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Posted on Jan 31, 2012 in Brewing and beer, Do, Life | 6 comments

Memorable food of 2011

Memorable food of 2011
2011? Phew! A crazy, crazy year. Still, after a relatively calm January, I’ve finally had a chance to gather together my favourite food memories of the last 12 months. *** Eight Degrees Beer: the first sip of our Howling Gale Ale at the Franciscan Well Easter Beer Fest – declared ready just the...
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Posted on Dec 14, 2011 in Bake, Brewing and beer, Demos | 2 comments

RDS cookery demo: Caramel Ale Sauce

RDS cookery demo: Caramel Ale Sauce
When I first developed the recipe for this sauce I was looking for a way to use the seasonal beers that appear in the run up to Christmas.  And then Eight Degrees Winter Ale, made with a specially fragrant spice blend from Green Saffron, turned out to be so popular that there wasn’t even a random...
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Posted on Dec 9, 2011 in Bake, Brewing and beer, Demos, Work | 6 comments

RDS cookery demo: Chocolate and Knockmealdown Porter Brownies

RDS cookery demo: Chocolate and Knockmealdown Porter Brownies
Rich dark chocolate + full-flavoured malty porter = the most lusciously moist brownies. Enjoy! Chocolate and Knockmealdown Porter Brownies A dark, full-bodied beer is a good balance to the chocolate in these brownies. I use Knockmealdown Porter here but Dungarvan Black Rock Irish Stout, Porterhouse Plain or...
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Posted on Dec 6, 2011 in Bake, Brewing and beer, Demos, Work | 9 comments

RDS cookery demo: Cheese and Herb Beer Bread

RDS cookery demo: Cheese and Herb Beer Bread
Last week I was up in Dublin for the National Crafts & Design Fair in the RDS, doing a couple of demonstrations on the Cooks Academy stage  in the Food Emporium. The title of my demo was Baking with Irish Craft Beer and I had a lot of fun using beers from Eight Degreesto develop recipes for Cheese and...
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Posted on Oct 18, 2011 in Brewing and beer, Do, Food Events | 0 comments

It’s all about the (Eight Degrees Brewing) beer

It’s all about the (Eight Degrees Brewing) beer
A few Eight Degrees Brewing and beer-related updates… We all – the Husband’s parents are visiting at the moment – gathered around the radio on Sunday morning to hear the Aussie do us proud as he talked about Eight Degrees Brewing on Today FM’s Sunday Business Show. Also on the...
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Posted on Aug 25, 2011 in Brewing and beer, Radio, Work | 0 comments

Lyric fm: Cloud Festival

Lyric fm: Cloud Festival
When I travelled to the first Irish Cloud Festival which took place in Skibbereen at the end of June, I was wearing two hats. The car was loaded up with cases of Sunburnt Irish Red from Eight Degrees Brewing for delivery to the West Cork Hotel, where we had held a beer and food matching event earlier that...
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Posted on Jul 21, 2011 in Brewing and beer | 3 comments

Howling Gale in the news

Howling Gale in the news
Saturday was a red letter day for the Eight Degrees Brewing boys. Bright and early I got a Very Excited phone call from the Husband who had just arrived at the cottage – we’re onto the painting stage now, undercoating upstairs while the carpenter does his final sawing and fitting downstairs (and my...
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Posted on Jul 11, 2011 in Brewing and beer, Do, Food Events | 4 comments

Savouring beer, food – and clouds

Savouring beer, food – and clouds
Cloud spotting and craft beer? It’s all about savouring the moment – and savouring the flavours – according to the Eight Degrees Brewing Husband at the start of the beer and food matching event, which was held in Skibbereen last week to raise funds for the Irish Cloud Festival. Our aim, and this...
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Posted on Jul 4, 2011 in Brewing and beer, Do, Food Events | 6 comments

Cloud spotting – and beer: Thursday 7 July

Cloud spotting – and beer: Thursday 7 July
Just back from some down time near Union Hall – but I have a good excuse to head west again this week. The Husband and I will be at the West Cork Hotel in Skibbereen on Thursday, 7 July, for a craft beer and food matching evening. The event is being organised by Sally McKenna of The Bridgestone...
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Posted on Jun 10, 2011 in Brewing and beer, Do, Food Events | 6 comments

Bloom 2011 – and beer

Bloom 2011 – and beer
Howling Gale Ale from Eight Degrees Brewing, TJ Crowe‘s pulled pork rolls and Ed Hick‘s bacon jam: good things to drink, eat and take home from Bloom 2011. It was a weekend of appreciating good food and, from my homebase in the beer tent (or Bloom Inn, to give it its correct name) lots of great...
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Posted on May 30, 2011 in Brewing and beer, Cook, Do | 0 comments

Eight Degrees Brewing at the Kildorrery International Food Fair

Eight Degrees Brewing at the Kildorrery International Food Fair
There might be some Sunday mornings when it feels like a good idea to take ten kilos of lamb mince and turn it into enough burgers to feed 400 people but I’m not sure if last Sunday was the one. The Husband was jet-lagged to the eyeballs after arriving back from China the day before, I was wrecked...
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Posted on May 13, 2011 in Brewing and beer | 4 comments

Eight Degrees Brewing on Bia Beag

Eight Degrees Brewing on Bia Beag
To learn more about the Eight Degrees Brewing branding, Keith Bohanna has a guest post over on Bia Beag written by Erik Johansson from The Green Man Studio. The Husband was chuffed at idea of having a “soft antipodean voice,” wondering, then, if that meant that the Aussie was the brash and loud...
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Posted on May 5, 2011 in Brewing and beer, Do, Eating Out | 6 comments

No beer – but good food: Brewers on the Bay, Gourmet Tart Company, Providence Market Kitchen

No beer – but good food: Brewers on the Bay, Gourmet Tart Company, Providence Market Kitchen
Brewers on the Bay was, for me, the beerfest that got away. The Eight Degrees Brewing boys were all present and correct, complete with their well-received Howling Gale Pale Ale, while Little Missy and I stayed with the Schoolfriend, just half-an-hour south from BOTB central, the Olso in Salthill. Plenty of...
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Posted on Apr 25, 2011 in Brewing and beer, Do | 12 comments

Eight Degrees Brewing: the path to a pint

Eight Degrees Brewing: the path to a pint
It all began with a few pints in New Zealand. When the Husband and I lived in Christchurch there were about three brewpubs within 15 minutes walk of our house. We could stroll down to the Dux de Lux for their legandary nachos and a glass of Ginger Tom or head over the river for pizza and a Golding Bitter at...
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Posted on Oct 20, 2005 in Brewing and beer, Do, Eating Out, Living in New Zealand | 0 comments

Beer and food matching at Canterbury Brewery

Beer and food matching at Canterbury Brewery
One night a few weeks ago the Boyfriend and I accompanied our Scottish physiotherapist housemates to a celebration of International Physiotherapist Day. Now, going to celebrations of other people’s careers is not something that we would normally do but, as this was taking place at Christchurch’s...
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