Supporting craft breweries

Was in Limerick yesterday and found Crew Brewing, had their Dunkel Weisse and Brown Ale. Both very enjoyable. Hope they do well down there.

Turns out downgrading your food options and charging 7 quid for your own beer isn’t going to wash with punters.

Shame. I thought they owned all the Dublin ones

Surprised by that. Are the Dublin ones quiet? Salt House is always busy. Oslo does well but wouldn't be very busy I'd say. Dew Drop wouldn't be as busy since they took it over.

I had understood these to be “Galway Bay Brewery” bars. I’m guessing they’re linked but separate legal operations? So whilst the pubs are now subject to examinership, the brewery operations are not?

The parent company applied for an extension on their accounts in the middle last year so they wouldn't have to publish them for the end of the current tax year, that was a massive red flag.

They also made their head brewer redundant, which is a bizarre move for any company that plans to continue as a functional brewery in the long run.

The company over all is split into about 6 holding companies and a seperate parent company.

Pizza Ella's main debter will be the parent company, they also don't lease most of the pubs listed, they bought most of them over the years, the Oslo was owned by the O'Connell family (co-founder's parents to be exact).

I'd be surprised if GBB existed in it's current form in 18 months time.

I feel bad for any debters, as the parent company being the primary debtor will recieve the bulk of any money raised from the probable liquidation.

Exodus a lot over the last while IMHO. I’ve been on here previously complaining about there relatively high prices for the beer. I know the 330ml can the is a whole other debate but I just largely stopped buying the stuff as I felt it represented bad value. I felt they were price gouging which nags since sense of other parts of the business were under pressure. Mind you with different companies involved in the vitality and brewing side it might just be gouging the the sake of gouging anyway. Mind you sobering has to pay for the expansion in recent years. Personally I hope they trim the fat and end up leaner and back to where they were in about 2011 which is when I came across them first. Good beer and two decent pubs in Galway. This started to go downhill with them IMHO in the last few years.

How on earth can a brewer make its head brewer redundant?

As RTE have found out, it's a fake redundancy if you replace the person - you fire a person, but you make a role redundant, and how can a brewer not have a head brewer?

Plenty of nasty tax implications and possibly WRC hearings if they weren't very careful.

Haven't considered buying any GBB core range in a long while, just far too expensive for what it is.

Splurged on blacks brewery latest offer.

96 cans for 139!

https://www.blacksbrewery.com/shop/drs1/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=happy_st_brigids_day&utm_term=2024-02-01

True Ben. Stormy Port was nice and time was I’d always have a bottle of Buried At Sea somewhere in the house as I loved it. Then they detached the bothers to 330ml cans but Keith the price relatively high and then they just discontinued it. The Red and Bay Ale were never particularly spectacular I think but they kept those. For some reason I haven’t taken to Ostara. It’s grand but just doesn’t have that seeing that Stormy or buried had. Not been in the Salt House at the evening for a long time but I was in the Black Sheep a few tunes in Dublin in the last few years. Expensive beer and expensive yet indictable food was my impression. Oslo was much better in the times I ate in there back in the day.

Lad, seriously, turn off the predicted text, every time I read one of your posts I think I'm having a stroke ;)

Order went in late on Thursday night (Friday morning really 😉 ) and was delivered 15 minutes ago, that's amazing. Thought it'd be Tuesday in a normal week, Wednesday given the bank holiday.

The cans don't have the Re-Turn logo but I can confirm the barcode is included in the list L1011 posted here (bloody well ought to be, as they did charge me 15c per can) : https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121704628/#Comment_121704628

Rascals are out of stock on all core beers... hardly surprising!

Incidentally I took my first trip to an RVM this morning doing the weekly shop, first machine I tried rejected everything. Tried the next one and all were accepted. Some GBB (yeah, I know I said I never buy it, but it was 4 for €10) with the logo and some White Hag without, both bought in Lidl with the shelf edge notice that they had to be brought back to their store 🙄 and I'd been charged 15c per can for them. It also accepted a Kinnegar which had been bought with no deposit 😁

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