IrishBeerHistory

I am quite partial to old Irish beer advertisements and this is a nice one for Castlebellingham Brewery in Louth for their bitter ale, whic...

M y favourite pub, The Stars beneath the Sea, sits on a narrow, cobbled street a short ten-minute walk from my home. There are well-worn lim...

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...

U nless you have been living under a large rock you will be aware of Beer Twitter’s current obsession with Dark Mild ales, and although most...

B ack in the late eighties and early nineties I was exclusively a stout drinker, which meant in this part of Ireland that I was by default a...

A short while back I tweeted about a minor epiphany I had while drinking my homebrewed reproductions of historic Irish beers, as it had daw...

O ne of things that is often remarked upon in tourist guides to the pubs of Ireland is the peculiar quirk of asking for ‘a glass’ in this co...