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All systems go! Launching the IBD’s new interactive web-based training

01/05/2018

Keeping up with a rapidly changing world is challenging for all of us and the IBD has been fortunate to regularly attend the global Learning Technologies Conference in London to learn not only what big companies but also dynamic membership organisations are doing to remain effective and deliver quality adult learning.

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Dublin gold - The Alltech Craft Brews and Food Fair

By: Gerry McGovern

01/05/2018

The annual Alltech Craft Fair came along at the usual time of the year, from the 8th to the 10th of March, right in the middle of the Six Nations Rugby Tournament! As usual the Irish Rugby Union had kindly organised a game which could be displayed on the giant TV screens at the fair. This year it was to be Scotland versus Ireland, a match which Ireland won as it strode to a stunning overall Grand Slam in 2018.

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Glenmorangie re-visited - Developments on the Dornoch Firth

By: Billy Mitchell

01/05/2018

My fi rst 2018 distillery visit in Scotland takes me 190 miles due north up the A9 on a beautiful late February afternoon, through the highlands via Perth, Aviemore and Inverness – to my overnight destination of Dornoch – lying on the north shore of the Dornoch Firth. The snow-covered mountains to the west and east of the A9 are a stark reminder of how quickly the weather can change in this area.

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Wellington welcomes the world

By: Gary Blomeley

01/05/2018

Explore the Past to Discover Our Future. The 35th IBD Asia Pacific Convention was held in Wellington New Zealand from 19th to 23rd of March 2018 and exceeded all expectations. So much of what happened in the technical sessions really embraced the conference theme of ‘Explore the Past to Discover Our Future’.

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Brewing on the border - The Dundalk Bay Brewery

By: Gerry McGovern

01/05/2018

Only sixty miles north of Dublin in County Louth is one of the least-known scenic jewels in the islands of Great Britain and Ireland. The Carlingford Lough area straddles the Republic of Ireland/Northern Ireland border and its breathtaking beauty is a closely-guarded secret of those in the know.

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Brewing from Scratch - Foraging for ingredients in Southern Illinois

By: Joseph Bevan

01/05/2018

Foraged brewing is a modern reinvention of a near forgotten tradition. Before the advent of hops as a mainstay in beer production, a mixture of locally sourced herbs, known as gruit, provided beers bitterness and aroma (and still does to this day in some beers).

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The very latest Trends - A report from the 13th International Trends in Brewing symposium

By: Rob Evans

01/05/2018

Attendees of the 13th International Trends in Brewing symposium were greeted to the city of Ghent, Belgium, by spring sunshine, an exciting itinerary of lectures and events and a very warm welcome by our hosts at KU Leuven’s Institute for Beer Research.