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Interested in learning more about craft beer, but struggling to know your pale ale from your pilsner? Here’s a foolproof guide to the main styles of beer you’ll find out there.   Wheat beer (weissbier) Wheat beers have a light colour and low alcohol level, making them perfect for an afternoon pint in the sunshine. […]

In this installment of her Eat Ireland column, Deputy Editor Jocelyn Doyle heads “up north” to discover why an Armagh apple a day is a real treat.   In 1809, a girl named Mary Ann Brailsford planted some apple pips in her garden in Nottinghamshire, some years before a Matthew Bramley bought her cottage. In 1856, […]

In this installment of her Eat Ireland column, Deputy Editor Jocelyn Doyle finds a true taste of Wicklow.   It may be hard to picture now, but the formidable grey wolf once called our land home. Stalking through an era before electric light, the howls echoing across the moonlit Irish landscape would have been especially chilling, […]

In this installment of her Eat Ireland column, Deputy Editor Jocelyn Doyle becomes an enthusiastic apprentice cheesemaker at Gubbeen Farm.   I sigh in frustration at the elusive calf. He’s escaped from the safety of his pen into the dusk and is dancing excitedly away from my attempts to catch him. He is adorable, but I’m […]

Recipe Editor Jocelyn Doyle spent some time at Gubbeen Farm to see what exactly goes into making the famous Gubbeen cheese along with their other farmhouse products. I sigh in frustration at the elusive calf. He’s escaped from the safety of his pen into the dusk and is dancing excitedly away from my attempts to catch him. He is […]