Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
A fabulous, feel-good beer festival in a deconsecrated Methodist church. Crunchy whitebait cichetti at Coppi. Instagram-perfect weekend brunches at Established Coffee, that taste even better than they look. Belfast, in 2017, was an exciting, fun, friendly, food-filled city...
When you get an email from The Gannet, asking you if you’d be interested in taking a couple of people on a tour of Cork city, with a particular focus on pubs and microbreweries,...
Demos / Irish beer & cider / Work
by Caroline · Published October 10, 2017 · Last modified November 12, 2018
When I did a drop off in Kilfinane on Thursday, I met Mike who had flown from Sydney to pick up a Hearsay Audio award for his A Nightmare before Christmas. Friday evening, at...
Demos / Irish beer & cider / Work
by Caroline · Published September 24, 2017 · Last modified October 9, 2017
Staker, Staker, you can’t catch me, Staker, Staker, you can’t catch me, Staker, Staker, you can’t catch me… Staker Wallace was the bogeyman of Kilfinane. Hanged, drawn and quartered in the revolutionary year of...
Demos / Do / Irish beer & cider
by Caroline · Published August 28, 2017 · Last modified September 5, 2017
This summer I’ve been working with Holy Smoke Cork on a series of beer and food nights, events where we showcase the best of Cork food and beer, with an occasional tot of local...
Demos / Sláinte: The Complete Guide to Irish Craft Beer and Cider
by Caroline · Published June 1, 2017 · Last modified September 5, 2017
This year’s beer and food event at Killarney Beerfest was a little different; I got to work with Chad Byrne, head chef at The Brehon, who cooked on site and presented a selection of...
We came, we learned, we ate, we caffeinated ourselves (regularly), we danced our legs off, we were challenged, inspired, motivated: #Litfest17 or, more precisely, A Food and Drinks Literacy Festival at Ballymaloe, was a...
Five years. Five years of learning and cooking and growing and inspiration and bringing the best of the world’s food writers to East Cork. Five years of the Ballymaloe LitFest. That’s where I’ve been moved by René...
