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Cooking Through the Year

A brand new brewery ‘Galway Bay Brewery’ is launching in Galway tomorrow Friday, November 25. Three new beers will be revealed on the night, a new porter (Stormy Port), a Pale Ale (Full Sail) and an ale-in-development (Strage Brew). The brewery will launch at 6pm at The Oslo in Salthill and is open to all.

The Galway Bay Brewery, a new microbrewery, will be launched tomorrow at 6pm at The Oslo in Salthill and the public is invited to attend.

In the year 1759, Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000-year lease on a disused brewery at St James’s Gate, Dublin, including water rights. To the delight of many, Arthur begins brewing porter and ale. And now, world-wide, each year, the remarkable legacy of Arthur Guinness, the creator of Guinness, is celebrated at 17.59pm, and this year it is Thursday next September 22.

The white flag has been raised and every racing cliché is under starter’s orders in media across the country as the thousands of punters flock to Ballybrit to have a flutter on the geegees. Every socialite (ie, anyone who can afford a new gúna) will be heading west. As the luvvies ship out, having swooned at Cillian M for two weeks, the cheap suits will dash in and locals grin nervously in a “smile cos it’s good for ya” sort of way. Yes, next week gives the region the cash boost — the fat on which we’ll live for the long lean winter. Yes, folks, forget the pools of puke and public displays of urination, ignore the traffic jams, the forced holidays, the smell of stale ale that hangs like a cloud over our heads and say “yes, this is all good for us. Offer it up, offer it up.” This is part of what we are. This is the diesel which drives the Galway engine, so grin and bear it and smile the smile of all smiles.

Contrary to recent media reports, job losses at St Francis Abbey Brewery in Kilkenny are voluntary redundancies that had been agreed with employees and unions last year.

Smithwicks ale which has been brewed for 300 years at St Francis Abbey Brewery in Kilkenny city, has consistently increased sales over the past 15 months despite the downturn in the economy.

ACCOMPLISHED MUSICIAN and band leader Tom Cussen grew up in the Broadford/Newcastle west area of Co Limerick – known locally as ‘the gateway to the south west of Ireland’ – in the early 1960s.

Kilkenny’s best known brew, Smithwick’s has been awarded two gold medals in the prestigious ‘Monde Selection Quality Selections 2010’ for both Smithwick’s Superior Irish Ale and the brand’s variant brewed for the American market.

To commemorate 300 years of brewing an official unveiling of the ‘300 years of Smithwick’s’ exhibition took place at Kilkenny’s historical St Francis Abbey Brewery, and the glitterati of Kilkenny were invited to join in the celebrations.