"A win for the craft brewing industry but not the slam-dunk we would have liked."

To mark the Irish Craft Beer Festival this weekend, Joe McNamee gets a taste of the local brewing scene.

STARTED only to keep a manufacturing license, and running on formulae sketched out on napkins, the monks of craft beer in the Franciscan Well Brewery must have had divine inspiration.

One of the country’s top craft brewing houses is toasting another national title.