Dublin Beer Views

 If you grow up in Dublin, the south city centre, liberties, area often smells of the roasting of barley at the Guinness brewery. Its an infectious evocative smell of home. However...it also reminds me that I had only visited the storehouse on work events. Changed that in January and brought my brothers and Dad to the "connoisseur" experience. And it was well worth the outlay. Vip treatment, access to the secret bar, a 90 minute talk from an entertaining expert to a small group, practice pouring your own pint, after hours free reign to wander the museum and the free sky bar drink. A great day, I'll  not forget.

 

 

Is it time to resurrect this... well why not. I photograph enough beer. May as well use this as place to catalogue all of that. Again.  Plus, it's an opportunity to advocate for WSET beer awards. More on this to follow. So to start here are a few recent tiples 

One that was stuck in draft for 18 months!! Oops The Irish craft beer (and cider...icky) festival was held last weekend at the RDS. Greatest observation for me was that there were 40 odd all Irish stands. Dwarfing anything of recent times attended by any johny foreigner blow ins  ☺ Meeting friends. Some live music. Yummy festival food. Generally an "up" atmosphere all aligned to great beer, friendly knowledgable brewers and generous portions. Perfect saturday. Yes that is a whiskey glass. The caskmates jameson is mega