IrishBeerHistory

“T his stout is of full Alcoholic Strength, and possesses great body, as shown by the proportions of Malt Extract present. It is quite free ...

W hen things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night – A PINT OF PLAIN ...

I n April of 1902 a curious case was heard at the Limerick Petty Sessions where a publican named Patrick Fennessy came before Mr. Hickson, a...

O ne aspect of pub snacking that I have a minor issue with is the pairing of a pint of stout with a packet of cheese and onion crisps, with ...

P orter cake - a quintessential Irish product that has been baked in Ireland for as long as we have had porter here, Correct? So surely it w...

O n Thursday the 5th of December 1850, just as the workers in the Beamish & Crawford brewery in Cork city were taking their morning brea...

E very now an again I tweet something and immediately think that I should probably have recorded it in a more easy-to-find and more permanen...

H aving previously looked at who brewed the first porter and other beer styles in Ireland - or at least flagging the first mentions of them...

"Porter was first brewed in Ireland in 1776 ..." says a well-known online encyclopaedia … "Porter made its way to Ireland in ...

I n 1883 Cork city held its second industrial exhibition, having held its first in 1852 just one year after the Great Exhibition in the Cry...

S o ... I'm not really sure what my fascination is with old Cork breweries, although I think the two excellent books on its most famo...

(S o it's been a couple of months since my last post, this was due to a number of reasons but mostly a mixture of apathy towards bloggi...

H ere's a nice early-ish mention from 1767 of London porter being available in Kilkenny - hardly a shock but nice to see it in print....

I came across the following piece in an old newspaper last week, and thought it seemed worth transcribing and putting up on the blog. I...