{"id":507,"date":"2013-04-17T13:10:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T13:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/?p=507"},"modified":"2014-11-10T10:13:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T10:13:11","slug":"the-craft-of-irish-beer-049-apr-2013-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banter.test\/the-craft-of-irish-beer-049-apr-2013-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Craft of Irish Beer (049, Apr 2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for a drink.\u00a0<strong>The Craft of Irish Beer<\/strong>, a Banter special as part of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bodytonicmusic.com\/beatyard\/\">Beatyard<\/a>\u00a0festival, will have a look at the growing Irish craft beer scene.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last couple of years, craft beer has gone from being a niche product to a serious player in the often over-commercialised world of beer. Tonight, we\u2019ll be looking at how and why this growth has occured, where the business is at the moment and, perhaps most importantly of all, where our speakers think we\u2019re heading in the next couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>The panel:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/thebeercellar\">Colin Hession<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lmulligangrocer.com\/\">L Mulligan Grocer<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wjkavanaghs.com\/\">WJ Kavanagh\u2019s<\/a>, Dublin),\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/metalman_gra\">Grainne Walsh<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/metalmanbrewing.com\/\">Metalman Brewing<\/a>, Waterford) and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lvPGdz9fRQQ\">Alex Lawes<\/a>\u00a0(homebrewer par excellence). It\u2019s a panel which reflects the diversity within the craft beer sector, featuring Alex, a new kid on the beer block brewing at home; Grainne, a brewer who has become an established player within just two years; and Colin, a chap who has done everything in the industry including running a wholesale operation, crafting his onw beers and opening his own bars.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/blogs\/ontherecord\/2013\/04\/17\/banter-on-the-books-and-banter-on-the-beer\/beer\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14251\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/blogs\/ontherecord\/files\/Beer-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A selection of craft beers at L Mulligan Grocer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The details: The Craft of Irish Beer takes place on Monday April 29 at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bodytonicmusic.com\/thetwistedpepper\/\">the Twisted Pepper<\/a>, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1. Doors open at 7.30pm and the conversation gets underway at 8pm sharp. Admission is \u20ac5 or \u20ac2 if you\u2019re a Bodytonic member and tickets are available\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bodytonicmusic.com\/events\/3760\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for a drink.\u00a0The Craft of Irish Beer, a Banter special as part of the\u00a0Beatyard\u00a0festival, will have a look at the growing Irish craft beer scene. Over the last couple of years, craft beer has gone from being a niche product to a serious player in the often over-commercialised world of beer. Tonight, we\u2019ll &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banter.test\/the-craft-of-irish-beer-049-apr-2013-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Craft of Irish Beer (049, Apr 2013)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}