My Looords! 749121 at Sumperk...Getting into the habit.Handpumps ready and waiting to dispense winners.A jug being used for what they're made for!The scooper's trusty sidekick, the Head Bag. Until they went crap in the 90's.What all scoopers should do, IMO!Gazza by the coppers at Klasterni, Praha.A good flail never hurt anyone.Oak casks are the way forwards...Fang, the world's beigest dog. RIP.

   Ireland   

Last Updated : 16/08/09

reland isn't the greatest country for the beer scooper to visit having a mere smattering of breweries.  Happily this number is slowly increasing, although some areas, such as Limerick, remain "proper" beer deserts.  Dublin itself has the Messrs Maguire brewpub and several Porterhouse bars (whose website says they are "aided by the legendary Brendan Dobbin who, when not brewing, grows bananas in West Cork" - we're not worthy!) although the prices there may limit you to winners only, whilst Cork has the laid-back and sociable Franciscan Well and the superb Bierhaus bar.

A trip to Dublin in 2008 by John Paul Adams is here...

My Cork report is here...

See Herbal's Irish article here and my 2006 Dublin trip here.  Also, Belfast 2005 is here, although I know it's not part of Eire...

 

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