Beamish Brewery Tour

26th Jul 2008

Beamish Brewery Tour Winner

The South Main Street brewery is at least as old as 1615AD!

There was one of the biggest reactions ever to our Beamish brewery competition and unfortunately there could only be one winner.

Proud Corkman and Beamish drinker Sean Wallace picks up the prize of a personalised tour of the Beamish & Crawford Brewry, a Cork City FC jersey and a few little extras….

Below are comments from some of the entries including Seán's. Many thanks to everyone who entered, even the hundreds who didn't leave comments (you'll know better next time! Meanwhile, keep an eye on the homepage for more mouth watering competitions.

Although to really enhance your Corkness you need to be there in person, we've uploaded the next best thing: check out the Beamish Breweryvideo here

"i have been spreading the word about our good stout to the ignorant souls up here"
Derek Murphy, Dublin

"Been away from the PRC for a good number of years now (heading for 13) but have managed to fine a number of places in Bray that serve a good pint of Beamish - when in Cork I used to love going to Moks on the Bandon Road - but now I head for Duff's in Bray when I need to get my fill of Cork nectar. At one stage it was impossible to get Beamish in Dublin but now I find it much easier. Great to see that Beamish are sponsoring Cork City as this kills 2 birds with the 1 stone - wearing City gear and having Beamish proudly displayed on the kit...."
Mick Slocum, Bray - Co Wicklow

"A tour of Beamish , Ahh I'd love that now , I'd be in me element like . I haven't seen the inside of that hallowed temple since ohh 1981, when me dad

Got me in for a look around one Saturday morning , unofficial tour like . I saw the Vats and the pipes and the steam and smelled the Wort. At ten oClock

We went into the little room the lads in the Brewery took their break in. Sat on kegs with all the workers of the brewery and got handed a bottle of

Colt 45 . " have ya any lemonade or TK " I asked , in me 5 year olds squeeky voice . " Yera that's like lemonade, it has bubbles in it " the response with tons of laughter from the brewers.

Of course I didn't start drinking Beamish until I was 21.
I've spent many years since evangelising Beamish to blowins , foreigners and young Cork fella's alike . I'd love to get a look in there again ,

See if anything's changed , and see if they still have the mountain of Colt 45 in there ( Sure they couldn't shift that stuff . Lager - who'd have it ?).

But I'd love to have a pint of Beamish inside, Seeing as how all those years ago I was taken out of the place before the "quarter to one taste test ".
Sean Wallace, Cork

"I would love a tour as its my first choice drink but I have never been lucky enough to get into the brewery"
Bill Desmond, 128A Blarney St.

hay lads.. brill site.. well i think we should be included coz we would bring our band,, jonty on the drums ( he was on the site a while back for been corks number 1 gaa fan). pa hurley the piper, he will bring the bag pipes, tom the bomber also plays the drums,( he was also on the site a few months ago, he headed the marches in cork city the time of the players strike and myself,, i play the base drum.. it would be brill if we were there, we would relay love it the opportunity to enhance our Corkness. lads please bring us 4 true cork rebels to beamish with ye.
Up the Peoples Republic
Patrick O Leary, Greenmount

From the London Embassy of The Peoples Republic of Cork, must go off to yer man Mandela's 90th Birthday bash.
Gerrard Moloney, London

I am currently living in NZ but would LOVE to be sponsored to go back to Cork (boy) to sup on a real pint of stout. (It's pretty shite here)
Ta luv
Kerry O'Connor

I don't drink soup, I drink beamish. Beamish is my soup.
Brendan Dowling, Montenotte.

Why I should be included......well I'm Cork born and bred, drink Beamish as a full time profession - and spend worrying amounts of time in work reading through the PROC forums.....what else is needed!!!
Stephen Healy, Cork.

Reason to win: I like a good pint of squeamish...i mean beamish...and over the last few months i've worn the PROC t-shirt all over the place...from Vietnam to Fiji...it probably needs a good wash...Enjoy the pics.
Eddie O'Callaghan, Glanmire at the moment
Mehmet Copuroglu, Cork City

I lived in Kerry for the best part of 8 years and as a result i fear i have lost a little bit of the corkonian in me. So, now that i'm back where i belong i take every opportunity I get to brush up on my corkness. Touring the brewery i think would just what the doctor ordered. (Plus i never win anything)
Robert Barry, Model Farm Road

If Beamish is a Cork institution I want to be institutionalised
Chris O'Sullivan

I think i should win cause I'm great.
Liam Donnelly, Bishopstown,

I live in Lower Aghada and I have drank Beamish since I was 18 years old and I will be 50 later this year
James Cahill, Aghada

I should be included in this unique opportunity because as Roman I can say that the Corkonians are like the Romans...they need to be very proud of their city and their symbols like the Beamish Brewery!!!
Mr Andrea Presutto, Rome Italy

Reason i need these great prize BECAUSE OF MY LOCATION-dublin.(up ere for work... its fun but its not cork like!) whatever about enhancing my corkness, i'm terrified i'm going to lose my corkness. did the guiness storehouse tour ere recently, but its a sin that i haven yet to see how our very own stout in cork is made!!
seeing how its done, plus filling up on few pints of beamish and beamish red (which is my absolute favourite drink) should renew any little bit of corkness that may have been draining out of me up ere in dub-land....
Aileen Coughlan, Dublin 7

the reason I NEED this tour to enhance my corkness is not for me but for my unborn baby!! I'm 22 weeks pregnant, will be having my baby in wonderful cork, rearing it in cork but unfortunatley through no fault of its own, the babys father is a 100% kerry man!!! I fear for my childs corkness, that it mite be genetically diluted by this unfotunate parentage!! please give me the chance to enhance my own corkness to counter this kerry affect while the child is in vitro!! thanking you for the bottom of my rebel heart!! El
Elaine Hylton, Castlemartyr

I think I deserve to be included in this draw for this fantastic prize because I have been living in Kerry for the past 7 years and I'm paranoid that my Corkness is diminishing due to my time spent over the border. A trip to the Beamish brewery and some time spent among God's chosen people would surely dismiss any doubts I may have about my Corkness or my cockiness......d'ya know like.
Vincent White, Kenmare, Kerry

Us 'expats' living in Dublin need to be reminded of what we're missing !!
Joe Joyce

Beamish is my FAVOURITE stout
One which I can't live without
From the Sín É to the Spailpín
A better stout there's never been
Séamus Beam, Blarney Street

Hello fellow Corkonians,
Not a day goes by that I don't think about my next pint of creamy Beamish, whether it's from a can or from my local.
It's simply the best stout in Cork, and the world.
Please God put me on that tour !! Thanks
Robert Nash, Jacobs Island

(being held against my will and need any excuse to get back to Cork)
Peter Ahern, Dublin

hi, i'd love to get a VIP visit and cover it in my www.connector.ie blog please
go on, i'm begging you !
Conor Lynch, Cork