Rick O'Shea

And yes, I’m conscious that title makes it sound like a beer and an octopus mated. About time for another one of my rambling “here are a few new craft beers that I’ve had recently that i think you might like too” posts, no? Although, to be fair, it’s far from the first time I’ve had a Sierra Nevada… As well as that I was in P Mac’s pub over on Lower Stephen’s Street for the first tim q couple of weeks ago. Love what’s n offer, nice vibe and the snugs on the left hand side as you go […]

Look, it’s just been a while since I stuck one of these up, right? All of the ones below have been tried and are worth your time.                             As for the below, I did warn you just how good White Hag’s beers were at the recent Craft Beer Festival, save to say that a few weeks ago we ended up in L. Mulligan and this is a *dangerously* driinkable beer. Waaaaay too drinkable. I was also on holliers recently, tried all of the below and they are incredible in […]

What a genuinely brilliant night. I’ll be honest, before I went to my first Irish Craft Beer Festival in the RDS last Saturday night I had a tiny inkling that it might resemble Temple Bar and thus be very, very not for me. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Nice people, nice chats, music, laughs, loads of decent food and some incredible beers. Next year again, lads? I decided to take pics of each beer I sampled, remember each was a 250ml glass 🙂 And then there was White Hag… I was grabbed (in the nicest possible way!) by Bob and asked if […]

Beer? M’kay. A couple of things for you to peruse. All of these I only tried in the last few weeks and are lovely…                             And then there was California. We were over there doing the radio show for a couple of days so naturally I used my spare time to do a little beer tourism too. Both of these are decent and widely available.   Out of all the places I had recommended, Mikeller’s was the one I heard about most. Luckily it was just down […]

Here’s the offer. If you’re exhibiting at the Craft Beer Festival in the RDS this weekend, tweet me any special offers you have, special brews you’ve made, just what you’re up to in the RDS. I’ve almost 40,000 followers, I’ll RT all of ’em. Why? Why not? Simple as. Go – @rickoshea EDIT – Make sure you get them to me early – I won’t be online anytime after 4.30 on Friday. I don’t do internetz at the weekend 🙂

Right. I was on holidays for a few days in Scotland (not on any craft beer-related trip I hasten to add!) and ended up having a few here and there along with an astonishing coincidence… Made sense to stick them all in one place… First things first – these are all available at M&S. I wouldn’t normally be in there in Ireland but necessity must and these were pretty decent… even the one from the Co-op. I was on an open top bus tour in Edinburgh and my head nearly snapped round when I realised that Brewdog run their own pubs! I’ll […]