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"TheBeerNut":2q5v14km wrote: Six months to get the water supply issue sorted, eh?[/quote:2q5v14km]Wikipedia says Arranmore does have reliable piped water. Am I imagining that a certain editor of this site mentioned that it didn't?

"Westbrew":fjvgxw69 wrote: Did anyone at ICB hear from them?[/quote:fjvgxw69]
Nope. I thought the section on Arainn Mór in Iorwerth's (I know I spelt it wrong!) book on brewing in Ireland was interesting. He had it that they were in startup mode, and the next step was to set up a visitors centre on the Island, and eventually a brewery. The cynical might say that this is just a way of getting grant aid (as the visitors centre would come before the brewery), but it will certainly be interesting to see how the brews would taste after the brewing process has migrated from it's native Belgium.

"sbillings":12vauk0s wrote: As to the brewery, I'll believe it when I see it.[/quote:12vauk0s]I trawled back through the old thread on it on Boards and it was mentioned there that when and if production on the island gets up and running it'll only be very small. I'd imagine that "Brewed in the EU" won't be disappearing from the labels.

It sounds a bit like the Montieth's model in NZ, whereby a tiny amount is brewed at the visitors centre out in the sticks, but most of the same stuff is also produced up at the parent company's industrial plant near the population centres.