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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

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

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 They’re outdated and unnecessary: only work for bland beers which you can slug back without too much thought.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