tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12501248.post7372830585953828379..comments2024-03-28T07:02:44.451+00:00Comments on The Beer Nut: Banished from these shoresThe Beer Nuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14105708522526153528noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12501248.post-87855451633169557252008-04-06T00:53:00.000+01:002008-04-06T00:53:00.000+01:00Celebration Stout has just popped up here, along w...Celebration Stout has just popped up here, along way from home. <BR/><BR/>http://themothersmilk.blogspot.com/2008/04/oysters-and-ireland.htmlKieran Haslett-Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04562970144894398803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12501248.post-17599651536790141212008-03-18T08:52:00.000+00:002008-03-18T08:52:00.000+00:00Eric, thankfully we don't have legal restrictions ...Eric, thankfully we don't have legal restrictions of Norway (though the government, much like in the UK, are working on that one). While export is indeed one means of survival, the better one in my opinion is to play up the local element: something Galway Hooker, a tiny operation who don't even bottle never mind export, do very well. We have a new microbrewery down in Kerry coming on-stream soon (hopefully), and if they have any sense they will aim for the tourists and the trad aficionados of Dingle and identify their beer as the one belonging To That Place. Conversely, you can't buy a pint of Carlow beer in any pub in Carlow.<BR/><BR/>Stonch, I think Irish brewers have a bit of a get-out clause here in that the Irish diaspora provides a ready-made specialty export market which offsets the tiddliness. Unfortunately, this has led to unscrupulous practitioners cutting out the brewing bit and getting beer contract brewed in any country they can, whacking a skiddly-eye Oirish label on it, and flogging it to the plastic paddies of Kilburn and Boston, as ranted about <A HREF="http://hop-talk.com/2007/09/02/beware-the-plastic-paddies/" REL="nofollow">here</A>. But then Diageo and Heineken have been at that racket for years...The Beer Nuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14105708522526153528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12501248.post-44719895126410563592008-03-18T00:07:00.000+00:002008-03-18T00:07:00.000+00:00The problem with that is that truly tiny breweries...The problem with that is that truly tiny breweries aren't producing the quantities that interest importers. Of course they can piggy back on other, larger breweries, or enter into some kind of co-op agreement with other tiddlers, but that creates its own costs.Stonchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15927490011165896353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12501248.post-32940283804359548362008-03-17T17:17:00.000+00:002008-03-17T17:17:00.000+00:00In regards to your comment about Carlow beers goin...In regards to your comment about Carlow beers going abroad, it's obvious that these businesses will send their product wherever they can market it. Unfortunately, what little Irish craft beer there is may be headed in other directions.<BR/><BR/>I mentioned in a <A HREF="http://relentlessthirst.blogspot.com/2008/03/shaky-ground.html" REL="nofollow">post/rant</A> on beer economics the idea that maybe exports could be just what some of these smaller brewers need to survive. This could help keep them afloat in order to spread the good beer gospel to their fellow countrymen when they want to give a listen.<BR/><BR/>But you're right, they have to want to listen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com