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Eight Degrees Acquired by Irish Distillers As Demand For Caskmates Jameson Brand Continues To Soar

It’s a blistering hot day in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, as I stand outside the home of Eight Degrees Brewing with Caroline Hennessy, broadcaster, author of Slainte – the complete guide to Irish Craft Beer and Cider and also head of marketing at the brewery. We are stood where the grain silo used to be staring out …

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Irish Brewers Association teams up with TheTaste.ie to launch #BeerBites

TheTaste.ie is delighted to team up with the Irish Brewers Association to launch its #BeerBites campaign. Over the next year, TheTaste.ie will be circulating beer recipes, food and beer pairing suggestions as well as informing its website visitors of Ireland’s most popular beer styles. Beer is Ireland’s favourite alcoholic beverage with around 46% of the …

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Five Must-Try Irish Craft Beers at the Franciscan Well Easter Beer Festival

Five Must-Try Irish Craft Beers at the Franciscan Well Easter Beer Festival

This Easter weekend, craft beer lovers will be spoiled for choice at the Franciscan Well Easter Beer Festival, at the Franciscan Well Brewery & Pub in Cork City. The festival will be held on the 15th and 16th or April and it will be open to the public from 1:00 pm each day, free admission. If you’re …

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Cask Ales and Extraordinary Brew Festival at the Franciscan Well Pub on January 26th-28th

Cask Ales and Extraordinary Brew Festival at the Franciscan Well Pub on January 26th-28th

Taking place in Cork’s Franciscan Well Brew Pub the Cask Ales and Extraordinary Brew Festival will celebrate cask conditioned ales from a variety of Irish brewers, and ‘strange brews’; a range of special brews using curious and interesting ingredients. There will also be a Beoir Cask Compeition between participating breweries judged by the national Beer …

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Merry Christmas and a Hoppy New Beer: 10 Great Irish Craft Beers We Tried in 2016

Summer was all about refreshing session ales and mouth-watering sours, then indoors season brought us rich, flavourful and perhaps a bit stronger brews. It has been a busy year for Irish craft beer lovers, with plenty of new launches, festivals and limited editions popping every few weeks. We have compiled ten of the best Irish craft beers we’ve …

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Cork Brewery Franciscan Well Introduces Exclusive ‘Celebration Brew’

Award winning Irish craft brewery Franciscan Well has announced the launch of an exclusive brew: the Celebration Brew, a specially crafted limited edition Hopfenweisse beer, launched to mark the momentous year the Cork craft brewery has enjoyed in 2016. Originally brewed for entry in the World Beer Awards 2015, where it picked up a bronze …

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Franciscan Well Brewery – Can a Can Make a Difference?

Last summer the Irish Brewers Association (IBA), the representative voice for the brewing industry in Ireland, released its annual Beer Market Report for Ireland. It showed that beer production increased 6%.  This is the first time since 2011 that beer production in Ireland has risen.  Irish beer exports are up 16% and are valued at …

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The Great Irish Beer Festival Arrives to Cork City Hall this September 22 to 24

The Great Irish Beer Festival Arrives to Cork City Hall this September 22 to 24

Twenty Irish breweries will gather at Cork City Hall this September 22-24 for the Great Irish Beer Festival; including every Cork operator, the Irish Malting Company and Irish Distillers, and lecturers from UCC. The festival will celebrate the rich tradition and heritage of Irish brewing, and highlight the current diversity of tastes and styles. The Great Irish …

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Annual Octoberfest Returns To Franciscan Well For 15th Year

15th Year – A host of Exotic World beers to be showcased in the North Wall brewpub 14th October 2015: The World Beer Award-winning Franciscan Well Brewery is to welcome throngs of beer-lovers to its annual Octoberfest, a world beer extravaganza, from the 23rd to 25th October at the Brew Pub and Brewery on North Mall. An exotic line up of …

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A Union Made in Heaven – Jameson Caskmates where Jameson Whiskey meets Irish Craft Stout

Jameson and craft Irish stout are no strangers behind the bar, but for the first time ever they’ve swapped casks to create Jameson Caskmates, created exclusively by the Midleton Distillery in collaboration with the Franciscan Well Brewery in Cork. A truly great whiskey celebrating the great things that can happen when two great things cross …

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