Taste the nation: I left my job in IT and started a brewery on my family farm 

Ballykilcavan Brewery has diversified the family business and breathed new life into the farm 
Taste the nation: I left my job in IT and started a brewery on my family farm 

David Walsh-Kemmis is the man behind Ballykilcavan Brewery

In 2004, David Walsh-Kemmis left his job in IT to return home to his family farm and take over the business. It was a calling. 

"Ballykilcavan Farm has been our family home for 13 generations," he explains. He spent ten years continuing to grow barley as the generations before him had always done, before deciding to look into diversification. 

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