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[quote:3k45lois]converting a derelict dairy on his Co Fermanagh farm into a brewery in a bid to recreate the taste enjoyed by the local monastic orders around 1,500 years ago.[/quote:3k45lois]

from here[/url:3k45lois]

This sounds cool. Anyone know more?

As a brewer, I admire what he is doing in attempting to recreate an ancient, pre hop beer. As someone who knows the Irish beer market, I would hate to be trying to sell it.

"a_friend_in_mead":1xrzl0p2 wrote: Anyone know more?[/quote:1xrzl0p2]Not me, but I see Blacckhawk hovering between the lines: it's the same business model and the exact same pilot brewery that Clanconnel used. I love the idea of Loughry as the incubator of new independent breweries. Someone should take the UCC people on a field trip to Cookstown...

[quote:21w6ey3r]Someone should take the UCC people on a field trip to Cookstown...[/quote:21w6ey3r]
Does anywhere else has these plants? DIT, UCD, Limerick universities?

Joe Public won't know whether hops are used in the beer or not as long as there is some form of bittering present. There's very little hop character in a hefe anyway so he has probably chosen a good style to experiment. If it doesn't work out he can revert to using hops and Joe Public will still be none the wiser <!-- s;) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt="" title="Wink" /><!-- s;) -->

&amp;quot;a_friend_in_mead&amp;quot;:3a3vfrdy wrote: [quote:3a3vfrdy]converting a derelict dairy on his Co Fermanagh farm into a brewery in a bid to recreate the taste enjoyed by the local monastic orders around 1,500 years ago.[/quote:3a3vfrdy]

from here[/url:3a3vfrdy]

This sounds cool. Anyone know more?[/quote:3a3vfrdy]

He was on Tom Dunn this morning, looks like he started out with one of those very fancy Brouwland systems