Rick O'Shea

It’s been a while, so. My latest in the series of “here’s a few craft beers I’ve tried recently you might like as well“. With a few extra bits. Thus these are all well worth your tipple and very nice indeed… I then had this pressed into my palms by the lovely guys at the Blackrock Cellar. This one is a *stunning* beer and you should seek it out. Wowsers. On top of that I dragged Michael and Cormac to the new hostelry in Donnybrook a couple of weeks ago. Arthur Mayne’s is a Dublin offshoot of a place in […]

As part of my continuing efforts to drink at least one of every craft beer known to man (usually pale ales and IPAs to be honest) here are the latest things I liked at home *and* on one particular night out.         Alfie Byrne’s is under the Conrad Hotel, opposite the NCH and has craft on tap galore, a pool table, a ping pong table, great food and had free tables the Saturday night we were in. Top stuff.  

The latest in my continuing “I wonder what that tastes like?” odyssey. All of these? Well worth your time.                 Oh yeah, this one deserves special mention. Mountain Man from Cork, if only for their label…

So this is “post” number 3 in a very meandering occasional series about craft beers I’m stumbling across (sometimes literally!) and liking. Check out parts ONE and TWO if you missed them… The criteria is the same as it always is – beers I bought, tried, liked and I think are worth a try on your part. They’re all Irish. These were all very pleasant indeed…   Sadly the Beoir one isn’t on public sale, just one the lads brewed for themselves that they were kind enough to let me have a couple of bottles of. The Franciscan Well one […]

I was interviewed by Hot Press recently. Not so weird. It was about drinking craft beer. Niiiiiice…