Cormac O'Dwyer
Age: 37
Interests: Music, supporting Waterford United, cooking and eating out.
Favourite beer you brew: Helvick Gold
Favourite beer from another brewery: Landlord by Timothy Taylor
Best thing about brewing: Experimenting with flavours and the aroma of hops on brew day.
Tom Dalton
Age: 33
Interests: Fishing and sailing, Waterford Hurling, beer.
Favourite beer you brew: Black Rock Irish Stout
Favourite beer from another brewery:
Galway Hooker
Best thing about brewing: Seeing the finished product on a shelf in a bar... then ordering it, then drinking it!
Meet the brewers!
The brewery is the brainchild of brothers-in-law Cormac O'Dwyer and Tom Dalton who set up the brewery along with their wives Jen and Claire with a view to offering the Irish beer drinker a greater choice in craft beers, with an emphasis on quality, craft and tradition.
Cormac is our Head Brewer and is responsible for the production and running of the brewery. He had been a keen amateur brewer for several years prior to founding the brewery, and brings these skills along with his experience as a Production Manager to the business.
Tom, our Sales and Distribution Manager, looks after our customers and is responsible for getting the beers out there, when he's not assisting Cormac in the brewery. A former Quantity Surveyor, he also oversees the financial planning of the brewery.
Jen and Claire look after the administration, accounts and marketing and PR for the company. Together, all four involved have a great mix of skills and backgrounds to bring to the business and have created a very positive, efficient and cohesive working environment.
Media Mentions:
Since launching in April we have featured heavily in both local and national newspapers and radio, including the Irish Examiner, the Irish Times, the Irish Daily Mail, Waterford News and Star, Munster Express, Dungarvan Observer, Dungarvan Leader Today FM, WLR FM and RTE Radio 1's Morning Ireland Show.
A selection of our print articles include:
- Dungarvan Observer, 17th March 2010 "Dungarvan to Return to a Brewing Town as New Company is Launched"
- Dungarvan Leader, 9th April 2010 "Dungarvan Brewing Company Turning Recession Nightmare Into Success"
- Irish Daily Mail, 20th May 2010 "Small Beer" by Tom Doorley
- Sunday Business Post Agenda Magazine, 23rd May 2010 Bitesize
- Irish Farmer's Journal, 29th May 2010 "Farm Family Meeting on Small Start Ups"
- Irish Examiner, 12th June 2010 "Keeping It Local in Lismore" by Darina Allen
- Irish Times Magazine, 3rd July 2010 "Make Mine a Pint - Brewery News" by John Wilson
- Irish Examiner, 9th July 2010 "Making it Work" by John Daly
- Irish Times Magazine, 10th July 2010 "Beer of the Week" by John Wilson (for Helvick Gold)
On radio we have featured on RTE's Morning Ireland Show, Raidió na Gaeltachta's 'An Samhradh Thoir', Today FM's Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show "Upstart" segment along with several other pieces on Waterford's WLR FM and South East's Beat FM.
On television we have been profiled on RTE's Nationwide, The Business with George Lee and Cormac has been interviewed about the brewery on 6.01 News as part of their feature on Bloom in the Park 2011.