Bar of the Year announces the Southern Comfort People’s Choice Award. Recognising the Best Bars in Ireland as voted by you – the public! Select your favourite bar by province from Dublin, Leinster, Munster, Connacht/Ulster. All bars have been site inspected and shortlisted by our industry judges and now the voting [...]
Teeling Whiskey has announced the details of the second edition of ‘Dublin Rising’, a special event series that is being held to mark the coming of age of its award-winning distillery and the arrival of its Single Pot Still, the first Dublin distilled whiskey to be launched in over 40 years, later this year. Taking [...]
New Zealand Winegrowers has opened applications for the 2019 Sommit Scholarship for Sommeliers from the UK, Ireland and mainland Europe. First launched in 2015 with Sommeliers Australia, the scholarship is now a global initiative with the European sommeliers joining scholars from Australia, Asia, Canada, New Zealand and the USA in 2018. The New Zealand Wine [...]
It seems like a new music festival pops up every week. While some may appear to be in it for a fast buck, others like the KnockanStockan Music & Arts Festival, are clearly in it for the love of the music. The team behind the three-day event took 2017 off but are back with a [...]
BOOK YOUR TICKETS 2018 FINALIST PDF Finalists Announced Press Release 2018 Finalists BAR FOOD OF THE YEAR An Poitin Stil Co. Dublin Brownes Bar @ The Great Southern Hotel Killarney Kerry Broyage Bar & Bistro @ Hilton Dublin Kilmainham Dublin Lemon & Duke [...]
Smithwick’s Irish Ale have launched their first ever 330ml cans, featuring two of its beers, Smithwick’s Pale Ale and Smithwick’s Atlantic Blonde Ale. They are now available in retailers and off-licences across Ireland. The new 330ml can format is perfect for Smithwick’s drinkers who are looking for a more laid back drinking experience. The new packaging [...]
Walsh Whiskey Distillery has released the second expression in The Irishman Founder’s Reserve Cask Series, a limited edition finished in rum casks from the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia. The Irishman Founder’s Reserve - Caribbean Cask Finish, a super-premium whiskey, is a rare vatting of Single Pot Still and Single Malt whiskeys finished for 6 months in Chairman’s Reserve Rum casks. [...]
Bushmills Irish Whiskey is continuing its #BlackBushStories collaborative event series this summer, showcasing and celebrating the stories of Irish talent who have gone against the grain to follow their passion and become champions in their chosen field. A collaboration with Cork native, Rob Krawczyk, will see the chef and charcuterie master host a meat curing [...]
An EU-US trade war could devastate the Irish whiskey industry, according to the Irish Whiskey Association. The body, which represents Ireland’s rapidly expanding network of distillers, new and old, made the comment today at a major gathering of the all-island Irish whiskey industry at Bushmills Distillery in Co Antrim. If the current temporary exclusion of [...]
Irish Distillers’ Communications and Corporate Affairs Director, Rosemary Garth is to become the new head of the Drinks Industry Group of Ireland (DIGI), following an official meeting of the group this week. Ms. Garth assumes the role from outgoing Chairperson, Ms. Maggie Timoney of HEINEKEN Ireland, who is relocating to the US to take up [...]
