Irish Beer Snob Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

In this festive episode we suggest some beery presents to get for the beer lover in your life (or yourself!) that can allow you to spend as much or as little as you like!

Some of our favourite online beer shops are as follows; This isn't an exhaustive list

• Yards and Crafts
• Craft Central
• McHughs
• Bradleys in Cork
• Martins Off Licence

You can get more details on The Virtual Beer School here, and follow Natalya and reach out if you've any questions.

Details on the Mescan Belgian Brew Day can be found here or and of course you can follow Mescan on Twitter here 

We're looking forward to a nice Christmas, and wish you all a very happy holidays. We'll be back in 2023, with a guest in our new format show.

In this latest episode we look back on our beery fun since our last episode. 

We travelled to northern Spain for a break and enjoyed some great food and beers.

We shamelessly looked at Guy Sinnott's insta for inspiration, caution, this profile will make you hungry!

We're also looking forward to the next whiskey tasting in our favourite local bar Berminghams, you can get tickets here

We also have given a name to my ranty section, #waynerants

We hope you enjoy the show and get in touch with your feedback and thoughts, we've got a great guest coming to a future episode that we can't wait to share with you all. 

In this latest podcast, we are delighted to have been joined by Carla & Sean from Widestreet Brewing in Ballymahon, Co Longford. In what is one of our longest podcasts in ages, we have a good old chinwag about how the came into being, and how they've become part of the community in Ballymahon. We also need to speak about what Sean said.

While chatting away we enjoyed the following beers

• Mill Pils
• House Saison
• Cashmere IPA
• Peach Berliner Weisse

You can find out more about Wide Street here, you can buy Widestreet beers on Beer Cloud, and follow them on Social's on FB Twitter and IG

"What does an American Craft Beer Ambassador do?" - Well, we are delighted to have the lovely Lotte Peplow from the Brewer's Association to talk all things beer, and her journey in Beer. We have a good old chinwag.

What are your American Craft Beer memories? Let's face it, in Ireland we do look west for inspiration quite a lot.

In this latest episode of the Irish Beer Snob podcast, we attempt to answer question that no one has asked. Which is better, Aldi's Rheinbacher, in Can format or in bottles? 

To help us in our quest, we engaged the supreme beer tasting talents of John "The Beer Nut" to answer this question once and for all! We look back at John's blog when it started and how it's grown over the years. We also chat to him regarding http://beoir.org/ and his role there.

Follow The Beer Nut on Twitter to keep up with his hijinks.

In this latest episode we chat to Barry Flanagan, Owner of Kildare Brewing Company and Lock 13 Gasto pub in Sallins, Co Kildare and Rob Rainsford, Head Brewer of Kildare Brewing Company.

We chat about all things Kildare Brewing Company.

While chatting to the lads we drank a couple of cans of Lock Down IPA extended edition, which was brewed to raise funds for Naas Hospital during the Covid emergency.

You can find Kildare Brewing on Twitter, Instagram and their website here

In this latest podcast episode we have a good old chinwag with Stephen Clinch co - owner of Kildare's Trouble Brewing who along with Dungarvan Brewing are part of the core of Irish Craft Brewing scene and also celebrated their 10th birthday this year.

While we were chatting with Stephen we enjoyed the following Trouble Brewing beers;

• Ambush - Juicy Pale Ale
• Vietnow - IPA (Collaboration with Cassidy's / PMACs / Blackbird pub group)
• Speakerbox - DIPA

Trouble brewing are distributed by Grand Cru beers, and available nationwide in all good beer retailers.

Podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Stitcher Radio.

In this latest podcast episode, we have the pleasure of having a chat to Cormac from Dungarvan Brewing Company who have just celebrated their 10th Birthday. We chat about the last ten years and basically had a bit of craic with Cormac.

While recording we drank;

• Helvick Gold - Blonde Ale
• Copper Coast - Red Ale
• Comeragh Challenger - Bitter

Which are both widely available nationwide via their distributors Four Corners.

In this latest episode, Janice & Wayne chat to Liam Tutty, owner of Dead Centre Brewing from Athlone in Co. Westmeath.

We chat to Liam about his first year in operation, and what some of the highlights were.

We also chat to him about his latest brain child, www.beercloud.ie which is a new online shop which sells beers from breweries all across Ireland.

We drank beers from Dead Centre while recording;

• Teeny Tiny - Micro IPA
• SuperJuice - A NE IPA with Chia Seeds, Raspberry, Orange, Blueberry, Mango & Pineapple

In this latest episode, Janice & Wayne have a good old chinwag with Brian Cahill of Craic Beer Community which is a new online resource in Ireland for both brewers, and drinkers.

We chat about his 5 desert island beers, and what his plans for Craic Beer Community are. Including some really exciting plans that will come in the future.

We drank the following beers while chatting to Brian;

• White Hag - Róc Helles Lager
• Kinnegar - Scraggy Bay
• 8 Degrees - Black Ball Metric Stout (collaboration with Jameson)

You can connect with Brian on Twitter and Instagram