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I'd back John on this . For a brewery to be Irish I reckon the fermentation should be done in Ireland at the minimum . The ingredients have to be turned into beer here. A company can be Irish . It can also be a brewery . But to combine the two requires fermenting wort into beer in Ireland .

I don't think the computer manufacturing example applys to beer . They don't put a big made in Ireland sticker on the case, or claim the computer as 100% Irish as a selling point . So yep they can outsource all they want to acheive the best quality and price.


Thought occurred . Tullow oil is an Irish co. They never claim their oil is Irish though ......

"Wallacebiy":2prnh39a wrote: Thought occurred . Tullow oil is an Irish co. They never claim their oil is Irish though ......[/quote:2prnh39a]
Flip side. Bananas come in and spend some time ripening here, after which they can be called Irish bananas.

Question. If someone is importing English apples and turning them into cider... does that make it Irish cider?

"Tube":1rct4mnv wrote: If someone is importing English apples and turning them into cider... does that make it Irish cider?[/quote:1rct4mnv]Yes because the bit where the apples turn into cider happens here.

"TheBeerNut":3cwu4hdq wrote:

"Tube":3cwu4hdq wrote: If someone is importing English apples and turning them into cider... does that make it Irish cider?[/quote:3cwu4hdq]Yes because the bit where the apples turn into cider happens here.[/quote:3cwu4hdq]

same as all micro importing specialty malt into Ireland too

"TheBeerNut":1sg41io2 wrote:

"Tube":1sg41io2 wrote: If someone is importing English apples and turning them into cider... does that make it Irish cider?[/quote:1sg41io2]Yes because the bit where the apples turn into cider happens here.[/quote:1sg41io2]
But it doesn't really. It's still cider made from English apples. Like bananas ripened here can be called Irish bananas but they aren't really Irish bananas...

"Tube":odjtntip wrote: But it doesn't really.[/quote:odjtntip]Yes. It does.

"Tube":odjtntip wrote: Like bananas ripened here can be called Irish bananas but they aren't really Irish bananas...[/quote:odjtntip]Indeed they're not. Make a banana split with them, however, and it's an Irish banana split. The bit where the bananas became a banana split happened in Ireland.

At the end of ripening a banana is still a banana. Nothing added, nothing lost. It isn't a transformative process in the same way turning apples into cider is.