Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
Culture File on RTÉ Lyric FM / Irish beer & cider / Radio / Work
by Caroline · Published August 4, 2015 · Last modified June 15, 2016
Some people call him the “Robert Parker of beer” – but you couldn’t hold that against US craft beer guru and raconteur Garrett Oliver. He’s also an award-winning brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery and the author of...
Food Events / Irish beer & cider / Sláinte: The Complete Guide to Irish Craft Beer and Cider
by Caroline · Published July 15, 2015 · Last modified September 8, 2017
Any excuse to visit Belfast, right? After a gap of 13 years, I was blown away by the quality of food when I went there in January. I jumped at the chance to return...
Food Events / Irish beer & cider / Read
by Caroline · Published May 8, 2015 · Last modified October 25, 2017
Counting down the days? I am! The Kerrygold Ballymaloe Literary Festival of Food & Wine (and other good things!) is kicking off this day week, Friday 15 May, and running for that entire weekend. I’ll...
Never mind your green beer or big brand stout! Irish craft beer is the thing to drink – or bake with – this St Patrick’s Day. Incorporate some good craft porter or stout into...
I wrote a feature on the new world of Irish craft beer for the Irish Independent Weekend magazine last Saturday to coincide with the Alltech Craft Brews and Food Fair in Dublin’s Convention Centre....
Irish beer & cider / Sláinte: The Complete Guide to Irish Craft Beer and Cider
by Caroline · Published February 26, 2015 · Last modified September 5, 2017
Would you take wine recommendations from these people? Doerthe Woltermann, vice president of the Dublin Ladies Craft Beer Society and the Lovin’ Dublin beer correspondent, Wayne Dunne aka Irish Beer Snob, Kristin “Edible Ireland”...
Irish beer & cider / Sláinte: The Complete Guide to Irish Craft Beer and Cider
by Caroline · Published February 1, 2015 · Last modified September 5, 2017
Stop! What are you doing on Tuesday? Yes, this Tuesday, 3 February. Will you be anywhere around Galway – or can you make it there? Sign up for the Foodie Forum at GMIT, an...
by Caroline · Published December 16, 2014 · Last modified December 1, 2020
Sometimes when you taste a beer, you just know what it’s destined for. Rich and smooth, with complex coffee and cocoa flavours, one sip of Russian Imperial Stout from the lads at the brewery...
