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As I sit here on a temperamental Sunday evening before I go back to work after two superb weeks off, I'm recalling the highlights of my most recent trip back to Leeds where I spent 10 years as a kid, before moving back to Ireland. A big thanks to Sam Parker, who I met recently at EBBC 14 who organised us some behind the scenes access to Three g ...

Here we have Janice's second blog post!  ***************************************************************** We all now know my love for craft beer, but did you know i'm also quite partial to good cider? So can you imagine my excitement when Wayne tells me he's organised a trip to meet the makers behind Dan Kellys Cider? Our very own p ...

Ok, in a world exclusive, Its not me doing this blog post, i'm handing over the reigns to the long suffering Mrs Irishbeersnob. Janice.  Janice, over to you. Sampling some craft beersOk, a little about me. For a long time i've enjoyed craft beers, and I am the one who created the Irish Beer Snob, no matter what he may tell you. ...

“Austin ain’t Texas.” If I had a quid for every sod who has said this to me… But it’s true. Texas gets a bad rep from, well, nearly everyone who isn’t from Texas. Stereotypes abound, but none (or at least … Continue reading →

One of the perks from being at the European Beer Bloggers conference recently was that attendees were able to claim a free box of beer from www.beer52.com  Now, Beer52 is a company based in the UK and the premise is rather simple. In exchange for a subscription of £24 they will ship you 8 beers, along with a colour guide fo ...

So this is following on from my previous posts re the European Beer Bloggers Conference, this one will cover the final day. Day 2 was an early start, 10am was the first event. Dean McGuinness of Premier Beers was giving the talk and the state of the Irish Craft Beer sector. Knowing this was going to be a long day pre conference grub and fu ...

Tuesday 8th of July is just a date. A Tuesday. In early July. Why is it significant? Well, it is significant because this particular Tuesday saw the opening of JD Wetherspoons first pub in the Republic of Ireland. They have several pubs in Northern Ireland but this is their first skirmish south of the border.Wetherspoons pubs have a certain ima ...

A few times every year I have that beer moment. It’s a moment that all of my fellow beer bloggers and enthusiasts know intimately…it’s the bloody reason we put the graft into seeking out and writing about new brews. It’s a … Continue reading →

When it was announced that headline sponsors of the EBBC were going to be Molson Coors, Guinness & Smithwicks it caused some ripples among the blogging community. It's important to highlight, that this wasn't a Craft beer bloggers event, but a beer bloggers event. The simple truth is that without the support of the above mentioned companies ...

Now in it's fourth year the European Beer Bloggers Conference came to Dublin last weekend for the first time. Following on from a successful event last year in Edinburgh, Dublin had big shoes to follow. Dublin is undergoing a craft beer revolution at the moment and it was going to be interesting to see what foreign visitors from the UK, Eu ...