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LAST week, the World Beer Awards announced the winners of its style and country categories for 2017. Along with the World Beer Cup (a competing a biannual event) the WBAs are one of the largest int…

HAVE you ever had one of those ‘someday’ chats with friends about packing in the day job and opening a bar together? Back in 2011, that’s just what the five founders of Glendaloug…

TUESDAY marked the feast of St. James, patron saint of Spain. And on that same day, inside the Dublin church that bears his name, patrons were raising a toast to an altogether different deity &#821…

WHISPERS of a new craft bar opening are always going to grab my attention. My amateur detective fantasy – in which I am sporting a fedora and wielding a magnifying glass – goes into ove…

In case you didn’t know (and no one would blame you) tomorrow is World Gin Day. While I’m always partial to a good G&T, apparently someone felt it necessary to dedicate an entire da…

Slane Castle may be famous for hosting the world’s biggest bands and some of Ireland’s most memorable live shows, but now the estate’s latest act is firing up a different kind of …

‘ON THE PISS’ – the phrase that evokes any number of thoughts, such as brash lager louts drinking too much and finishing up picking fights in kebab shops. However one Danish brewe…

DUBLIN’S 57 The Headline (or simply “The Headline” to locals and regulars) is not shy about welcoming tap takeovers – special showcase evenings when the brewers step forward…

You’ve got to feel a bit of sympathy for those with Coeliac disease or gluten intolerance. When it comes to food and drink choices a once bountiful selection becomes drastically limited to non-grai…

Back in 1971, four drinkers gathered in Kruger’s bar in Dunquin, Co Kerry, a tiny Gaeltacht village on the Atlantic coast, to talk about cask beer. By the time they emerged, the Campaign for …