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Pictured at the announcement at the SFA Awards Showcase in Dublin Castle are company founder Cameron Wallace (right) with Daniel Wolverson of Energia (sponsors). Photo: John Ohle Photography

Mitchelstown based craft brewery, Eight Degrees Brewing, were delighted to learn on Friday night last that their single malt IPA, named 'The Full Irish', had been voted Beer of the Year 2015 by independent consumer group Beoir. Some achievement, considering that with the marked increase in new Irish microbreweries during the past year, there were a total of 128 beers eligible for voting!

Eight Degrees, an independent Irish craft brewery based in Mitchelstown, focuses on creating exciting and naturally adventurous beers for craft beer consumers and continue to go from strength to strength. Such is the demand for their tasty products, that the company is currently in the process of importing a brewery from Mauritius to enable an expansion at their Mitchelstown base, allowing them to brew more of their award winning, in-demand Irish craft beers.

EXCITING TIMES

The winning beer on this occasion, the Full Irish, is a beer first brewed for EasterFest 2014 and is brewed using 100% Irish malt and showcases the best home-grown barley, malted in Cork. With tasting notes describing it as ‘a hop bomb with citrus and floral characters, grapefruit at the fore with hints of lime, melon and lychees’, this single malt ale goes with grilled fish, barbequed chicken and smoked duck.

Owner-brewer Cameron Wallace, told The Avondhu this week: “We're delighted with the award and would like to thank all the Beoir members for voting. Credit goes to our head brewer Mike Magee and the Malting Company of Ireland, whose base malt can stand up to all those hops – no easy task!”

Cameron's colleague Scott Baigent added: “We're proud to be standing on that podium with The White Hag Brewery and Galway Bay Brewery, both amazing brewers banging out the sexy beers.”

This success for the Mitchelstown company follows on from their 2014 award for Amber Ella American Amber Ale, a beer which subsequently went on to win a bronze medal at the 2014 World Beer Cup, the Olympics of Brewing, in Denver, Colorado.

TOP 20

Eight Degrees had a total of five entries in the Beoir top 20 Irish beers for 2015, with Amber Ella coming in at number four and The Double Irish IPA, Hurricane IPA and Imperial Russian Stout making appearances at numbers 11, 14 and 20 respectively.

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