Tuesday, 28 June 2022

Ale Aboard? Beer Exports from Ireland in 1786

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A new online archive resource has sprung to life of late in the shape of the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland , which in its own words ...
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Friday, 24 June 2022

Beer Myths on Beer Mats? A Closer Look at the Legendary Marketing of Smithwick's and Kilkenny Ales

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T here are two much-captured street views in the extremely photogenic city of Kilkenny, one is the view up the steps on St. Mary’s Lane that...
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Thursday, 2 June 2022

Irish Beer History: Absinth Ale, Gill, and Women's Longing

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I n 1727 Caleb Threlkeld, an English doctor and botanist, published a small book on the wild plants growing around Dublin with the typically...
Thursday, 26 May 2022

'Immortal Lager Beer'

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  LAGER BEER Tune - 'My Long-tailed Blue' --- I've drank of all the various taps, With which men soak their clay, From Red-eye W...
Wednesday, 25 May 2022

Some (Unhelpful & Incoherent) Thoughts on Irish Brewing History ...

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I t is said that history is written by the victors and that is certainly the case with Irish brewing history, where the need to shoe-horn ev...
Wednesday, 18 May 2022

The Loop-Liner - Dublin's Lost Porter Measure

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I have a tedious fascination with the various terms for measures of alcohol served around Ireland in our past and have featured some previo...
Wednesday, 11 May 2022

Giving it Both Barrels: 19th Century Sketches of Smithwick's & Sullivan's Kilkenny XX Porter

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T he history of brewing in Kilkenny is a topic I keep returning to again and again  as there is such a wealth of real history to be mined i...