Top craft brewery toasts beer title

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

The Franciscan Well Brewery in Cork scooped the best beer of the year award for its Shandon Century Extra Stout following an online popular vote organised by Irish beer consumer group Beoir.

The stout, launched just before Christmas, was the first in a series of limited-edition bottled beers produced from a recipe based on the brewery’s popular Shandon Stout.