Wednesday, 22 February 2017

Travel: Kilkenny City - A Trail of Red Ales, and More...

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'... in the immediate neighbourhood are several very extensive flour-mills, three large distilleries, four breweries ...' Samuel L...
Wednesday, 15 February 2017

History: Brilliant Beverages from The Saracen's Head?

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To Brewers, Retailers of Beer, Ale, Cider, &c. A BRILLIANT ARTICLE IN A FEW HOURS. THE ADVERTISER has invented FININGS that will...
Thursday, 9 February 2017

Travel: 't Brugs Beertje, Bruges - Notes from the Past

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(With the recent changing of the guard, I thought it fitting to dig out this piece from an unpublished larger piece I wrote about a visit t...
Wednesday, 1 February 2017

History: IPA in Carlow in the 1840s - Approved by the Surgeon General!

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W hen we last met Henry Birkett  in 1842 he was having a bit of a to-do with Guinness regarding the quality of their porter, and as I tr...
Tuesday, 17 January 2017

Travel: Notes from Ghent - Back at the Trollekelder ... Where the Wild Things Really Are...

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T here are places I'll always go back to... And the  Trollekelder is one of those, so I was eager to return on this visit to Ghent,...
Wednesday, 11 January 2017

History: Then as Now ... 'Go it like Bricks!'

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'Rules for the Behaviour of Young People at Table - Always wipe your mouth with the tablecloth for that must be soiled at all events, ...
Friday, 30 December 2016

Travel: Notes from Ghent - Blue Birds

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I f you stand on St. Michael's Bridge in Ghent when it's dark - carefully avoiding getting poleaxed with a selfie-stick or boom mi...