Every brewery is on a journey. They take on a life of their own and despite thousands of breweries the world over, no two are alike. Each will have its own signature routine for mashing in, the types of tanks it has, cleaning routines, bottling lines, what hops it uses, smells and of course, beers. […] |
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Hello. We are Munster Brewery. We come from a place that’s pretty cool. Stretched along 3 miles of beach, holiday makers flock here during the summer. In winter, the stormchasers brave the 20 foot high waves as they crash over the local park. This place drips with history going back centuries. Hangings, floggings and rebellions […] |
Collins Bakery is one of those Youghal treasures – a traditional delicatessen and bakery, just opposite the local Post Office. The smell of fresh bread wafting out the door of a bakery in the morning has to be one of life’s ways of reminding us it’s the little things that count. It’s a pretty regular […] |
Enjoying the good weather lately? Us too. After a long winter, the first glorious heat of the summer sun would put a smile on even the grumpiest of people. Lambs are frolicking in the fields, barren earth is suddenly bursting with the shoots of new growth, our hops are winding up their support lines to […] |
What a week it’s turning out to be. After months and months of planning, months and months of building, plumbing, wiring and fabricating, months and months of brewing (well, fermenting and conditioning to be precise), the time has come to take the plunge and launch. We’re hugely conscious we’ll probably never get to write that […] |
Ireland is very much in the early days of what is a craft beer revolution. Craft beers are well established in the UK and America, Europe is well served, but Ireland has been lagging behind the trend in the last few years. Which is surprising when you consider the reputation Ireland has for both food […] |
Is it too late to write down the list of resolutions for 2014? With so much going on this blog post is running late but like everything else around the brewery, it does get done in time! A flick back on these at the end of the year will be epic or face palming. We’re […] |
It’s been stormy, cold and generally very wintery around the brewery – not much surprise there then given that we’re in the early days of January. But to every cloud there is a silver lining – the cold is great for fermenting our current beers saving us a few bob on running the coolers! Score! |
Thought it would be interesting for others thinking of starting up a brewery to blog about various topics. Today: Packaging for bottles! What should be a relatively simple process soon gets bogged down in self doubt, gets tied up in marketing and gets held up with lead times. |
There’s been a whole host of costs in setting up the brewery. Some very predictable (tanks, rates, grains etc), others not so much (two pumps blew…what are the odds?). |