Has Cork become ireland’s craft beer capital?

There has been a threefold increase in the amount of craft beer sold in Ireland since 2010 – at times it feels like there are new products coming to market on an almost weekly basis.

Ireland now has at least one brewery in every county – and Cork has more than anywhere else.

On Saturday Down to Business travelled to the Rebel County as part of the show’s Winning Back the High Street series. Jonathan Healy was joined by Shane Long who is a director of Cork’s own Franciscan Well, and Ernest Cantillon who owns two iconic Cork social spots, Electric and Sober Lane.

Franciscan Well was part of the first wave of Irish craft brewers who launched during the 1990s – it is now one of Ireland’s oldest smaller brewers, alongside O’Hara’s and Porterhouse… CONTINUE READING AT NEWSTALK