Issue 14 The Ulster Folk
Our local drink scene went the same way as food. It used to
be that a bottle of Guinness stout tasted slightly different when bottled in
Ballymena than it did when it was bottled in Belfast
or Dublin. They
don’t bottle it in Ballymena anymore, as a matter of fact it’s now hard to find
bottled Guinness full stop. But if they did bottle it nowadays in Ballymena it
would taste identical to stout bottled in Bali or Bahrain.
Not only that, but commercial USA-style corporate marketing
somehow managed to brainwash the masses across the world that bottled
chemically-laced fizzy water was beer: just because it had an alcohol content.
These master global marketeers somehow managed to infect brains to such an
extent that folk’s taste buds actually
believed this stuff tasted good: cool and sexy even.
Well, the crafted beer brewers and cider makers have joined
the food revolutionaries in Northern Ireland:
the drink revolution has kicked-off too. At the last count there were 8 local
crafted cider companies producing excellent cider from Armagh apples. Micro-breweries are
cropping up all over Northern Ireland:
producing a wide range of marvellous crafted beer. The cider companies, Armagh Cider and Tempted
will have their tasty refreshing products at the Fest.
If you must eat beef
eat happy beef from Ahoghill.
The most exciting news for the Fest is that the bar will be
run by Hillstown Brewery. This crafted beer company is the first of its kind in
County Antrim
and this will be the first time that their beers will be available at a major
event
It all began as a partnership between Johnny Mitchell of Get
‘er Brewed and Nigel Logan of Hillstown Farmshop near Ahoghill . In the process
of providing beer for Nigel’s beef herd, as you do, they discovered that the
animals were happier, more relaxed and healthier. The resulting beef was of
exceptional quality.
Of course in the process of making beer for the cattle some
humans had to do a test of quality before offering beer to the precious
animals. Miraculously they discovered in the process that small quantities of
their naturally produced beer made the humans happier, more relaxed and
healthier as well. The rest is history.
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