of year again. Apart from continuing the strange ritual of putting trees in our living rooms and seeing plenty of overweight men in ill-fitting red polyester/velvet outfits, mid December means a review of our favourite Northern Irish beer of the past twelve months. Of course I didn’t have every…… Continue reading My NI Faves of 2016
Here it is again, the end of year thought process as to what were my favourite Northern Irish beers. I’ve written another blogpost here about the new NI breweries that opened in 2015 and another post on my overall Golden Pints of Ireland so I’ll not go into detail about that here, hence to say there…… Continue reading My Best of Northern Ireland 2015
This is the first time I’ve nominated beers for the Golden Pints awards and I was initially torn between doing a UK list or Ireland list, then quickly realised I’ve had a lot more Irish beer this year than ones from England, Scotland or Wales. So that’s sorted then. Also please remember when reading this…… Continue reading Irish Golden Pints 2015
Northern Ireland’s craft beer scene is expanding to mouth watering levels. There are now fifteen companies producing more varieties than ever before in our wee country. So with this in hand, accompanied by the fact that awards ceremonies are happening left, right and centre at this time of year, why not have a little bit…… Continue reading NI’s Best Beers of 2014 (In My Humble Opinion)
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