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"projects":1lrycdsu wrote: Hi All

Fantastic site & forum.

Perhaps too broad a question, but does anyone know the most Irish of Irish beers? As in, a drink that is made entirely from Irish grown ingredients, out of Irish soil?

Do farmers grow for brewery markets? Or are the raw ingredients mainly imported?

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there are no commercial hop growers in Ireland so if anyone uses Irish hops they grow their own, like apparently white gypsy and this rupert[/url:1lrycdsu] guy in cork, though I don't know to what extent his brewing is up and running. As far as malt goes, Greencore are a very large maltings that supply the likes of guinness, and Irish barley growers grow for them, but they just got sold to some french malting group. There is also an Irish maltster in Cork, but I don't know who uses them. I don't know if any of the independent brewers use irish malt, it's most likely more economical and convenient to order pallets from english and perhaps european maltsters. So to answer your question the majority of, if not all independent Irish owned and run breweries probably don't use any irish ingredients.

"RichieH":32qd8f84 wrote: perhaps european maltsters[/quote:32qd8f84]White Gypsy malt was certainly coming from Germany a couple of years back, though these things are probably very subject to change.