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I'm creating this list to track beers that are being shipped around-the-globe or significantly out of their way before being imported into Ireland.

There's no reason to kill the planet by burning fuel to ship beer around the world. (And the beer quality often suffers because of it, too.)

If you find a beer that you know is brewed in another country and the label indicates that it was imported to another even further away country before being shipped to Ireland please place the information in this thread.



Adam

Beer Retailer: Edited for now
Importer (to Ireland): unknown

Beer: There is no Santa", Brewdog
Beer Brewed and Bottled in: Fraserburgh, Scotland

Beer then imported to: Norway/Sweden "Cask Norway AB", "Cask Sweden AB"




Adam

Here's one more to keep an eye out for, I can't remember where I purchased it any more so I won't post the retailer but I have seen these bottles in multiple places in Dublin so keep an eye out for it.
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Note: There are plenty of places that appear to be legitimately importing the beer direct from Scotland and include Ginger on the ingredient list; I'm not saying that every bottle of Williams Brother's Midnight Sun Porter in Ireland is imported with 8,000+ km of travel. [/i:2jox9n4h]


Beer: Williams Brother's, Midnight Sun Porter
Brewery Location: Alloa, Scotland
Imported via: United States

Indicator: The version of Midnight Sun Porter that is brewed in Scotland for the non-US market includes ginger as an ingredient. The USDA did not allow Williams Brothers to import their beer with "non-brewing ingredients" in it so they make a separate version of the porter without ginger, and with a different label that does not list ginger as an ingredient.

It has been confirmed by the Williams Brothers brewery that bottles of Midnight Sun Porter that do not include ginger on the ingredient list are designed for and likely first exported to the United States and reimported back into Ireland through a US channel.


Not only is this HUGELY wasteful of CO2 I can certainly say that the beer is not as "bright and light" tasting without ginger; it's just not the same beer.

If it doesn't have ginger on the label report it here and don't buy it!



Adam

How do you know that it has been exported via another country? Sometimes I've come across a beer with a label in the wrong language (Nogne O bought in Oslo but the label indicated the bottle was destined for the US), but that doesn't mean that the beer has travelled the world it can also mean that the brewer just shipped it with the wrong label.

"brian_c":17gpfazu wrote: How do you know that it has been exported via another country? Sometimes I've come across a beer with a label in the wrong language (Nogne O bought in Oslo but the label indicated the bottle was destined for the US), but that doesn't mean that the beer has travelled the world it can also mean that the brewer just shipped it with the wrong label.[/quote:17gpfazu]

See previous post where I discussed the issue with the brewery.

There are also PLENTY of beers in Ireland that when you talk to the brewery owner about trying their beers in Ireland they'll indicate that they have no official distribution channel to Ireland for their beer and it comes as a complete surprise (normally a happy surprise) that there beers are available here. -There's PLENTY of evidence of sketchy distribution being done but I could care less about that. I just don't want to support beer being shipped around the globe the wrong way before making it here, especially at the prices that are being charged for imported bottles in the first place.


Do I KNOW for certain that beers other than the William's Brother's beer are being imported via extremely long paths? -Nope, but there's plenty of people who read this forum who DO have more visibility into this stuff and I know of no better way to get to the bottom of it.

Increased transparency is a good thing either way.


Adam

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