Without pubs and restaurants, brewers have become innovative in reaching customers

How a Kinsale husband and wife team brewed up solutions to pandemic dilemmas

Maud and Sam Black, owners of Blacks Brewery & Distillery, Kinsale.

The closure of pubs and restaurants under pandemic restrictions meant one of the main revenue streams for breweries and distilleries simply ran dry. 

Ireland’s beer sector has been significantly impacted by Covid-19 because of continued on-trade closure, according to trade body Drinks Ireland whose annual beer market report shows that beer sales and production declined in 2019, just prior to the Covid-19 outbreak.