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As I pull a pint in my teenage years for another tourist entering Mother McHugh's pub on the Copper Coast in Co Waterford, I would regularly ask "so why Ireland, why did you come here?" "...it's just so green, and you people are great craic" Our two greatest assets: our land and our people. What else is there? Oil and crack; I think I'd rather pass on that staple of greed, capitalism, violence and war. Farming is something to be proud of in Ireland. We are blessed to have an excellent climate for farming. We have an abundance of good rich grass for our animals to feed on, we grow excellent cereals. From a brewing perspective; where do we lie? We have an imaginary reputation based on our cult
This is a short simple but life changing blog. It really is eye opening or pallete opening. I’m going to quickly tell you what it’s about. Aeration: what do you do with a red wine when you are tasting it? Pull in air in a gurgling sound when it’s in your mouth. This adds air to the liquid and thus opening it up giving you more flavour that you may have had to wait a few hours with the bottle open or decanting otherwise. There’s a congruent method for beer tasting and it’s far more interesting and flavour changing. The only reason we (currently) see wine as more sophisticated than beer is because of the Romans, what have the Romans ever done for us you ask? Well, they had the climate for grap
How do you not get overloaded about beer. Where do you start? There’s nothing worse than having paid €6 or more for a pint of craft beer in a pub, only to know you can’t stand it after one taste and then you’re stuck with 468ml of a reminder of how you just wasted your money. That’s the first place to start at, don’t buy a pint. They’re outdated and unnecessary: only work for bland beers which you can slug back without too much thought. Beer, like food, should make you ponder: reflect and discover. It should evoke emotion, feelings, memories, allow you crystalise a moment. You’re flavour receptors have great memory. Can you top off a special evening: a dinner with your family, at a concert o
