Why Ireland has the potential
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
How to Taste Beer
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
Single Hops and Smaller Quantities Please
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 They’re outdated and unnecessary: only work for bland beers which you can slug back without too much thought.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
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