Athlone, a town situated on the banks of the River Shannon, literally in the middle of Ireland is about to get a new brewery. It's first brewery in many many years. Dead Centre Brewing, quite a clever name, and nice clean branding too.

We got to sit down with Liam Tutty, founder of Dead Centre brewing, to discuss his plans for opening a brewery in Athlone, his background and of course get a taste of their new Session Pale Ale, </Sourcecode> which was launched in The Malt House that evening.

After our interview, we got to see the plans of the new brewery, and to say it's ambitious would be an understatement, but it could very well be a template for similar across Ireland in similar sized towns. 

It's clear Liam believes strongly in local business, and supporting local as much as possible. We look forward to following his progress over the coming weeks and months. Give them a follow on twitter here , instagram , and their website here

In this latest podcast episode, we interview Francesca Slattery (Find Chess Here , Ireland account manager for Five Points Brewing  and taste some of Five Points Beers which will be brought into Ireland shortly

We are looking forward to the launch event in our favourite Dublin Bar, Underdog on February the 1st from 6pm.

In this long overdue episode, the Irish Beer Snobs look back on their recent trip to the UK. To visit Leeds, and Dark City in the Northern Monk Refectory. A festival dedicated to the beauty of darker beers.

We also revisit our trip to one of the best taprooms in the UK, the Magic Rock Tap, in Huddersfield.

Looking forward we look forward to the next few weeks where there is events taking place;

1. Fanah Fest - 8 Degrees, Mitchelstown, Co Cork link
2. Brew Na Boinne - Boyne Brewhouse, Drogheda, Co Louth link
3. Big Beery Night 2017 link

Thanks for listening

In this latest episode, The Irish Beer Snob team taste the new Hope Brewery special editions, a Tropical IPA, and Tropical Sour. 

We also look back at our recent visits to the Irish Craft Beer Festival in Dublin, and ABV Fest in Belfast.

Stay tuned to the end, and there's an interview with Thomas Delaney of Galway Bay, and new Irish Brewery, Land & Labour.

Thanks for listening, What festivals are you looking forward to?

In this latest episode, we look back at what we've been up to since the The White Hag's birthday bash

Whetting our whistle with a couple of Hillstown Brewery beers, courtesy of Instagram legend, and all round Nice Guy Antrim_Man

We also look forward to the upcoming festivals, as we hit peak beer fest season in Ireland. 

• Big Grill Festival
• Great Irish Beer Festival
• ABV Fest
• Irish Craft Beer Festival

Also be sure to follow Our Hoppy Travels on Instagram here

In this latest episode, we taste four of the range from one of the newest craft breweries in Berlin, BRLO. Thanks to Devin for sending over the samples. BRLO will be pouring along with many guest breweries at the White Hag - Hagstravaganza, get your tickets here

Ticket info for the Greg Koch events in Dublin and Galway are here

We also posed a question about are consumers, craft beer, and normal, best served by exclusively craft beer bars

https://twitter.com/irishbeersnob/status/881607168222515202

We also catch up with the news from the Irish Beer Scene, and look back at the last while in terms of events and beers we've had.

Thanks for listening, Janice & Wayne

A live recording of our night in Ranelagh's Taphouse on June 22nd (http://taphouse.ie/) for the launch of Whiplash's two newest beers, Saturate, and Body Riddle. 

The panel for the Q & A were Alex Lawes, Head Brewer Whiplash, David Guilfoyle, Head Brewer Trouble Brewing, Kevin McKinney, Co - Owner / Brewer Stone Barrel, and Colin Hession, Owner of L Mulligan Grocer Gastropub

Hope you enjoy the show!

In this episode we see the return of Irish Beer Snob team, Janice and Wayne.

Wayne freshly recharged from finishing his college course, is raring to go.

In this episode we review the following beers from Brewdog;

• The Physics Amber Ale 5%
• 5am Saint American Red 5%
• Original Punk IPA 2007 6%
• Punk IPA 5.6%

We also tackle Tasting Nitch's Frequently asked beer questions, you can see how she answered here https://youtu.be/OU7bBhc6dKk 

Upcoming events;

O'Briens Naas Beer Festival https://www.facebook.com/events/419454295096893/ 

Killarney Beer Fest http://inec.ie/gig/killarney-beerfest-17-05-26/ 

South Main Ale Trail Wexford https://www.facebook.com/events/1182630808514521/ 

Also don't forget to check out new beery podcast NE Sippin Forecast https://northeastsippinforecast.com/ from our good mate Myles Lambert of Newcastle upon Tyne

In this latest episode we look back on our recent trip to Sheffield for Sheffield Beer Week, and the Beer Now Conference. 

We also chat about the #CraftDrinksBill that has gone to committee stage in our parliament which will enable breweries to operate Taprooms. 

Keep listening at the end, as we've an interview with Bob Pease, the CEO of the Brewers Association. He was a truly engaging interviewee and we have an exclusive announcement in the interview too.

This is the second part of an epic collaboration with our good friends Steve and Martin over at Hopinions which you can check out the first part here

Here we look deeper in to things about Beer Festivals, and cover a wide and varied range of subjects in this space.

Get in touch with us and your thoughts on beer festivals! Use the hashtags #Hopical & #Hopinions

In this episode of the podcast, we look back at the 2017 instalment of the Alltech Craft Brews & Food Festival which took place in Dublin's convention centre.

We also review Brewdog's NE IPA Collab with Cloudwater.

Coming up we are releasing an episode with Hopinions http://www.beeroclockshow.co.uk/

Our friend Simon Broderick has got a blog up about the event here too

In our return to Podcasting in 2017, your intrepid duo, taste a beer by Kelly's Mountain Brewing called, Reality Bytes, a sturdy 7% Double IPA.

We also talk about our collaboration with The Beer Club and how you can join in #BeerClubIE

Thanks to you all for engaging in #Hopical and sharing your New Beers Resolutions.

So 2016 has been a tumultuous year, we've had terror attacks, Trump, Brexit, and the passing of some extremely talented people. But it's not been all bad! 

Here, we look back over these past 12 months with our beery hats on, looking back on the events and festivals we were at, continued catching up with our beery friends, and looking forward to what mysteries 2017 will bring.

Thank you to all our readers and listeners for following us this year, whether it's on our Social Media Platforms, or even if it's just reading our blog and listening to our podcast. What would you like to see from Team Irish Beer Snob in 2017. Get in touch.

Here we have the audio of our most recent #BeeryChats episode, we have on our panel Matthew Dick of www.boundarybrewing.coop who guides us through the history of the brewery and the scene in NI

Also on the panel were Colin, from Ireland Craft Beers, Martin of the Hopinions Podcast, and Cormac from Honest Brew.

In this episode, we have a taste of Carlsberg : Rebrew after attending a Dublin event back in August, we were given a couple of bottles to take home.

You can also read Pete McKerry's take on it all here

We also talk about this episodes #Hopical section about our favourite Tap Rooms. Some great places mentioned. 

We also catch up on our beery adventures over the last couple of weeks.

Yes a blatant rip off of a recent Brewdog post, but hey, I like it.

In this podcast episode we taste a new seasonal offering from Stone Berlin in the form of Xocoveza, a spiced mocha stout. Brought in by Fourcorners. We also dip into the Beer Snob cellar and bring out Buxton's Living End, a bourbon barrel aged imperial stout. 

We look back over the last couple of weeks, and the Irish version of #BigBeeryNight16, and we have left the giving page open until Friday 18th November, and you can find it here

It's a happy coincidence that most folk in the Irish micro brewing industry are of the sound sort. Many are happy to chat away, and talk about their love of all things beer.

We're delighted to have been able to sit down with Alex Lawes, the Head Brewer of Rye River Brewing, brewers of The McGargles range. Not only has Alex overseen the stabilisation of the recipes of the McGargles beers, he's also delivered the coup de grace of Francis Big Bangin IPA, which has quite frankly, made a number of people eat their words.

He's also overseeing a range of brands for Dunne's Stores (Grafters) and Lidl (The Crafty Brewing Co) and these beers have been punching well above their weight, none so much as the Pale Wheat Ale which I wrote about here

In this interview we cover a wide range of subjects but most importantly, an exclusive reveal of the next Whiplash Beer. After Alex teased us all with this a couple of weeks ago.

In this latest episode the Irish Beer Snob take on Lagunitas' Brewing Wilco Tango Foxtrot, imperial brown ale. 

In this episodes #hopical section we tackle that annual question regarding pumpkin beers;

We have uploaded the audio from our Youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D8DPpuPJDk of #BeeryChats which will allow you to listen to the hour or so that we recorded tasting two beers from 8 Degrees of Cork.

Our panel of Bob & Sarah Maxfield from Midlands Beer Blog Collective, Ruari O'Toole of Ruari O'Toole Blog, Steve Bentall of Hopinions joined us with Cam from 8 Degrees for a live tasting of IPA Citra, and The Full Irish.

Sláinte 

In this latest podcast episode we taste two new beers to the Irish Market, that are being brought in by distributor Four Corners.

We are tasting from Beavertown's new Core Range IPA, Lupuloid, and also Brewdog's mango and chilli IPA, Neon Overlord.

We also look back on our weekend in Manchester, where we attended the fifth Independent Manchester Beer Convention, affectionately known as Indyman.

We have a post Indyman roundtable with Steve from Hopinions and young whipper snapper Paul  from Edinburgh where we review together our experience

Sadly we were unable to stay due to work commitments, but we said we'd go down anyway. We threw the usual script out and Jason joined us as a guest to chat through his journey from home brewer to being head brewer at the award winning Wicklow Brewery. 

The food in the pub is also top notch, and very reasonably priced. A wide range of starters and Main courses. Of course the Beeramisu was in the dessert menu! 

We'd highly recommend visiting this brewery, and doing the tour, the staff and team are very friendly. They are rightly proud and passionate of the beers being produced on site and are a huge asset to the brewery, and bar. Tours can be arranged, just contact the brewery directly here

In this latest episode, the Irish Beer Snob team taste test, three beers from Boyne Brewhouse from Drogheda, County Louth (Meath) 

We taste their Three Core Beers;

• Long Arm, a 4.8% Dortmunder Export
• Pagan's Pillar, a 4.8% Copper Ale
• Born in a Day, a 4.8% Australian Pale Ale

We also have a look back at our recent trip to Holland, and a look forward to this weeks upcoming Irish Craft Beer Festival and we asked you what you were looking forward to #Hopical

The information on the Bru Brewery event is here

In a special bonus podcast episode, while on a sneaky visit to Wexford, the Irish Beer Snob duo, met up with Enya & Danny of The Bottle Podcast to have a chinwag and basically beery banter.

Throw in Yellowbelly's Head Brewer Declan into the mix and it was an absolute hoot. While shooting the breeze, the table shared Cloudwater DIPA V6 & V7 thanks to Declan.

Have a listen, and let us know what you think.

This weeks episode, is all about Goin' out West.

Galway, is a city on the west coast of Ireland, that is world famous for a few things, it's Oyster Festival, it's Arts Festival, and of course the week of the Galway Races each July. Horses, Craic, and Gambling.

It's home also to the Galway Bay Brewery, who recently, like many Irish sports teams, athletes, and food producers, have been punching above their weight on an international stage over the years. So much so they took home Bronze for their Sweet Milk Stout, Buried at Sea at the recent World Beer Cup. Those who fancied a flutter before hand could have even got the inside line if they found this article in time! 

It seems that every year when the Galway Bay Brewery bus tour was on, Janice & I would always be away. So it was just our luck this year when we were able to go on this years trip.

So in this podcast, we're going to taste this award winning beer, and chat about the latest news in the Irish Beer Scene, and our most recent #Hopical topic.

The link to the World Beer Awards winners is here

In this latest episode, Wayne and Janice try 3 new beers from Northern Monk who are based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. 

Tune in to hear their thoughts on three beers, all in cans. Communion, a Pale Ale made in Collaboration with Swedish band Opeth, Heathen, an IPA, and 822 a Double IPA

There is also the latest news from around the Irish Beer scene, along with some medals being hauled at the Great Taste Awards. 

Please spare a second to vote for our friends, Bob & Sarah Maxfield from Birmingham who are part of the Midlands Beer Blog Collective who've been nominated under the "Best Blog" category you can vote here

Also vote for your favourite Irish Craft Beer Bar by following this link https://baroftheyearawards.secure-platform.com/a/page/finalists2016

We also chat about this episodes #Hopical Content - What's on your Beery Bucket list?