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So as many of my regular readers will know I started this blog last year and have slowly and steadily built up a readership averaging between 2500 and 3000 readers per month. This blog has got me to some great things such as media access to the fantastic Alltech Brews and Food festival in Dublin last February. I've made strong connections with ...

Ah summer time, a yearly tradition of decent weather. Well, not so far this year, but there are plenty of brewers out there who make beer for all seasons. Brooklyn Brewery are no stranger to this, having a regular range of seasonals. I picked up a couple of can's on a recent visit to Drink Store. Along with some other American Beers, whi ...

My name is Wayne Dunne, known on Twitter and Beoir as Irish Beer Snob. I've been a member of Beoir since 2013. I've been writing a blog since July of 2013 related to Craft beer and related topics on a regular basis, having grown my readership steadily to on average now 2500 views a month. I have also helped local off licences and p ...

You know it's the Summer in Ireland when nearly every weekend there is some festival or event on somewhere. This past couple of weeks have seen two of the largest festivals and there were countless others that I couldn't get to. First up we have the Sheridan's Annual Irish Food Fest which takes place at their main warehouse / store in Carnar ...

Beer, and Food. In a brewery. What's not to love. This past weekend, Paddy & Daire opened up their brewery to hold a Beer & Food evening, where Bru Beers were either ingredients in the Food or matched to the food on offer. Boy was there a good crowd there. Great to see! The event was organised as part of the Boyne Valley Food ...

You may have seen a lot of retweeting by me in recent weeks shouting out about the recent #Brewsweplate event. This was the second such event ran by Eric Heilig and Floriane Loup where each course is cooked to match the beers. My post about the last event is here The beers this time were supplied by the Brown Paper Bag Project, a noma ...

Good morning everyone.  Not really a blog post of much of a subject but there are a few things I wanted to share with you. First, i've set up a facebook page for the blog - which I hope to be more interactive with people who don't really use twitter. So if you can please like and share the page. So just search under Irish Beer Snob. ...

Let’s be honest, Copenhagen’s beer scene wasn’t exactly in dire straits before May of this year. Plenty of decent native breweries, world class beer bars, and a solid stream of high quality imports elevated the local scene to being amongst … Continue reading →

Holy Lord, those Danes know how to do a beer festival. Copenhagen Beer Celebration (or CBC to those who went and spent the entire time Twitter- spamming all the suckers poor sods who didn’t manage to get across for it) has just … Continue reading →

Eight Degrees Brewing Company has been churning out some consistently good produce over the past few months. Christ, they’ve just won a medal at the World Beer Cup for their US Amber Ale, Amber Ella. However much of a toss … Continue reading →