Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
Demos / Irish beer & cider / Sláinte: The Complete Guide to Irish Craft Beer and Cider
by Caroline · Published November 14, 2014 · Last modified September 5, 2017
The beer/cider vs wine smackdown at Savour Kilkenny? There was some serious argie bargie going on in the lead up to the event, especially from my team of dastardly valiant opponents, Ballymaloe wine lecturer Colm...
Irish beer & cider / Sláinte: The Complete Guide to Irish Craft Beer and Cider / Work
by Caroline · Published October 10, 2014 · Last modified September 5, 2017
Writing a book takes you down many different roads – and many of them, fortunately for us, lead to the fabulous festivals that are taking place around the country. Last weekend, Kristin and I...
Irish beer & cider / Sláinte: The Complete Guide to Irish Craft Beer and Cider
by Caroline · Published September 11, 2014 · Last modified September 5, 2017
The writing of Sláinte? That’s something that was mainly done in splendid isolation. When the girls were out of the house for preschool mornings, or late at night, with everyone else tucked up in...
Last year, I spent August doing beer tasting and cooking demos with the Theatre of Food at the Liss Ard, Tall Ships and Electric Picnic Festivals. Do it again for Electric Picnic 2013? Once...
Time to grab some beer and head out for a couple of events with Eight Degrees Brewing. First up, I’m taking part in a Slow Food East Cork event at Ballymaloe Cookery School tomorrow...
Do / Food Events / Irish beer & cider
by Caroline · Published August 24, 2012 · Last modified September 5, 2017
I’m doing a few Irish craft beer demos over the next couple of weekends with the Theatre of Food crew. This weekend I’m off to the Dublin Tall Ships festival with my partner-in-beer, Kristin...
Demos / Do / Irish beer & cider / Work
by Caroline · Published July 31, 2012 · Last modified September 5, 2017
If you’re around West Cork over the August Bank Holiday weekend, you might just want to take yourself along to Liss Ard 2012, a festival of music, literature, drama and (very importantly!) food. I’ll...
Something good just got better. Take your favourite chocolate brownie recipe, dot the brown, cocoa-rich batter with dollops of a simple vanilla cheesecake mixture, swirl and bake. Irresistible? They never seem to last long here....
