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Craft Distilling Expo, London - Bill Owens brings together the cream of craft distilling for the fifth time

01/11/2017

October saw the return of the Craft Distilling Expo to the atmospheric surroundings of London’s Brick lane – and the old Truman Brewery’s boiler house.

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Ireland’s west is awake! The thriving breweries of Galway

By: Gerry McGovern

01/11/2017

On the far west coast of Ireland, Galway and its hinterland have long been associated with magnificent and magical vistas of nature at its best, vaporous mists and mischievous fairies. The West’s Asleep, often (but incorrectly) also called The West’s Awake, by Thomas Davis, is one of the anthems of mid-19th century Irish nationalists, and is considered by many the Galway anthem. The area is also known far and wide around the world mostly through the gently crooning tones of Bing Crosby in his famous rendition of the song Galway Bay.

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Green solutions for medium to small brewers and distillers

By: Joseph Bevan

01/11/2017

Smaller is not always greener when it comes to beverage production. Business owners are having to learn how to maximise resources to defeat climate change. A thriving ecosystem of unique partnerships is beginning to grow – intent on nurturing both success and nature.

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Scanning the horizon - Is RFID the future for barrel management?

By: Brendan Flood

01/11/2017

Long established as the default solution for barrel tracking in whisky production, barcodes appear to be under threat from a hi-tech competitor; the much-hyped Radio- Frequency Identification system (RFID), which doesn’t require a scanner to directly point at a tag, and is perceived to offer the ability to read multiple tags at a time.

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Welcome to Wellington! Absolutely positively the craft beer capital of New Zealand

By: Neil Miller

01/11/2017

There was quite some controversy when Wellington first boldly declared itself to be the Craft Beer Capital of New Zealand. As a Wellington local and enthusiastic patron of these products, I concluded after considerable research, that the claim was valid then and that the case is rapidly growing stronger.

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Sleeping giant - Talking terroir, with Mark Reynier of Waterford Distillery

By: Dan Griffiths

01/11/2017

On the bankside of the river Suir, on the outskirts of Waterford, Ireland, lies a remarkable distillery that is quietly preparing to make a few ripples, and perhaps some waves, on the smooth waters of Irish whisky – the absent ‘e’ being just the first small pebble dropped into the pool.