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IrishBeerHistory

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Despite the handle, I research and write about Ireland's brewing history and recreate Irish historical(ish) beers. Also posting food and nonsense. Seemingly, I'm a 'gloomy beer drinker', who's 'lost in the froth on his pint.' beerfoodtravel.blogspot.com

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IrishBeerHistory @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social · Feb 18

New blog post! Number 25 and a bit of a milestone, so it required one on glassware and a deepish dive into another famous 'Irish' tankard ...
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100 Years of Irish Brewing in 50 Objects: #25 – Keg Harp Tankard (1965)

Goodbye to the Port and Brandy, To the Vodka and the Stag, To the Schmiddick and the Harpic, The bottle, draught and keg ... Delirium Tremens – Christ

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IrishBeerHistory @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social · 12h

F#ck. Wit ...

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IrishBeerHistory @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social · 13h

Gosh, it's better than Galway - Ireland's most overrated city ...
*ducks*

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The Beer Nut @thebeernut.bsky.social · 20h

#HouseOfGuinness: Where Are They Now?

The Guinness family vault in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin. Actually, only Benjamin Lee Sr and Anne from the show are buried here. Arthur Lee is in Raheny and Edward Cecil at Elveden. I can't find where Benjamin Lee Jr is buried, but presumably somewhere in England since that's where he lived.

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Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray) @boakandbailey.bsky.social · 17h

Pubs must try new ideas to draw in customers.

An A board outside a pub warning people to drive slowly because kittens are playing outside the pub and around it.

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Katie Mather @katiematherkm.bsky.social · 21h

Have you ever been to Bonn? My latest blog post/newsletter is up now.

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Bonn — Katie Mather Writes

A very good place

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IrishBeerHistory @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social · 14h

Lovely piece - I liked the city. We were there in 2017 at the Christmas market, a really nice one that had something different to 'the usual' stuff. We went out to Schloss Drachenburg, which was very salubrious, and even tried the Bönnsch in its dubious looking glass. Thanks for the reminder! ...

A strange curved beaker-like branded glass filled with Bönnsch.

A golden stag with Schloss Drachenburg behind.

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IrishBeerHistory @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social · 16h

I possess a sort of 'tapering glass, slender and barley-wreathed" so mentioned in the essay highlighted in my post, and I will drink from it tonight some Old Ale - although he'd say Mild - in remembrance of Charles Hugh Davies ...

A homebrewed old recipe Irish ale poured into a 19th century dwarf ale glass with barley and hop etching.

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IrishBeerHistory @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social · 1d

A new blog post, and a small departure from my usual obsession to highlight a wonderful piece of writing on pubs and beer that I believe was lost until now ...

Some Found Pub Prose: A Great and Generous Creature

'True, there be many Old Ales (so-called) that be but of this year’s brewing, and deserve but the name of Mild. Yet that Ale which is Old indeed deman

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IrishBeerHistory @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social · 1d

A new blog post, and a small departure from my usual obsession to highlight a wonderful piece of writing on pubs and beer that I believe was lost until now ...

Some Found Pub Prose: A Great and Generous Creature

'True, there be many Old Ales (so-called) that be but of this year’s brewing, and deserve but the name of Mild. Yet that Ale which is Old indeed deman

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IrishBeerHistory @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social · 1d

I hope so? But it doesn't quite read as one, and nothing would surprise me ...

IrishBeerHistory @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social · 1d

Loved this - and I'm very curious and intrigued about the 'annual Irish cask beer festival'! ...

Will Hawkes @willhawkes.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve written for @pelliclemag.com about the Dog and Bell, a unique pub whose evolution over the past 40 years nevertheless illustrates the story of modern London pubs. It’s here: www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/9/...

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out — The Dog and Bell in Deptford, London — Pellicle

On a Friday night in early December, Deptford’s Dog and Bell is Christmas as imagined by a Haribo-addled toddler.  A huge resin Santa, grinning merrily in his sleigh, squats in Prince Street out...

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IrishBeerHistory @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social · 1d

I did wonder that too, but someone okayed it for publication ...

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IrishBeerHistory @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social · 1d

I can only hope it's a poorly communicated joke? ...

IrishBeerHistory @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social · 1d

My god, poor and inaccurate reporting like this is the reason why many of us were concerned about the show. How many errors can you spot here? ...

House of Guinness: New Historical Saga Brings Ireland’s Iconic Brewery to the Screen

(Courtesy Ben Blackall/Netflix) Dublin, 1868. The Guinness family patriarch is dead, and his four children — each with dark secrets to hide — hold

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IrishBeerHistory @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social · 1d

Not fishy, but I do get a vegetal taste from underroasted beans at times ...

IrishBeerHistory @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social · 1d

I wouldn't pretend to have a fantastic palate, and it's always changing (like everyones), but I can be sensitive to certain 'off' flavours like the fishy one from vegetable/rapeseed oil, pork that's just on the turn (to me), and DMS in beer. Another big one is the mouldy taste off dried thyme ...

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IrishBeerHistory @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social · 2d

I found a lovely piece of pub-prose in an old newspaper earlier that seems to have been lost to time. I need to track it back to the source and will put it up on my blog in the coming days. And no, the beer is unrelated ...

Trappistes Rochefort Tripel Extra poured into a branded glass.

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IrishBeerHistory @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social · 2d

Has anyone any thoughts on what and where the real oldest pub in Ireland (don't!) might be? It would need to be 17th century or older, have roughly the same footprint and walls, and have always been an alehouse/tavern/drink-focused spot. So not just an inn - or a different trade ...

The words 'old ale' house in a newspaper.

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IrishBeerHistory @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social · 2d

Inside Dundalk Bay Brewery’s bet on innovation
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Inside Dundalk Bay Brewery’s bet on innovation – Drinks Industry Ireland

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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 3d

Think While You Drink on Thurs features Local Archaeologist & Brewer Nick Fitzgerald and Heritage Brewer @beernouveau.co.uk. Together, they'll explore what early (pre-historic) beers might have tasted like, and what flavours are still used today.

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Think While You Drink

Join Good Chemistry and Drinking Studies Network for a series of free talks designed to make you THINK WHILE YOU DRINK! Bringing interesting talks on beers, brewing, pubs, the industry and wider drink...

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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 2d

They asked for a response, so I couldn't exactly let them down, could I?

On Belgian beer, Hegelian dialectics, and why Belgium's craft beer turn makes perfect sense.

In response to @boakandbailey.bsky.social: boakandbailey.com/2025/10/we-d...

They don’t want Belgian beer to change – and that’s their problem* — Brussels Beer City

*Or, a (semi-serious) rebuttal of Boak and Bailey’s “We don’t want Belgian beer to change – and that’s our problem” Picture this: it’s 1925, and you’re a young English man of means stepping of...

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IrishBeerHistory @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social · 3d

'We had a better time again in a corner cafe near our hotel which, like many of the best boozers, was densely layered with history while still feeling like part of the modern world. How can shiny and new compare?'

Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray) @boakandbailey.bsky.social · 3d

BLOG POST: "...we recognise the problem in tourists demanding that the places they visit stay exactly the same, while expecting bars at home to do the opposite... But Belgium really does feel different, for a few reasons..." 🍺🍻

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We don’t want Belgian beer to change – and that’s our problem

On a recent trip to Liège we ended up visiting a couple of more modern bars which, although very pleasant, didn’t give us what we want from Belgian beer.

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IrishBeerHistory @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social · 3d

I'll get it put together one of these days - the road to hell is actually filled with unfinished beer history drafts. Again, great article, cheers for writing it ...

IrishBeerHistory @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social · 3d

This is an excellent piece - it really is. It reminded me too that I've been hoarding information on the seasonal migration of Irish hop pickers into England in the 19th century that I really need to write up ...

Brian Alberts @brewedculture.org · 3d

It's easy to love fresh hop beer season in the Pacific Northwest, but a bit harder to see the labor and communities that make it happen.

For @vinepair.com, I offer a taste of the multicultural history that roots PNW hops, and the mistakes we can't seem to learn from.

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Beneath the Bines: The Multicultural Roots of the Pacific Northwest Hop Harvest

”My dad gave me advice 60 years ago: The day that you think you’re any better than the lowest man on the job is the day you start going backwards.” Bill Coleman represents the fifth of seven generatio...

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IrishBeerHistory @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social · 3d

The favourite condiment of Irish Food ...