The Tale Of The Ale

  Guinness sent this little gizmo to me along with two cans and a glass. I attended a zoom demo and then later tried it myself and made a video which I've now uploaded onto YouTube. Please...

http://www.taleofale.com/2021/09/guinness-nitrosurge-device-does-it-work.html

Middleton Distillery Anyone who has been homebrewing for any length of time will know of the American Homebrew Magazine: Brew Your Own (BYO) . It has been going since 1995, when I was still ...

http://www.taleofale.com/2021/09/brewery-and-distillery-visits-with-byo.html

  Usually when it's someone's birthday, they receive gifts from friends but in this case, Metalman sent me a gift of some beer for their birthday. It really doesn't seem like 10 years ago th...

http://www.taleofale.com/2021/05/metalman-brewing-ten-years-strong.html

  Brú have been knocking around for years, I actually attended a food and beer party at the brewery in 2014 which as I recall involved a lot of stout and chocolate ice cream pairing. Yeah ...

http://www.taleofale.com/2021/04/hey-bru.html

  Spring is in the air and the sun is still up when I'm finished work these days so the odd beer on the balcony after a cycle is starting to become a thing again. That lovely pint is the wo...

http://www.taleofale.com/2021/03/grand-stretch-in-evening.html

I think 2020 saw a number of breweries go through a re-brand, and sure why not considering the on-premise market has essentially dried up thanks to Covid. Grabbing shelf attention is more imp...

http://www.taleofale.com/2021/02/treaty-city-rebrand.html

Brehon Brewhouse has gone through a little re-branding recently and kindly sent me some samples of the new beers along with some old favourites. MAKE YOUR OWN LUCK is a 4% kettle sour...

http://www.taleofale.com/2021/02/brehon-brewhouse.html

The first virtual session of 2021 happened on January 29th and was of course hosted by Craic Beer Community  who have been a real lifeline for the Covid lockdowns. Here are some thoughts ...

http://www.taleofale.com/2021/02/zooming-all-over-internet.html

Just before Christmas, I picked up the three available beers from Dublin City Brewing company based on Parnell Street in Dublin. There's a certain irony that I bought them in Cork perhaps. ...

http://www.taleofale.com/2021/01/dublin-city-brewing-company.html

Cigar City beers have been available in Ireland for a while now but I've never bought them. In fact, I haven't purchased American beer in Ireland for years because Irish beer choice is so gre...

http://www.taleofale.com/2021/01/cigar-city-brewing-american-beers-back.html

  Meh, 2020 can do one.  It's now the first week of 2021 and while Ireland is in the 3rd full lockdown with crazy numbers of new infections, there's hope on the horizon in the form of th...

http://www.taleofale.com/2021/01/golden-pints-awards-2020.html

Last month, I got Whiplash, by that I mean I received a lovely gift pack from Whiplash with a few of their beers, three of which I hadn't had yet so that was great. Whiplash were celebrating ...

http://www.taleofale.com/2020/12/recovering-from-whiplash.html

By all accounts, the first beer produced by OTTERBANK in their new brewery in Donegal should be left to age for a while but when you buy a few of them, you might as well crack one open. Otter...

http://www.taleofale.com/2020/11/so-it-begins.html

Is there a more appropriate image of the current level 5 lockdown in Ireland than the Truman show like image on a can of O BROTHER Freedoom? I picked up a few beers for the weekend from O'Bri...

http://www.taleofale.com/2020/11/autumn-lockdown-beers.html

Dick Mack's taken June 2018 OK I know there's a global pandemic at the moment. I've missed out on two trips away in 2020 so far. We were supposed to be going to the UK and then France and ...

http://www.taleofale.com/2020/07/dick-macks-brewery-tour-complete-with.html

The Porterhouse Brewery is a longtime favourite of mine so when they told me they were bringing out a new range of cans, I was excited. The new family of cans includes 3 completely new beers ...

http://www.taleofale.com/2020/06/porterhouse-new-range-of-cans.html

57 The Headline from their website PUB 10 - 57 THE HEADLINE - DUBLIN There's no way I couldn't mention The Headline as a pub that has been among the most influential in my beer journey....

http://www.taleofale.com/2020/06/the-pubs-that-made-us-pub-10-57-headline.html

PUB 9 - THE BREW DOCK - DUBLIN If you were to ask me which of the Galway Bay bars is my favourite, I'm not sure I could answer 100% because each has its own charm and reason to visit. At ...

http://www.taleofale.com/2020/06/the-pubs-that-made-us-pub-9-brew-dock.html

PUB 8 - THE BIERHAUS - CORK Sticking with Cork, we move to the iconic Bierhaus not too far from The Franciscan Well . There's a real sense of "Dive Bar" about The Bierhaus when you first...

http://www.taleofale.com/2020/06/the-pubs-that-made-us-pub-8-bierhaus.html

PUB 7 - THE FRANCISCAN WELL BREWPUB - CORK I first visited The Franciscan Well in March 2009 and at the time, the brewpub had been open for about 10 years at this stage as it was one...

http://www.taleofale.com/2020/05/the-pubs-that-made-us-pub-7-franciscan.html

from theporterhouse.ie PUB 6 - PORTERHOUSE TEMPLE BAR - DUBLIN This one should come as no surprise really. This pub used to be a brewpub before they moved production to larger premises i...

http://www.taleofale.com/2020/05/the-pubs-that-made-us-pub-6-porterhouse.html

PUB 5 - THE BULL AND CASTLE - DUBLIN If there's one pub in the world that I could point to as somewhere that has defined my drinking habits of today, this is it. I suspect the same could...

http://www.taleofale.com/2020/05/the-pubs-that-made-us-pub-5-bull-and.html

I took this photo in 2010 days after it closed PUB 4 - SHERIDAN'S ON THE DOCKS - GALWAY Unfortunately, this Galway gem was forced to close in 2010 after the landlord repossessed the build...

http://www.taleofale.com/2020/05/the-pubs-that-made-us-pub-4-sheridans.html

The Kings Head - Galway The Kings Head, Galway (thekingshead.ie) Pub 3 brings us to late 2008 and my first journey into Irish craft beer. I was hosting Alistair Reece who wrote about be...

http://www.taleofale.com/2020/05/the-pubs-that-made-us-pub-3-kings-head.html

PALMERSTOWN HOUSE - DUBLIN Palmerstown House Day 2, pub 2 is Palmerstown House which is located in Palmerstown village. This was always seen as the fancier of the two pubs in Palmerstown...

http://www.taleofale.com/2020/05/the-pubs-that-made-us-pub-2-palmerstown.html