Drink up

Ireland is rightly famed for Guinness and a visit to the Storehouse in James’s Gate, Dublin is a great way of finding out about over 250 years of brewing history. 

But don’t forget Ireland’s other great stouts and beers like Murphy’s Irish Stout, Beamish, and Kilkenny beer. You can also visit The Hilden Brewery in Lisburn, which houses The Tap Room Bar, the only bar in Ireland to serve draft real ale exclusively.

Whiskey drinkers will find Ireland is a joy as Irish whiskey (with an ‘e’!) is distilled three times, unlike Scotch, which is only distilled twice. You can learn all about Irish Whiskey at the numerous whiskey distilleries around the country, the most famous being, the Old Middleton Distillery in Cork, the Old Jameson Distillery in Dublin, and the Bushmills Distillery in Antrim.