For your consideration.
Beoir: A Tale of Irish Craft Ale
A timely short by Sean Monaghan of Tall Story media about micro-breweries in Ireland and the search to find a better tasting beer.
Includes the Poker Tree brewery [founder Darren Nugent, top] in Tyrone, The Donegal brewing company, Innishmacsaint brewing company, Mescan brewing company and Kinnegar brewing company.
A nation of Guinness lovers can’t hold them back.
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Whats with BS becoming obsessed with craft beer lately…
Tasty.
Craft beer is essential for the local economy. Drinking craft beer will enable hopefully every county in Ireland to create more local jobs in brewing , tourism and support engineering industries. This happened in America it can happen here. Local beer for local economy for local jobs.
When will they drop the craft from craft beer?
It is fairly pretentious alright…
Ah now…. it’s not.
Anyway, I’m not getting into this…. I dunny dhrink tha shtuff :)
I love it (mind you havent drank it in a while) but the whole craft thing has become so hipsterish …
Surely the fact that it is popular is the exact opposite of hipsterish?
You can still enjoy it if people you don’t like are enjoying it, you know?
“Craft beer” is a silly name, but I think they do need a shorthand name for smaller brewers.
There were micro-breweries not so long back. Same idea, but not sure if that concept meant the beer had to be brewed onsite.
@Domestos
No. They were just very very tiny.
What is this? … a brewery for ants?
When the crap Diageo actually sells is renamed “pisswater”.
I think anything less than 15000 barrels a year is a microbrewery or craft brewery (although this is open to some debate). So ultimately some of these brews will become commercial beers and no longer be craft.
But you have a point that the word craft could become a bit like ‘gourmet’, ‘artisan’ and ‘natural’ and mean absolutely nothing.
Less than 2 million litres (20k Hectolitres) and your a craft or microbrewery. And you get a 50% rebate on yer alcohol tax (over 2.8%) if you are under the limit annually.
Craft provides 7 times the amount of jobs that commercial breweries do, proportionate to output, hence the economic benefit..
Just like Rebel Red from The Franciscan Well and Brewery who were bought out by Coors.
Hipsters are twats who wear beanie hats indoors and grow silly beards and look at how popular that is…
Not really. Just because hipster trends have gone mainstream doesn’t mean that the people following those trends are hipsters.
just twats
And our jowels and our beer guts.
and homeless rovers fans :)
beer is beer. craft beer is beer. no hipster would be able to discern a craft beer from a budweiser in a blind test.
hahahahaaa… nonsense.
get back under your bridge!
That’s bullsh1t in fairness. Even to the uneducated, it’s extremely easy to differentiate your average craft beer from something like Budweiser. Even if it was just a case of the person saying, “Eurghh, this beer tastes weird. It doesn’t taste like Bud!”, they would still be able to tell the difference.
Are you serious or just a non beer drinker …… or maybe your taste buds have disappeared due to the amount shite you talk
My Da once described Budweiser as “piss water with fag butts in it”…. I think he was being generous with there being that much bite or flavour in fairness…. :)
“Budweiser: inject it back into the donkey.”
I think that was an ad for it years ago.
Now Budvar: that’s a nice beer.
And Pilsner Urquell.
Jaysus. I’ve the thirst of 50 **can’t say word as it’s tremendously unpc** on me.
Had some Budvar recently and thought it was pretty bland to be honest.
Ever try Tolski beer from Aldi?
It’s not bad in fairness.
They’re big bottles mind you.. you wouldn’t fit more than 1 into your handbag.
I’m kind of partial to a bottle or two of bud on occasion.. Is that bad?
I’m no hipster like.. maybe my recent win of white hag craft beers will redeem me of any uncoolness.
No, you can drink what you want, and what you like. I drink what i like, and that’s craft beer.
This guy gets it.
I hate paying for (generic) bottled beers in pubs, as they cost as much as a pint and are only around a half pint. I’ll happily pay over twice the price of a pint for a good cocktail, though. A good strong negroni is worth 3 regular drinks, easy. YUM.
This is an hilarious statement. If you’d substituted something like “Smithwick’s Pale Ale” for Budweiser you might have gotten a few backs up, rather than sounded like you’ve never tasted beer.
Yeah yeah….beer…hops…etc.
When are we going to start making WINE?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viticulture
“The optimum weather during the growing season is a long, warm summer that allows the grapes the opportunity to ripen fully and to develop a balance between the levels of acids and sugars in the grape.”
Indeed.
:(
Although I did find this: http://www.fruitandvine.com/Irish_Wine-recordid-7-z-products_overview.htm
You could always make Dandelion wine or one of those type thingys
wine isnt only about grapes. we’ve an abundance of elderberries and rosehips in hedgerows around the country for making some wickedly potent homebrew wine.
A lot of people buy the grape juice and make the wine from that. Not too dissimilar to making homebrew, in the sense that most, if not all, the ingredients are grown abroad.
There is a vineyard in Lusk. http://www.llewellynsorchard.ie/Lusca_Irish_Wine-recordid-7-z-products_overview.htm
Woops. Should really have read the whole comments section.
We already are. In Lusk. Co. Dublin. It’s over priced though. No one wants to pay €40 for a bottle of wine produced in Ireland that’s on a par with a €5 bottle from Lidl/Aldi.
Thanks. I never knew. A bit pricier than yer Blossom Hill but it’s probably very tasty.
My grandfather used to make wine from grapes he grew in his greenhouse in Meath.
He stopped before I was old enough to taste it because by all accounts, including his own, it was terrible.
Boutique! Bespoke! Such nice words, thoroughly corrupted…
Is it still “craft” when it’s produced in big silo vats in a warehouse in an industrial estate out in the suburbs?
No, it can only be made on a small island on the west coast, in hard carved wooden vats, mixed by hand, warmed by peat fires while an old man reads from Ulysses in the corner.
““Terence O’Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble twin brothers Bungiveagh and Bungardilaun brew ever in their divine alevats, cunning as the sons of deathless Leda.”
Go werrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrn ourra dah, willyeh?
Jesus what’s with the love for craft beers these days. Its just a a bunch of folk partaking in a hobby they enjoy and for much of the time producing nothing more than barely passably drinkable grog. The whole scene is being elevated to a stature not representative of its quality or following. Its almost being treated like a the hip band of the moment.
To appreciate the success of craft brewing industry you really need to cast your mind back a couple of decades to when there were just 3 taps in every Irish bar; Guinness, Harp and Smithwicks.
And Blue Nun in the fridge. No one complains that our choice of wines have increased 100-fold, and are often produced by very small growers. I guess wine doesn’t give off a “hipsterish” vibe.
Real hipsters are currently drinking brandy. Beer is for wimps.
Are they rap-ipsters, them with their cognac?
Not very hipstery to be following the trends of mainstream rap :)
Castarede Hors d’Age X.O. 20 Year Old Armagnac.
Where is the chart we’re supposed to consult for how much attention each cultural interest is allowed to receive? Can I see your calculations for craft beer? I’m really curious, ‘cos for me it’s everywhere.
The large majority of “craft” beers I’ve had have been very nice. I’ve even brewed nice beer myself. Nice beers of certain styles are really easy to make! Maybe you just don’t like those styles.
Or maybe they’re just ignorant, probably never eaten a chinese before “Nope, meet and two veg and a pint of Guinness, that’s all I’ve ever like and I’m never going to change”
Most Irish craft beers are decidedly meh compared to their American conuterparts.
Kinnegar especially
Canadian Craft beer is epic, irish craft beer is progressing nicely and to be honest it beats the mass produced HeinBurg slop….
Guinness is seriously concerned about the increasing interest in products which they don’t produce. A bit like printed media attacking online media (which actually is quite crap).
Not true, their Pale Ale is like grapefruit juice, delicious. Made by a real American too.
That was meant to be a reply for Outta me Bento Box regarding Kinnegar.
There was a vineyard in Cappoquin in Waterford. I think it’s gone now.
I bought a few bottles and still have one. Wasn’t great tbh.